Writer's Help Student Sign-up. Account will be good through the end of the year.
Assignment for next week. Students were also given a hard copy, but on this electronic copy, links can be clicked.
Link to student selection of countries. You can change your country here without contacting the instructor.
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First we worked on topic sentences. We took the thesis statements students had narrowed from the text exercises. Then we worked on developing the topic sentences. The instructor did a demonstration and then students put their own topic sentences on the overhead screen.
After working on the topic sentences, we went to the computer lab at the library. There were two objectives for working on the computers. The first was that the instructor wanted to show students Writer's Help, a writing web site that is being offered free to students through the end of the year. The second was to introduce students to the next assignment, which required some computer interaction.
We worked through the Writer's Help web site. The instructor showed the students each of the tabs and the students went to them on their own computers. We covered MLA in-text citations and she showed them how to access model MLA papers on which to model their own paper.
We did thesis statement and topic sentence exercises. The grades ranged on this, with some grades as low as 40 but others as high as 100. These grades were not recorded.
The instructor asked the students to mail the link and their registration to themselves.
Next we went through the new assignment, half of which will be due next week. We read the assignment in the lab and then explored the links that will make the assignment come to life. Students told which country they wanted to live in and the instructor put them on a table. It is OK to change the country, but students cannot choose a country that has already been taken. They should change no later than Tuesday, as there will be seven entries required for the research that is due next Friday.
To do for next week:
Write seven research entries using MLA format as shown in class.
Read the text,
