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Butler's Reading and Writing Page

Some links to help you with your reading and writing,
and oh, by the way, if your nose runs, but your feet smell, just remember,
English is a Crazy Language!

Dr. Tom Butler
M-177 602-787-6564
thomas.butler@pvmail.maricopa.edu
RDG 081: Reading Improvement
RDG 091: College Reading Skills
ENG 061: Basic Writing Skills
CRE 101: Critical and Evaluative Reading

Campus Writing Resources:

Writer's Block

Library

Computer Commons

Learning Support Center

Puma Press

Set Your Personal Goals

Child Development Center

Reading Courses

BlackBoard Login
(enrolled students only)

 

I cdnuolt blveiee that I cluod aulacity uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg. The phaonmneal pweor of the hmuan mnid!


It deosn't mttaer in waht oredr
the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.


Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig, huh?

(Yaeh, and I awlyas thought slpeling
was ipmorantt...)

 

Why do you read, anyway?
Some poems on why people like you read

Topic Sentence Websites:

Rules for writing good topic sentences

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~schall/Paragraphing.html

http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/paragraphs.htm

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_pgrph2.html
The paragraph

http://www.alice.org/Randy/raibert.htm
“Good writing is bad writing that was rewritten.”
(and more good writing advice from Marc H. Raibert)

http://palc.sd40.bc.ca/palc/bcassign/ac-jan17.htm
adult basic ed archives

A good topic sentence has two parts.

Cool Writing Bugs: Ideas for writing

Websites to help you write a real letter:

Write a letter to the editor

How to write a letter to the editor

Tips on how to write a letter to the editor

How to write a diplomatic complaint letter

How to write a complaint letter (Maine)

How to Write a Complaint Letter

Midterm Review Page

Sentence Sense: Online Grammar Text

Literacy Narratives

Elements of Fiction

Forty Good Fiction Books to Read (reviews and short previews)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings Study Guide

Maya's Poets

Reading to Children

Does TV cause ADHD?

Diagramming Sentences

Diagramming slide show

More diagrams

Why diagram sentences?

Butler's Favorite Grammar Sites

Daily Grammar

British grammar

Reading Skills

Finding the Main Idea

Figurative Language

Purdue OWL

The 4 Purposes of Writing

The U of Calgary Writing Process

The Purdue Writing Process
(Power Point Presentation)

Plagiarism and how to Avoid it

"Eye Halve A Spelling Checker"

Eye halve a spelling checker
It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rarely ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My checker tolled me sew.

Listen to some of the assigned readings! Click on the file below to hear the story being read while you read along with your own print copy.

Eveline

 

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