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A Weblog for Effective Writing I ~
You can
send me feedback or suggest a link for the weblog if you happen to come
across an interesting site appropriate to our studies during your travels
on the web.
Just contact me,
let me know the name of the site and the url,
and I'll look into it.
The
Call to Write Collaborative Network
Visit this
useful "collaborative writing workshop." In addition to supplementing
your textbook, the site features its own message board, a chat room, a
"web page workshop where you can "experiment with free tools
and techniques for developing your own Web site," and a "Writers
Library to locate online style manuals, citation guidelines, dictionaries,
and more." In short, an excellent internet companion site to supplement
your textbook.
The Call to Write 2/e
An online supplement to your handbook. Lots of additional instruction and exercises. Take online quizzes to gage your progress! You'll need the access code you received with your textbook to take full advantage of the site's extensive features.
Quick Access 3/e
Princeton Professor James Pryor's Philosophical Terms and Methods
Philosophical terms and methods relating to argument.. Links include:
What Is an Argument?
Vocabulary Describing Arguments
Some Good and Bad Forms of Argument
Analyzing Concepts
11-Nov-2002
On Debating
Excellent one-stop shop for information on arguing rationally and debating effectively.
11-Nov-2002
The
Book of Cliches
A wealth
of cliches to savor and then avoid.
5-Sep-2002
Common
Dreams News Center
An alternative
news source which describes its service as providing "breaking news for
the progressive community."
4-Sep-2002
Margaret
Salinger Discusses her Memoir, DREAMCATCHER
J.D. Salinger,
author of CATCHER IN THE RYE, is one of America's great fiction writers
and a notoriously elusive recluse. He's carefully guarded his privacy
for over 40 years. Now Margaret Salinger, his daughter, has published
a revealing memoir, DREAMCATCHER. The book was published in 2000, and
this interview (on a radio show called The Connection) took place on Sept.
14, 2000.
29-Aug-2002
In
the News: Have an Opinion?
Posted on
the Portland Independent Media Center's website is a first hand account
of how a man, his wife, and three children were pepper sprayed by police
at a peaceful demonstration. There are many sites on the Internet that
provide space for newsworthy stories which are completely ignored by the
mainstream US press. This is an impressive example. It also happens to
be a good example of the kind of "open letter" that John Trimbur
describes in Chapter 4 of A Call to Write (not a chapter we're
covering this semester). Notice how Don Joughin uses the open letter genre
to both inform and appeal to his readers.
28-Aug-2002
