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Pacific Lutheran University is a community of scholars, a community of readers and writers. Reading informs the intellect and liberates the imagination. Writing pervades our academic lives as teachers and students, both as a way of communicating what we learn and as a means of shaping thoughts and ideas. All faculty members share the responsibility for improving the literacy of their students. Faculty in every department and school make writing an essential part of their courses and show

Designing Effective Writing Assignments The assignment helps writers imagine a sense of purpose for writing. When people write beyond school, their writing is driven by a need to communicate in order to evoke a specific response or to elicit a particular action or to otherwise convince an audience in some way. Therefore, it is helpful to think of designing assignments that help writers imagine writing in order to accomplish a specific aim. (Likewise, it is less useful to assign a random mode of

Writing Effective Thesis StatementsA good thesis statement can be the difference between making an argument about something, and simply re-stating what someone else has already said. In your thesis statement, you want to make a claim that you will continue to develop throughout the paper. It should represent your own ideas–perhaps in response to something someone else has said–but ultimately, it is your argument. As such, a good thesis statement should have 3 main traits. A good thesis: Can be

Personal Journey Personal Journey https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2016/wp-content/themes/blade/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Kari Plog '11 Kari Plog '11 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2016/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2016/05/kari-plog-avatar.jpg September 13, 2016 September 22, 2016 I entered Pacific Lutheran University in 2007 as a first-generation college student who grew up void of a faith tradition. I never really struggled with my lack of religious identity. As recent as six

research, evaluating sources, integrating source materials into their own writing, and attribution of sources through the use of a style guide. Below are suggestions for sequencing assignments: Use readings to help generate ideas, as models, and as resources for the vocabulary and tools of the larger conversation; you might sequence readings to move from expressive and personal pieces to analysis essays to argumentative and synthesizing articles. Sequence assignments to build on rhetorical strategies

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2019 Personal & Professional Development Opportunities- Tuesday, February 26 & Wednesday, Febuary 27 -UPDATE: DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER IN OREGON, OUR KEYNOTE SPEAKER, LEIGH ANNE JASHEWAY, IS UNABLE TO TRAVEL. HER 2 SESSIONS ON FEBRUARY 26 ARE CANCELED (9-10AM: See the Positive – Be the Positive… and 10:15-11:15AM: Breakout: PLAY Your Way…). IF/WHEN THE SESSIONS ARE RESCHEDULED, ALL REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED. ALL OTHER SESSIONS ARE PROCEEDING AS SCHEDULED. Human Resources is