E-Mail: John Ben Sutter, M.A., J.D. 713.718.7112 (It is much better to e-mail me than to phone me!) 713.718.7312 EAGLE ONLINE 2 email or johnben.sutter@hccs.edu Office Address: John Ben Sutter, Government Professor Houston Community College, Southeast College 6815 Rustic Houston, TX 77087 REQUIRED TEXTBOOK: American Politics Today: Third Essentials Edition, by William T. Bianco and David T. Canon, published by W.W. Norton, publication date of 2013. The paperback version’s ISBN is 978-0-393-92106-9
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phrases below are very common in these writing situations: “To me,” “I think” “Personally,” “For me,” “It is this writer’s opinion” Style and Substance/Joseph Couch 2 While everyone has a right to a personal opinion, relying on opinion in college writing usually means hiding behind that right rather than facing the fact that others can question a writer’s ideas. As a result, the common defense of “that’s my opinion” does not matter much as a reason to support an essay’s ideas. What does matter
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information provided on pp. 51–53. Explain the initial steps of writing an essay. Identify how your audience, purpose, and content will influence your approach The purpose of an essay, as explained on p. 47, will affect all aspects of the paper. In this class, the final paper will be a persuasive essay. Throughout the class, you will complete assignments that directly or indirectly help you complete the final paper. Identify the main purpose of a persuasive essay and the elements necessary for it to
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How to Say Nothing in 500 Words by Paul Roberts, an essay, discusses common mistakes made by college freshmen in academic writing. During my semester of Intro to Expository Writing, my academic writing has greatly improved. My writing started as “Elementary school was like a fairytale; there was a pretty princess and a handsome prince, but I was an evil villain.” And has grown to “Through her diction, Walls creates various tones in order to convey to her audience that despite obstacles, it is possible
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People say that college is different than high school and you will see the difference when you get there, you do not get a heads up that every class time could be your last class. A professor has the right to drop pretty much for any reason, in high school the teacher is stuck with you and they have to deal with it. But from these difference I realized that I was by no means ready for college and what it had in store for me this semester. We as students are expected to know this stuff before class
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When students are asked if college composition courses are helpful, the answer may not be on the good side. In Bergmann and Zepernick’s article, “Disciplinarity and Transfer Students’ Perceptions of Learning to Write’”, there were both positive responses and negative responses for composition courses. For example, “students tend to think of writing in English classes as personal and expressive rather than academic or professional” (Bergmann, Zepernick 129). It appears some students view the courses
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Verbal Verbal communication is one of the most used type of communication within South Cheshire College as all different departments work and communicate together. Advantages of the verbal communication are easy to see as when you go to talk face to face with other lecturer/tutor/department manager you can ask questions to each other and understand the information provided with a lot of details. You can see each other reactions and body language as well and this will give you a feedback on what
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What is a reaction paper? Reaction or response papers are designed so that you'll consider carefully what you think or feel about something you've read or seen. Instructions Read or view whatever you've been asked to respond to read or view. While reading or viewing think about the following questions: • How do you feel about what you are reading (seeing)? • With what do you agree or disagree? • Can you identify with the situation? • What would be the best way to evaluate
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What is a reaction paper? Reaction or response papers are designed so that you'll consider carefully what you think or feel about something you've read or seen. Instructions Read or view whatever you've been asked to respond to read or view. While reading or viewing think about the following questions: • How do you feel about what you are reading (seeing)? • With what do you agree or disagree? • Can you identify with the situation? • What would be the best way to evaluate
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conducted a study of a college student and how he interpreted the varying requirements of each class that he took. Although each writer's writing process is uniquely their own, some writers have very similar methods for completing written pieces. I found this to be true while reading
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