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978-0393617467 Handouts Characteristic Features of Academic Writing
Characteristic Features of Academic Writing No list of characteristics can describe all the kinds of texts you’ll be expected to write in college, particularly given the differences among disciplines. But there are certain things you’re expected to do in college […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Fallacies
Fallacies: Are There Any Problems with the Reasoning? Some kinds of appeals use faulty reasoning, or reasoning that some may consider unfair, unsound, or demonstrating lazy or simpleminded thinking. Such appeals are called fallacies, and because they can often be […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Genre_Arguing a Position
Arguing a Position CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • An explicit position • A response to what others have said or done • Appropriate background information • An authoritative tone • An appeal to readers’ values CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Looking at your […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Genre_Making a Proposal
Making a Proposal CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • A precise description of the problem • A clear and compelling solution to the problem CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Thinking about your rhetorical situation will help you determine how best to present your proposal. […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Genre_Reporting Information
Reporting Information CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • A topic carefully focused for a specific audience • Definitions of key terms • Trustworthy information CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Analyzing your audience, purpose, and other elements of your rhetorical situation will help you to […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Genre_Writing a Narrative
Writing a Narrative CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • A clearly identified event: What happened? Who was involved? • A clearly described setting: When and where did it happen? CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Whenever you write a narrative (or anything, for that matter) […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Genre_Writing a Review
Writing a Review CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • Relevant information about the subject • Criteria for the evaluation • Awareness of the ethics of reviewing CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Once you have a topic, thinking about your audience and the rest of […]
978-0393617467 Handouts GenreWriting Analytically
Writing Analytically CHARACTERISTIC FEATURES • A question that prompts you to take a closer look • Some description of the subject you are analyzing CONSIDER YOUR RHETORICAL SITUATION Keep in mind the elements of your particular situation—your audience, your specific […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Research – Consider Your Rhetorical Situation
Research: Consider Your Rhetorical Situation As you get started, think about your rhetorical situation, starting with the requirements of the assignment. You may not yet know all the answers yet, but thinking about these things now will help you when […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Research – Deciding Whether to Quote Paraphrase or Summarize
Deciding Whether to Quote, Paraphrase, or Summarize Quote • Something that is said so well that it’s worth repeating • Complex ideas that are expressed so clearly that paraphrasing or summarizing could distort or oversimplify them Paraphrase • Passages where […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Research – Establish a Research Schedule
Establish a Research Schedule A research project can seem daunting if you think of it as one big undertaking from beginning to end, rather than as a series of gradual tasks. Establishing a schedule will Working title: Working thesis: Due […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Research – Evaluating Sources
Evaluating Sources: Is the Source Worth Your Attention? The following questions can help you decide which sources are worth your time and attention, and which ones are not. What’s the title? Does it sound relevant to your topic? Does it […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Research – Knowing What You Must Acknowledge
Knowing What You Must Acknowledge As a general rule, material taken from specific outside sources—whether ideas, texts, images, or sounds—should be cited and documented. But there are some exceptions. If in doubt, err on the safe side and include a […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Some Tips for Collaborating Effectively
Some Tips for Collaborating Effectively • Find ways of recognizing everyone. For example, each group member could talk about a strength that he or she can contribute to the project. • Listen carefully—and respectfully—to every group member. • Establish some […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Think about Your Rhetorical Situation
Think about Your Rhetorical Situation THINK ABOUT YOUR GENRE • Have you been assigned a specific genre? If not, do any words in the assignment imply a certain genre? Evaluate may signal a review, for example, and explain why could […]
978-0393617467 Handouts Visiting the Writing Center
Visiting the Writing Center: Making the Most of a Tutoring Session Arrive prepared and on time. It’s important to be on time so that you can take full advantage of the allotted session. Tell the tutor what you want to […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 1
A GUIDE TO TEACHING Every one’s an Author SECOND EDITION A GUIDE TO TEACHING Every one’s an Author SECOND EDITION LISA EDE OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY ANDREA LUNSFORD STANFORD UNIVERSITY MICHAL BRODY SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY BEVERLY J. MOSS THE OHIO […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 10
10 % Part V: Research [ 165 ] to be made between types of sources: primary or secondary? scholarly or popu lar? older/historical or current? Because our students have had some diffi culty with both fi nding and discerning acceptable […]
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12 % Part VII: Design and Delivery [ 185 ] We suggest discussing this chapter on or near the last day of class. Talk about ending the term on a high note and making connections between students’ self- sponsored writing […]
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13 % Teaching the Readings [ 205 ] MARK DAWIDZIAK Walking Dead Opens in Lively Fashion 1. The major criteria for Dawidziak’s review appear in the third paragraph, where Dawidziak refers to “nerve- jangling suspense, grand gross outs, intriguing char– […]
