If you are in Christopher Dean's Writing 50 class, for the fall quarter of 2006, then you are at a "home" you have in cyberspace.

This page has important links to your syllabus, materials we will be using in class, and websites that will be part of your work inside and outside of class. If you miss a class, contact a classmate, look at this page, and email me as needed.

Again, welcome, and if you need to contact me, then email me at cdean@writing.ucsb.edu. I look forward to working with you this quarter--both face-to-face and in cyberspace.

• Google Scholar: For tooling around the web and finding useful, reliable information.
• The Writing Program Page at UCSB: For information about our Writing Program at UCSB.
• CLAS Webpage: For information about tutoring and help in all your classes at UCSB.
• The Capital Community College Grammar Website: For information about grammar problems and getting grammar help.
• The Purdue Online Writing Lab Index of Writing Handouts: For help and handouts on everything you could think of dealing with writing.
• The Washington State Online Writing Lab: A place to get feedback on your writing.
• For Help with MLA and APA Bibliographies: Go to Noodletools.com, and click on the link labeled "NoodleBib Express." This will give you an APA or MLA option, and then you can fill in a form to get your citation for your "Works Cited" (MLA) or "References" (APA). Check it out at http://www.noodletools.com/. This link is brought to you courtesy of your Writing 2 Classmate Casey Bartlett--thanks Casey.

Your Syllabus and Schedule:

• Html Format
• Microsoft Word Format
• Adobe PDF Format

Assignments:

• Résumé Assignment: Word, PDF
• Résumé Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF
• Researched Essay Assignment: Word, PDF
• Researched Essay Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF
• Research Proposal Assignment: Word, PDF
• Research Proposal Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF
• Interview or Survey Assignment: Word, PDF
• Interview or Survey Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF

Handouts and Materials for Class

Week One

• Week One Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• CAT for Day One: Word, PDF
• Discussion of Reich Prompt: Word, PDF
• First Day Inventory Sheet: Word, PDF
• Getting to Know You Sheet: Word, PDF
• In Class Reading Overhead: Word, PDF
• Professional Résumés On the Web: Word, PDF
• Research Brainstorming: Word, PDF
• Résumé Starter Overhead: Word, PDF
• Scavenger Hunt Sheet: Word, PDF
• Sample Student Résumé: Word, PDF
• Writing Sample Prompt for Day One: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • Some Not So Good Résumés
    • http://www.nelsonjobs.com/CareerCenter/ResumeBad.aspx
    • http://www.careers.unsw.edu.au/careerEd/jobApplications/resumes/badResume.aspx
  • Good Résumé Advice from the Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResumeW

Week Two

• Week Two Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Anticipation Guide for Reich: Word, PDF
• Coverletter Formatting and Design: Word, PDF
• Cover Letter Hints: Word, PDF
• Definitions of the "New Economy": Word, PDF
• Gig Small Group Work: Word, PDF
• Hardwork Writing Prompt: Word, PDF
• Horny Toady Mission Statement: Word, PDF
• Peer Review Prewriting: Word, PDF
• Sample Letter and Resume: Word, PDF
• "Serving in Florida" Anticipation Guide: Word, PDF
• Student Sample Résumé Number Two: Word, PDF
• Links
  • Good Résumé Advice from the Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/ResumeW
  • Gaucholink: https://ucsb-csm.symplicity.com/students/index.php?au=&ck=

Week Three

• Week Two Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Nickel and Dimed Writing: Word, PDF
• Online Discussion Prompt for 8-15-06: Word, PDF
• Research Proposal Assignment: Word, PDF
• Research Proposal Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF
• Sample Cover Letters: Word, PDF
• Topic Gallery Exercise: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • Finding Search Terms with WorldCat: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/dean/Upload-wr50-S06/FindingSearchTerms.doc
  • Library Databases: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/data-frames.html
  • Logos, Ethos, and Pathos Website: http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/
  • The National Agricultural Workers Survey by the US Department of Labor: http://www.doleta.gov/agworker/report9/toc.cfm
  • What is a "Researchable Research Question?": http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7
• Reading for Next Week: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/01/

Week Four

• Week Four Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Finding an Expert: Word, PDF
• Good Survey?: Word, PDF
• Interview or Survey Assignment: Word, PDF
• Interview or Survey Assignment Rubric: Word, PDF
• More Research Work: Word, PDF
• Peer Review for Research Proposal: Word
• Sample Researched Essay: Word, PDF
• Starting to Write: Word, PDF
• Survey Design Work: Word, PDF
• Survey Monkey Directions: Word, PDF
• Web Evaluation Work: Word, PDF
• WorldCat Directions: Word, PDF
• Websites for the Week:
  • Census Report on the Service Industry: http://www.census.gov/prod/2003pubs/c2kbr-25.pdf
  • Creating Good Interview and Survey Questions: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/06/
  • Google Scholar: http://scholar.google.com
  • How to Find an Expert Via The Web: http://lib.newpaltz.edu/databases/handouts/find_an_expert.html
  • Library Databases: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/data-frames.html
  • Library Resources by Subject Areas: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/index.html
  • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
  • Short Sample Survey Monkey Survey: your survey at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=960732487933
  • Survey Monkey Website: http://www.surveymonkey.com
  • Types of Note-taking: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Records.htm
  • Web Reliability Checklist: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~pfa/pro/courses/WebEvalNew.pdf#search=%22website%20and%20evaluation%20and%20
  • What is a "Researchable Research Question?": http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/0/f87fd7182f0ff21c852569c2005a47b7
  • Grammar Websites:
    • Purdue Link: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
    • Maimon Handbook: http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070400555/student_view0/editing-999/
    • Writer’s Reference: http://www.dianahacker.com/writersref/flash/gm_menu.asp

