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How to Disagree Academically: Using Graham’s “Disagreement Hierarchy” to organize a college term paper.

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New infographic to help our graduating English majors make sense of their capstone project.

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Double Entry Journals: Your Scholarly Research Notes for College-level Critical Thinking

What is a double-entry research journal?

Reading with a highlighter in your hand encourages you to agree with or ignore what you read. That’s a very limited way to engage with a text.

By contrast, double-entry notes are a way of making complex connections between different things that you read.

My students often tell me that when they take good double-entry notes, they get a much better paper when the time comes for them to start actually churning out the paragraphs.

MLA In-text citations: Writing that got you through high school won’t do in college.

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Students tend to zone out during my lectures on proofreading. I time it so I can say “class dismissed“ as soon as I show that last headline.

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“The author talks about [topic]” is filler. Your professors want your college-level ideas.

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If you want to work with words, then journalism courses are very practical options.

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A student just booked an appointment to discuss picking up journalism as a second major. Excellent choice!

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