Category Archives: Professor Post

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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Agenda MON OCT 20

Posted on October 20, 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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Agenda THU OCT 16

Posted on October 16, 2014 by davidbdale

In-Class Exercise (ICE) Unfair Summary TR Introduction to the Op-Ed A05: Op-Ed Assignment

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Unfair Summary TR

Posted on October 16, 2014 by davidbdale

Amazon Plays Rough. So What? by Joe Nocera, the New York Times, OCT. 13, 2014 Is Amazon a monopoly? That certainly is what Franklin Foer, the editor of The New Republic, thinks. In the magazine’s current issue, he has written … Continue reading →

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A05: Op-Ed

Posted on October 15, 2014 by davidbdale

Op-Ed on a Specific Timely Topic Op-Eds are worth studying and emulating not because they appear in newspapers but because they’re persuasive and responsive to the writing of other authors. Every skill required to write a good Op-Ed will serve … Continue reading →

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Comparing Revisions

Posted on October 15, 2014 by davidbdale

WordPress saves all drafts. Tyler asked me today to demonstrate how to view side-by-side drafts of his posts in WordPress’s Edit mode. I promised I would, then forgot to follow through. So here: Find the Revisions table. First, open your … Continue reading →

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