Jan
30
Qualities of Effective Writing as Described by ENG105 classes
January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here is a compilation of both sections’ (ENG105-01 and ENG105-18) responses to the question of what makes a piece of writing effective. These elements describe the strengths of two personal narratives contained in the Strose Prose anthology of ENG105 essays. They are the strengths and qualities I will be looking for in your [...]
Jan
28
RSS application for Myspace and Facebook users
January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For Facebook users:
1. Browse applications in Facebook for “simply RSS” (you can do a search for this). If you don’t know how to do this, click on edit next to Applications in your profile. Next, click browse more applications. Do a search for simply RSS.
2. Click on “simply [...]
Jan
28
essay assignment #1
January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Paper #1: Autobiographical narrative essay
3-5 pages
due: Wednesay 2/6
(Examples (from class) of this type of narrative: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, “Love Letters”, “My Popeye, My Home”, “A Most Unlikely Influence”, “One Bad Apple” and “On Keeping a Notebook”)
Write an essay about an event and/or series of events that have occurred [...]
Jan
26
First weekly blog post
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Your first weekly blog post is due this Friday (2/1) by midnight. For this post I’d like to see you write an introduction to your blog. In this post you might detail the “theme” of your blog and explain what aspects of that theme you plan to cover. You might include your [...]
Jan
26
Notes on blogging
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here are some final thoughts, tips, and suggestions before you begin your regular weekly blogging.
1. Most Important: Make sure the time-stamp on your blog is accurate. Here’s how: Go to options (from your dashboard); scroll down to Date and Time; in the box next to where it reads — [...]
Jan
26
digital assignment #4: importing OPML documents to google reader
January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
1. Take the USB drive with the OPML file saved to it and insert it into USB port
2. Log-in to your Google Reader account
3. Scroll down and click on Manage Subscriptions
4. Click on the Import/Export tab
5. Browse for the OPML file that you saved in class (on your USB drive), [...]
Jan
22
digital assignment #3: blogging/linking practice and subscribing to feeds
January 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
due: Friday, Jan. 25 (by midnight)
Find one online news source and one blog (NOT a classmate’s blog) that interest you–create a brief (one to five sentences) description of the site and put a link to it in your blog. If you find something that you want to read (and write about) regularly, subscribe to it–that [...]
Jan
17
digital assignment #2: setting up google reader
January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment
1. Go to google reader
2. If you already have gmail account (or other google account), please log-in and then proceed to step 7.
3. If you don’t already have a google account, click on “Create an account now” (under “Don’t Have a Google Account?”).
4. Fill in your e-mail address, password, and [...]
Jan
9
Welcome!
January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment
This is the class blog site for ENG 105 Expository Writing, Oral Communication, and Research Techniques. Here you can find the syllabus (should you lose your hard copy), assignment details, and any general class announcements. For now you will have to check back here regularly to get class assignments and announcements, but a [...]
Jan
7
digital assignment #1: setting up your blog
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
due: Tuesday, January 15th by 5pm
1. Go to wordpress.com
2. Click on “Get a Wordpress Blog now”
3. Choose a username. Please note that this username will become part of the URL for your blog. For example, the username for this blog is eng105, and the URL is www.eng105.edublogs.org. In other words [...]
