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Thesis Reminders and Transitions: Touched up and created an infographic for a web page that I first posted in Nov 2000.

Touched up and created an infographic for a web page that I first posted in Nov 2000.

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

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…

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

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

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Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos

Persuasion: Logos, Pathos, Ethos and Kairos

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Picking a rubric in Canvas should not be so frustrating that it makes me want to blog about it… and yet here we are.

In general, I find Canvas a fairly decent system, but after a particularly frustrating hour wrestling with rubrics, I decided…

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MLA Citations: Citation generators make mistakes. Here’s how to spot 5 errors they often make.

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In MLA Style, use the ellipsis only to mark an omission from the middle of a quotation.

If you are writing an academic paper that quotes from an author that uses the ellipsis in a way that…

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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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More Evidence that Choosing a Typeface Is Important

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Everyone Nov 1

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Toasty Warm Bed (designed by drunk AI neural net)

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Woman Yelling at Cat About Academic Argument: an evidence-based defense of a non-obvious position on a complex issue.

See: Academic Argument: Evidence-based Defense of a Non-obvious Position  

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

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Courage Wolf: Write “Could Of” or “Would Of.” I Dare You.

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Ironic Quotes

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Commonly Misused Words: ALL RIGHT and (Slang) ALRIGHT

For more on ALL RIGHT, ALL READY and ALL TOGETHER, see Grammar Girl. The slang term "alright" is always slang.

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Commonly Misused Words: THAN and THEN