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LINKS TO COURSE ESSENTIALS MLA class template Dictionary/Thesaurus/Encyclopedia Online Writing Lab.= OWLwritingguide/handbook Writing Commons Open Text Topic Exploration Form Two-Part Response 2-part response MLA template Basic Essay and Position Paper Guide EasyBib-citation maker Glossary form COCC online databases	GENERAL NOTES and supports Notes on Giving Credit Notes on Narration Notes on Story Notes on Expository Notes on Definition Notes on Description Notes on Analysis Essay Notes on Persuasion/Reasoning Notes on Argument Notes on Full Circle Writing SUPPORT FOR RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION Research COCC Library COCC Library Citing Guides Ithica College Research Guiide Types of periodicals/articles-Peer Reviewed, etc. ID of Credible Sources Citation Producer \| Bibme \| Citation Machine \|Oregon School Library-Citing Guide-OSLIS Signal Phrases1 \| Signal Phrases 2 Exercise to avoid plagiarism MLA Tutorial animation Google Scholar Online Etymology Dictionary Wikipedia for general information only Top Documentaries Google list of sites for "Sayings"- title ideas
LINKS FOR GRAMMAR/PUNCTUAION Online Writing Lab.= OWL- guide to everything writing Basic Sentence Review -- You Tubes Harvard College Writing Center links UNC Writing handouts Capital C.C. grammar and exercises Capital C.C. on the verb "to be" CCC Contents for grammar Sentence Diagramming-\| workbook on diagramming OWL on Verbals Verbals: Gerunds GRAMMAR BYTES--interactive Practice On Rhetoric \| Rhetorical Patterns for Presenting Ideas \| Key points \| More about rhet. patterns
Major Graded Essay Topics and Notes
Major Essay 1 - NARRATIVE/DESCRIPTIVE ESSAY about a PERSONAL/1st Hand EXPERIENCE 500-750wds BASIC ESSAY Gd \| Examples of Writing That Explains Something: Goldberg--Listening-essay Harden--My Old Man & Hamill--2 short essays Ortiz-Cofer-- Rooms- essay Linda Barry--Sanctuary of School--essay Hughes--Salvation Wm. Kittredge--excerpt: WWII--essay Teresa Jordan--excerpt: the bull--essay The Ghost Army-essay Major Essay 2 THEME FOR E2: OUR NECK-OF-THE-WOODS PossibleTopics about NW America Before 1900: STARTING Links for Information, Finding a Topic and Resources Introduction to the Oregon Trail National Park Service on OT Oregon Pioneers OT Map 1843 AV of OT AV excerpts of OT Diaries Oregon Historical quarterly 1901with NY Tribune re-prints of mid-1800s Oregon The Oregon Trail--Parkman (whole book)	First Peoples--Oregon/ Beyond Historical Information on Indians Tribes in Oregon Oregon Encyclopedia re: Indians in Oregon NW Indian fisheries Modoc/Klamath and links to NW tribes Captain Jack & Modoc wars Modoc Lavabeds War AV--Wisdom of the Elders AV-- WisdomKeepers The Lushootseed Peoples of Puget Sound Country stories/traditions Coyote spreads Salmon--Tale Possible topics 3-- Oregon Lifestyle Issues, Landscape and Pre-history Issues in Oregon lifestyle--OSU Wild Horses in Oregon/BLM \| General info. on Wild Horses in Oregon Range management issues Missoula Floods The Land We See USGS on Oregon Volcanos Current Cascade Earth Changes Possible topics 4-- General History/Multi-cultural Issues Oregon Encyclopedia Project John Day & Chinese Doctor Peoples of Oregon & Racism The Klan in Oregon Oregon Blue Book Multi-cultural History Oregon Range Wars Major Essay 3 - FINDING AND DOCUMENTING A POSITION POSITION PAPER GUIDE ASSIGNMENT FOR E3 : Choose a controversial issue (or another focus from E2 choices) on which to take a position AND use 2-3 sources to support--750-900 wds Topic Generator-interactive Good paper topics \| ProCon issues \| even more topics Top Documentaries\| search youtube Online Documentaries \| (all free) to suggest topics, demonstrate theme, explanation, example and authoritative evidence. To Model Documented Position Papers Basics of CounterArgument

First Peoples--Oregon/ Beyond