Thank you dear students for another great semester at SJCC! I really enjoyed getting to know all of you and watching your writing progress throughout the semester. Overall, our class did very well on the Research Papers and I really enjoyed reading through such well-documented (Yay MLA!) and interesting research topics. I mailed the letters to the four members of our Learning Community who did not finish with us this semester and I hope the words they wrote during the first week of classes will inspire them to come back soon:) For the rest of you: congratulations on passing English 1A and HAVE A GREAT SUMMER!!!

Thank you for all of your hard work this semester.

Grades
Our Class Mean: 74 percent
Our Class Median: 86 percent

Keys to Successful College Writing

Keys to Successful College Writing

Here are eight habits of mind essential for success in college writing:

* Curiosity – the desire to know more about the world.

* Openness – the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.

* Engagement – a sense of investment and involvement in learning.

* Creativity – the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.

* Persistence – the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.

* Responsibility – the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.

* Flexibility – the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.

* Metacognition – the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.

Source: Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing Council of Writing Program Administrators

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Here is the link to Moodle where you will turn in your Research Paper via Turnitin.com.

If you have never used Moodle, then you will need to click on the Quick Start Guide on the right to get directions for how to set up your password.

The whole process should take about 10 minutes. Please e-mail me if you are having any problems. Thank you!

Research Paper Due by 11:59 p.m. on May 22. Thank you!

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