How to be a Successful Student

Day One Slides 

1A Day 1 Slides.ppt

Critical_Thinking_presentation.ppt

Procrastination - Work Smart

 Video Central - Real World Writers: english

• Reading Critically
• Why Writing Matters
• I Don't Like Reading
• Writing Beyond the English Classroom 
• Highlighting and Annotating 

Understanding Assignments.doc

I Am From Poetry Activity

Syllabus Quiz 

Syllabus Quiz Answers:

• Merritt 1A

Group Writing Presentation Assignment.docx

Presentation Guidelines.doc

Writing as a Process

Reading Process 

Writing as a Process.ppt

Purdue Process of Writing.ppt

Ricky Gervais - Writing Process - 3:38

SNL - Nicholas Fehn

Writer's Block: Video Central 

 Video Central 

• Getting Started - Student Writers/Real World Writers
• Organizing Your Writing

10 Tips for Improving Your Academic Writing - 10:31 

prewriting.pdf

Pre-Writing Strategies.doc

Annotating and Active Reading.doc

Reading to Write

Critical Thinking Handout.pdf

Questions for Reading.pdf

Prereading.doc

Active Reading.doc

6_reading_myths.doc

Grammar Evaluation

Punctuation Matters

Punctuation Matters.pptx

Why Grammar Matters 3:29

Lynda.com - Grammar Videos Bayfilly11 - Why Does Grammar Matter? 2:48  another link

• Why Does Grammar Matter? 2:48

GRAMMAR EVALUATION 1.docx

GRAMMAR EVALUATION 2.docx

Answer Key Grammar Eval1.docx

Answer Key Grammar Eval 2.docx

And you think English is easy and logical.doc

The Spell Checker.doc

Plagiarism Lesson 

MLA Plagiarism Info page

WHAT is Plagiarism.ppt

AvoidingPlagiarism.ppt

Video Central - Plagiarism in the Remix Culture 

Avoiding Plagiarism Sneetches.doc  

Paraphrasing Sneetches.doc

Plagiarism Quiz.docx

Plagiarism_handout[1].doc

Essay Structure.pptx

Planning and Shaping Your Essays.pptx

EngVid Essay Writing - 10:31

essay structure handout basic.doc  

Shape of An Essay.pdf

Pizza Text Structure Activity and Answers

Intro to Essay One

Things to Avoid in Writing Essays

Norming Packets

Eng 100 Perspectives on Language Writer's Checklist.docx

Two ways to introduce an author and title.docx

More two ways to introduce an author and title.

MLA Formatting and Documentation

Sample Papers in MLA formatting

MLA Documentation.ppt

MLA Purdue OWL.ppt

Essay Formatting.pptx

How to Format Your Paper.ppt

MLA.pptx

UNC  Youtube writing videos

• How We Cite
• Why We Cite 
• Why Citation is Important - transcript Kimball Library video

