Welcome to the webpage for the series of writing workshops by the Center for Professional Communication at GRIPS. The aims of this course include providing students with opportunities to (a) use ... , (b) extend that knowledge ... , and (c) further polish ...

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As you will know from class, this term you and a partner will be required to make a mini-presentation about one aspect of one of our topics. The details of your mini-presentation are here for your reading pleasure.

 The Workshops 

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 Workshop 1 — Using Research Databases (Elwood; October 22, 2015) 

What goes around comes around, it seems.

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 Workshop 2 — Using Academic Vocabulary, Part 1 (O'Neill; November 4, 2015) 

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 Workshop 3 — Using Academic Vocabulary (Elwood; November 19, 2015) 

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 Workshop 4 — Improving Grammar & Style (Elwood; December 10, 2015) 

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 Workshop 5 — Improving Grammar & Style (O'Neill; January 18, 2016) 

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 Workshop 6 — Writing Term Papers (O'Neill; January 25, 2016) 

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 Workshop 7 — Structure and Organization of an Academic Paper (TBA) 

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 Workshop 8 — Revising for Clarity (Nakatsugawa; TBA) 

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 Workshop 9 — Improving Logical Flow (O'Neill; TBA) 

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 Workshop 10 — Enslaving Microsoft Word (Elwood; TBA) 

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 Workshop 11 — Writing Something (Elwood; TBA) 

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 Workshop 12 — Strategies for Avoiding Plagiarism (O'Neill; TBA) 

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Writing

As you know from class, I require polite email. Recall, too, that if you send me a file, the filename has a certain form.

Here's an example of the report style that you should use.

Miscellaneous

In a recent article Nancy McCormack (2010) addressed the question of whether "Are e-books making us stupid". Specifically, she looked closely at what might become of libraries as we move increasingly toward reading e-books instead of paper books. The abstract is here Abstract
In 2008, Nicholas Carr published a provocative article titled �gIs Google making us stupid?�h in which he ponders the effect of the internet and electronic sources generally on the brain. This paper discusses one source specifically, e-books, and explores whether libraries are acting wisely by moving from print to electronic book collections. The topic is considered from the vantage point of the library and from that of the patron. Specifically, the prospect of an all or largely all e-book future is considered and whether that future means an end to traditional library collections and services. The potential problems for �gdeep reading�h are also considered, and, specifically, whether e-books can serve as an adequate substitute for patrons who will no longer be able to use electronic collections in the way they once used print. In short, this paper explores whether e-books are making us librarians and patrons stupid.
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