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A06: OpEd Rewrite

Posted on October 26, 2014 by davidbdale

Your sixth writing assignment is the rewrite of your fifth: an OpEd Rewrite that responds to feedback from your instructor, your classmates, your trusted advisers, or the free student tutors at the Writing Center. The Deadlines: TUE-THU class: Deadline 11:59PM … Continue reading →

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Agenda THU OCT 23

Posted on October 23, 2014 by davidbdale

What Type of Riddle? A05 Feedback Post TR Informal Citation Examples Citation Techniques Sample Works Cited Using (not Finding) Sources Research Tip for Arguments Useful Associated Links Easy Bib Son of Citation Machine Rowan Library Searches Google Scholar Check links … Continue reading →

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Feedback A05 TR

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

Instead of individual Replies that only one student is likely to read, I’ve decided to post feedback for all my TR students in one location so you can all see how my comments to you compare with my comments to … Continue reading →

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Agenda WED OCT 22

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

What Type of Riddle? Informal Citation Examples Citation Techniques Sample Works Cited Using (not Finding) Sources Research Tip for Arguments Useful Associated Links Easy Bib Son of Citation Machine Rowan Library Searches Google Scholar Check links for privacy setting or … Continue reading →

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Research Tip for Arguments

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

Why this is important I found Username a source using Google Scholar and the Rowan library. “I can’t find any sources!” Username and I were talking yesterday about his topic, the hateful anti-gay rhetoric spewed by the Westboro Baptist Church, … Continue reading →

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Why Bother with Sources?

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

Finding Sources vs. Using Sources Imagine a psychologist who believes that children raised by single parents are more aggressive and likely to abuse their own children later in life. She has noticed a trend in her patients that leads her … Continue reading →

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Sample Works Cited

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

Beginning with the Op-Ed, your essays will have to include a Works Cited. Please understand this is different from a Bibliography, which identifies every source you consulted in your research. The Works Cited identifies only (this will sound so obvious!) … Continue reading →

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What Type of Riddle?

Posted on October 22, 2014 by davidbdale

I wrote these jokes to make a point. Version 1 —Knock knock. —Who’s there? —Death. —Death who? —Ultimately, it makes little difference in what form death arrives or by what name we call it. We all go one way or … Continue reading →

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Agenda TUE OCT 21

Posted on October 21, 2014 by davidbdale

We’ll have just one item on the Agenda today as I try something new. More than half of you have asked, some of you emphatically, for feedback on your first drafts of the A05 assignment. Today, I’ll do live feedback … Continue reading →

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Riddle: A Field Hospital

Posted on October 20, 2014 by davidbdale

A Field Hospital by Randall Jarrell, 1947 He stirs, beginning to awake. A kind of ache Of knowing troubles his blind warmth; he moans, And the high hammering drone Of the first crossing fighters shakes His sleep to pieces, rakes … Continue reading →

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