The Items on This Web Site

Items that go with Teaching Idea No.6:
A Flow Chart of Inquiry

Flow Chart of Inquiry
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 7:
The Initial "Think Tank"

A Train of Thought on William Carlos Williams' Poem "The Red Wheelbarrow"

The Same Train of Thought, Annotated

Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 8:
Subsequent "Think Tanks"

Robert Frost's Poem "The Road Not Taken"

Four Songs Attributed to the Chinese Poetess Tzu Yeh

Sherwood Anderson's Story "The Egg"

Luisa Valenzuela's Story "Tango"

A Painting by Emily Hiestand

Three Charts that Defy Simple Analysis

Fifty-Seven Difficult Questions
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 14:
"Power Summary"

The Conclusion of W. E. B. DuBois's Book The Suppression of the African Slave-Trade
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 16:
From Jumbled Array to Synthesis

A Selection of Proverbs from Three Societies (drawn from the Confucian Analects, the Biblical Book of Proverbs, and Ben Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanac)

A Contemporary Version of the Macbeth Story

Alexei Nichols' Letter to an Editor "Years of Hard Work, Then a Low SAT Score"

Gary M. Lewis's Article "Is the SAT Worth All the Fuss?"
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 17:
The Phony Lecture and the Phony Reading

Stendahl's Account of Mozart's Childhood (doctored)
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 18:
Writing in the Margin

Oswald West's Article "The Problem of Prison Labor"

The Same Article, Annotated
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 21:
Taking a Stand Against Pretending and
Over-Simplifying

A Handout on the Question "Must a Paper's Thesis be the Statement of a Simple, Definite Position?"

Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 22:
Organization Challenges

Notecards for a Student Paper on the Causes of Alcoholism
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 23:
An Organization Checklist

An Organization Checklist
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 24:
A Menu of Types of Organization

BLOTS–A Booklet Setting Forth Alternative Models of Organization
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 25:
Putting It All Together

Three Alternative Outlines for a Paper on "The Red Wheelbarrow"
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 31:
Eye Exercises

Six "Eye Exercises," Unmarked
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 35:
Enlarging the Student's Repertoire of Devices

"The Placemat"
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 36:
Naming One's Models of Style

A Sampler of Student Styles
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 39:
Grammar Self-Assessment

A Grammar/Punctuation Self-Assessment, Unmarked
Items that go with Teaching Idea No. 42:
A Spelling Self-Assessment—
For the Age of Spell-Checkers

A Spelling Self-Assessment, Unmarked
Items that go with the Unnumbered Teaching Idea:
The Writer's Internal Monologue

An Internal Monologue

 

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