Category Archives: David Hodges

With this sentence, by these words, it is wrong.

However, by being introduced to this assignment and having it compare the Yap Fei with the US and France gold trade in 1933, and the Brazilian cruzeros all seemed somewhat similar. By the French not actually having their gold, they … Continue reading

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Agenda MON MAR 02

Open My Notes Inventory of Assignments Made and Missed Make Professor Conference Appointment Unless you are up-to-date on appointments Name an assignment in the Records field If you have not submitted a Proposal+5, White Paper, or Definition Argument, your assignment … Continue reading

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Assignment: Safer Saws

Exultant Inventor Twelve years ago an avid home woodworker invented an ingenious device that stops a table saw blade within 4/1000ths of a second of contact with human flesh. The technology could prevent thousands of amputations every year in the … Continue reading

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Agenda WED FEB 25

Open My Notes Riddle: What is Rape? Model Definition or Category Argument A06: Definition (Category) Essay Model Works Cited

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Model Works Cited

Beginning with the Definition Essay, your Shorter Arguments and of course your Research Paper will have to include a Works Cited. Please understand this is different from a Bibliography, which identifies every source you consulted in your research. The Works … Continue reading

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Riddle: What is Rape?

What is death? What is life? What is abortion? What is rape? These sound like silly questions we could answer without thinking or by flipping open a good dictionary, but in fact death,life, abortion, and rape (among countless others) are … Continue reading

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Model of a Definition (Category) Essay

Before you begin to write your own, you’ll want to review the essential qualities of a good Definition Essay. 1. It’s an argument. I’ve told you before that all writing is argument, but now is always a good time to … Continue reading

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A06: Definition or Category Essay

Definition (or Categorical) Argument Your first Short Argument, due SUN MAR 01, will make a definition or categorical argument essential to your Research Position Paper, which itself will be due before you know it (first draft, SUN APR 26). You’ll … Continue reading

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Agenda MON FEB 23

Open My Notes Remember the magic words feedback please grade (or regrade) please I await your reply Examine White Papers In-Class Exercise: Mechanical Troubles Feedback/Revise Assignment.

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Assignment: White Paper

A White Paper is a work in progress. It’s a snapshot of where your research project stands at a particular moment. It’s also a useful repository for all your notes about the topic as your gather them. As such, White … Continue reading

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