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INTRODUCTORY LECTURE
DGD LEADERS
DGD 1: CORY SAMPSON
DGD 3: MOIRA DUNCAN
NOTE ABOUT THIS POWERPOINT
I plan to put the lecture and DGD Powerpoints
on Virtual Campus (in lecture slides and DGD
slides folders) before each lecture and DGD for
students who wish to follow the slides on their
laptops during the lecture or DGD.
Syllabus
Bibliography
Classroom etiquette
COURSE’S OBJECTIVE (IDENTIFY 5 ERRORS/IMPERFECTIONS IN
THIS SLIDE)
Course objective
SECOND ERROR
Should be principles
Good writing
Good sandwich
Good idea
Good person
Good morning. . .
BETTER
Effective writing
FIFTH ERROR: SPELLING
Succes
CORRECT
Success
COURSE OBJECTIVE (EDITED)
http://www.techtoolsforwriters.com/how-to-creat
e-an-em-dash/
PUNCTUATION QUESTION
Well-written report
Three-year-old boy
BUT NO HYPHENS IN
http://www.embeddedinsights.com/channels/201
0/08/04/how-much-of-an-engineer%E2%80%99
s-job-is-writing/
LANGUAGE: AN ESSENTIAL TOOL
Many scientists and engineers spend much,
sometimes most, of their day writing.
Why?
THINK ABOUT YOURSELF AS BOTH
And
(2) A writer
THE FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM
Albert Einstein
NOTE THE HYPHENS
https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&source=
hp&biw
=1368&bih=795&ei=3LyXW_2FMIjCjwSW64ioD
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hill&oq=hill&gs_l
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SECOND ERROR: SPELLING
Job loses
http://web5.uottawa.ca/mcs-smc/academicintegrity/
home.php
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/12/27/man-drives-r
olls-royce-for-78-years-then-makes-museum-donati
on-t/
MANY PEOPLE DO NOT MAXIMIZE THEIR WRITING POTENTIAL
BECAUSE OF
New words
Thought-provoking ideas
CHALLENGE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OatZHB71UI
LET’S TALK A BIT ABOUT THE NAME OF THE COURSE. . .
reader centered
Is everywhere
NO preparation needed
READ FOR DGD 2, SEPTEMBER 13 (AND KEEP A READING
JOURNAL)
Bin A52
Bring to DGDs.
Read the assigned pages from the course pack before the
DGD.
IN COURSE CITATIONS
CP=course pack
BRIGHTSPACE VIRTUAL CAMPUS
Answer questions about course pack texts (not only what discussed in class).
But
http://youglish.com/
SELF-GRADED SECTION OF TEST 1 (5% OF TEST)
https://www.cbc.ca/news/thenational/canadian-start
up-uses-ai-to-reduce-job-interview-bias-1.4810864
http://www.biblio.uottawa.ca/html/Page?node=h
elp-guides&lang=en