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scpuckett The Essay
The Essay
Body
Coherence and Transition
Components
Concept and Components
Conclusion
"So what?"
Evaluation
Introduction
Organization and Outlining
Patterns of Development
Planning
Classification Roads
Comparison e-reader vs. print
Purposes
Structure
Beyond the Five-Paragraph Essay
Thesis
Characteristics
How To?
Location
Purpose
Resources
What the thesis is NOT
Title
Academic Writing
Academic Writing
Critical Thought
Analysis of an ad
Critical Reading
Critical Seeing
Guernica
James video
Reader Response
Resources: Reader Response
The Reader-Response Essay
Reading Critically
Resources
Summary
Drafting
formatting
APA
MLA
Fun Links
Genres
Argument
Context
Degrees of Certainty
Obama Speech
Position vs. Proposal
Rational Argument
Resources
Stevenson Ted Talk
Types of Argument
Commentary
Literary Analysis & Exposition
Memoir
Profile
Examples from textbook
Rhetorical Analysis
advertisements
Resources: Rhetorical Analysis
Tool Kit for Rhetorical Analysis
topics for analysis
Grammar
Agreement & Indefinite Pronouns
Conjunctions
Overview: Part 8
Quiz
Parallelism
When to use parallel structure
Pronouns
Subject-Verb Agreement
Verb tenses
Mood
The verb "being"
Mechanics / Punctuation
Capitalization
quotation marks
He said. She said.
Paragraphs
Adequate Development
Closing Sentence
Coherence
Seeing coherence
Evidence
Links
Organization
Spatial
PIE: Point-Illustration-Explanation Paragraph
Sensory detail
Structure
Topic Sentence
Transitions
Types of Transitions
Practice: Why It is Important
100 Days Project
a martial arts view
Focus of Practice
the free throw
Punctuation
Possessives
Reading Strategies
Readings
All the World's a Stage
Dialects
Catherine Evans Davies PPT
My Englishes
Harrison Bergeron
Film version
Research and related skills
Annotated Bibliography
Beginning
Citation - documentation - Exercise
Crediting sources
in-text citation
Documenting sources
Evaluating sources
Integrating Source Material
Exercise In-text Documentation
quotations: direct vs. indirect
Notetaking
Organizing Research
PIE: Integrating Source Material
PIE Strategies
Resources: Point-Illustrate-Explain (PIE)
Summary
Resources
Gilda Radner
Puzzles
Working Bibliography
Works Cited
Rhetoric
Appeals
Resources: Rhetorical Appeals
Canons of Rhetoric
Logical Fallacies
Rhetorical Devices
Rhetorical Situation
Audience
Video Clips
Inventing Ideas & Prewriting
Cubing
Invention Techniques
25 Brainstorming Techniques
A+: Student Success
Links
Stephen Chew
Brainstorming Student Success
creativity
Defining Brainstorming
freewriting
Links
ROVE
Visual Thesaurus
Why brainstorm?
Outlining
Formal vs. Informal
Thesis
Purpose
Thesis
Tone
Rhetorical Patterns
Argument.
A More Perfect Union
Argument Synthesis
Basic Principles of Persuasive Writing
Resources
Setting expectations
Tension and Structure
Toulmin Model
Causal Analysis: Cause and Effect
Causal Relationships
Hill's Criteria of Causation
Ideology
Types of Cause and Effect Essays
Classification & Division
A Recipe
Eight Tips
Other considerations
Thesis and Plan
Comparison & Contrast
Definition
Description
Example
Expository
Narrative
Forster: story vs. plot
Rubrics & Reviews
Sentencing
"It" as subject
A Return to the Rhetoric of the Sentence
Clear and Concise
combining
coordinating conjunctions
correcting fragments & run-ons
Touch Typing
What is good?
Writing Resources
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