Dr. Eigenauer's
English 1500 Page
Taft College 2009
"Writing is easy. You just sit
down at the typewriter and
open a vein."
–Red Smith
Contact Information:
Office phone: 661.763.7722
email: jeigenauer@yahoo.com
Office: Gym
Taft College
29 Emmons Park Dr.
Taft, CA 93268
Writing Style                                                            
Presentation: Active and Passive Voices (.pps file)          
Presentation: Unnecessary Words (.pps file)                  
Presentation: Nominalization (.pps file)                         
Presentation: Word Order (.pps file)                             
Presentation: Editing Practice (.pps file)       
Presentation: Writing Reminders (.pdf file)
Presentation: Some Writing Improvements (.pps file)
College Essay
Colleges And Universities
The Secret About College
Writing About College
College Isn't For Everyone
Telling Both Sides
Reply Sample Paragraph
Footnotes
The Argumentative Essay
Argumentative Essay II (Television Violence Essay)
Psychiatric Effects of Media Violence
Sample Paragraph 2
Television Violence Argumentative Essay

Argumentative Essay Reading (PowerPoint Show).
Opening and Concluding Paragraphs (PowerPointShow)


Other important resources can be found at
The Center For Media Literacy

Concept Map: How To Write An Argumentative Essay
Organizing an Argumentative Essay  (.pdf file)
Argumentative Essay Checklist (print and hand in as first page of AE)
Additional articles on TV violence:
Television Violence Is Harmless
The Effects of Media Violence on Children
A History of Television Violence
Mass Media Sex and Violence Research
Intimate Violence and Recovery
Television Violence: The Scale of the Problem
Childhood Viewing of TV Violence
Brain Maps of TV Violence
The Critique


CritiqueBarrettRowe.pps
Sample Summary

Exercises:

Critique Practice #2
Critique Practice: Gun Control
Critique Practice: Gun Control: (answer)

Additional resource:
Introduction to Writing a Critique (.pps file)
Writing A Critique Part 2
How to Critique "What's Wrong With America?"
Sample Critique Gun Control
Forming Logically Strong Sentences
Critique Checklist

Grammar assignments:
Making Subjects And Verbs Agree (from OWL)
Making Subjects and Verbs Agree (presentation)
Exercise: Making Subjects And Verbs Agree (from OWL)
Answer key to above exercise (from OWL)

How To Use Apostrophes (from OWL)
Introduction to Apostrophes (presentation)
Apostrophes Exercises 1-2 (with answers)
Apostrophe Exercise #1 (from OWL) (Do on line, print, and hand in).
Apostrophe Exercise #2 (from OWL) (Do on line, print, and hand in).

Using Commas Correctly (from OWL)
Commas Exercise #1 (Do on line, check answers, and hand in).
Commas Exercise #2 (Do on line, check answers, and hand in).
Commas Exercise #3 (Do on line, check answers, and hand in).
Commas Exercise #4 (Do on line, check answers, and hand in).
Commas Exercise #5 (Do on line, check answers, and hand in).

Seven Basic Comma Rules (PowerPoint show)
Critique Practice (PowerPoint Show)
The Research Paper

Research Paper Evolution

ResearchingTheResearchPaper.pps

Introduction to Human Chromosome-2
Human Chromosome-2 from Wikipedia
Genes of Chromosome-2 Fusion Site
Human and Great Ape Chromosome-2 Fusion click on "Comparison of the Human..."
Image of Chimpanzee and Human Chromosome-2
Evolution and Vitamin C
The Final Exam

Presentation: Peak Oil
Presentation: Cuba
Presentation: Changing World Technologies
Presentation: Curtailment
Other essential materials:

CMap Concept Mapping software
Adobe Reader (to read .pdf files)
Sentence Fragments                                                  First Six Paragraphs
Sentence Fragments (PowerPoint Show)
Sentence Fragments (www.chompchomp.com)
On-line exercise #1 (Write "correct"  or "incorrect" for all 20 questions).
On-line exercise #2 (Write "correct"  or "incorrect" for all 20 questions).
On-line exercise #3 (Write "correct"  or "incorrect" for all 20 questions).
On-line exercise #5 (Write "correct"  or "incorrect" for all 20 questions).
Syllabus