ESOL 840

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Syllabus

Schedule

Forms (if necessary, click here for Adobe Reader)

Magazine personality profile/biographical essay

Book_report

Links

Coxhead's Academic Word List

Katie Mitchell's The Academic Word (practice AWL)

Oxford Advanced American Dictionary online

Grammar links

Grammar quizzes and essay hints

Link to Skyline Library Want more biographies?

Click Reference Data Bases--Gale Biography Resource Center

Link to 161 salon.com personality profiles: "Brilliant_Careers"

Contact your legislator

Skyline plagiarism policy p. 32 Student Handbook
Link to Hacker's helpful hints for citing sources: MLA

Useful Articles: Mosaic II

NY Times obituary for Henry Wolsey: dead at 55 in Antarctica

"Wanted in Space..." 2/11/03 NY Times article about personality traits of astronauts

"Can't We Talk?" (condensed from: You Just Don't Understand) by Deborah Tannen

"U.K. Hospitals Issue Doctors' Dress Code" 9/17/07 AP article
"Out of Thick Air" 3/30/03 SF Chronicle interview with Arlene Blum about her life and new book

"British Accused of Lifting Article" 2/07/03 SF Chronicle article related to plagiarism

Mosaic II Essay Assignments (if different from in book)

Chapter 2 "Danger and Daring"

Chapter 4 "Beauty..."

Chapter 6 "The Mind ": dreams

Sample essays: Mosaic II

Chapter 1: Second draft

Chapter 1: Grade C paper

Chapter 1: Guess the grade

Chapt 2: Explorers

Chapter 3:_Man/woman communication

Chapter 4: Beauty and Aesthetics

Chapter 5: Rite of Passage

Chapter 6: The Mind/Dreams

Other useful samples of student work
Book report
Personality profile report