Chaffey College Writing Center

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Directed Learning Activity URLs

Some Directed Learning Activities require linking to sites on the Internet.  For your convenience, the URLs for selected activities appear below.  Before you access these sites, please pick up the complete instructions for the Directed Learning Activity at the Writing Center, the Chino Reading & Writing Center, or the Fontana Success Center.

Argumentation: Opposing Viewpoints (Salem Witch Trials)

http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/salemwitchtrials/

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~wricntr/documents/Counterarg.html

http://comppile.tamucc.edu/1302/counterargument.htm

Avoiding Plagiarism

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/printable/589/

Critical Thinking

www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/english/mwollaeger/cdw.htm

http://www.idebate.org/index.php

Eliminating Wordiness

Eliminating Wordiness PowerPoint

Essay Structure

http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/English/essay/index.html

Evaluating Online Resources

www.bioethics.gov (Click on the word "cloning" from the home page.)

www.livescience.com/cloning

Fragments

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/fragments.htm

Integrating Quotations

http://chaffey.edu/writingctr/Quotations_FrameExplainConnect8_09.pdf

http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/quotations.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/02

MLA Works Cited List

Click here for the log-in page for AGent.

http://www.epa.gov/region09/cross_pr/animalwaste/california.html

Paragraph Structure and Development

http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/fwalters/para.html

Purpose, Audience, and Tone (Greeting Cards)

http://facstaff.gpc.edu/~shale/humanities/composition/handouts/audience.html

Purpose, Audience, and Tone (Magazine Ads)

http://www.powa.org/Argumentative-Essays/three-argumentative-appeals/All-Pages.html

http://papyr.com/hypertextbooks/comp1/appeals.htm

http://www.rpi.edu/dept/llc/webclass/web/project1/group4/

Research Paper Thesis

http://www.esc.edu/esconline/across_esc/writerscomplex.nsf/3cc42a422514347a8525671d0049f395/

11c346d877aed85a852569c300671b2b?OpenDocument#where

http://www.westga.edu/~cshelnut/The%20Sheridan%Baker%Thesis%Machine.doc

Run-on Sentences

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/runons.htm