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Terri's Student Resource Main Page

Writing Tips | Presentation Tips | Lectures |
Close Readings | Research Tips | Technology Tips

Writing Tips for Students

• How to Write a Cultural Studies Paper
  
  
• How to Create Strong Persuasive Speeches and Essays
  
  
• Worksheet and Template for Writing Abstracts
  
  
• How to Write a Pitch for a Popular Press Article
  
  
• How to Write a Preliminary Outline for a Popular Press Feature Article
  
• How to Write a Letter of Intent for Graduate School
  
  
• How to Write a Rationale
  (designed for Gallatin students, but useful to anyone thinking about developing an interdisciplinary project.)
  
• Colloquium Workbook
  (again, designed for Gallatin students, but useful to anyone cooking up a Senior or Master's Thesis.)

Presentation Tips for Students

• Terri's Tips for Unboring Class Presentations
  
  
• Terri's Guide to Running a Critique
  
  
• Terri's Tips for Giving a Tutorial
  
  
• A Checklist for making Informative Speeches (in MS Excel format)
  
  
• Terri's Tips for Creating Strong Persuasive Speeches and Essays
  
  

 

Research Help for Students

• Tips for those Doing Internet Research
  
  
• Tips for using your University's Online Databases
  
  
• Tips for Searching using Google and Amazon

Terri's General Lectures

• Postructuralism for Beginners
  
  
• Postmodernism: An Intro. of Sorts
  

Terri's Feminism lectures

• What is a Feminist Theorist?
  
  
• Catching waves in feminism
  
  
• First Wave Feminism: 1848-1963
  
  
• Feminism's Second Wave: 1963-1982
  
  
• Third Wave Feminism: 1983-today
  
  
• What's a Cyberfeminist?
  
  
• Why it doesn't work to say "I'm a Humanist."
  
  
• Terri's Top Ten Feminist Books
  

Close Readings for Students

• Reading notes for Douglas B. Holt's "Why Do Brands Cause Trouble?"
  
  
• Reading notes for Lawrence Lessig's, Future of Ideas (Part One)
  
  
• My reading notes for Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto"
  
  
• My essay on Derrida's Spectres of Marx (Introduction)
  
  
• A little paper on Mudimbe
  
  
• My essay on Gayatri Spivak's "More on Power/Knowledge"
  
  
• Writing (and) Independence: Gaytri Spivak and the Dark Continent of Ecriture Feminine
  

 

Technology Tips for Students

LiveJournal for Beginners

Blackboard for Beginners (written for UVI students, but general principles apply for anyone using Blackboard)

Blackboard Intermediate: Using the Bulletin Board Feature

PowerPoint Tips

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