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Good Academic Writing Doesn’t Have to Be A Struggle

Posted January 15th, 2015 at 10:23 am (UTC-5)
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Now that you’ve heard our Writing Tips story, let’s take a look at a writing templates from They Say, I Say by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. A template is a model or preset format for a document. Here is one of the most basic templates to get your paper started. In discussions of X, […]

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Who would you want in your lifeboat?

Posted January 2nd, 2015 at 10:09 am (UTC-5)
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Our American Stories episode for this week is Stephen Crane’s ‘The Open Boat.‘ In this story, we learn about the experience Crane had after his ship sank on to way to Cuba.  He was on the ship SS Commodore, a steamship. He left from Jacksonville, Florida, on December 31, 1896. Crane was going to report on the war in […]

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