Review Due

Reviews are due. Also submit your review in TurnItIn, as well as a hard copy.

We talk about evaluating writing: good writing is like magic. 

Wait, you tell me -- How is good writing like magic? Thinkwrite.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/01/07/130107fa_fact_green?currentPage=all

Time to draft Summ/ Eval/ Response? You have more time to work.

Homework:

1. The completed tan notes/worksheet page will be part of the next daybook check.

2. Draft #1 is due Tuesday. Be sure that your draft has SOMETHING of all three parts done: Summary/ Evaluation/ Response.

3. TWFTD:  Word #2 from your article, same instructions as Thursday.

Getting Started on Long Project #2

Questions about your review due tomorrow? Are you evaluating the criteria on the outline? What are those?

You may upload into TurnItIn today if your review is ready and you want the proofreading feedback. If not, upload tomorrow as you hand it in.

Begin filling out the handout about your article for Long Project #2, the Summary/Evaluation/Response.

Homework:

1. Your review (Short Project #2) is due tomorrow. Be able to upload the e-file as well as turn in a hard copy.

2. TWFTD: A word from the article you choose. Quote the article. Definition from the OED, even if Bedford defines it as well. Quote the OED to make sure the definition matches the article's use of the word.  SO TWO QUOTES PER WORD FROM ARTICLE.

Practice Summary/Eval/ Response

Newsflash: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/10/29/241372607/top-reviewers-on-amazon-get-tons-of-free-stuff

Thinkwrite: What was your main reaction to the reading "Pat Bourne Overcomes..."?

We look at your answers to the questions.

Now take 5 minutes and write a paragraph summary of "Bourne Overcomes..."

What did you include? What did you leave out? Are you doing description?

Now write a paragraph evaluating the "presentation." Evaluate the effectiveness of the writing. Was it clear? Concise? Interesting to read?

Finally, write a paragraph that is your reaction to the content of the article. What do you think of Bourne's story/experience/decisions/ whatever?

We are getting ready to write your second long assignment, with drafts due during class; it is a review, really, but it is more formal, and doing several things at once. I'm calling it the Summary/Evaluation/Response.

Assignment Sheet for Long #2 Summary/ Evaluation/ Response.

Homework:

1. Look over the articles in Bedford and choose the one you will write about. Read it. Be prepared to work with it in class tomorrow.

2. Finish up your review due Friday.

3. TWFTD: tirade in the OED

Introductions and Informative Writing

Writing an introduction?  Go to our class in Moodle, and post your favorite beginning from the reviews you read last week. It should have a hook.  Does it have a thesis? Where in the article IS the thesis? -- That's the overall point the review makes. Be ready to paste both into a NEW forum.

For help with your introduction and conclusion, read pages 428-431 in Bedford.

Then I give you an article to read.  It has questions at the end that you will write the answers to in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Write the answers to the questions about "Bourne Overcomes..." in your daybook.

2. Be working on your review, due Friday.

3. TWFTD:  pick a word from "Bourne Overcomes..." that you are not sure about. Quote from the article, and look the word  up wherever.

Working on Short Project #2

Thinkwrite:  How do you decide to trust an online review? We'll discuss this.

Get out the gray sheet and fill it out about the video or infographic on intellectual property. (See links in Friday's post on this blog.)

Towards the end of class I'll hand out the assignment sheet with the due date, etc.

Homework:

1. Work on your review. It's up to you how long it is. We will discuss introductions tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:  subjective in the OED -- you MUST use definition A4 !!!!