Learning Community #12
RFT
Paper #3
First draft due Tuesday Nov. 18th in class.
Second draft due Tuesday Dec. 2nd in class.
9-10 pages, 12-point font, double-spaced and typed, with
one-inch margins, stapled. (more…)
November 17, 2008
RFT paper #3
September 25, 2008
August 27, 2008
placements (revised)
I scheduled a meeting with Sal Ruggiero, the volunteer coordinator at God’s Love We Deliver for Friday Sept. 5th, at 11:00am. (more…)
August 26, 2008
Joe Biden and plagiarism: more info
Teachers and scholars consider the unattributed use of someone else’s words and ideas to be a very serious offense, but the public doesn’t seem to mind much, at least when it comes to politics. The incidents of plagiarism and fabrication that forced Joe Biden to quit the 1988 presidential race have drawn little comment since his selection as Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate… (more…)
August 21, 2008
RFT paper assignment #1 (revised)
First draft due Sept. 5 (midnight)
Second draft due Sept. 19th (midnight) (more…)
RFT blog guidelines
To participate in the blog–a requirement for the course–you must accept an “invitation” from WordPress to be a user, at which point I can add you as an “author,” which will give you the power to write, edit, publish and delete your posts. Send me an email if you are unsure how to do this. (more…)
August 12, 2008
August 7, 2008
Staten Island and New Jersey: updated
NJ Beach Town Mayor Slams Staten Island Girls
Jersey shore town Belmar attracts a lot of rowdy summer renters, to the point where the town has very strict noise codes and maps offending houses on its “Animal House Map.” But many think Belmar Mayor Ken Pringle went too far when he described an altercation between a NJ resident and a visitor from Staten Island in a town newsletter.
Pringle wrote about the pair, who got into a fight at a bar: “The spat ended the way most fights with SI girls do. The SI woman grabbed the Boonton woman by the hair… and began punching her face in….As the Staten Island girl was pummeling the Boonton girl’s face, she used the hand she was still holding her drink glass in. Now, we’re not sure if the glass was stuck to her hand cause of all the hair spray or if this is a technique Staten Island girls learn in Brownies, but we are thankful she left her brass knuckles and straight razor in her other purse.”
