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ENG 420 2.1: Isocrates and Civic Education

Today’s Plan Attendance Review Last Class Two Readings: Salon and Breitbart Haskins and Benoit Homework Review Last Class Looking through your posts: Essentialism vs. Materialism Plato’s Elitism vs. Socrates’ insistence to Question Everything Plato’s Transcendentalism (Epistemology, knowledge) Two Readings As … Continue reading

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ENG 1.2: Logos, Ethos, Pathos, Stasis, Kairos

Today’s plan: Attendance Reviewing Last Class (Did you set up Google Drive?) Structuring an Argumentative Essay Elements of an Argument: Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Types of Arguments Kairos (Situating an Argument) Homework Structuring An Argumentative Essay Argumentative essays can be … Continue reading

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ENG 420 1.2: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

Today’s Plan: Attendance Blog URL’s in Canvas Entry Question: Should Schools Teach Morality Reviewing Plato Reading Philosophy’s hero and Rhetoric’s villain Homework Discussion Post Time Blog URL’s in Canvas For Tuesday’s homework, I asked you to create a blog and … Continue reading

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ENG 123: 1.1 Course Introduction

Today’s Plan: Three Questions Strong Bad Syllabus and Canvas Google Drive A Brisk Walk Homework Three Questions Let’s break the ice. Question One: What is one piece of indie/popular culture that everyone should be experiencing? Question Two: What is one … Continue reading

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ENG 420 1.1: Introduction and Plato

Today’s plan: Why Are You Here? Syllabus and Canvas Introduction to Plato, Greek Conceptions of Philosophy and Rhetoric Writing with Direct Quotations Homework

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15.1: MLA and APA Format

Today’s Plan: Attendance Final Paper Feedback MLA and APA Format Overview Paper Course Evaluations Homework Final Paper Feedback One thing that came up in a lot of drafts was the benefit of roadmapping a paper in the introduction. This is … Continue reading

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College Comp 13.1: Research and Paper Expectations

Today’s Plan: Attendance Calendar Friday Sign-ups Paper Expectations Finding Sources with Google Scholar Summarizing Sources (Academic Writing) Homework: What You Need to Do to Prepare for Friday Calendar Amazing as it might seem, we only have 4 class sessions left. … Continue reading

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12.3: Final Workshop / Preparing for Final Papers

Today’s plan: Attendance REMINDER: Monday’s class will meet in the library (Michener 303) Workshop: JaRay, Tyler Homework: Last weekly writing (do research), Preparing to Write the Final paper Canvas Quiz Homework There’s two obligations for homework. First, you need to … Continue reading

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CETL Video Pedagogy Workshop

Today’s Plan Three Reasons for Teaching Video (6 minutes) Some Nuts and Bolts for Teaching Video (20 minutes) Workshop #1: Working with Still Images (20 minutes) Workshop #2: Editing Video (15 minutes) Saving, Publishing, and Sharing Video (5 minutes) Some … Continue reading

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College Comp 12.1: Reviewing Research Questions

Today’s Plan: Attendance No Class Wednesday Workshop “Volunteers” Reviewing Research Questions Homework Reviewing Research Questions I am studying Dubliners because I am trying to find moral paralysis in order to help my reader understand better how moral paralysis shows up … Continue reading

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