The overwhelming majority of the class really liked the Team-Based Learning (TBL) project, but 5 or 6 didn’t. As a whole the classes succeeded, but there were issues of ineffective group dynamics and missed deadlines. Last semester I ran the…
Scare quotes are Evil
As written earlier I’m seeing too “many” superfluous quotes. Wikipedia calls this Scare Quotes. Avoid this. I don’t like irony conveyed through quotation marks. Use words. And scare quotes don’t work for emphasis. Serious explanation here. Check out the blog dedicated…
Textbook Annotated Bibliography
How to write an annotated bibliography is covered in depth in the Comp 121 textbook. You can also check our social bookmarking site for loads of references online. NOTE: Refer to MLA handbook for how to cite sources – examples…
powerpoint
Heard of Death by Powerpoint? It can be done well – but rarely seen it. Collecting links at delicious.
Gen 1.5
On a surprising number of Comp 1 papers this week, I find myself writing about the Gen 1.5 experience and how excited I am to have students with first-hand knowledge. This could be an topic for the SRTOL paper. Generation…
Most Basic MLA format.
It starts with the heading (yourname/prof’s name/class name/date) followed by the title – always a title then the body: all double-spaced with no extra hard returns (empty lines) stuck anywhere. Look at the sample student paper on page 41 on…