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Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Las 189 Sample Im, Richard Morris Phd, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

LAS 189 Materials

This is an instructional handout is an example of an inquiry-based writing project for LAS 189, Introduction to Liberal Arts, at Parkland College.


Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Paragraphs: Pie (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout outlines the Point Illustrate Explain (PIE) model for body paragraphs and provides examples to demonstrate.


Semicolons (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Semicolons (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout defines and gives examples of colons and semicolons.


Semicolons And Colons (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Semicolons And Colons (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

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Quotation Marks (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Quotation Marks (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout presents the uses of double quotation marks.


Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College Jan 2018

Building A Paragraph Using Sources For Support (Handout), Amber Landis, Parkland College

Paragraphs and Transitions

This handout shows how to construct a paragraph using sources for support and includes a sample paragraph.


Quotation Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Quotation Marks (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses the three major functions of quotation marks and how to use them in academic writing.


Punctuation Overview (Handout), Lori Williams Jan 2018

Punctuation Overview (Handout), Lori Williams

Punctuation

This handout provides a brief overview of when to use various punctuation marks, including: periods, question marks, exclamation points, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens, quotation marks, single quotation marks, apostrophes, ellipses, dashes, and brackets.


Exclamation Points (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Exclamation Points (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides demonstrates where and when to use exclamation points!


Periods, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Periods, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides reviews the two main uses of periods in writing.


Apostrophes (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Apostrophes (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This instructional handout provides tips for how to determine when to use apostrophes.


Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Parentheses, Brackets, And Ellipses (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video with downloadable slides discusses proper use of parentheses, brackets, and ellipses, with a added note on when to use "[sic]."


Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Commas (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This handout provides examples showing appropriate use of commas.


Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Apostrophes (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Punctuation

This video presentation with downloadable slides demonstrates the proper use of apostrophes.


Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Comma Splices (Handout), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This instructional handout helps identify the comma splice sentence error and identifies for ways to fix the problem.


Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Run-On Sentences And Comma Splices (Video And Slides), Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Sentence-level Errors

This video with downloadable slides provides an overview and examples of sentences errors, run-on sentences, comma splices, and fused sentences, suggesting ways to fix them.


Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Seven Steps For Creating Visuals, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Graphs, Charts, and Tables

This is instructional handout, prepared for English 102 (Composition II) at Parkland College, provides guidance on how to use graphs and charts in research writing.


Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Tables Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instruction for creating a table using Microsoft Word 2013.


Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Headers Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout provides instructions for how to create headers using Microsoft Word 2013.


Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Table Of Contents Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to create a table of contents using Microsoft Word 2013.


Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success Jan 2018

Pie Charts Using Microsoft Word 2013, Angela Gulick, Parkland College Center For Academic Success

Computer Tutorials

This handout and video combination demonstrates how to use Word 2013 to build pie charts.


Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd Jan 2018

Shared Landscapes, Contested Borders: Locating Disciplinarity In An Ma Program Revision, Whitney Douglas, Heidi Estrem, Kelly Myers, Dawn Shepherd

English Literature Faculty Publications and Presentations

It is not unusual to consider a discipline spatially as a "space defined or touched by a particular characteristic or force" (Wardle and Downs, this collection, emphasis added). This conceptualization makes visible the metaphor at play here: territories are demarcated and differentiated from neighboring environments by borders that can be more or less visible. In this chapter, we use our experience as faculty members invested in a substantive revision of an MA program revision to explore how that process of delineation opens up new questions about disciplinarity. We sought to create a generous curricular space within an MA degree, …


John H. Vincent: The Other Co-Founder Of Chautauqua, Timothy S. Binkley Jan 2018

John H. Vincent: The Other Co-Founder Of Chautauqua, Timothy S. Binkley

Bridwell Library Research

This address, delivered at the Chautauqua Institution Hall of Philosophy on July 20, 2018, reviews the life of John Heyl Vincent (1832-1920) and his relationship to the Chautauqua Institution. Vincent was an American Methodist clergyman and bishop and a leading figure in the Sunday School movement. In 1874 Vincent and businessman Lewis Miller (1829-1899) established an innovative, trans-denominational Sunday School teachers’ training event on the shores of Lake Chautauqua in southwestern New York state. Under the leadership of Vincent and Miller, that event developed into the Chautauqua Institution: an annual summer-long celebration of the arts, religion, education, and recreation, and …


Semantics And The Study Of Religion, G. Scott Davis Jan 2018

Semantics And The Study Of Religion, G. Scott Davis

Religious Studies Faculty Publications

This essay argues that the approach to meaning articulated by Donald Davidson supplies all the student of religion needs to know about this subject. By focusing on interpretation as understood by Davidson, we can understand, for example, the beliefs and practices of a people such as the Dogon of Mali. By adding to this the evidence of ethnography and history, students of religion can give a compelling account of change and adjudicate between competing analyses.


