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on Essay Start. Essay Start offers essay samples, tips, a step by step guide, articles and online resources.

MZ assigned this in week7, semester 3.

From Tailored Essays (a custom essay service), this article (no author or date listed) helps students to understand how to find a topic that will be both interesting and about which there is enough to say.

R.O. (week 3, semester 3) used this article in a discussion with students about inventing their essay topics.

By Nicholas Gage, collected in New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking by Peter S. Gardner (via Google Books). Make sure that you are on page 88 for the Gage essay. This material is under copyright, so the full essay is not available here. Check with your local library for access to the full essay.

By Francis Christensen and Bonniejean Christensen, published by Harper & Row, 1978 (2nd edition). Essays for writing teachers.

RA excerpts an essay from this book, Week 8, Semester 3.

By Alison Byerly in Inside Higher Ed, October 29 2012. Essay compares MOOCs to traditional education exchanges, looking at the role of "teachers" and "students" in each; also considering the difference in how "course "is defined in a MOOC vs. a traditional class. Byerly's point is that traditional experiences provide an agreement between teacher and student that the teacher's reach goes beyond the classroom (or screen) and that teachers model pedagogic behaviors, as well as providing academic advice, writing references, providing access to support, etc. This holds true whether a f2f lecture or online. The MOOC model is more like a broadcast, where such supports *can* be included but, as a rule, are not.

Part of the OWL site, within the multi-part Essay Writing section. Contributors Jack Baker and Allen Brizee; last edited 3/23/11.

TS used this resource in her classroom description, week 6, semester 3.

From Polynesian Voyaging Society, a Hawai'i-based organization dedicated to reaffirming the commitment to undertake voyages of discovery, this page offers links to several essays that look at wayfinding, or non-instrument navigation. See See polynesian_wayfinding tag for related links.

Part of TED2011, filmed March 2011; posted October 2011 on TED.com. Coron is an artist who works in paper-cutting. In this video, she recounts her own life and work, with examples.

RA used this video to help her students think about their own "storytelling" as they worked on their final essays. She felt that this video also helped to expand her students' worlds.

Essay by George Orwell on online-literature.com

Used for CAT assignment in jam on Shreds of Data (MD).

Published by the College Board, WritePlacer Guide with Sample Essays, part of the ACCUPLACER (R) program.

From the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center for the CUNY/ACT Basic Skills Tests, this rubric directs those who are grading the (New York City) city-wide exam.

JEC says that faculty must attend an 8-hour training session to learn to grade these exams -- and not all pass in the first session.

Automated essay scoring (AES) has many benefits such as immediate grading, reliable reporting, and diagnostic feedback. While automation poses certain operational and technical challenges, more states are adopting AES for both formative and summative assessments. This presentation presents empirical data from the state of West Virginia online writing assessments on the reliability and validity of machine scores.

Exercise for lesson on essay writing

R.O. Lesson 10, Semester 2

By Lynne Gaetz and Suneeti Phadke, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009.

TD uses in Semester 3 course

on Guide to Grammar & Writing, sponsored by the Capital Community College Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut.

MZ assigned this in week 7, semester 3.

By Greg Howard, Slate.com, November 9 2011. A proposed 15 cent tax on fresh-cut Christmas trees was repealed at the last minute.

JEC used this article to help students learn about essay topics.

Available from iTunes, movie trailers and a "featurette" for the film Hugo, 2011.

RA recommends Trailer 2 to help illustrate for students how "a reader is pulled through the coherent flow of ideas in an essay."

From TEDxToronto 2012. Filmed Sept 2010 and posted on Ted.com Jan 2011. Pasricha, who blogs 1000 Awesome Things and has written a best-seller, The Book of Awesome, asserts that with attitude, awareness, and authenticity, one can lead an "awesome" life.

RO used this video as a resource for her victim-creator essay, week 4, semester 4.

Posted to YouTube by JayFunkY on October 28 2009.

LH links to this video in Week 11, semester 3. She is writing an essay along with her students, and she is looking at finger tutting (as seen in this video).

Published by CollegeBoard, revised 12/2008. This guide provides practice for the WritePlacer test including information about how the exam is scored.

R.O. (week 5, semester3) used this guide with her students to help them prepare for their retest.