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Week One

The Elements of Style, William Strunk Jr. http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
Guide to Grammar and Style, Jack Lynch. http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/
There are many examples of well-written and well-delivered speeches on line. For a Canadian example, see Justin Trudeau's eulogy for his father, former prime minister Pierre E. Trudeau. http://archives.cbc.ca/on_this_day/10/03/
If you do not have a resumé or if you want new ideas for one, go to http://web.cs.toronto.edu/people.htm. Look at the homepages of several graduate students.

Week Two

Information on writing a thesis statement: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/planning-and-organizing/thesis-statements
The University of Ottawa has a good review of the eight parts of speech: http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html and a quiz http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpartsp.html that will give you feedback as you go.
Quotation Marks: You can occasionally use quotation marks to indicate words used ironically or to suggest an opposite meaning; however if you want to use quotation marks when you are not directly quoting someone, be sure and check this website. Read the rules, then do the exercise: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_quote.html.
Visit The "Blog" of "Unnecessary" Quotation Marks found at http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/
Vocabulary is obviously very valuable. The more words you know, the more expressive your communication can be. Two websites help people enlarge their vocabulary and learn more about language. These are Your Dictionary and A Word a Day. Keep track of interesting words and try to use them. To receive words every day, go to Your Dictionary: http://register.yourdictionary.com or A Word a Day: http://wordsmith.org .
UT’s system for learning vocabulary: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/reading-and-researching/new-words
Next week’s oral presentation lesson will be on the elevator pitch. You will prepare a pitch for week four. This website gives you a good idea of what an elevator pitch involves: http://www.elevatorpitchessentials.com/essays/index.html

Week Three

Print and read this study on the different ways Asians and North Americans perceive the universe: www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,68626,00.html
See Anna Fels, "Behaviour; Mind fills the need to explain." The New York Times, January 19, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/17/health/behavior-mind-fills-the-need-to-explain.html
Memory research is fascinating. See Robert Todd Carroll’s summary at http://skepdic.com/memory.html. Note particularly the resources in Carroll’s bibliography by Elizabeth Loftus.
"The True Meaning of Self-Esteem," by Robert Reasoner. Available on the National Association of Self-Esteem website: http://www.self-esteem-nase.org/what.php. This article discusses the misconception people have that high self-esteem is the same as conceit, arrogance, narcissism, or superiority.
"Introduction to Self-Esteem," by Mary Ellen Copeland. This and other articles are available at http://www.mentalhelp.net/poc/center_index.php?id=96&cn=96.

Week Four

Resume and letter jobs at IBM https://jobs3.netmedia1.com/cp/search.jsp
Instructions for writing an abstract: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~bioslabs/tools/report/reportform.html
For more information on using the colon, see http://www.spacearchive.info/military.htm
For more help with grammar and punctuation go to http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/.
Owl Handouts: Complete Index by Topic http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/index2.html Click Punctuation and look at the list of explanations, exercises, and answers. Pick exercises that would be valuable to you.
On the University of Ottawa page below, do the Identifying Punctuation Errors test, and check your answers. http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/writcent/hypergrammar/rvpunct.html
Go to http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice/using-sources/how-not-to-plagiarize for information on avoiding plagiarizing.
For a deeper appreciation of the semi-colon, see Sam Roberts’s article "Celebrating the Semicolon in a Most Unlikely Location." http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/nyregion/18semicolon.html?_r=1&ex=1204261200&en=5416dc2fa9938301&ei=5070&emc=eta1&oref=slogin

Week Five

J. Bluestein, "What’s wrong with I-messages?" Available at http://www.janebluestein.com/articles/whatswrong.html. Accessed on Oct. 15, 2008.
See also S. Perry, "You’d better like ‘I-messages’ (or else!). Available at http://www.couplescompany.com/Advice/Marriage/SusanI.htm. Accessed on Oct. 15, 2008.
For those inclined to be suspicious, there’s some very interesting information here about when interview questions contain traps. http://dev.fyicenter.com/Interview-Questions/Sixty-Four/index.html

Week Six

For further reading on helping grieving people, see Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt, Center for Loss and Life Transition. "Helping a Friend in Grief." Available at http://www.buddhanet.net/r_friend.htm.
"Things Not to Do in Helping a Person through the Grieving Process" Available at http://www.funeralplan.com/griefsupport/dont.html.

Week Seven

See http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/?view=uk. Look at the FAQs for spelling and grammar.
IEEE style: http://www.ece.uiuc.edu/pubs/ref_guides/ieee.html and http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/~writing/handbook-docum1b.html
The Art of Listening, http://traubman.igc.org/listen.htm
See K. Sand-Jensen, "How to write consistently boring scientific literature," from Oikos 116 (2007), 723-727. Available at http://www.scribd.com/doc/63957/How-to-write-Consistently-Boring-Scientific-Literature

Week Eight

Note the information about your introduction to a speech presentation at http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/infomod/pop7a.cfm
Bookmark the page above and read over the links on the left-hand side as you work on your speech for this class or other classes. Particularly useful is the last link "The Five-Step Method of Improving Delivery" which can also be found here http://writing.colostate.edu/guides/speaking/infomod/com2g1.cfm

Week Nine

Microsoft's ideas about effective PowerPoint presentations http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010120721033.aspx
For a controversial discussion of visual presentations, read Edward Tufte’s article, "PowerPoint is Evil," Wired 11.09 (September 2003). Available at http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.09/ppt2.html
Don Norman’s opinion of the article. Available at http://www.sociablemedia.com/articles_norman.htm
"Online Technical Writing: Progress Reports." http://www.io.com/~hcexres/textbook/progrep.html Look at some of the sample progress reports on this site. Imagine what headings you would use for your progress report. Next class we will do an in-class written progress report on your term paper/panel discussion.

Week Ten

Lipthropt, Dawn. "Intentional Dialogue: A Process for Dissolving Conflict." Available at http://www.relationshipjourney.com/dialtips.html.
Heathfield, Susan M. "Trust Rules: The Most Important Secret." Available at http://humanresources.about.com/od/workrelationships/l/aatrust3.htm.

LINKS TO IBM JOB POSTINGS THAT YOU CAN USE FOR YOUR JOB LETTER DUE OCTOBER 14.

VIEW ELEVATOR PITCHES OF 2006 0R 2007 CSC 290 STUDENTS

http://epresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca/8/page/Published.aspx

Pick a 2007 or 2006 class. You will see a list of presentatons. Click to the bottom of the list, one of the earliest videos, until you see "Elevator Pitches." Click it and then click "Windows Media." at the bottom right to start the videos.

Link to library website:
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/MyUTL/guides/index.cfm?guide=CSC290

New link to course videos:

http://epresence.kmdi.utoronto.ca/8/page/Published.aspx