Matthew Fike's Homepage
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Not all of the documents in the following course links are up to date. See Blackboard for up-to-date materials.
Fall 2018
Serious Links
"The Correct Use of Borrowed Information": http://www.winthrop.edu/cas/english/default.aspx?id=21084
"The Rubric for Freshman Composition": http://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/cas/english/rubric.pdf
MLA format: http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/; http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/citations/
"English Major's Handbook": http://www.winthrop.edu/english/handbook/index.htm
Office of Nationally Competitive Awards: http://www.winthrop.edu/onca
Fun Links
How to write a terrible sentence: http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/toys/randomsentence/write-sentence.htm
Urban Dictionary: http://add.urbandictionary.com/
Rap Star Nickname Generator: http://rapstarname.com/
Archive of Old Courses
" . . . in my life, writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are . . . the process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions." --Barack Obama responding to the question, "What's the purpose of a diary?" (TIME, Dec. 31, 2012 / January 7, 2013, page 90).
a. Faculty Manual: http://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/facultyconference/FacultyManual.pdf
b. General Standards for St. Int Dev; Schol; Prof Stew (from Faculty Manual): http://www2.winthrop.edu/public/policy/fullpolicy.aspx?pid=319
c. Portfolio Preparation: http://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/academics/PortfolioPreparationGuidelines.pdf
d. Promotion Policies:
http://www2.winthrop.edu/public/policy/fullpolicy.aspx?pid=296
e. Academic Rank Policies: http://www2.winthrop.edu/public/policy/fullpolicy.aspx?pid=289
f. Faculty Roles Document: https://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/academics/RolesDocumentApril2011.pdf
g. CAS Alignment Statement with Roles and Rewards: http://www.winthrop.edu/uploadedFiles/artscience/CAS-RandRalignmentApproved11-20-13.pdf