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[ 225 ] 14 % Teaching with the Tumblr 2. The humor of Wilkinson’s cartoon lies mostly in what the man says, but another critical ele ment involves his companion— what she is doing and how she responds to his […]
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[ 245 ] YOU MAY REMEMBER most vividly your upper– division courses, which were prob ably a mix of lecture and discussion. As a new teacher of writing, however, you’re faced with a dif fer ent situation, a course in […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 15
[ 265 ] WRITING IS A FORM OF LEARNING. As we write, we generate thoughts we wouldn’t have had if we hadn’t put pen to paper or fi n gers to keyboard. In our own writing as well as our […]
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24 % Teaching Writing Online [ 285 ] Provide students with adequate and detailed information about policies and procedures for using the online tools. Step- by- step written instructions for turn- ing in assignments, completing tests and quizzes, participating in […]
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28 % Teaching for Inclusion and Diversity [ 305 ] to successfully complete the tasks and assignments. Here are three instructional interventions that consistently help students with learning disabilities (and other students as well) to improve their writing abilities, and […]
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30 % Responding to Student Writing [ 325 ] that student needs lessons in editing for comma splices in the context of showing how one sentence follows logically from the previous one. Unlike random errors, which suggest a lack of […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 19
31 % Teaching with Writing Portfolios [ 339 ] Conway, Glenda. “Portfolio Cover Letters, Students’ Self– Presentation, and Teach- ers’ Ethics.” New Directions in Portfolio Assessment: Refl ective Practice, Critical Theory, and Large- Scale Scoring, edited by Laurel Black et […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 2
% A Sampler of Course Plans and Syllabi [ 5 ] Weeks 1–2 Assign readings on the chosen theme. Have students generate ideas on the theme using the strategies in Ch. 7, MANAGING THE WRITING PRO CESS, with the goal […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 3
[ 25 ] two A Sampler of Assignments and Activities THE FOLLOWING WRITING ASSIGNMENTS and activities were developed by the book’s authors and other faculty members using Every one’s an Author in postsecondary institutions across the country. They offer examples […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 4
[ 45 ] FOR WRITING A PROJ ECT PROPOSAL Everett Community College Aaron Barrell En glish 102 Topic Proposal (Ongoing Assignment) The purpose of this writing assignment is to help you make use of the writing and think- ing you’ve […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 5
[ 65 ] FOR GETTING RESPONSE AND REVISING Northwestern State University Thomas Reynolds En glish 1010 Essay #1 Rewrite Assignment Your next major assignment for En glish 1010 is to once again proofread, edit, revise, and rewrite your rst […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 6
[ 85 ] When students feel confi dent that they can express themselves well, their curiosity is unleashed and encouraged to grow and develop. Part VI, Style, and Part VII, Design and Delivery, encourage students to communicate with confi dence. […]
978-0393617467 Lecture Note Part 7
7 % Part II: Writing Pro cesses [ 105 ] early and to avoid the busiest times around assignment deadlines. You will want to consult the director of the writing center fi rst, and then ask your students to sign […]
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8 % Part III: Genres of Writing [ 125 ] learn to look closely and critically at something (the rhe toric of verbal or visual text, a data set, a pro cess, etc.) to identify its component parts and determine […]
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8 % Part III: Genres of Writing [ 145 ] Reviewers— whether ordinary people deciding whether they like a product or critics deciding whether they like a cultural production— are in the business of making judgments. Making judgments is always […]
978-0393617467 MLA Guide Part 1
1 MLA style calls for (1) brief in-text documentation and (2) complete bib- liographic information in a list of works cited at the end of your text. The models and examples in this chapter draw on the eighth edition of […]
978-0393617467 MLA Guide Part 2
MLA Style 21 Documentation Map (MLA) Pages Volume, issue, date Author Name of periodical Neuhaus, Jessamyn. “Marge Simpson, Blue-Haired Housewife: Defi ning Domesticity on The Simpsons.” Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 43, no. 4, Aug. 2010, pp. 761-81. SPORT Discus […]
978-0393617467 MLA Guide Part 3
MLA Style 36 44. INTERVIEW If the interview has a title, put it in quotation marks following the sub- ject’s name. BROADCAST Subject’s Last Name, First Name. Interview or “Title of Interview.” Title of Program, Network, Day Month Year. Stone, […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Analyses
REVISION CHECKLIST: ANALYSES Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Read your draft slowly and carefully to see whether you’ve made your guiding your subject. Then ask others to read and respond to your draft. If your school has […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Arguments
REVISION CHECKLIST: ARGUMENTS Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Go through your draft carefully, looking critically at the position you stake out, the reasons and evidence you provide in support of it, and the way you present read […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Narratives
REVISION CHECKLIST: NARRATIVES Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Read your draft slowly and carefully. Try to see it as if for the first time: Does the story grab your attention, and can you follow it? Can you […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Proposals
REVISION CHECKLIST: PROPOSALS Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Once you have a complete draft, read it over carefully, focusing on how you define the problem and support the solution you propose—and the way you • How does […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Reports
REVISION CHECKLIST: REPORTS Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Try rereading your draft several times from different perspectives and imagining how different readers will experience your text. Will readers new to the topic follow what you are saying? […]
978-0393617467 Worksheets Revision Checklist_Reviews
REVISION CHECKLIST: REVIEWS Look critically at your draft, get response—and revise Once you have a complete draft, read it over carefully, focusing on your evaluation, the reasons and evidence you provide as support, and the way you • Is the […]