American Studies + Computational Humanities, Lauren Tilton Jan 2018

American Studies + Computational Humanities, Lauren Tilton

Rhetoric and Communication Studies Faculty Publications

While often commonly positioned at the intersection of computer science and digital humanities, computational humanities engages with other fields including data science, (computational) linguistics, and statistics.Such a transdisciplinary approach creates "a digital ecology of data, algorithms, metadata, analytical and visualization tools, and new forms of scholarly expression that result from this research," as Christa Williford and Charles Henry, of the Council on Library and Information Resources, write. Text analysis, particularly the method of topic modeling, has enjoyed broad exposure within computational humanities. Given the scale of the corpus, computational methods were used to identify reprinted texts in 41,829 issues.The goal …


Unpacking Students’ Writer Identity In The Transition From High School To College: A Mixed Methods Study, Marcie J. Walsh Jan 2018

Unpacking Students’ Writer Identity In The Transition From High School To College: A Mixed Methods Study, Marcie J. Walsh

Theses and Dissertations

Since the 1975 publication of Newsweek’s article asserting that “Johnny” can’t write, many have continued to support the claim that students graduating from American high schools and universities can’t write. This criticism has led many students to believe the problem lies exclusively with them. Efforts to improve students’ writing have had little effect, as reflected in continually concerning scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Recently, researchers have begun to suggest that the problem should be addressed by working to change students’ identification as a bad writer. Two constructs have emerged from these efforts: writer and authorial identity. Research …


Budweiser In The 2017 Super Bowl: Dialectic Values Advocacy And The Rhetorical Stakeholder, Benjamin P. Windholz Jan 2018

Budweiser In The 2017 Super Bowl: Dialectic Values Advocacy And The Rhetorical Stakeholder, Benjamin P. Windholz

Theses and Dissertations--Communication

Organizational-public relations discourse is changing given the advent of social media, and corporate statements are evaluated under different criteria in the digital age. Grounding Budweiser’s response to controversy over their 2017 Super Bowl advertisement in terms of consumer expectations for corporate social responsibility provides a new perspective for approaching Bostdorff and Vibbert’s (1994) conceptualization of values advocacy. This study recognizes the power of the rhetorical stakeholder, a discursively created public, and demands re-evaluation of the values common to society from a co-creational OPR perspective. Conceptualizing dialectic values advocacy outlines the changing values among contemporary, common stakeholders as well as the …


Hymnody Of Change: A Study Of Classical African Orature In A Social Justice Context, Keith L. Royal Jan 2018

Hymnody Of Change: A Study Of Classical African Orature In A Social Justice Context, Keith L. Royal

Master's Theses and Doctoral Dissertations

Communal music has been and is still a prominent method of cultural expression for generations, in particular for the generations of displaced Africans on American soil. The roots of this music, an amalgam of African tradition and a forced Christianity, have remained a constant companion to African American cultural response to inequity. Thus, it is imperative that communication tools be developed that allow analysis of this music, collections of communally sung works that communicate the destruction and continual reconstruction of a colonized culture. The purpose of this study is to explicate communally sung hymns, those sung in a social justice …


A Tropic Understanding Of Street Art As Political And Social Advocacy, Lindsay K. Kosel Jan 2018

A Tropic Understanding Of Street Art As Political And Social Advocacy, Lindsay K. Kosel

Honors Theses and Capstones

Graffiti and street art has been prevalent in the past few decades taking stances toward social and political adversity, but there lacks discussion about how dialogue is provoked within street artwork. Through the detailed analysis of the visual display created by JR on the West Bank Wall, these paper places focus on the rhetorical function of how street artist utilize images as means for political and social advocacy. The display shifts the focus from trauma, dislocation, and victimhood to that of comedic relief in our “humanness”. The identification of tropes within a street art display indicates that they are in …


Community College Writing Program Administrators: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, Lizbett Tinoco Jan 2018

Community College Writing Program Administrators: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, Lizbett Tinoco

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

This Dissertation, Community College WPAs: Implementing Change Through Advocacy, examines the work and role of Writing Program Administrators (WPAs) at community colleges. Defining the role and the work of WPAs is very complex, and even more so at community colleges since these institutions are very diverse places in regards to programmatic structure and student population. The scholarship of writing program administration has typically excluded community colleges; as a result, my research focuses on including these narratives. Unlike a lot of WPA narratives that often describe WPAs as "composition wives" (Schuster, 1991; Hesse, 1999) who do much of the dirty work …