As citizens walked the streets of New York City, they could hardly believe what was the cause of the ominous shadow that lurked over them.
As people started to look up and stop walking or talking on the phone, the comotions started small.  A
wave of aprehension crashed down on the unsuspecting people as the alien ship [...]

As Bill jumped off the cliff he realized two important things:  One, he was on top of an alligator and second no one could help him to get out of the chair he was chained to.  A lot of things go through your head as you plummet to your demise, some things made him look [...]

This paper is sometimes called the Rhetorical Analysis paper.
You are to use 2 texts from your research (you can use the one you already used for the Informative and Surprising essay), and analyze their rhetoric and ideas. Then, analyze them both together by comparing and contrasting, and finally, synthesize the information into your own, new, [...]

Your essay will be due soon!
Do you know what you are going to write it on?
Want some suggestions or help from your classmates?
Then this is the place to comment.

This is the place to comment on the readings you did in Ch. 9 of Allyn & Bacon.
Confused by something? Found something interesting? Disagree with something in the reading? Let us know.
After you make your own comment on the reading, you are welcome to respond to another classmate’s comment (you can click on a paragraph [...]

YouTube has changed presentation and communication.
We’ll talk more about this in class, but your job is to comment here and let us know one or two good links relating to our class.

The assignment sheet is now up for the Researched Argument assignment. I will a printed version of this for class, but for those of you who want a little jump on things, you can print it yourself here.
There should not be any surprises here, as we have talked about how this works for the entire [...]

Thesis statements are sorely misunderstood by beginning writers, often exacerbated by well-meaning but inept high school English teachers.
And that is where this horrible Thesis Generator comes in
http://ozline.com/electraguide/thesis.html
Remember, to be truly useful, a thesis must be based on a research question that is problematic and specific. Yes/No questions are much less interesting and result in much [...]

We are meeting at the library on Wednesday evening, so go there first.
We will be in room LC 218.
You need to bring a completed printout of the 5 questions available in the PDF for the Intermediate Research lessons. To get the PDF, do the following:

Go to the library home page.
Click on the Course Materials tab [...]

Make sure to turn in the following for your teacher draft, in the indicated order:

One page telling how you want me to comment on your paper (all problems or just major ones, all grammar or just repeated problems). Also, include a paragraph or so explaining what you changed (or didn’t change) in your paper because [...]