Xiao-Ming Li’s teaching to the test It’s not surprising that countries other then America are teaching for the test. Li explains how students in his country were being taught to write for the Imperial Civil Service Exam, and then when…
English 5001
Matsuda commentary
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Rather, second-language writing should be seen as an integral part of both composition studies and second-language studies, and specialists in both professions should try to transform their institutional practices in ways that reflect the needs and characteristics…
Anti-Marijuana Rhetoric Final Essay
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Kyle Montero English 5001 Dr. DeVries 20 May, 2010 Anti-Marijuana Rhetoric of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics: Cultivating an Understanding of the American Marijuana Debate The year is 2010 and the state of California is in an economic crisis. In…
WordPress Blog Link
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Here is the link to my blog! http://lminnis2.wordpress.com/
Political Rhetoric / Project Proposal
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Medi-Cal is California’s Medicaid program. This is a public health insurance program which provides needed health care services for low-income individuals including families with children, seniors, persons with disabilities, foster care, pregnant women, and low income people with specific diseases…
Oral Presentations in 5001
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Here is the rubric we’ll be using for oral presentations. Slides will be added after class this week.
The Orient found and lost
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Question One- Yes, I do believe Said was responding to his critics, which believed he was defending the societies labeled by “Orientalism”. Said explains that he was, Far from being a defense either of Arab or of Islam-as my…
Writing Mind Patterns
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The Flower-Hayes article looked at how the brain begins the writing process. Writers do not just write down what they say onto a piece of paper, but there is a complex process occurring as they write. One of the main…
Emig and Eldred
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Emig begins her essay by stressing the importance of verbal language on writing. Acquiring language without a doubt assists in the writing process because it enables one to generate ideas. These ideas then must be decoded into written characters. While…
Washing Russian Nesting Doll’s Hair: The Cognitive Process We Don’t Know We Do
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The cognitive process is quite the mysterious thing. Without any particular knowledge of the brain and it’s mode of operation, the cognitive process is a complex series of events that occur simultaneously and in such a rapid succession that they…