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America at the turn of the century was a country of contradictions. It approached the new century with a combination of optimism about its political and economic future and fear of the rapid...
1920s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
20s Overview
The Booming 1920s— An essay on economic and political issues of the decade from an American history site developed at a Dutch...
1930s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
Thirties Overview
America in the 1930s - UVA site A study sponsored by the University of Virginia, this site is devoted to revealing the...
1940s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
++Forties Overview
The 1940s — A comprehensive look at the events, styfles, and culture of society in the 1940s, focused largely on...
1950s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
Fifties Overview
Fifties Boulevard — This site is a retrospective, nostalgic look at the 50's in all its forms, containing such...
1960s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
Sixties Overview
American Cultural History of the 60s A good place to start for a generic overview of the decade, this site from the...
1970s Online Resources - History and Primary Documents
70s Overview
American History - 1970-1979 Kingwood College Library site providing an overview of the 1970s. Site includes brief discussions...
Summarize an Image
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EN 101
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According to the class, good personal essays:
• Have a theme or connected themes. There is a reason/purpose for the essay to exist. In Welty, the theme is that there are ugly...
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Comparative Analysis Assignment
Building on the techniques of summary, observation, and inference, compose an accurate, well-organized, thesis-driven essay that compares two essays...
Comparative Analysis Assignment on Language and Education
Strategies for the Comparative Analysis Essay
Theses for Comparative Analysis Essays
Honor Code
As a member of the Marymount University community, I agree to uphold the principles of honor set forth by this community, to defend these principles against abuse or misuse, and to...
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Concrete Narrative
Summon up a particularly vivid moment in your past, a moment that you can clearly remember. You should not choose a “moment of realization” or a time when...
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Personal Essay (15% of final grade)
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Write a 3-4 page essay describing your home neighborhood. The essay will support a theme with detailed description.
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Personal Narrative (15% of final grade)
Model essays
Alfred Lubano “ The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts”
Kevin Jennings “American Dreams”
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Write a 4-page...
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Personal Narrative (15% of final grade)
Assignment
This assignment, with grading criteria designed by the class, asks you to write a personal narrative about an educational...
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Welcome to the website for EN 101 Composition I - the first course in Marymount's first year composition program. Composition I introduces students to the research, writing, and oral...
Welcome to the website for EN 102 Composition II - the second course in Marymount's first year composition program. Composition II builds on the skills introduced in Composition I and provides...
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Comparative Analysis Assignment
For your final essay assignment, I am asking you to compose a 5-page essay comparatively examining two of the following four essays we've read:...
Films can be an excellent resource in your composition 102 class, and several instructors have built their decades course around the culture of film. Additionally, the writing program each year...
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Assignment 4: Personal Narrative
This assignment forms the first step in your research project. Choose an important or influential image from the Newseum Gallery of Pulitzer...
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*Assignment 1: Summarize an Image (2 Pages)*
Choose one image from the list of approved images in your text (Baran, Pinkhassov, Sternfeld, or Parr) to summarize descriptively. In...
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Critical Summary (10% of final grade)
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Write a 500+ word summary and argument analysis of the article. This critical summary will consist of one or two paragraphs that...
Annotation
Article on How to Read Critically
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Annotation: Reading as a Believer, Reading as a Doubter
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Personal Narrative about the Culture of Education Assignment
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Allyn & Bacon Public Speaking Website
Guidelines for Oral Presentations - Auburn University
Designing Effective Oral Presentations - Rice University
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American society and culture in the twenty-first century is complex and marked by controversy; we are living in a time of profound change. In order to appreciate the relevance of current...
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Research Project and Group Oral Report
Timeline
Monday, Nov. 3 Library research day
Thursday, Nov. 6 Design personal research plan and think about group...
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Research project and group oral report
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Write a 5-6 page research essay focusing on some issue of higher education that, ideally, you discovered when you wrote your...
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Assignment 4: Research Project
Project Overview:
Based on the observations, inferences, and analyses developed in your personal narrative, this project asks you to delve more deeply...
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Research project and group oral report
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Write a 5-6 page research paper about a cultural or political or social or economic or environmental issue that grows out of your...
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Researching Education Assignment
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Short Summary (5% of final grade)
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Write a 250+ word critical summary of the article. A short summary consists of one or two paragraphs that summarize the main and...
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Summarize an image
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Summary
Summarize the essay in an accurate, well-organized, 2 page essay that correctly uses all conventions of MLA citation.
In your summary, be sure to paraphrase the thesis and...
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Digital Commons at Georgetown
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20th Century Timeline
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A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
Personal Narrative Assignment overview:
This assignment asks students to write a personal narrative about an experience related to their consumption.
As part of this narrative, pick an object that...
Critical Summaries
1 page summary of Tom Moore “Movie Fantasy vs. Classroom Reality”
2 page summary and rhetorical evaluation of Fan Shen “The Classroom and the Wider Culture: Identity as a...
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Critical Summaries
1 page summary of a Bill McKibbon article about global warming (“Worried? Us?”)
2 page summary and rhetorical evaluation of a Scott Russell Sander article about the...
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