Office hours for Friday are cancelled. ACAD201 will be closed for most of the morning. If you need to speak to me, please do so in class or we can spend time afterwards.

If you missed class on Wednesday, please download a copy of the presentation schedule to the right. It is your responsibility to know what day you are presenting next week!

Here is a link to the final exam schedule for BCC. Our final class period during this time is Friday May 7th from 8am-950am.

Wow, grammar is over! We are moving into the homestretch of the class. Before we continue, I thought it was time to share with you the grammar writing handout I have worked on the past few semesters. Because it is so long, I will only be sharing the PDF with you. Print it at your discretion. Enjoy! You will find the handout linked on the sidebar.

I forgot to mention this at the end of class. The number at the bottom of the quiz I gave back today (quiz=______) is your final quiz average. Sorry!

I have finished grading your argumentation papers. Those of you who wish to do a revision should get it into me by the weekend. Thanks!

A few concerns with your argumentation papers:

• Each entry from the argument pair in Subject & Strategy gets a separate works cited entry.
• Make sure you refresh yourself on the correct way to do block quotes.
• Never, never, ever use phrases like “I totally agree” or “in my opinion,” you will end up sounding apologetic for your views!
• Make sure you are following the requirements set forth on paper handouts.
• Again, do not refer to the authors of books/articles/etc by their first name…and…
• This isn’t the New York Times, therefore you don’t have to call people you reference Mr., Ms., or Mrs.

I apologize, but I need to cancel office hours today. I am need to be somewhere back in Ocean County by 11am. We will still have EOffice hours tonight from 8pm-10pm.

Lauren Pressley, a librarian friend of mine, recently put together a nice post chronicling a number of plagiarism tutorials you might want to check out if you are still having trouble with citation.