Legos Day 2

We check Ev.Wr. exercise 22.9 (or do it on Monday).  


I give you a directions sheet about MLA style, and we go to the lab.

 Look at these links: Legos   we    love.  And  professional builder #1.  Professional builder #2.  Lego "artist" #3. 


Homework:


1.  Finish typing your directions and print so they are ready for a classmate to follow on Monday. Have them printed BEFORE class starts.

2.  Read the handout about Lego nomenclature.  Write out the answers to the questions at the end of the handout IN YOUR DAYBOOK!

2. TWFTD: nomenclature

Legos Day 1

"My play was a success.  The audience was a failure."  by Ashleigh Brilliant

In your daybook: If a set of directions fails, whose fault might it be?  Thinkwrite until I stop you.

You spend 10 minutes working on Ex. 22.9 in the Everyday Writer Exercise book. Look at Section 23 in The Everyday Writer.

I explain the Lego project, and you begin.

Homework:


1.  Finish writing out your directions and be ready to type them up in the lab tomorrow. (If you have not already logged in once on campus, do so before tomorrow.)


2. TWFTD: subsequent (Look in Sec. 23 for help.)

Aristotle's Equation-What is Rhetoric?

We start here.

Audience + Purpose + Genre = Style (how it looks) and Content (what it says)

Look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Which is more effective?

Now we look at your directions.
 
In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class. After filling in your chart, think about the effectiveness of each of your examples.  What specific choices in style and content work or do not work?

In groups you will compare the examples you brought to class.  Create a list as a group of the characteristics of effective vs. ineffective directions.  Record this in your daybook as well as sharing with the class.

Homework:

1.  Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you were frustrated by ineffective written directions.  As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were with those directions based on today's discussions.

2. TWFTD: rhetoric

The Writing Process

"Quantity produces quality.  If you only write a few things, you're doomed."   Ray Bradbury  (SF writer)

Copy and thinkwrite.  Discuss.

Groups share recipes.  Discuss.

All read pages 7-11.  Then copy red headings into your daybook in a way that maintains the hierarchy.

Establish a vocabulary section in your daybook.  Flag.  Enter TWFTD:  drudgery.  Hive definition?  Google. Argh. For this word, today, you may use the quote from the book.  BUT for all other words, you must choose and copy down your favorite quote AND GIVE THE SOURCE --an author and a site or publication.

Homework:


1.  Read pages 12-15 in Bedford.  In your daybook, write out two paragraphs based on the "Learning by Doing" at the bottom of page 13.


2.  Find TWO EXAMPLES of written directions to bring to class.  These could be the directions for any product OR a school assignment OR a "how to" from online OR in a manual. They must be hard copies.

Welcome

You look at the course syllabus. Answer questions.

What is revision?

Page 6 from The Bedford Guide.

Now you please take some time to fill a page (as much as you can) on this prompt: 

Describe your worst writing experience and your greatest writing success. 

Homework:

1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook.

2.  On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "My Recipe for Writing a Paper."  Underneath that title, please use your past experience to put together a list of steps for writing an essay or long paper.