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Climate change in the debate
Open link in new tab for embedded video from CNN at https://youtu.be/PlI5l41Hpww uploaded 26 Sept. 2016. Ties together my interests in China, the environment and sustainability. Why or how does ideology shape knowledge? What are the implications?
This Month in CIlmate Change
World Health Organization says the health of 90% of world population affected by air pollution Reuters says “Climate change could cross key threshold in a decade: scientists“ “375 top scientists warn of ‘real, serious. immediate’ climate threat.“in The Guardian Good…
Notes to Students on citing sources: FA 2016
How to Cite a TED Talk in MLA Format Cite it as a lecture. Here is an example. Smith, John. “The Power of Baloney.” TED. Feb. 2012. Lecture. . Where to find 2016 edition of the MLA…
How to Use D2L: where the tutorials are.
For those students who are new to using online systems, somethings can be counter-intuitive, so I advise you to watch some of the tutorials. The icebreakers are in D2L, the Learning Management System (LMS). I’m guessing you are new…
Curriculum Epistemology
The three biggest challenges facing us related to English Composition are: Privacy/ ownership: this includes shared creation of information on plagiarism and copyright (eg look at the caption on the meme I grabbed. Shouldn’t it read http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1333238359437_4954126.png?) Resource management: that includes…
Comfort Women
On Wednesday 5/4/16 Maija Rhee Devine spoke on the topic of Comfort Women in World War II. Her expertise and experience focused on Korean Comfort Women – the largest group of impressed sex slaves by the Japanese Imperial Army, however…
Teaching Performance Self-exam
I’ve been reading a book used in many college business classes and based on by Stanford Business Professor Robert Sutton, PhD , called The No Asshole Rule. He developed the book from apopular article he wrote for The Harvard Business…
How to Cite Block Quotes
I’ve written about how to cite block quotes in MLA format before and noted how the Purdue OWL gets this wrong. As demonstrated in the NFGW (our comp 1 text) and in the MLA Handbook: 7th ed (the newest edition in the…
How to use the handbook to figure out how to cite the Fish article.
What information do we include and how do we figure it out? First go to the free online MLA handbook and look at its table of contents. We know it is an online newspaper (New York Times), so we find where…