Below please find links and support materials to help you succeed in this course and beyond. If you don’t find the resources you’re looking for, email me or text me on Slack.
- Composition Skills site:
- Creating a post on OpenLab:
- How to use Perusall:
- Slack:
- The Rhetorical Situation triangle:
- Writing a Rhetorical Analysis (worksheet)
- Getting Started slide show:
- Writing Good Paragraphs slide show
- Examples of RABs
- Doing a KWL+ for research
- How to use summary, paraphrase, and quotes
- Summary, paraphrase, plagiarism
- “The Art of Quoting” – Graff & Birkenstein
- The Quote Sandwich Burger
- Embedding Quotes
- How to do a Visual Rhetorical Analysis
- The Reverse Outline – overview
- “The Trapper” — how to do a reverse outline
- Examples of Unit 3: Writing in a New Genre
- Tools for creating Unit 3 projects:
- Examples and how-to’s for various genres:
- Tools for creating and editing audio and video and graphics…
- Creating Portfolios slide show:
Composition Skills site:
This has a lot of things to help you, not just for this class but for any class even though it was set up for English classes.
Creating a post on OpenLab:
There are also links to OpenLab help on our main page in the right sidebar.
How to use Perusall:
- Go to perusall.com, click Login, and then either log in using your Facebook, Twitter, or Google account, or create an account using your email address and password.
- Select I am a student and enter the course code BLAIN-X8FZE.
Here’s a YouTube that our department for you about how to use Perusall.
Here’s the help section of Perusall as well as more information on how to use it: https://support.perusall.com/hc/en-us/categories/360002173133-Students
Slack:
Other Handouts:
The Rhetorical Situation triangle:
Writing a Rhetorical Analysis (worksheet)
Getting Started slide show:
Writing Good Paragraphs slide show
Examples of RABs
Doing a KWL+ for research
How to use summary, paraphrase, and quotes
Summary, paraphrase, plagiarism
“The Art of Quoting” – Graff & Birkenstein
The Quote Sandwich Burger
Embedding Quotes
How to do a Visual Rhetorical Analysis
The Reverse Outline – overview
“The Trapper” — how to do a reverse outline
Examples of Unit 3: Writing in a New Genre
Tools for creating Unit 3 projects:
Examples and how-to’s for various genres:
Tools for creating and editing audio and video and graphics…
Tutorial video for Audacity (audio/podcasting)
Link to Audacity manual
