|
Sample Essays & More
Essays w/ Commentary
Visual aids can be helpful in understanding how Writing Advisors interact with student papers. There are several papers linked below, all with comments by Writing Advisors. Please look through some of them, as they are a valuable resource for what you should and you should NOT do while writing. It should be noted that all Faculty have access to these papers and can easily trace any plagiarism originating from this site.
Augustine and Lamott Essay III
Reflections on the Atlantic Shore
The Folly of Self Help
Virtuous Franklin
Underneath the Surface, Into the Whole
Good Life at a Great Price
Their "Imagined Communities"
Collaborative Learning
The benefits of teaching students how to learn together have been demonstrated many times over, both by academic research and by student testimony. It makes very good practical sense; teachers familiar with their discipline easily forget how foreign the conventions and structures of that discipline once were and can become deaf to questions students are really asking or blind to gaps in their knowledge. Moreover, by putting learning into a social setting, students may loosen up, ask "dumb" questions or play imaginatively with the information they're studying. Read the full text article here.
Please refer to our Collaborative Learning Powerpoint or Annie Himpelmann's Don't Wait: Collaborate! to further explore this topic.
Additional Resources
Integrating Sources
If a research paper requires so many sources, how do you make sure it still sounds like your paper? This powerpoint presentation walks you through ways to integrate sources and gives you some examples to emulate and some to avoid. Access the powerpoint presentation to further explore this topic
|