Advanced Composition for the Digital Age SP14

Standards Alignment for MN State Academic Standards and ISTE's NETS-S Technology Standards

Familiarize yourself with Moodle, this course and anything else you may need to be successful here.

If you are submitting written work this is the format I expect.

If you need to set up a synchronous meeting with your instructor, we will be using these tools.

Keep this in mind while posting in the course forums.

This unit focuses on the set up and updating of student blogs using Google's Blogger or tumblr.

Special Bonus Video

In this assignment students will write an essay about the purpose of education.

Find out why you really don't have to refer to yourself very often in your writing.

What's the difference? You'd better find out.

It's more than just Googling something.

What's the deal with Wikipedia?

Find out about Electronic Databases and what they can do for you.

It's much more than just providing a link to a website you looked at!

Social Issues & the Media. How the media shapes public perception.

This resource provides a definition and explanation of Social Networks. You may already be a member of some of them.

The history of the written word is an interesting one. Show me why.

Where is communication heading?

You may have heard the term, but what is it and what's the controversy?

What's the difference between affect and effect anyway? What are some other words in English that people commonly mess up in their writing?

This page defines the term Luddite and discusses how the term is still used today.

There are problems in the world and there are solutions. Research them both and report back.

Research Writing isn't easy. Here's some support and help.

This page includes information for citing work, in-text citations, works cited page and why cite your work at all?