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Friday Self-Study
Today I would like you to work more on your paraphrasing, summarising and referencing skills. In the final draft of your essay you will be given credit for effective use of these techniques, and if I… more →
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Barack Obama: 2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address
wrote 4 days ago: Audio mp3 of Address http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eWynt87PaJ0 click … more →
Week 36 - A Pop Essay to Make You Foam at the Mouth
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wrote 1 week ago: As the year is winding down, I’ve been wanting to assess my students on the writing process wh … more →
Week 34 - Against All Odds: A 5th Grade Essay
wrote 3 weeks ago: Here is the final paper that I will post from this essay prompt. This is a 5th grade paper. In it th … more →
Week 34 - The Underground Hero: A 6th Grade Essay
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Another review essay, this one is on the novel Dodger by Terry Pratchett. Pratchett is a great favor … more →
Week 34 - A Desert Trip: A 6th Grade Essay
wrote 3 weeks ago: An essay on Holes by one of our 6th graders. She asserts to us here that she has grown out of this l … more →
Something to take with you...
wrote 1 month ago: I’m just finishing a semester in which I’ve worked one-on-one with many wonderful studen … more →
Week 33 - Student C's Offering
wrote 1 month ago: Here is another student’s response to the compare and contrast prompt. This student worked ext … more →
Week 32 - Student B's Offering
wrote 1 month ago: I’ve uploaded more student papers. This student wrote his compare and contrast paper on Sherl … more →
Week 31 - Student A's Response: Final Draft!
wrote 1 month ago: You heard it, the culmination of over a month’s worth of work on the Humanities Paper: the hal … more →
Week 31 - Student A's Response: Third Draft
wrote 1 month ago: Third Draft – So this is where we knuckle down on the grammar and mechanics. When students han … more →
Week 31 - Student A's Response: 2nd Draft
wrote 1 month ago: Second Draft – Having made the changes to her draft, she gave her paper to another student to … more →
Week 31 - Student A's Response: 1st Draft
wrote 1 month ago: The First Draft- In this paper, Student A moved her ideas from the outline into paragraphs. She dec … more →
Week 31 - Student A's Response: Outline
wrote 1 month ago: The Outline- This is where Student A picked up the ideas she wanted from her brainstorm and her plot … more →
Week 31 - Student Response: Brainstorming
wrote 1 month ago: Here are two parts of the brainstorming work that Student A did in order to write the Compare and Co … more →
Week 31 - The Compare and Contrast Essay
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wrote 1 month ago: Here is the rubric from which students started working on their Humanities 4 paper. Because they re … more →
'Lend me your ears'
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wrote 1 month ago: I was asked by some colleagues at the University of Leicester to give pre-sessional students a short … more →
BALEAP Conference 2013
wrote 1 month ago: BALEAP Biannual Conference took place at the University of Nottingham this weekend but unfortunately … more →
Thinking international in HE
wrote 2 months ago: It is old news that higher education has become more and more international in the sense that an inc … more →
Understanding Language in the Classroom
wrote 2 months ago: Susan J. Behrens An author of one of our forthcoming books, Susan J. Behrens from Marymount Manhatta … more →
