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Brannan: A Writer's Workshop
A Writer's Workshop: Crafting Paragraphs, Building Essays
Bob Brannan, Johnson County Community College
Illustrating through Examples

Writing On and Offline

These writing prompts are followed by text boxes for your input. If you are working online and your instructor has given you the go-ahead, you can e-mail your work to him or her by clicking the "E-mail Your Answers" button. You can also e-mail a copy to yourself as a record of your work. If you are working offline, you will have to copy your answers (CTRL-C on most systems) and paste them (CTRL-V) into a text document to retain a record of your work.



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Directions: Write a short essay about using the internet as a tool for research. To support your argument, provide examples of specific sites that you have found useful. What kinds of information has the internet made available? Remember to be specific.

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Directions: Find your school's website by clicking here. Imagine that you want to convince prospective students to attend your school by writing an essay using specific examples about its strong points, using information you find online. You can consider the campus and location, the student body and alumni, the faculty, the extracurricular activities, and so on.









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