March 20, 2012

As noted last class, your memoir paper is due by the beginning of class the 20th.

In addition, you are to come prepared to critique a web site of your choice...so long as it is not a well-known site, e.g., Google, Amazon, MSN, ABC, etc.

You will access the site using my computer and deliver your critique from there. Plan at least five minutes per presentation and follow the guidelines in your textbook.

Among the things to consider:

User Friendly
Headlines
Organization
Chunking
Conciseness
Design Layout
Typefaces
Graphics
Usable Information


I hope your Spring Break was relaxing, fun,and void of injuries, accidents, arrests, lovers' quarrels, and any other negatives :-)
MC

Grammar Resources

All of you have had enough papers returned to know the areas requiring work. The following are resources that may help you master your English grammar. Review the rules and work the tests. The remaining papers starting with your Memoir need to be very clean grammatically. Practice, practice, practice, and good luck.

Fragments:

http://www.chompchomp.com/frag05/frag05.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/5/

http://srjcwritingcenter.com/gramsentcs/fragments/fragments_skills.html

Comma Splices and Run-on Sentences:

http://www.chompchomp.com/exercises.htm

http://www.towson.edu/ows/indexexercises.htm#Sentence Structure Exercises

Sentence Structure:

http://www.towson.edu/ows/indexexercises.htm#Sentence Structure Exercises

http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/sensen

Capitalization:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/cgi-shl/par_numberless_quiz.pl/caps_quiz.htm

Comma:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/ppt/commas.pps

ESL Resources:

http://ww2.college-em.qc.ca/prof/epritchard/

MLA Documentation/Plagiarism:

http://library.uta.edu/plagiarism/

http://depts.washington.edu/trio/quest/citation/apa_mla_citation_game/index.htm

Prepositions:

http://www.world-english.org/prepositions2.htm

http://www.world-english.org/prepositions2.htm

Pronouns:

http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/writersref5e/subpages_language/pronoun.html

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/pronouns-and-antecedents.aspx

Incorrect use of singular/plural direct object:

http://www.dianahacker.com/bedhandbook6e/subpages/gm_menu.asp

General:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/section/1/5/

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/

http://www.dianahacker.com/bedhandbook6e/subpages/gm_menu.asp

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quiz_list.htm

http://www.srjcwritingcenter.com/lab.html

http://theoatmeal.com/tag/grammar

Memoir Peer Edit Tuesday

Bring four copies of your latest memoir draft so that your peers may edit them tomorrow.

We will also continue punctuation practice.

Be prepared to help your classmates by providing helpful ideas and edits for their papers.