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List Serve

Our class will use a list serve housed at Yahoo.com. Click on the "Group home page" link below, and follow the instructions. You must sign up for the list; all list serve assignments go to the link below:

Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/311fall06

Group email: 311fall06@yahoogroups.com




During the term, you will post three (3) kinds of information to the list serve:
  1. Valuable research findings. These must include the following information.
    • A bibliographic citation for the information in MLA format. Use http://webapps.calvin.edu/knightcite to format the entry.
    • A brief summary of the major points of the source.
    • The database or search engine used to locate the material.
  2. Answers to questions asked by classmates. All posted answers will contain the original question.

These postings can raise your grade as much as 5%; failing to usefully contribute may lower your grade by as much as 5%.


English 311


Assignments
  1. Editing for Clarity

  2. Technical Information: multiple aims

  3. Contexts for Financial Information

  4. Ethics, Ethos, and Unmasking

  5. Genre Analysis

  6. Comparative Genre Analysis


Research Tools
  1. FLITE Databases

  2. Google.com

  3. Dogpile.com

  4. scholar.google.com

  5. Required Readings and Valuable Resources


Writing Resources
  1. Tools, links, etc.


Expectations
  1. Grading Criteria


Online Help
  1. Instructor Email hugh@culik.com

  2. Peer Assistance [list serve]