How MLA 8 Citations Work 

MLA In-text Citations

MLA Works Cited List

How to Format a Paper and Other Silly Stuff.doc

MLA pdf.pdf 

MLAFormatSheet (3).doc

MLA Basic Formatting Guide.pdf

Example of a WORKS CITED Page.doc

MLA Formatting Exercise[1].doc

Malcolm X

Helen Keller 

Blogging

Video Central - Mike Rose on Blogging 

Malcolm X

Helen Keller

Maxine Hong Kingston 4:51

Paragraphs

PIE Paragraphs

Pulling Apart Paragraphs

Topic Sentences 

PIE Paragraphs (1).ppt  

Paragraph Development.ppt

body_paragr.ppt

topic sentences practice.ppt

Writing Paragraphs.ppt

paragraphs and topic sentences.ppt

PARAGRAPHS.pptx

PIE Paragraph.doc

PIE_Checklist.doc  

PARAGRAPH OUTLINE.doc

Developing a Paragraph.pdf

Topic Sentences.docx

Thesis Statements - what not to do.ppt  

thesis-3power point.ppt

WritingEssays_Thesis Statement.pptx

narrowing your topic.ppt

PPFromTopictoThesis.ppt

Thesis Worksheet 5.doc  

Worksheet for Thesis.docx

Thesis Statement Exercises.docx

Worksheet for Thesis.docx

Bad and Better Thesis Statements.docx

Thesis_Statement.rtf

Writing a strong thesis statement.doc

NarrowingaTopicFromSubjecttoThesis.pdf

thesis.pdf

Transitions 

Transitions in Essays

WritingParagraphs_UnityCoherence.pptx

Transitions powerpoint.ppt

transitions ppt.ppt

Using Transitions.ppt

PARAGRAPH TRANSITIONS SLIDE SHOW.pps

Video - Rush Limbaugh's comments

Transitions

Transition Activities

Transition puzzle exercises

Writing Transitions.docx

Flow in essays - UNC handout

      First Year Writing Courses Essay 

Virtuous Arguments John Duffy - essay structure results.docx

transitions.pdf

Purdue OWL transitions page

Revising and Editing.pptx

Editing and Revision.pptx

Color Coding ideas

Video Central - Revising: Student Writers

Revision Checklist.docx

revising.pdf

Proofreading

Proofreading comedy - 3:30

Proofreading

Proofreading and Editing.pdf

Proofreading Tips.pdf

editing_proofreading_06.pdf

Proofreading Handout.pdf

Proofreading Strategies.doc

Proofreading Tips.doc

Introductions and Conclusions(1).pptx

WritingEssays_Conclusion.pptx

Introduction.ppt

introductions.pdf

conclusions.pdf

Intro_Conclusion.pdf

Video Central - Giving Feedback/Getting Feedback Student Writers 

Peer Review Guidelines.doc

Topic Sentence Thesis Peer Review.doc

Quoting and Paraphrasing Sources 

MLA Works Cited List Info

Quoting and Paraphrasing.pptx

Quoting with Sandwich technique

quotingPPT.ppt 

How to Integrate Sources Into your paper.pptx

Video Central  -Researched Writing: Citing Sources

UNC Writing Center - How We Cite

                                   Why We Cite

Citing Sources: Why and How We Do It

MLA Parenthetical Citation.docx

Integrating and Punctuating Quotations.docx

Quotes.Paraphrase.ParagraphStructure.doc

quoting_guidelines.pdf

Prince Ea: Can We Auto-Correct Humanity? 3:27

Frontline - Distracted by Everything -1:08:25

Linda Stone - Continuous Partial Attention - 2:31 - Q&A's

Technology and Language Writer's Checklist.docx

Peer Review Technology and Language.doc

Eng 100 Technology and Language Writer's Checklist.docx

Argument and Concession/Refutation page

Rogerian

Toulmin

intro_to_argument.ppt

Remember Argumentation.pptx

Refutation Paragraph.pptx

Rogerian Arguments.pptx

Concession Refutation Template.pptx

Toulmin Model.ppt

Monty Python "Argument Clinic"

How to Write an Argument Essay - 2:55

Video Central 

• Argument and Ad Hominem
• Everything's An Argument 
• Argument and Persuasion
• Researched Writing: Fact vs. Opinion 

Toulmin Model 

Toulmin Model of Argument - Legalizing Marijuana (student film)

Toulmin Handout.docx

Argument Intro Onscreen.doc

Preparing an Argument Exploring Both Sides of an Issue.doc

Analyzing an Argument Topic in an Outline.pdf

Arguing Both Sides of an Issue.doc

Argument Checklist.doc

Argument.doc

How To Win An Argument.docx

Audience and Purpose.ppt 

Subtext Tales of Mere Existence"

SNL "Girlfriend Voice" - Season 34 4/2009 - then click under Sketches 4x

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/girlfriend-voice/n12476

SNL "My Mom's on Facebook Filter"

Audience Purpose and Tone - 1:52 from Durham College

"Writing a First Draft Appropriate to Purpose and Audience"

Audience & Purpose article & exercise

Univ. of Maryland - Writing for an Audience - 

The OWL at Purdue — Identifying an Audience

Illinois Valley Community College - Audience Types

UNC-Chapel Hill Writing Center  — Audience

Author's Purpose Activity and Answers

Audience & Voice Classroom Exercise

Key and Peele - Text Message Confusion 2:47

David Crystal - Texting: the Gr8t Deb8t - 10:55 UK game show

John McWhorter - Texting is Killing Language: JK!  13:48

Renny Gleason: Our Anti-Social Phone Tricks 3:46

Stefana Broadbent: How the Internet Enables Intimacy 8:51

Young People Don't Trust Anyone Who Uses This Punctuation Mark

Rhetoric & Appeals 

MLA: Analyzing Rhetorical Situations - Class Activity

Rhetorical Situation.ppt

The 3 Appeals.ppt

appeals.ppt

History of Rhetoric.ppt

Student rhetorical analysis of ads example - Old Spice 4:14

Introduction to Argument and Persuasion - the Appeals  3:34

Rhetorical Appeals 5:22 min

Video Central

• Ethos, Pathos, Logos 
• Humor and Persuasion

Tweeting & Sherry Turkle 

logos and fallacies.ppt

Logical Fallacies.pptx

Intentional Fallacy.ppt

Language and Thought Essay

Keith Chen: Could Language Affect Your Ability to Save? 12:13

Key & Peele - street talking :48

My blackberry isn't working

Euphemisms - George Carlin - 9:01

Eng 100 Language and Thought Writer's Checklist.docx

Eng 1A Language and Thought Writer's Checklist.docx

Peer Review Language and Thought.doc

concision.ppt

Concision.ppt

style.ppt

Writing Concisely and Clearly

Video Central  - Word Choice: Real World Writers

Revise for Conciseness.docx

wordiness.pdf

WordChoice.pdf