Posts Tagged ‘Excelsior College’
Writing Challenges – Overcoming Test Anxiety
As you know from class, our English Composition classes are issued several writing challenges geared toward helping you practice your writing skills.
Sometimes these challenges contain specific instructions for writing one of the three types of essays you will be tested on, and sometimes they will be generic assignments. Read the rest of this entry »
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Letter From Birmingham Jail
Hello everyone! Here is a link to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”.
William Blake: Various Poems
William Blake is one of the poets that students are encouraged to be familiar with before going into the English Composition and Humanities exams.
E.E. Cummings: Various Poems
One of the more interesting poets out there to try to interpret is E.E. Cummings, and it is recommended that students be familiar with his style before taking the Humanities and English Composition exams.
Emily Dickinson: I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died
Emily Dickinson’s “I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died” is one poem that receives many levels of analysis when being interpreted, and students are encouraged to be familiar with her work for the English Composition and Humanities exams.
How To Copy and Paste Text
Hello everyone! One computer question I receive frequently from students is how to copy and paste text.
How to Print a Microsoft PowerPoint Document
Many of the classes offered at our nursing school are taught using Microsoft PowerPoint slides. Frequently, students have difficulty remembering how to best print these slides to bring to class or study from. Here are some basic instructions for how to print a PowerPoint file.
Microsoft PowerPoint Printing Styles
Many of the classes offered at our nursing school are taught using Microsoft PowerPoint slides. Frequently, students have difficulty remembering how to best print these slides to bring to class or study from. Here are some basic instructions for how to decide which method of printing you want to use.
English Compostion Week 7 Activities
Week 7 Activities – 10/11/10 Hello everyone! Here are the Week 7 Activities that the Fall 2010 class completed recently.
Week 7
Today we will cover the NEW essay type, the Revision Strategies essay.
English Compostion Week 6 Activities – 10/04/10
Week 6 Activities – 10/04/10
Hello everyone! Here are the Week 6 Activities that the Fall 2010 class completed recently.
Week 6 – Persuasive Essays
This week we will discuss persuasive essay topics and ways to support your side of the writing prompt. Instead of practicing writing essays, we decided to practice the art of logic. We looked at a series of prompts and discussed how to select facts, reasons, and examples that could be used as the “pre-writing” for an essay later on.
