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Integrated Skills

OWL's MLA Formatting and Style Guide: [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/] Sample Academic Essay in MLA Format: [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20091250615234_747.pdf] Elysia's List of Supporting Detail Genres: [https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AVx64lODOgf1ZGdqOXc0cXhfMTlnd3ZjbWpwZw&hl=en_US]

MLA Format

Lincoln.edu's Power Point on Writing Complex Sentences [http://www.lincoln.edu/mhs/owl/powerpoints/Writing%20Complex%20Sentences.ppt] Consider buying Betty Azar's chartbook of English grammar. Here's the reference: [tt]Azar, Betty Schrampfer. Understanding and Using English Grammar: Chartbook, A Reference Grammar, Third Edition. White Plains, NY: Pearson Education, 2000. Print.[/tt] Adverbs [http://www.myenglishteacher.net/Making%20Your%20Writing%20More%20Interesting%20Part%20I.html]

Grammar

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Editing Explanations

Purdue's OWL Writing Center explains the argumentative essay: [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/685/05/] Organizing Your Essay in an Outline [http://owl.english.purdue.edu/media/pdf/20081113013048_544.pdf]

The Argumentative Essay

Articles from the New York Times on Genetic Engineering [http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/science/topics/genetic_engineering/index.html] The Union of Concerned Scientists on Genetic Engineering [http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/impacts-of-genetic.html] UCSGE on Biotechnology and the World Food Supply [http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/biotechnology-and-the-world.html] Listen to a National Public Radio broadcast on Avian Flu and Genetic Engineering [http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2011/12/21/144021870/u-s-says-details-of-flu-experiments-should-stay-secret] Designer Babies from MIT [http://web.mit.edu/murj/www/v12/v12-Features/v12-f4.pdf] Unit 4 Vocabulary manipulate gauge reluctant stellar staggering ramifications specter screenings interventions predispositions stricken frenzy totem pole held in check revered ambivalent double-edged sword stringent itching to wither away fatality spurious frivolous psyches

Genetic Engineering

Bowling Green's Wind Turbines [http://www.bgohio.org/departments/utilities-department/wind-turbines] [http://www.ohio.com/news/bowling-green-wind-farm-might-grow-1.161553] VOCABULARY procurement, to procure to wean off of abundant to harness byproduct to weigh in to marshal sustainable, to sustain to usher in renewable, to renew obscure to consolidate emissions hectares apt scarcity staples piecemeal to accrue a moratorium

Unit 10 Alternative Energy

Vocab Profiler: Copy and paste your writing into the window and the Vocab Profiler will count how many common words and academic words that you use. [http://conc.lextutor.ca/vp/eng/] Academic Word List with Definitions! [http://www.uefap.com/vocab/vocfram.htm] Academic Word Sublists [http://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/sublists.aspx]

Vocabulary Building