Writing

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  Use of Supporting Materials

  Sunita Lanka

  To identify a variety of reliable sources to support / strengthen claims and research, to understand how supporting materials lead to reasonable inferences and provide authentic strength to a claim (analysis), and finally to learn accurate citations.

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  Reverse Research

  Robin de la Llata Aimé

  Students are introduced to academic research and writing with a focus on methods of attribution.

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  Literature Review

  Amanda Pullum

  Students should learn to develop a social scientific research question; distinguish scholarly from non-scholarly sources; locate and evaluate relevant scholarly literature; and synthesize multiple scholarly sources.

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  Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Instructional Module #2

  Gabriela C. Zapata

  This is the second instructional module for the teaching of Spanish to heritage speakers at the intermediate level. The outcomes for this module are as follows:

  1. Students will be able to understand the way in which a persuasive essay is organized and written;

  2. Students will be able to continue applying the rules for the accentuation of palabras esdrújulas and agudas to improve their spelling;

  3. Students will be able to understand the rules that govern the present tense in Spanish and why it is the most appropriate tense when writing a persuasive essay.

  4. Students will learn the rules that govern the accentuation patterns for palabras llanas and hiatos, and they will apply these rules under instructor and peer guidance;

  5. Students will apply the concepts learned to the development of a persuasive essay;

  6. Students will apply the concepts learned to create and carry out an interview with a person of Hispanic origin in order to collect information about his/her work experiences in the United States.