Instructor’s Blog
Hello, and welcome to my Blog. Below this post you will see previous posts from last semester’s class. This is the first Blog for our class. I will post a new blog regularly and include a link to each new blog on our Group FaceBook page. Please be sure to join that page now, if you haven’t already. Here is the link: English 301 .
Welcome to English 301 / 2019
By erikapaterson on January 14, 2019 @8:50 am
Hello 301 Welcome to our course of studies together and Welcome to my Instructor’s Blog I will post new blogs on a regular basis and you should read before beginning each week’s lesson. The principle purpose of this Blog is to respond to your…Extensions
By erikapaterson on December 10, 2018 @5:56 am
Requests for extensions at the end of the semester: While I am sorry to hear about difficulties keeping up and the pressures of final exams, unless a student is ill — it is not really fair to other students (who…DETAILS – please …
By erikapaterson on March 15, 2019 @12:46 pm
This is a re-post of a re-post of a blog that too many people seem to have missed or forgotten. One of the tricks of technical writing is to avoid generalities and provide details – as concisely as possible. Here…Example of a Methods section
By erikapaterson on November 22, 2018 @1:41 pm
Here is an example of a well-handled Methods Section. The Introduction section of a Formal Report always includes a Method Section that provides a description of the methodology. It is important to remain concise and at the same time provide…Writing the first draft of a formal report
By erikapaterson on November 20, 2018 @6:51 am
When drafting your Formal Report keep in mind the three most common and serious errors: Writing with a negative tone: Avoid the negative. Writing with a demanding tone: Respect your reader, edit out imperative verbs. Writing information that your reader…