Typing Solo Paper #2

You now have today's class to type up your short essay about "The Opportunity Gap." Use the yellow assignment sheet to guide you; read the grading rubric on the back.

This is practice for the departmental assessment essay that will happen near the end of the quarter.

At the end of class you will post your draft in the forum in Moodle that is in the highlighted section.

You may revise/finish this draft; it will be handed in on Monday, and I will grade the hard copy you hand in then.

Homework:

1. Finish typing this essay to hand in Monday. Bring the yellow assignment sheet as well.

2. TWFTD: your choice from "The Opportunity Gap" defined using OED

Conjunctions

Questions about the Solo #2 paper?  Is Brooks doing a good job helping us understand this guy?

Thinkwrite: What exactly do we mean by "The American Dream"? Does this still exist? As Americans, do we share basic expectations about our economic lives ?

You read in Everyday Writer about fixing comma splices using conjunctions. Let's review conjunctions.

Here are some short sentences:

My dog loves to chase cats.

Our barn is full of cats.

Most of the cats on my place ignore the dog.

No cat has ever been injured by my dog.

Please create two long sentences. In one of them, use coordination to combine two of these sentences. In the other, use subordination to combine two of these sentences.

Let's share.

Now do Ex. 25.1 (p. 289)--your choice whether you write or type it. Make sure it's in the daybook.Copy or type the whole paragraph, please.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow you'll be typing Solo #2 during class. You may use earbuds to help you concentrate ( as long as I can't hear anything).

2. TWFTD: subordination in OED.

The OED and EasyBib

I return your Solo paper #1. In your daybook:

1. Where on the rubric did you lose the most points?
2. Copy down one comment I wrote either on the paper or the rubric.
2. Look at the grammar errors. How many C.S. or R.O. or Frag. or Sp. did you have? Record the numbers.

Tomorrow we will begin to cover what C.S. and R. O. and Frag. mean.

Thinkwrite:   Now that you've spent a lot of time on Kickstarter, what do you think about crowdsourcing?

Examples? mPING, http://whale.fm/, The Mechanical Turk.  We watch this video....then look at the OED. Punk, anyone? From now on, I may tell you that your TWFTD info must come from the OED. When I do that, you first choose ONE of the quotes, copy it down, give its year, and then the definition that matches that quote. Please do look over ALL the definitions when I send you to the OED. See the link on the left side of this post for the OED. If you are at home, the password info is there as well.

Now, how will you cite your pictures? We go to page 468 in The Everyday Writer.

Homework:

1. Get your citations in shape for the Kickstarter on Paper, due tomorrow. If you have included pictures, you need a Works Cited page.

2. Pay attention to the ending of your Kickstarter on Paper. It's worth points -- do you have a final pitch of some kind?

3. TWFTD: punk in the OED.