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Gloria Bragg, Coordinator Developmental Education Vernon College Vernon and Wichita Falls, Texas Vernon: 940 552-629, ext. 2257 WF: 940-696-8752, ext. 3224 email: gbragg@vernoncollege.edu |
*This website is currently under construction. Campus Location and Office Hours: Summer Hours: 7:45 to 5:15 Mon, Tues, and Thurs: Wichita Falls Campus Wed: Vernon Campus Office Hours: 10 am to 12 noon and 2 to 4 pm |
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Summer 2008 Basic Writing M/W/F: 9:15 to to 11:30 am Reading : M/W/F: 1:45 to 4pm Century City Campus Links to the online student and instructor resources for the Vernon College texbooks http://www.myreadinglab.com http://www.mywritinglab.com http://myskillslab.com Student Resource Links: http://www.owl.english.purdue.edu This is Purdue University's Online Writing Lab: A resource website for students and instructors. Many things there are available for use and even for copying, but be sure to read and observe their copyright instructions. http://www.yourdictionary.com A reliable online dictionary and translation tool. http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg: A significant collection of full-text e-books. Texts are added every day, but in general, recent publications are not there, due to copyright issues. Basic Writing textbook companion website: Harris and Moseley: Strategies for College Writing http://wps.ablongman.com/long_harris_scw_2/0,8121,927191-main,00.html ESL Tools: Dave's ESL Cafe: http://www.eslcafe.com A solid online resource for students working with more than one language Power Point Lessons:Arguing on the Issues: Covers all concepts of formal argument, brief history of the skill The House of Essay: Model for recalling essay writing process and structure Worksheets and Handouts: Best Practices for Developmental Instruction Live Reading Current Tasks: Basic Skills Specialist US Department of Education Title III Grant: Student Success and Retention My Background: Master of Arts, English Rhetoric Bachelor of Arts, History Midwestern State University PhD in English Rhetoric: In Progress Texas Woman's University |
Current Research and
Writing: "The Evolution of Language in the Age of the Internet" PhD Dissertation in Progress "Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing: Integrating the Instruction of Language Code: 2007: Presented to the Texas Collaboration on Teaching Excellence at Delmar College, Corpus Christi 2008: Presented to the International Conference on College Teaching and Learning Milton Studies: "Back, I Say": Milton's Sin and Death Monster" The Rhetoric of Song Lyrics: The Blue Highway: American Poetry on the Backroads Electronic Poetry: In the cyberworld, language will never be quite the same. Words tumble and shake and float right past. Much is thrown out utterly, into the dark. There is no compass. It is the great unknown again: the territory of the imagination, the land of dreams and the laboratory of nightmares. It is the unrelenting desert of a dialogue for which no one has translation. The beaches there are populated by angels, the forests are patrolled by hounds. It is a place where stars can be gathered in teacups and lovers called back from the heavens. The word "virtual" poorly describes it and not even the most august of speakers can express its significance. It may be nothing more than a possibility, dressed in the rags of adventure. It is a world like the one before Balboa and de Leon, and what is worse, it harkens back to an Elysian horizon at which humans, once again, must gaze with expectation, aided by their imaginings, but can scarcely possess, and cannot hope to contain. An uneasy and comical contract: the intellect and the broad indifference of uncharted space. In the white of blank pages, whether graphic or textual, we are neophytes and explorers, boasting a claim to which we have meager support. Off come the restraints! Let go the moorings, foist up the anchors, and far into the digital we fly! -- One Expedition  Blue Planet Gaze
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Another RoomMy Educational Philosophy: Education is a lifelong process. Languages are merely codes, just as numbers are, in formulas. Everyone has a right to their own intellectual pursuits. No plan is sensible, but one of diversity, inclusion, and dialogue. Everywhere there is a classroom; most have no chairs and a podium is unnecessary. Instructors and teachers are simply guides. Intellectual elitism is ridiculous. To imagine that any one of us, even with multiple terminal degrees and experiences has but a fraction of knowledge above a whisper in the cosmos is silly. The academy is not an austere place of enlightenment, but it is necessary. Without the wonderments, arguments, experiments, and questions, we are bound up on the shores of inaction. The best we can hope for is to be heard, each by the other. The only miracle at all is that we can imagine ourselves in the vision we have of the present, yet struggle indefinitely toward a better understanding of exactly where and what we are. |
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Curriculum
Projects: Course Descriptions: College Literacy I College Literacy II Syllabi and Course Outline Class Handouts Triad Debates Socratic Circle Activities |
