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Wrapping Up Our Course: Final Exam and Final Course Portfolio

Next Wednesday, December 13 is our last in-person class session.  At that time, you will be taking the final exam and handing in your Final Course Portfolio, which includes your Revised Overview of Sources essay and your Annotated Bibliography.  Below … Continue reading

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Preparing for Our Final Exam

The final exam for our course is next Wednesday, Dec. 13.  I will be e-mailing you the reading for the exam on Monday, Dec. 11.  Please make sure to carefully read and annotate the reading to prepare for the exam … Continue reading

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GA13/RWA13: Drafting and Revising Your Overview of Sources Essay

Please bring a working draft of your Overview of Sources essay to our class next Wednesday, December 6. We will be dedicating half of our class session to peer review. I have also posted guidelines for preparing your Final Course … Continue reading

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Preparing a Final Course Portfolio

FINAL COURSE PORTFOLIO Professor Rodgers College Writing PREPARING YOUR FINAL COURSE PORTFOLIO: Due Wednesday, December 13, 2017 The Final Course Portfolio is a way for you to review all of the work that you have done this semester, revise some … Continue reading

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GA13/RWA13: Drafting an Overview of Sources Essay

Dear Students, I hope you had a very good holiday. For our class on Wednesday, November 29, please bring a printed copy of RWA12: Annotated Bibliography, and all of your research materials. We will be drafting RWA13, the Overview of … Continue reading

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Wednesday, Nov. 22: Professor Rodgers is ill and our in-person class session is cancelled

Dear Students, I am ill, and, as a result, we will not be meeting as a class in-person this afternoon. I am very sorry to have to cancel this class. However, I have no doubt that we can make up … Continue reading

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GA12: Post One Paragraph

Please review your revised Argumentative Response Essay (RWA9) and select one paragraph from the essay that you would like us to discuss as a class. Since, most recently, we have been focusing on using and writing about textual evidence in … Continue reading

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GA11: What Is a Bibliography? What are In-Text and Bibliographic Citation Styles?

Please respond to the following questions as a reply to this blog post: What is your discipline or major? Do you know which style guidelines (MLA/APA/Other?) are used in your discipline/major? If not, how might you find out? Post the … Continue reading

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Technologies and Literacies: Some Useful Sources

Citation:  ARTICLE Uses and effects of mobile computing devices in K-8 classrooms Karen Swan, Mark van ‘t Hooft, Annette Kratcoski, and Darlene Unger.Journal of Research on Technology in Education. 38.1 (Fall 2005) p99. Word Count: 5742. Learning From High School Students’ Lived Experiences … Continue reading

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GA10: Questions About Developing Research Questions and College Research Projects 

Please post your questions about the College Research Process and Developing Research Questions as a comment to this post.  Please also respond to at least one question by one of your classmates. For our class next Wednesday, you will be … Continue reading

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