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Welcome to the website and wiki for English 081 and ESL 087 Basic Writing Skills courses taught by Barbara Jordan at Mesa Comunity College in Arizona. Feel free to ignore the commercial advertisements.

Current Assignments:

Writing Assignment #6: Narrative
(A copy of the six page class handout is attached at the bottom of this page.)

Quiz #5 & exam review on Thursday, May 3rd, last official day of class
(see below for attachments)

FINAL EXAM: 10:30 - 12:20 Thursday, May 10th

Finish: Student Wiki Pages Spring 2012

Start Assembling: Writing Portfolio Spring 2012 --See sample attached below.

(Late assignments should be submitted ASAP!) Writing Assignment #5: Example Essay (due April 24th)

Check the discussion threads below for the most recent message from your instructor.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
--James Michener
 “There’s no substitute for the love of language, for the beauty of an English sentence. There’s no substitute for struggling, if a struggle is needed, to make an English sentence as beautiful as it should be.”
--Harper Lee
Official MCCD Course Competencies
 Official Course Outline
Purdue Writing OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Punctuation		 ONLINE DICTIONARY
University of Calgary's Basic English Grammar Check out this punctuation video.


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At the beginning of every semester students have the same first wiki assignment, which is to write a short introductory paragraph. Introduce yourself and mention at least three things that you like to do and at least three things you don't like to do.

Barbara Jordan
Your Instructor,
Barbara Jordan


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Mesa1987 summer yea!!!!!!!!!! 0 May 9 2012, 9:24 PM EDT by Mesa1987
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everyone in Barbara Jordan class have a great and safe summer. see ya next year
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music2producer summer time to rest 0 May 1 2012, 1:54 PM EDT by music2producer
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when schools out i'm going to rest. thank God for the super semester!!!!!!!
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Mesa1987 introduction 0 Mar 27 2012, 7:42 PM EDT by Mesa1987
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hi my name is daniel z. I like books, sports, and movies
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Word Document 081WritingPortfolio.S12.doc (Word Document - 34k)
posted by litamex   May 7 2012, 1:57 PM EDT
Written portfolio requirements.
Word Document 081QuizFivePreparationSheet.S12.doc (Word Document - 38k)
posted by litamex   May 1 2012, 1:18 PM EDT
Preparation shee for Quiz Five S12
Word Document 081WikiWork.S12.doc (Word Document - 33k)
posted by litamex   May 1 2012, 1:16 PM EDT
Handout on wiki requirements.
Word Document 081WA6.Narrative.S12.doc (Word Document - 44k)
posted by litamex   Apr 24 2012, 1:05 PM EDT
Handout for the last essay, a narrative.
Word Document 081ExampleEssaysPartII.S12.doc (Word Document - 33k)
posted by litamex   Apr 17 2012, 1:44 AM EDT
Example essay handout two.
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