Kevin Brooks
Dept. of English
NDSU
IM: kabbie1313

English 110: Technology and 21st Century Literacy
Fall 2002

Course Description

Assignments

1. Weblogs:what's the use?
2. MyNewLiteracy
3. Self in the Age of Information
4. Portfolios

Grading Criteria

Schedule

1. Aug.28-Sept.27
2. Sept 30-Nov.29 (New on Oct. 12)
3. Dec.2-Dec.16

Course Reading List

Useful sites

MyTeachingBlog
Blogger.com
Eaton Blog Portal
NDSU's Technology Learning Center
Guide to Writing Research Papers (MLA Style)
Great List of Weblog Resources
Schoolblogs.com

Class Notes and Handouts (Unit 3)

1. Reading "Self in the Information Age."
2. Nov 18 Activities
3. Global and local revision guides.

Archive of notes and handouts.

Companion English 110 Sites

1. Cindy Nichols
2. Sybil Priebe
3. Our Class blog

Global Revision

I've collected (blogged?) a few web sites that can help you revise material over the last two weeks of the semester.

1. For the visual learner, this web site provides a map and a chart to help guide students through the revision process. Good questions to ask yourself about focus, content, organization--style and mechanics are for local revision.
2. This document from the Southern Arizona Writing Project asks similar questions about focus, content, and organization, but adds a set of questions you can ask yourself about the use of paragraphs in your essay.
3. The Writer's Place guide to global revision takes a slightly different approach than the first two. It recommends that you approach global revision by asking yourself if the document achieves its purpose (rebuttal or extension of an argument for this assignment), if you have addressed your audience's needs, and if you have developed a clear and strong thesis.

Local Revision

1. The Writing Place also has lots of good suggestions about local revision. Local revision concerns issues like tone, word choice, and phrase construction.
2. An incredibly comprehensive guide to common errors has been compiled by professor Paul Brians at Washington State University.
3. The University of Wisconsin (Madison)'s Writing Center has an online handbook that is easy to read and use.
4. The 11 Rules of Writing makes the whole process sound so easy. These rules are good, but of course they won't make any of us perfect writers.

Use your favorite search engine to find other helpfu sites if these ones are unclear or simply don't address your concerns. I haven't tested any of these sites on other students, so please let me know which ones work for you.