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Professor Conferences

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

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Bottom-line Grammar

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

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Deadlines Met and Missed

Depending on your section, your assignment A02 was due just before midnight Tuesday, or just before midnight Wednesday, less than 3 hours from now. Timely Posts so far aspiretoinspire bagofchips bloo bukowski dean domia abr wyrda eagles falooda fluffy frozen8 … Continue reading

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Editorial Exercise MW

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

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Those Bumps at the Intersection

When they’re edible, they’re called Candy Buttons. But when they show up on the street at intersections, they don’t have an established name. In 2, 3, or 4 words, what should we call these? (Don’t write your answer below. I … Continue reading

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Living Color–Love Rears its Ugly Head

oh no not that again

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A02: LTE Rewrite

Your second writing assignment is the rewrite of your first: a Letter to the Editor (LTE) Rewrite that responds to feedback from your instructor, your classmates, your trusted advisers, or the free student tutors at the Writing Center. Here’s the … Continue reading

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That and Which

If you know why both of these sentences are correct, you aren’t confused by that and which. 1. It was a bad mistake, which you knew when you made it. 2. It was a bad mistake that you knew when … Continue reading

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Braille Riddle

 One day at the bank, I noticed something odd, so I wrote this riddle in Braille. How to Learn Braille in One Lesson

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ICE: NFL Marijuana Letter

Letter Rewrite Exercise VERSION 1 “VIRTUALLY every single player in the N.F.L. has a certifiable need for medical marijuana.” This is the arguement made by Nate Jackson, author of both “Slow Getting Up: A Story of N.F.L. Survival From the … Continue reading

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