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		<title>College Composition Students Discuss Their Internet Reading and Writing</title>
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		<title>Writing Group Lesson Plans for College Composition Class</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The writers in my classes regularly get into groups and read their writing to one another.  If left to their own devices about what to do in these groups, the students are usually either very quiet or they point out what they see as errors.  In the spirit of trying generate conversation, we read an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetorg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12302042&amp;post=1432&amp;subd=thetorg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Torgerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had my students write an &#8220;About Me&#8221; essay as it might appear on an Electronic Portfolio, a cover letter for a job, or an application for graduate school.  The assignment comes from a campus initiative toward incorporating ePortfolios and from what I&#8217;ve noticed about students&#8217; writing who come to me as they approach [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetorg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12302042&amp;post=1407&amp;subd=thetorg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Indie Film Documentary Projects:  Morel Mushrooms and Pulpwood Queens</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:20:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Torgerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First I thought I wanted to make a documentary film.  Now it looks like there might be two.  The original idea was to be about my dad and his buddies&#8217; morel mushroom hunting obsession.  A second film has jumped out and seemed to be demanded to be made about my recent trip to the Pulpwood [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetorg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12302042&amp;post=1376&amp;subd=thetorg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>College Ready Writing With Dr. Lee Skallerup</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Torgerson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just what the heck is a bad female academic?  It&#8217;s what Dr. Lee Skallerup (sometimes) calls herself.  She&#8217;s also a mother with a PhD in Comparative Literature who writes about peer driven learning, teaching composition, and other issues related to higher education.  I&#8217;d be more apt to call her &#8220;Super Woman.&#8221;  Lee also co-founded a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetorg.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12302042&amp;post=1362&amp;subd=thetorg&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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