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ENG 201 3.T: What is Rhetoric?

Today’s Plan: Review Project One: Answer Questions Discuss Herrick: Survey Your Questions Homework Project One Questions Your questions. My answers. Dowe pick all one job category type (like 15-20 TW/E jobs) or do we try to pick 15-20 that look … Continue reading

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ENG 122 2.F: Proposal Review / Submission

Today’s Plan: MLA / APA Expectations Writing Center Rubric Norming / Peer Review Homework MLA and APA Expectations On Wednesday I shared a link to the Purdue University Online Writing Lab–the OWL. It has all the formatting information you need … Continue reading

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ENG 201 2.R: Report/Proposal Specs

Today’s Plan: Apology Quick Affirmation Collaborative Writing Job Ad Analysis Questions Homework An Apology to the would-be Copy Writers I mentioned Amazon.com’s copy editing service as a potential way of gaining relevant experience. Apparently, Amazon.com closed their CreateSpace author-services department … Continue reading

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ENG 122 2.W: Google Drive and Proposal Questions

Today’s Plan: Student Hours: 1180D this Wednesday 1:30-3:00. Thursday 12:30-2:00 Quesitons Google Drive Homework Questions Here we go. What will be the difference from the 1st proposal paper to the next several ones? The proposal paper maps out the kinds … Continue reading

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ENG 201 2.T: Job Ad Analysis

Today’s Plan: Quick Exercise: What is Professional Writing? What is Technical Writing? What kinds of genres/activities are germane to each? How do we distinguish the two? Reading Review: Brumberger and Lauer Reading Review: A Humanistic Rationale for Technical Writing Proposal … Continue reading

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ENG 122 2.M: Proposal Assignment

The Proposal Assignment Vitals: Length 700 to 1000 words Specific writers and articles worth responding to MLA or APA format with Works Cited / References list and citations where appropriate Submitted to canvas Due Saturday, Sept 1st at 11:59pm, Proposal … Continue reading

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ENG 122 1.F: Discourse Communities, Writing Groups, and Homework (Oh My!)

Today’s Plan: Let’s Take a Second to Nerd Out Discourse Communities and Writing Groups Norming: Looking at Proposals Homework Nerd Out This (minute 20-22). Feedback to the Community Discourse Assignment Comment One: Ok, let me be frank. Climate change is … Continue reading

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ENG 201 1.R: Brumberger and Lauer’s Analysis of Industry Job Postings

Today’s Plan: Discussion of Brumberger and Lauer Sharing mediabistro job corpus Elementary coding Homework Discussion of Brumberger and Lauer I asked you to read their article and do two things: I simply want to know what in the article surprises … Continue reading

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Eng 122 1.1: Introduction to Argument

Today’s Plan: (Brief) Review of Argumentation Close Reading: Banning Alex Jones Homework Brief Review of Argumentation This semester I’m going to ask you to read and write arguments. To do this well, you need to be familiar with the fundamental … Continue reading

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ENG 329 14.2: Open Broadcaster and Screen Casting

Today’s Plan: Quick Review of Open Broadcaster Time to Screen Cast Homework Overview of Open Broadcaster Today is our one-day Open Broadcaster workshop. My aim is to show you the fundamentals of the program. The demonstration I have put together … Continue reading

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