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My Notes Grade Levels II Peer Review

The best suggestion I received Monday for a lesson plan was to pair students to provide each other feedback on your Throwdowns. To insure that everyone gets commentary, I’m going to pair you with a simple plan. Following is a … Continue reading →

At the beginning of the semester, I published a post titled “Grade Levels” to illustrate the sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle differences between writing samples that could be expected to earn different letter grades in a Composition course. Now that we’ve … Continue reading →

My Notes Updated Assignment Notes for the Throwdown Following Through on a Theme Grade Levels II

My Notes By verbing, it needs a subject Following Through on a Theme Grade Levels II

At the beginning of the semester, I published a post titled “Grade Levels” to illustrate the sometimes obvious, sometimes subtle differences between writing samples that could be expected to earn different letter grades in a Composition course. Now that we’ve … Continue reading →

Your classmate Domia abr Wyrda has written a charming tale of demonic possession at the hands of the wicked Amazon corporation, which tempts book lovers (with convenience and deep discounts) to deprive hard-working authors of the profits they would otherwise … Continue reading →

TR Workshop By verbing, it needs a subject

Negative Sports Media Professional sports are known as great entertainment, but some people only find and report the negative news that they hear or see. News reporters, for example the reporters of newspapers and news shows, don’t always write about … Continue reading →

By verbing, Be very worried if your sentence begins with “By any verb ending in -ing.” The odds are about 50/50 you’ll fall into a syntax trap. The winner: By justifying the actions of the FBI, Director Comey hopes to … Continue reading →