For Tuesday 4/12
READ: Transitions (from UNC Chapel Hill OWL) http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/transitions.html
READ: Transitions (Purdue OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/01/
READ: Transitional Devices (Purdue OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/574/02/
READ: Organizing Essays: http://www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com/writing/sixtrait/organization/patterns.html
READ: Methods of Paragraph Development (Trent Lorcher on BrightHub.com) http://www.brighthub.com/education/homework-tips/articles/34215.aspx
READ: Organizing and Developing Persuasive Essay (R. Rambo, Illinois Valley Community College) http://www2.ivcc.edu/rambo/eng1001/essay_organization.htm
READ: Writing Introductions (UNC Chapel Hill OWL) http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/introductions.html
READ: Writing Effective Introductions (from Valencia Community College http://www.valenciacc.edu/wp/cssc/documents/WritingEffectiveIntroductions.pdf
READ: Strategies for Writing Conclusions (from St. Cloud State) http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/conclude.html\
For Thursday 4/14
DUE: Project Three –on Safe Assign and in hard copy with all draft materials (rough draft, audience analysis, purpose analysis, etc.) If you did not complete an audience analysis for homework and/or if you changed your topic/audience, you MUST submit a new sheet that identifies your audience.
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For Tuesday 3/29:
Research Proposal Due
Audience Analysis Due
READ: Presenting Arguments (Purdue OWL) http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/588/03/
For Thursday 3/31
Evaluating Sources (Purdue OWL)—all sections: “Overview” through “Print vs Internet”
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/1/
Evaluating Websites (Lesley University) http://www.lesley.edu/library/guides/research/evaluating_web.html
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For Tuesday 2/22
READ: Revision: Cultivating a Critical Eye (from Dartmouth Writing Program)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/ac_paper/revise.shtml
READ: Revision (from UNC Chapel Hill Writing Center)
http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/revision.html
READ: Revising Prose–found on e-text under Rhetoric/The Writing Process/Revising Prose
BRING: your draft in electronic format
For Thursday 2/24
Final copy of Project One DUE. Submit it electronically through Safe Assign AND bring a hard copy to submit in class. Have final copy, along with draft copy with my comments, in a folder. Put the final copy on top.
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For Tuesday 2/15
READ: Summary Writing (from U of Idaho) http://www.class.uidaho.edu/adv_tech_wrt/resources/general/how_to_summarize.htm
READ: Quoting and Paraphrasing (from Uof Wisconsin-Madison) http://writing.wisc.edu/Handbook/QPA_paraphrase.html
BRING: Mike Rose essay
For Thursday 2/17—Rough Draft Peer Review
BRING: your first draft should be brought to class in an electronic format that can be opened and modified in Microsoft Word. You will be commenting electronically on one another’s work.
For Tuesday 2/08
READ: The Rhetorical Situation (from Purdue OWL). Be sure to page through to the next section. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/625/01/
READ: The Writing Process (from Purdue OWL). Read the selections listed below. http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/1/
Writing Task Resources, Starting the Writing Process, Prewriting, Writer’s Block
For Thursday 2/10
READ: “Blue-Collar Brilliance” by Mike Rose. Print out this pdf file and bring it to class for group discussion. You can find this reading under the page (top of blog) titled “Readings Password Prt’d”. I will give you the password in class.
READ: Project One Assignment Description and Guidelines (found under Project 1 Page–top of blog)
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