Class Handouts

Reading Project

Peer Review Worksheet

Using Textual Evidence in Essays

Some Very Common Problems

Run-on Sentence Exercise

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Writing and Rhetoric

Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Three Ways to Persuade

Walvoord and McCarthy on Good/Better/Best

Organizing an Essay: Using Representative Cases

Organizing an Essay: Cause and Effect

Writing Effective Sentences

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Notes to Style: Ten Lessons in Clarity and Grace

Lesson 1

Lesson 2

Lesson 3

Lesson 4

Lesson 5

Lesson 7

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Supplemental Readings

Excerpt from You Can't Eat GNP by Eric A. Davidson

"Special Survey On Californians And The Environment" by the Public Policy Institute of California

"Changing River's Course: A Greenbelt vs. Warehouses" by Lewis Macadams and Robert Gottlieb

"Many Bridges to Cross to Revive L.A. River" by Kenneth Reich

Articles on the Alameda Corridor Rail Project from the Los Angeles Times

"Trashed! Isn't This Lovely" by Hilda Munoz and "Governor Will Boost Park Fees to New Highs" by Miguel Bustillo and Steve Chawkins

“Environmental Justice Rising" by William J. Kelly

Articles on the Audubon Center in Debs Regional Park 

A Few Articles on the Ballona Wetlands

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