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Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia
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Lazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of WikipediaLazy Virtues: Teaching Writing in the Age of Wikipedia

Focusing largely on the controversial website Wikipedia, the author explores the challenges confronting teachers of college writing in the increasingly electronic and networked writing environments their students use every day. Rather than praising or condemning that site for its role as an encyclopedia, Cummings instead sees it as a site for online collaboration between writers and a way to garner audience for student writing.
 
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Tags: writing, Wikipedia, online, praising, instead, Writing, Virtues, Teaching
Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom
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Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College ClassroomWiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom

The editors of Wiki Writing: Collaborative Learning in the College Classroom, Robert E. Cummings and Matt Barton, have assembled a collection of essays that challenges this common misconception, providing an engaging and helpful array of perspectives on the many pressing theoretical and practical issues that wikis raise. Written in an engaging and accessible manner that will appeal to specialists and novices alike, Wiki Writing draws on a wealth of practical classroom experiences with wikis to offer a series of richly detailed and concrete suggestions to help educators realize the potential of these new writing environments.
 
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Tags: Writing, engaging, practical, Classroom, wikis, College, Collaborative, Learning
Inside Track to Writing Dissertations and Theses
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Inside Track to Writing Dissertations and ThesesInside Track to Writing Dissertations and Theses

Successful Dissertation Writing guides students through the involved process of writing an academic dissertation, developing their ability to communicate ideas and research fluently and successfully. From conducting research, working with a supervisor, understanding and avoiding plagiarism, right through to using feedback and editing to improve the written piece, it will help students master the more technical elements of producing well-written academic work.
 
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Tags: through, academic, students, research, Writing, Inside
First We Read, Then We Write - Emerson on the Creative Process
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First We Read, Then We Write - Emerson on the Creative ProcessFirst We Read, Then We Write - Emerson on the Creative Process

Writing was the central passion of Emerson’s life. While his thoughts on the craft are well developed in “The Poet,” “The American Scholar,” Nature, “Goethe,” and “Persian Poetry,” less well known are the many pages in his private journals devoted to the relationship between writing and reading. Here, for the first time, is the Concord Sage’s energetic, exuberant, and unconventional advice on the idea of writing, focused and distilled by the preeminent Emerson biographer at work today.


 
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Tags: Emerson, writing, exuberant, unconventional, energetic, First, Process, Write
Ms. LaGrange is Strange!
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Ms. LaGrange is Strange!Ms. LaGrange is Strange!

Something weird is going on!
Ms. LaGrange talks funny, and she's from some other country called France! She thinks the vomitorium is a fancy restaurant! Plus she's writing secret messages in the mashed potatoes. Ms. LaGrange is the weirdest lunch lady in the history of the world!
 
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Tags: LaGrange, messages, mashed, secret, writing, Strange