Alex Reid Volume 2 Chapter Description Blogging offers unique opportunities for first year composition writers to develop personal motivations and rewards for writing. This chapter will help you encourage students to find an approach to the unique rhetorical features of blogging as a genre. Students may need detailed assistance as they get started in the […]
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Randall McClure Volume 2 Chapter Description How do you, as a teacher, help students in the process of moving into the virtual library for their research needs, while respecting and understanding the information behaviors they practice and prefer? Growing up in the digital age, students often come to our first year writing courses with a
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Cynthia R. Haller Volume 2 Chapter Description Teaching students to write well with sources involves much more than teaching them to summarize, paraphrase, quote, and provide documentation. You can use this dialogue, in which a college student seeks writing advice about using sources from an online professor, to help students understand what it means to
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