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Social media, JCCC, and the state of the student body.

Posted on: February 25, 2019 Last updated on: February 25, 2019 Written by: gdixon3
JCCC has been in national news via tweets of the president’s comments at a public breakfast in  Washington DC .  KC Star, Pitch and others have reported.   Apparently he has discouraged raising the mill levee to support the school (see…
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Show don’t tell

Posted on: April 4, 2017 Last updated on: April 4, 2017 Written by: gdixon3
I write this on many student papers, but I wonder how many can guess what I mean.  I write “Show don’t tell” when students bury the lead by using unnecessary vague pronouns (sometimes the “lead” or point of which they…
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Library research

Posted on: March 25, 2013 Last updated on: March 25, 2013 Written by: gdixon3
  There have been some cool library research orientation guides.   They are free and sharable across most platforms.   Rutgers has some great animations on citing sources, avoiding inadvertent plagiarism, and the like. Library of the Living Dead the free…
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Great logical fallacies infographic (?)

Posted on: February 8, 2013 Last updated on: February 8, 2013 Written by: gdixon3
Order the poster for logical fallacies here:  –
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On the relevance of Media to Composition

Posted on: April 28, 2011 Last updated on: April 14, 2016 Written by: gdixon3
I always get a few students who don’t see the point of using media in a composition classroom. This always surprises me. How many people see themselves writing essays for a living? How often will we write essays in our…
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Rules for beginning writers.

Posted on: April 25, 2011 Last updated on: April 14, 2016 Written by: gdixon3
Got wind of this advice for beginning writers from BoingBoing, who found it from VS Naipaul. 1. Do not write long sentences. A sentence should not have more than ten or twelve words.2. Each sentence should make a clear statement.…
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Research in the news.

Posted on: April 13, 2011 Last updated on: April 14, 2016 Written by: gdixon3
A new research study on composition reports An analysis of research papers written in first-year composition courses at 15 colleges reveals that many students simply copy chunks of text from the sources they cite without truly grasping the underlying argument,…
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Quoting the dictionary: Faculty responses

Posted on: December 15, 2010 Last updated on: February 8, 2013 Written by: gdixon3
In an unscientific poll of Composition 1 instructors at JCCC, 8 have weighed in. When asked how they felt when a writer quoted the dictionary in the introduction of an essay, 7 of 8 chose “Arrgh. I hate it” with…
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Citing the Dictionary

Posted on: December 7, 2010 Last updated on: February 8, 2013 Written by: gdixon3
For some reason people like to start papers with by citing a dictionary. Maybe writers think it kills 2 birds with 1 stone in that a) it’s an in-text reference and demonstrates a quote and b) gets something on paper.…
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