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Welcome
to CM107
As of October 2010 this site is no longer actively maintained.
In
this class, you will learn the writing skills needed
to write a researched paper:
- choose a topic
- find credible sources
- use the sources to support your ideas
- document your sources
You will write
Models, handouts,
and rubrics are
available on the Assignments page
or KU-ACE.
You'll find
a self-scoring Grammar
Diagnostic quiz in Unit 3. If you don't like
your score, you can do
some practice
activities to
raise it.
Wondering
why you have to take Comp I? See results of the Writing:
A Ticket to Work survey or read Charles King's ideas about research
and life-long learning.
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The ability to express ideas in writing
and in speaking heads the list of all requirements for success.
—Peter
F. Drucker,
economist
Writing
a research paper is in part about learning how to teach yourself....The
process forces you to ask good questions, find the sources
to answer them, present your answers to an
audience, and define your answers against detractors.
Those are skills that you will use in any profession you
might eventually pursue. —Prof.
Charles King,
Georgetown Univ.
The writing process is anything a writer
does from the time the idea came until the
piece is completed or abandoned. There is no particular order.
—Donald
Graves,
writing researcher
You have to get the bulk of it down, and
then you start to refine it. You have to put down less-than-marvelous
material just to keep going, whatever you think the end is going
to be, which may be something else altogether by the time you
get there.
—Larry Gelbart,
M.A.S.H writer
If
one cannot state a matter clearly enough so that even an intelligent
twelve-year-old can understand it, one should remain within the sheltered
walls of the university and laboratory until one gets a better grasp
of one's subject matter.
—Margaret Mead,
anthropologist
Read
and revise; reread and revise; keep reading and revising until
your text seems adequate to your thought.
—Jacques
Barzun,
teacher
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