Course Overview

Syllabus

Self-introduction form

Conferencing at www.nicenet.org

• Reading journal guidelines
  
• Summarizing
  
• Paraphrasing
  
• More on paraphrasing from the Online Writing Lab
  
• Writing a good critique
  
• Logic in argumentative writing from the Online Writing Lab
  
• Searching the Web
Work-family example


• Reading Skills


• Essay Tests: Words to Watch for


• Using Sources


• Citing Electronic Sources (Online Writing Lab)
  

• Collins Cobuild Concordancer - seeing examples of how words are used.
  Information about Conc, a concordancer.
  
• MacLex (vocabulary program)
  

Content lists of web sites

• More writing help from the Online Writing Lab
  
  
• Gender issues - Fall 1995 through Spring 1996
  
  
• Working ParentsFall 1995, Winter 1996
  
  
• UFO informationSpring 1996 through Spring 1998
  
  
• Physician-assisted suicide - Fall 1996 through Spring 1998
  
  
• Gun control - For Fall 1995 and Winter 1996 (updated Summer 1998)