As you leave my class, I’d like to give you some last-week advice. There have been a variety of things that I let slide or that I know I handle differently from other teachers. With this advice, I’d like to…
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Dressing for Your Presentation
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There's no need to dress formally for your presentations. The regular clothes you wear to class are fine. Just use common sense, and avoid anything that your be distracting or somehow undercut your credibility. Here are 5 things not to…
Oral Presentation Tips & Evaluation
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Tips for Your Oral Presentations Once you have a draft of your slideshow, use the Oral Presentation Tips & Checklist to review, revise, and practice your presentation. The checklist in WAVT will help you make sure that you have everything…
Review of Rhetorical Appeals
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Be sure that your paper labels the rhetorical appeals from the commercial correctly. You can find details on the reviews in the Persuasive Techniques in Advertising text in the Resources section of Scholar as well as in your WAVT textbook…
Ad Analysis Essay Tips
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Add a title. Make it smart, attention-grabbing, and unique. Connect it to the hook in the introduction if you can. Add the URL to your commercial under your title. Apply the ideas from the presentations on Introductions and Conclusions. Underline…
Grammar and Punctuation Rules
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I used some abbreviations for grammatical and punctuation errors that I encountered as I was grading your papers. We'll talk about grammar in class on Wednesday, but in the meantime, if you want to learn more about an error that…
10/04 Class Plans
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Good morning! Today, you're sharing your rough drafts in class. Here's what you'll do: Go to the Forums and under the Pop Culture Dictionary post, choose the Rough Draft Post for your class period. Click the "Start New Conversation" button…
2013-09-20 Class Plans
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Today in class, we will focus on submitting the first assignment, your literacy narratives. If you are ready to turn in your work, follow these instructions: Work on your draft letter in a word processor (see the details in Tests…
Homework for Wednesday, 8/28
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Complete the Social Networking Experience Survey before class meets on Wednesday, 8/28. Log into the Scholar site for our course and find the survey under the Tests & Quizzes tab in the left menu on the Scholar site. Your answers…
Welcome to English 1105
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This course will focus on college-level composition, which includes the written word as well as visual and multimodal forms of communicating. We will spend time writing and talking about writing during every class period, so come to class with a…