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    This is Not Your High School English Class: What You Really Need to Know to Succeed in First Semester English Composition I: Not High School English, #1
    This is Not Your High School English Class: What You Really Need to Know to Succeed in First Semester English Composition I: Not High School English, #1
    This is Not Your High School English Class: What You Really Need to Know to Succeed in First Semester English Composition I: Not High School English, #1
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    This is Not Your High School English Class: What You Really Need to Know to Succeed in First Semester English Composition I: Not High School English, #1

    By Eugene Ortiz

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    This is Not Your High School English Class has three goals. It seeks
    1. to dispel the myth that Comp I is the same as high school English;
    2. to help students avoid making the mistake of writing like they did in high school only to be shocked at the grade they receive on that first essay; and
    3. to help instructors help their students build a strong foundational understanding of the mission of the academy (scholarship and the collaborative making of new meaning) and their place in it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEugene Ortiz
    Release dateSep 21, 2011
    ISBN9781466050150
    This is Not Your High School English Class: What You Really Need to Know to Succeed in First Semester English Composition I: Not High School English, #1
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    Eugene Ortiz

    Eugene Ortiz is a freelance writer, rhetorician, and technical communicator currently living in Lockport, IL. He began teaching undergraduate writing in 1993, has presented papers on the subject at academic conferences, and was a pioneer in using online communication as a heuristic for undergraduate writing students. Before he began teaching undergraduate writing, Ortiz was Editor and Publisher of The Writer's Nook News, a nationally circulated, quarterly newsletter for freelance writers. Trivia: Ortiz has a black belt in Aikido and occasionally does background acting (a.k.a. 'extra' work). While living in Texas, he had a recurring non-speaking role as a Houston police officer on the hit NBC show, "Chase".

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      This is Not Your High School English Class - Eugene Ortiz

      This is Not Your High School English Class:

      What You Really Need to Know to Succeed

      in Second Semester English Composition II

      Eugene Ortiz

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      Table of Contents

      Not Your High School English Class

      Stopping to Smell The Roses

      The Roses And You

      The Roses And Your Reader

      Arranging the Roses

      Avoiding Pitfalls

      Finding Resources

      Advice From Professors

      Advice From Students

      Summary

      Final Thoughts (A Second Introduction)

      Index of Key Words

      Not Your High School English Class

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      I have good news and bad news.

      The good news is that if you did poorly in High School English Class, you can do great in Composition I.

      The bad news about that is you have to work to earn the grade. I know, right?

      The good news about that is you bought this little book and I wrote it to help you work smart.

      More bad news. If you did great in High School English, that is no guarantee that you will do great in Composition I.

      That's because High School English teaches you how to follow all the rules and write a correct composition (getting grammar and format right), but not necessarily a composition that shows anything about your relationship with the subject matter and how it is significant to the greater community.

      Being correct is no longer good enough. Being correct may not even get you a passing grade! This semester is about taking the first step toward transforming yourself from a student (a gatherer of information) into a scholar (a dealer in, and creator of, knowledge).

      High School English teaches you how to show your teacher that you can learn the rules, not necessarily that you can use what you have learned to help you navigate unknown scholarly frontiers.

      This semester is about taking the first step toward looking at school as an opportunity to do more than simply gather information to show your teacher on an exam that you memorized everything correctly and then just forget it all after the assignment is complete and still do well in the class.

      Your professor will expect you to have learned how to be Correct while in your High School English Class.

      Correctness refers to the basic rules of grammar and format. Your professor will review this, but if you weren't paying attention in High School and really don't know this stuff, you will need to find time outside of class to catch up. Correctness is necessary, but by itself, is superficial.

      This semester is about sharing

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