Writing About Mentors and Issues

Our Mission
About Professor Marcielle Brandler
What to expect
How to use this book
Color Key
How to Figure Homework Credit
Syllabus and Course Requirements and Prompts
Syllabus
Course Requirements
Partner Sheet
How to average out your grade at any time

Chapter 1 Review/Critique
Section A
Prompt Essay: #1 Never Give In Analysis
Section B
How to read for meaning
Symbols (More Homework)
Abstract and Concrete Nouns
How to Craft an Excellent Essay with Link to Student Sample Essay
How to begin the essay
Winston Churchill info
Getting help
Two Ways to Research
Schedule your work
Section C
Trust the Process
Your jobs list

Chapter 2 Responding to Ideas
Essay #2 Lessons of Winston Churchill’s Life 1,000 words
Essay #2 Prompt Never Give In by Stephen Mansfield: Lessons Readers
Can Learn
Section A
Start reading
Section B
Write your reaction
Section C
Do at least five homework assignments

Chapter 3 Integrity: Analysis of the author’s character
Essay Prompt
Section A
Start reading for specific ideas
Section B
Write your reaction to the ideas you found
Section C
Do at least five homework assignments

Chapter 4 Research/Persuasion
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Essay Prompt
Section A
Start reading for specific ideas regarding Ginsburg
Section B
Write your reaction to the ideas you found
Section C
Do the remaining homework assignments
Homework
Study/Success Skills video
Vocabulary and New Words in our Language with Exercises
Definition
Metaphors
Grammar
Plurals and Possessives
Parallel Structure
Lie/Lay Verbs
Lie/Lay/Tell a Lie Chart

Subject/Object
Subject/Object Chart

Academic Integrity
Definition of Academic Integrity
Definition of Integrity in general
Plagiarism
Plagiarism Partner, Group, or One-person Exercise
More on Plagiarism
Racist or Sexist Language
Racist Language

Real or Fake?
Reality TV Shows
Trump compares himself to Churchill
Sources for checking the truth
Why Journalism Is Important
Honesty in Journalism

Voting and Informational Sites: Partisan and non-partisan
Non-Partisan Sites and venues
Partisan sites
Left Leaning
Right Leaning
Rhetorical Strategies
Literary Analysis: How to do it
Writing a Research paper: How to do it

Writing/Research Resources
Using Scholarly Journals, Citation Sites, Search Engines,Campus Online Resources, and Tutoring Help
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
Critical Thinking
Defining Critical Thinking
Logical Fallacies