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The idea is essentially to preserve websites the way libraries have long preserved newspapers via microform. As the Internet has increasingly become society’s medium of record, it has become common for the authors of scholarly papers to cite Web content that has no corresponding print documents. (Several academic style guides recently added guidelines for citing Twitter and Facebook content.)
Good review of Stanley Fish's newest book. Could be a good resource for the ELA.
"Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 2, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.
Topics in Volume 2 of the series include the rhetorical situation, collaboration, documentation styles, weblogs, invention, writing assignment interpretation, reading critically, information literacy, ethnography, interviewing, argument, document design, and source integration."
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Google's new site for creating charts
Amazing site that lets you choose variables and then see how countries have developed over time related to those variables.
Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing, Volume 1, is a collection of Creative Commons licensed essays for use in the first year writing classroom, all written by writing teachers for students.
Because of the Creative Commons licensing, you can upload these texts to your personal website, share them with colleagues and students, or put them on your institutional learning management system class website.
Topics in Volume 1 of the series include academic writing, how to interpret writing assignments, motives for writing, rhetorical analysis, revision, invention, writing centers, argumentation, narrative, reflective writing, Wikipedia, patchwriting, collaboration, and genres.
How writing and the teaching of writing appear to be undergoing a major change.
"That change is spelled out clearly by the National Council of Teachers of English, which last year published “new literacies” for readers and writers in the 21st century. Among those literacies are the ability to “build relationships with others to pose and solve problems collaboratively and cross-culturally,” to “design and share information for global communities to meet a variety of purposes,” and to “create, critique, analyze, and evaluate multi-media texts.” Very little of that kind of work is possible to achieve without expanding the way we think about writing instruction in the context of online social tools."
Thought provoking article on teaching writing including some interesting exercises. Includes links back to parts 1 and 2
Pre-first class session instructions including how to set up Gmail accounts.
Recent changes in MLA style sheets -- no underlining book titles! No URLs for web sites! New publication medium requirements!
Advice on how to form good thesis statements. Modified from the SGW
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