Week Five

• Week Five Lesson Plans
• Week Five Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• CAT for 11-1-06: Word, PDF
• Citation Work: Word, PDF
• Creating Notes: Word, PDF
• Evaluating a Research Paper: Word, PDF
• Note Taking Work: Word, PDF
• Peer Evaluation of Questions:  Word, PDF
• PowerPoint Parody Work: Word, PDF
• Sample Research Paper Work: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • Citation Game: http://depts.washington.edu/etriouw/gameindex.htm
  • Creating Notes PowerPoint: PPT
  • Gettysburg PPT: http://www.norvig.com/Gettysburg/index.htm
  • Grammar Jeopardy: http://www.uark.edu/depts/aeedhp/jdmhome/game/board.html
  • Library Databases: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/eresources/databases/data-frames.html
  • Library Resources by Subject Areas: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/index.html
  • Noodle Bib Express: http://www.noodletools.com/login.php
  • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
  • PowerPoint Presentation on PowerPoint: PPT
  • Purdue OWL: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/
  • Types of Note-taking: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/Records.htm

Week Six

• Week Six Lesson Plans
• Week Six Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Work on Identity: Word, PDF
• In-Class PowerPoint Work: Word, PDF
• Interview and Survey Ethics: Word, PDF
• Interview Question Issues: Word, PDF
• Plagiarism Work: Word, PDF
• Power Point Work: Word, PDF
• Student Paper Reading: Word, PDF
• Survey and Interview QandA: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • An Ethical Dilemma: http://ethics.sandiego.edu/resources/cases/Detail.asp?ID=52
  • APA Ethics Website: http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
  • Identity 2.0: http://www.identity20.com/media/OSCON2005/
  • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
  • PowerPoint on PowerPoint Construction: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/dean/Upload-wr50-S06/PPT-HowTo.ppt
  • Purdue OWL Site on Research Ethics: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/559/02/

• Readings for Week Seven:
  • Reading for Monday 11-13-06: Roman Attitudes Twoards Gladiators: Word, PDF
  • Reading for Wednesday 11-15-06: "Work Family Conflict": Word, PDF

Week Seven

• Readings for Week Seven:
  • Reading for Monday 11-13-06: Roman Attitudes Twoards Gladiators: Word, PDF
  • Reading for Wednesday 11-15-06: "Work Family Conflict": Word, PDF
• Week Seven Lesson Plans:
• Week Seven Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Beginning Your Paper Handout: Word, PDF
• Multigenre Work: Word, PDF
• Plagiarism vs. Quoting: Word, PDF
• Reading and Grading of Sample Paper: Word, PDF
• Research Sample Paper: Word, PDF
• Starting a Draft: Word, PDF
  • Links
    • Moodle Site: http://moodle.id.ucsb.edu/
    • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
    • PowerPoint on PowerPoint Construction: http://www.writing.ucsb.edu/faculty/dean/Upload-wr50-S06/PPT-HowTo.ppt
    • Sample Multigenre Piece: http://webpages.marshall.edu/~boggess13/tableofcontents.html

Week Eight

• Week Eight Lesson Plans:
• Week Eight Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Peer Review Reflections: Word, PDF
• Peer Review Sheet for Researched Essay: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • Moodle Site: http://moodle.id.ucsb.edu/
  • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
  • Strong Bad on Writing: http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail64.html

Week Nine

• Week Nine Lesson Plans:
• Week Nine Lesson Plans: Word, PDF
• Linking Words: A List From Chris: Word, PDF
• Link it Up: Word, PDF
• PowerPoint Debriefing: Word, PDF
• QandA on Research: Word, PDF
• QandA on Research Overhead: Word, PDF
• Stump Your Classmates: Word, PDF
• Stump Your Classmates--The Lab Version: Word, PDF
• Links:
  • Citation Exercise: http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/cill/exercises/intextrefs.htm#a1
  • Online List of Linking Words: http://www.learn-psychology.com/LINKING%20WORDS%20IN%20ESSAYS.htm
  • Noodle Bib Express: http://www.noodletools.com
  • Phpbb Site: http://secure.lsit.ucsb.edu/phpbb/index.php
• Reading for Next Week (NPR Story): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5589441