Jane Thielsen, MA

Central Oregon Community College

I. Course Documents, Guides, Notes and Exercises

1. MLA format for papers
2. youtube demo of paper format
3. video demo of making a thesis
4. Jane's Resource Page
5. Journal Writing     
6. Response Writing Guide
7. Key to Marks on Papers
8. Process Writing Guide
9. Editing Form
10. Loop Exercise
11. On Brainstorming
12. Notes on Narration
13. Notes on Story
14. Story Chart  (as .rtf & openoffice)
15. Notes on Description
16. Notes on Structure--Full circle Writing
17. About Reflective Writing
18. Tiered Notes Page (as .rtf & openoffice)
19. HOW TO WRITE AN OUTLINE*
20. OUTLINE GUIDE
21. Sample basic Paper outline

1. CCC Writing/Grammar Gd.
2. CCC list of topics
3. OWL Writing Guide
4. Dictionary/Thesaurus
5. Word Roots web site
6. Decoding English--Latin prefix/roots list
7. Glossary Form (doc)
8. Vocabulary.com
9. Vocabulary Workshop
10. English Language Roots
11. About Pronouns: Tricksters in Finding the Components of a Sentence
12.  More on Pronouns.
13.  HELP for sentence errors
14. Sentence Diagramming
15.  OWL on the Paragraph
16. Color-Coded Parts of a Paragraph
17. Paragraph transitions (video)

   III. Research Guides

1. Research COCC Library
2. COCC Library tutorials | ASP tutorial
3. Google Scholar
4. Google Books Online
5. Evaluating websites tutorial
6. Integrating evidence from sources
7. Exercise to avoid plaigarism
8. MLA Tutorial animation --(excellent)
9. youtube citing tutorial
10. youtube demo of paper formatincl.works citing
11. Tutorial: Boolean searching
12. RESEARCH/POSITION PAPER GUIDE
13. askoxford.com
14. Online Etymology Dictionary
15. Etymological abbreviations
16. Dictionary/Thesaurus
17. Britannica Online
18. Wikipedia
19. RefDesk
20. Sayings and Quotes   

OnlineDocumentaries  | TopDocumentatries (all free) to demonstrate theme, explanation, example and authoritative evidence (in video).

  IV.  MAIN ESSAY RESOURCES

Examples for Essay 1 --- Personal Narration:

   Short Story Examples of Narrative/Descriptive Writing

1. The Man to Send Rain Clouds
2. The Open Window
3. Why I Live At the P.O.
4. The Story of an Hour | Willa Cather on Kate Chopin

   Essays -- examples of E1 (narrative/descriptive/reflective)

1. Canine Programs
2. Likeness
3. Listening 
4. Island
5. Picking Cotton1 | Picking Cotton 2

excerpts for examples of E2, (but w/o MLA citing)

Elements of Expository Writing

1. A Definition of Pantomime, by Julian Barnes
2. Hot Hands, by Stephen Jay Gould
3. Process Analysis in Barry Lopez's "Migration"
4. Jessica Mitford on the Embalmer's Art
5. Contrast in Rybczynski's "Home"
6. Process Analysis in Richard Selzer's "The Knife"
7. Examples in Frank Trippett's "Loaded Words"
8. Barbara Tuchman's Historical Narrative: The Black Death

 E3 (doc. position)  To Model Documented Position Papers

THEME FOR E2, KNOWING OUR NECK-OF-THE-WOODS

Starting Writing, Reading and Topic Resources

   The Oregon Trail

1. Introduction to the Oregon Trail
2. End of the OT Center
3. National Park Service on OT
4. Oregon Pioneers
5. OT Map 1843
6. AV of OT
7. AV excerpts of OT Diaries 
8. Oregon Historical quarterly 1901with NY Tribune re-prints of mid-1800s Oregon
9. The Oregon Trail--Parkman (whole book)

10. Oregon Trail - Global Game Network