This page lists a variety of resources for you to use in this class. It includes links to blog sites, your and your classmates blogs, links to pages for citation help, writing definitions, ideas for writing your papers, and examples of some assignments.
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Class Notes
Week 1 & 2
Week 4
Bean/Britton/Emig TheoristCard
Bean/Rose/Young TheoristCard
Reading Images
WAC Purpose (class description)
WACronyms/WACrostics
TRAFEC (rules for creating a good assignment sheet)
SHIT (reasoning behind group work)
DWHAT (suggestions for commenting on student writing)
Winning Flyers
2 (Coccaro & Schirripa)
4 (Moody & Albanese)
Assignment #2 Help
Option #1
McCarthy (see how she studied a student and his writing experiences)
Option #2
CCC's submission guidelines
Kairos submission guidelines (examining guidelines for journals is a good way of understanding what is appreciated in a particular community as well as how it should be communicated)
Berkenkotter (we don't read this text for another week but
it is a good example of how to analyze a discourse and can help you with your analysis)
Option #3
Writing Annotated Bibliographies (Purdue Owl)
More Annotated Bibliography Instructions
Assignment #4 Help
Option #1:Some Teacher Websites
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2
3
4
5 (not the best design but lots of ideas)
Option #1 & #3: Some Course Overviews/Unit Descriptions
1
2 (this site just has some good advice)
Option #1 and #3: Some example teaching philosophies-no WAC emphasis but you get the idea)
1
2 (not the best but it works)
Option #2: Some example Multimedia Texts
1 (this is a rhetorical analysis of a website)
2 (this is a rhetorical analysis of a website)
Citation Help
CitationMachine (cites sources for you)
Copyright Kids (copyright rules)
EasyBib (cites sources for you)
New York U. Libraries (citation help)
Purdue OWL (MLA specific help)
WAC Websites
WAC Clearinghouse
George Mason U.
Washington State U.
CSI (all I could find)
Software, Help, & Tutorials
SeaMonkey Download
SeaMonkey Tutorial (this is the one from class)
SeaMonkey Uploading (this is the one from class)
Adobe Photoshop (30-day trial for free!)
Website Navigation (shows a number of ways you can design your site)
Animation in Photoshop (shows you how to create simple animation)
Framing a Photo/Picture (shows you how to make your picture look like it is in a frame)
Rounded Edges (shows you how to round edges of a picture in photoshop)