ENG 102 Convergence: Fall '12 (30895)

Audacity, a free, open-source audio editing application, that allows users to record, edit, and mix narration and music. The program works well for students editing self-recorded audio clips.

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Access your bookmarks anywhere | iGoogle alternative. This allows for data visualization/mindmapping to compliment Diigo.

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Why is web page building an important composition skill? Consider the website for Rock Springs Cafe, located near Black Canyon City. Not only does the cafe have the best pie in Arizona, the website acts as a multimedia tool of commerce.

Easy and user-friendly poll creator.

"A community garden is budding at the downtown Phoenix Human Services Campus, intended to help feed and heal the homeless community while creating an urban open space in the heart of the city..." Urban gardening story from the Republic

I read this article and think it'll provide leads to Candi and Chris on their papers. Enjoy.

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.

The left navigation bar can serve as a guide to any specific formatting issues you may be struggling with when writing in MLA format.

Shared through Purdue's OWL (Online Writing Lab), this paper is a model for students struggling to write papers in MLA format. You can download the model for current and future writing assignments.

MLA style is based on the Modern Language Association's MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (available at LB2369 .G53 2009 in the Reference section and circulating stacks at both Red Mountain Library and the Paul A Elsner Library at Southern & Dobson) MLA Style is commonly used in the Arts and Humanities, which is why it is frequently taught in English classes.

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.

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Valuable tutorial for those struggling with the surveys.

I'm not sure if this is what you meant by "share it with the group" But, I would rather be safe than sorry. Even if I'm wrong in posting this here, it might draw a larger crowd to take my poll.

Play this game and throw Chinese stars while learning parts of speech; includes a free downloadable version of the game.

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Outstanding survey site; useful for building on WGR chapter 5. Also, using this can fulfill primary research requirements for the WP2.

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