Tag: English

GREAT article on literacy

If you are going into education, or are currently an educator, I urge you to read this article that I found about literacy. It offers some incredibly powerful tactics to improving literacy in younger children. While some of them seem to be common knowledge, they only are effective IF they are used properly. Check out …

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Letter from Birmingham Jail

I just finished my essay on Martin Luther King’s response to the “Public Statement of Eight Alabama Clergymen.” King wrote a “Letter from Birmingham Jail” to express his concerns with the Clergymen’s underlying racism in their statement. I wrote an essay illustrating King’s use of ethical, relgious, and emotional appeals and their effect. If you …

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MLA

I found a wonderful website on the MLA format, usage of it, and even examples of fully MLA-compliant papers. So far, it is the best site that I’ve found on the MLA formatting, and the best part is that it is FREE! In the world of academics, nowadays, you don’t see many free resources. http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/overview.html …

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