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Welcome to My Convention Schedule! Please use the fields below to search through the hundreds of sessions, workshops, and events that are offered at the 2012 NCTE Annual Convention. If you find something of interest, go to the session uploads page, click on the folders by session (e.g. the L session should have materials for L.04: Reports from Cyberspace

From the National Council of Teachers of English Convention, 2012, in Las Vegas, many of the the nation's best language arts minds shared material from their presentations. Use the searchable program (given to you through Diigo as well), find the sessions you're interested in, and come back to this page to see if the session's materials are available. 

A guide for incorporating quotes into sentences, in-text and parenthetical citations included. When considering incorporating quotes, consider if paraphrasing or quoting adds most to your sentence, paragraph, etc. When selecting a quote, consider the "10-word rule," to get to the most valuable information from the quote (anyone can cut-and-past paragraphs), decrease in conventions errors (less unnecessary words = less opportunity for errors), and fluency. Once you've incorporated a quote into your sentence, try reading the sentence out loud, same sentence, without the quotation marks. If it's unreadable, revise how you've placed the quote in your sentence.

This handout is intended to help you become more comfortable with the uses of and distinctions among quotations, paraphrases, and summaries. This handout compares and contrasts the three terms, gives some pointers, and includes a short excerpt that you can use to practice these skills.

From Professor Paul Brians at Washington State University, this site gives concise solutions to common errors we make in English. Bookmark this as a reference, especially with questions during the revision, editing, and proofreading writing stages.