Websites for the week of Feb. 27:

Using Sources
You'll find lots of useful reminders here about when and how to quote or Paraphrase.

Frontline on Media and Teens
Here's some extra reading you might find interesting and useful for your consumerism essay.

 Feb. 21:

This handout gives clear explanations and examples of  Appositives, a good supplement to what's in our reader.

And see Ads and Insecurities for an interesting essay that might give you new ideas for your own paper on consumerism.

Ads from 1911-1955.  This Duke University archive of historical advertisements includes hundreds of ads from the past, illustrating vividly how the values and historical conditions of different decades influence aproaches to advertising.

Feb. 13:

Paragraph Development offers a good review of many of the elements of effective paragraphs.

And Transitions provides tips for how to move from one paragraph to another smoothly. As we've discussed in class, you'll want to be careful not to rely too heavily on transition words, but rather you'll want to show the connections between you ideas in a variety of different ways, using coordinators and subordinators and other sentence combining strategies.

Feb. 6:

Many of you are concerned about ways to make your thesis statements
stronger. We will continue to work on this in class. But while your questions are still fresh in your minds, here is a site worth visiting:

Tips on Thesis Statements

And here you'll find a couple recent articles to add to those in our reader, extra reading for our unit on gender:

The Trouble With Boys

Jan. 30:

Revising: Questions to Consider

Editing and Proofreading Strategies


January 23, 2006:

Understanding Assignments should help you as you read and consider your questions about 100B Essay Assignments.

And  Summary and Analysis offers good tips to help you as you analyze the television show you watched and plan how you will discuss the episode in your essay.
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January 16:

Reading to Write

Here's some useful information about strategies for reading effectively in preparation
for writing. You'll also find lots of other tips about various aspects of college writing
on this University of North Carolina site.
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January 9:


Reading Processes




You might also find this site helpful: Dealing with New Words

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