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Editorial on a Specific Timely Topic Continuing the serious business of the course, I’m assigning you another very specific type of persuasive writing, the Editorial. Again, I am not trying to turn you into journalists. If I were, I would … Continue reading →

Backsliding on Nuclear Promises By THE EDITORIAL BOARD, SEPT. 22, 2014 For much of the past six years, President Obama has talked about working toward a world without nuclear weapons. Yet his administration is now investing tens of billions of … Continue reading →

  Text Contact (856) 979-6653 email davidbdale@comcast.net or hodges@rowan.edu Core Values Course Outline Syllabus Not Because Exercise Homework Assignment: Editorial Exercise TR  

Sentences that follow a negative verb with because create confusion for readers. I don’t love you because you’re beautiful. No man can safely say this to his girlfriend because she hears the negation first and doesn’t listen to anything else … Continue reading →

Week 1 Writing is Argument Unit. All writing is argument. Components of a Letter to the Editor. Engagement with audience. Writing for a purpose: getting published, expressing a different opinion, setting the record straight, persuading opinion, rallying supporters, recommending a … Continue reading →

Week 1 Writing is Argument Unit. All writing is argument. Components of a Letter to the Editor. Engagement with audience. Writing for a purpose: getting published, expressing a different opinion, setting the record straight, persuading opinion, rallying supporters, recommending a … Continue reading →

Core Values An important component of the Course Syllabus Rowan’s First-Year Writing Program ascribes to the following Core Values. At semester’s end, you’ll write a Reflective Statement describing the many ways you have achieved these values throughout the course. Start … Continue reading →

Text Contact (856) 979-6653 email davidbdale@comcast.net or hodges@rowan.edu Update Class Notes Professor Conferences Uncategorized Course Outline Syllabus Bottom-line Grammar Exercise Homework Assignment: Editorial Exercise MW

Professor Conferences Your very devoted professor will meet you any time and any place you deem convenient to help you with your academic writing, but if you don’t suggest an exotic location and time, the default will be James 2110 … Continue reading →

We probably shouldn’t have to study grammar in College Composition I, but the fact is not everybody who gets into college is comfortable with grammar basics. We’ll drill or review grammar basics in class only if necessary, but I will … Continue reading →