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.
- Creating a post on OpenLab:
- How to use Perusall:
- How to write good annotations
- Slack:
- Sneakerheads links:
- Doing a KWL+ for research
- Feature Article Structure
- What’s a nut graf?
- slide show on nut grafs
- Tools for creating Unit 3 projects:
- Examples and how-to’s for various genres:
- Tools for creating and editing audio and video and graphics…
- The Rhetorical Situation triangle:
- Writing a Rhetorical Analysis (worksheet)
- Getting Started slide show:
- Writing Good Paragraphs slide show
- “The Trapper” — how to do a reverse outline
- How to do a Visual Rhetorical Analysis
- “The Art of Quoting” – Graff & Birkenstein
- The Quote Sandwich PB&J
- Quote Sandwich – creating one
- Embedding Quotes
- Creating Portfolios slide show:
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-M8P2X.
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
How to write good annotations
Slack:
Quick note — Slack has updated its chat box a bit. To attach a file, click on the + to get a drop-down box. You can turn on and off the text formatting ruler with the Aa icon. Otherwise, it’s like this little overview tells you.
Sneakerheads links:
Sneakers magazine. “13 reasons to be a sneakerhead.”
aiobot. “Pros and cons of sneaker culture.”
from the New York Times, graphic biography of a 50-year-old sneakerhead
Being a female in the sneakerhead culture.
Doing a KWL+ for research
Feature Article Structure
What’s a nut graf?
slide show on how to write nut grafs
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
Other Handouts:
The Rhetorical Situation triangle:
Writing a Rhetorical Analysis (worksheet)
Getting Started slide show:
Writing Good Paragraphs slide show
“The Trapper” — how to do a reverse outline
How to do a Visual Rhetorical Analysis
“The Art of Quoting” – Graff & Birkenstein
The Quote Sandwich PB&J
