Week 2
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION OUTLINE
Types of
Summaries
What should you do if your summary is too short?
Paraphrase, Summary, and Précis. Makes a simple but clear
distinction between summary and précis.
The Five Steps of Analysis.
A simple "HOW TO DO" for analyzing an article. Might
be useful for the first paper.
Insults for All Occasions
Week 3
How to Narrow or Broaden Your Topic
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Tips For Critical Reading. Helpful set of questions for
critical thinking.
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Critical Thinking Tutorial. Try your skills on these
tutorials/tests.
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Overcoming Writer's Block
THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE By William Strunk, Jr.
A classic formalist handbook from 1918. The advice on style is
appropriate for this class.
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Togetherness
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Journal of Mundane Behavior
Week 5
Primary Vs. Secondary Sources. Provides a relatively clear explanation of the differences between the two for the type of
researching and writing in our fields. Remember that not all sources are created equal. You must judge the power to convince of a source because that is what your reader will constantly be doing.
Primary and secondary sources from the historians perspective.
Other fields will view primary and secondary sources differently. If
you ever look at Composition and Rhetoric or TESOL from a historical
perspective, you'll undoubtedly use the historian's take on the
two. There's even a
tertiary source: Click on this link
for an explanation.
Search Engine Colossus. Links to search engines from 156 countries around the world.
What Are "Meta-Search" Engines?
Evaluating Web Pages: A Web Quest. For 9-12 grade teachers. This sort of program is much needed.
Teaching undergrads WEB evaluation.
An Educators' Guide to Credibility and Web Evaluation
Pitfalls of Writing Science Fiction & Fantasy
Week 6
Effectively
Incorporating Quotations
The Skeptic Annotated Bibliography
Annotations of Women Authors
The psychologist's view of a
prospectus.
There's more than one type of prospectus.
Writing Your Research Prospectus. I like the detail in this web
page. The writer, Anne Bliss, claims that a prospectus does not include a writer's thesis. For this class and in other classes in Composition and Rhetoric and in TESOL, a working thesis will be required or suggested
for the prospectus. Please note this difference.
The Automatic Sentence Generator
Week 7
Rogerian Argumentation
You can use Rogerian argument to set up your problem/solution rationale
for your prospectus.
More
on Thesis Statements. Remember that a clear thesis statement is
critical to a prospectus.
Definitional Techniques.
Defining to critical to a clear prospectus as well.
Problem Solving and Analytical Techniques
Everything you need to know about becoming a freelance writer
Week 8
Problem Solving and Inferences.
A rationale for a prospectus can be state as a problem (the introduction) that
infers solution (the thesis).
Invention activities for planning a paper. Useful site to help with the "outline of your paper" stage in the
prospectus.
Strategies for Writing a Conclusion.
Many of us struggle writing a conclusion. Here are some suggestions.
Funny Accident Report
Week 9
Good Practice in Educational Research Writing
E-Journals: Frequently Asked Questions
Indispensable Writing Resources
What is a thesis statement?
Another attempt
to define Haiku
Paper, a
dangerous medium
Week 10
Writing & Style
Writing Style, Douglas Adams'
Poetry Therapy
Break into Screenwriting: Script Marketing Advice
The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest
Winter
2004
