plagiarism activity

analyzing website

http://leo.stcloudstate.edu/acadwrite/comparcontrast.html#morethanessay

slideshare Us/Asian contrast

culture course writing activites: cultural artifacts

syllabus for new level 6 course

peer edit guidelines

c/c essay us and mexico

bibliographic essay on individualism

Movie Review

• Freedom Writers  discussion link;  memorable quotes

Argument Essay

• Writing an argument paper
• All parts of an essay
• outline sample
• Argument essay activity  optional activity which includes all the parts of an argument essay
• Writing an argument essay tutorial 
• Argument research topic options
• Emotional Intelligence at work:  web article   http://4hoteliers.com/4hots_fshw.php?mwi=5824
• Research Sources  look over this page for topic ideas for your project. 

Thesis statement

• Developing a Thesis Statement from U of Wisconsin
• Thesis statement activities

• Review of parts of thesis statement and questions to guide you

• Checklist for writing a thesis statement; Owl site

• How to write a thesis statement

• Thesis statement guidelines

• Thesis statement activities

College-level tutorials from other colleges

• Yosemite Community College- tutorials on all aspects of an essay

• Monash- all skills addressed with activities

Multiple Intelligences/Education

• MI assessment website: http://literacyworks.org/mi/practice/engage-language.html
• MI paper test   Multiple Intelligence online quiz
• Holt chart
• Tapping into Multiple Intelligences
  

Summarizing

• factors
• Drew University site on writing, including summary writing
• practice for summarizing link activity
• Two interesting sources for summary writing and another; writing a short summary
• Santa Rosa community college site on summarizing
• links for writing
• Summarizing a reading: a page of notes about summarizing
•  Fox sports, "Tiger posts disastrous first round; "ESPN "Around the Horn"

Web Site Evaluation

• (redo with new sites)Imagine you are writing an essay on Margaret Mead and you find these three websites.  Analyze these three websites related to Margaret Mead. Use the criteria (currency, authority, accuracy, objectivity) for evaluating each website. Margaret Mead, and Derek Freeman Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman and the Samoans  (which refutes Margaret Meads claim).

MLA Citation

• Citation references:

  • Diane Hacker in text citation

  • Cornell citation practice
• Research Sources;  Student research topics
• MLA citation help
• Purdue in-text citation information;
• Cornell citation practice
• In text citation workshop
• Outline samples

Plagiarism

• Avoiding Plagiarism tutorial from Penn State
• Owl writing center

Comparison Essay

• point by point comparison essay format; and another
• Compare/Contrast Essay outline format
• Composition patterns in an essay   sample essay and transition word review

• California Community College Student Success Task Force recommendations

• 1. Is the purpose for a comparison or contrast evident and convincing?
  2. Does the essay identify significant and parallel characteristics for comparison?
  3. Does the author adequately explain, analyze, or reflect on the comparison or contrast?
  4. Does the author provide appropriate transitions words to indicate comparison and contrast?
  5. Is the treatment of each side of the comparison or contrast in balance?
  6. Does the essay provide sufficient, relevant, and interesting details?

Grammar Links: a partial list of sources

• Fragments  ; Another
• Run on sentences and comma splices  ; comma splice defined
• Punctuation ; Another practice
• Verb Tenses; Another practice
• Subject/Verb Agreement ; Another
• Grammar and Punctuation at U of Wisconsin

• Writing a comparison contrast essay power point

Other

• Cannery Row analysis and discussion notes; another book club discussion; Discussion questions from a prison class
• Travels with Charley  II Map from Steinbeck Center; Interactive map of trip; Synopsis

• cross-cultural role play; group activities: proverbs; essay topics

  List of films about cross cultural issues

• American Beauty

• Freedom Writers  discussion link;  memorable quotes

• For the final exam, bring the handouts I gave you about the film.  Crash

• Crash

• There's a website that we can watch "Crash" at home. http://stagevu.com/video/arhpvgybpjcx

• Crash. Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Sandra Bullokc, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Brendon Frazier, Terrence Howard,   Thadie Newton, Michael Pina, Ryan Phillippe. Lions Gate Films. 2004.

• "Anarchy in the  10th Grade", by Greg Gaffin

• Crash  trailer

• Roger Ebert review  and Joanne Laurier review  read and answer questions

• Crash memorable quotes

• There's a website that we can watch "Crash" at home. http://stagevu.com/video/arhpvgybpjcx

• Crash. Dir. Paul Haggis. Perf. Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Brendon Frazier, Terrence Howard,    

•      Thadie Newton, Michael Pina, Ryan Phillippe. Lions Gate Films. 2004.

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