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Author Archives: Dr. Ayers
Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage Tips
I’m going to add some links here based on what I see people doing in this term’s revised essays. First up, Grammar Girl has some tips for how to use colons correctly in a sentence. Please read up on them. … Continue reading
Links to Recent Nonfiction
Here are some places you can go for lists of recent nonfiction: New York Times Bestselling NF (Hardcover) New York Times Bestselling NF (Paperback) Kirkus Reviews’ Best NF of 2011 List Salon.com’s Best NF of 2011 List Wall Street Journal’s … Continue reading
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More Good Reviews
These are all from the famed New York Review of Books: Freeman Dyson’s review of Daniel Kahneman’s book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. Diane Ravitch’s review of Pasi Sahlberg’s Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? … Continue reading
A Few Book Review Essays
We’ll be getting to these soon, but if you want to beat me to the punch, or you just have the time now and you’re not sure you will later, feel free to read them. I’ll be trying to guide you … Continue reading
William Hazlitt, “On the Want of Money”
Here is the full text of the essay we were discussing today. The excerpt used on the AP Language exam is the ninth paragraph, by my count (not including those one-line quotations). Here’s a quote from the first paragraph that … Continue reading
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Rational Argument Flowchart
I saw this a while back, and thought it was brilliant. I want a poster of it for my classroom. But in the meantime, look at it here. If you’re wondering, Am I really taking part in a rational argument … Continue reading
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James Sturm on The Avengers
Today’s piece of argumentation comes from Slate, where James Sturm is making the case that moviegoers who care about comics should eschew The Avengers this summer. His reasoning: because Marvel Comics has treated Jack Kirby, a longtime creator for Marvel who helped … Continue reading
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Battling Bad Science
In 2nd hour on Friday, we watched this TED talk about how evidence from scientific studies can be distorted. Interesting, given our current focus on argument. Warning: dude talks fast.
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