Posted: September 4, 2012 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: active learning, blogs, digital pedagogy, exercises, fall-2012, instructions, Methodology, Teaching |
In this course you are expected to maintain a blog. Postings will be required from you most weeks. And every so often you are asked to review and/or comment on your blog postings and those of your class mates.
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Posted: September 4, 2012 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: active learning, essays, exercises, fall-2012, Methodology, writing |
The essay is a wonderful and flexible tool for engaging with a topic intellectually. It is a very free format that can be turned to discuss any topic—works of literature, of course, but also autobiography, science, entertainment, history, and government, politics, and so on. There is often something provisional about the essay (its name comes from French essai, meaning an attempt), and almost always something personal.
Unfortunately, a teaching approach that emphases the use of templates and standardised formats have turned the essay for most students into the academic equivalent on compulsory figures.
The unessay addresses this problem by asking you to throw out all the rules and concentrate on the effective communication of your ideas and interests.
Unfortunately, however, as the Wikipedia notes,
In some countries (e.g., the United States and Canada), essays have become a major part of formal education. Secondary students are taught structured essay formats to improve their writing skills, and admission essays are often used by universities in selecting applicants and, in the humanities and social sciences, as a way of assessing the performance of students during final exams.
One result of this is that the essay form, which should be extremely free and flexible, is instead often presented as a static and rule-bound monster that students must master in order not to lose marks (for a vigorous defence of the flexible essay, see software developer Paul Graham’s blog). Far from an opportunity to explore intellectual passions and interests in a personal style, the essay is transformed into a formulaic method for discussing set topics in five paragraphs: the compulsory figures of academia.
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Posted: December 20, 2008 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: answer keys, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Tutorials |
Here are possible answers to the exercises in
Grammar Essentials 2: Parts of speech. In some cases more than one right answer might be possible.
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Posted: November 19, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, Computers, editorial studies, exercises, manuscript studies, palaeography, students, study tips, Teaching, textual studies, transcription, Tutorials, xml |
The following is a list of typographical conventions to use when transcribing medieval manuscripts in my classes.
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Posted: October 8, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Medieval Studies, Old English, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: anglo-saxon studies, classical languages, exercises, grammar, latin, medieval studies, old english, students, study tips, Teaching, Tutorials |
So how should you study in Old English class? Here are some tips I’ve compiled from personal experience and asking other scholars of my generation who have studied ancient or medieval languages (e.g. Latin, Greek, Old English, Old Frisian, etc.).
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Posted: January 4, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Tutorials |
Words are different from each other in meaning—
car and
unwelcome mean different things, after all.
But they can also differ from each other in more than meaning: they can also differ in the way they are used in sentences.
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Posted: January 4, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Tutorials |
For the most part, English uses word order to indicate the relationship among words in sentences. When I say “The boy bit the dog”, people listening to me know that it was the boy who did the biting because
The boy comes first in the sentence. Likewise, they know that it was the dog that was bitten because
the dog comes after
bit.
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Posted: January 3, 2007 | Author: dpod | Filed under: Language and Linguistics, Teaching, Tutorials | Tags: english language, exercises, grammar, linguistics, morphology, students, study tips, syntax, Teaching, Tutorials |
This tutorial is intended for high school, college, and University students who need a quick guide the essentials of English grammar. Its goal is to help you understand the core grammatical terminology used in textbooks and lectures in courses on foreign languages, the History of English, Old English, or other medieval and classical languages.
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