ASEP Make Up Day 3

Write out a statement of a problem on the board. You do NOT have to actually write about this statement -- it's a first try.

In moodle is an eletronic copy of this handout. It is going to be handed in with the next daybook check, either electronically or hard copy, your choice. As you fill it out, BE SURE TO paste in the addresses of websites you use as sources, so you will be able to site them.

You can do this on your trip using your phone....and get started BEFORE you leave!

Homework:

1. The CRAAP Test sheet filled out about two web sites.

2. The Problem graphic either hard copy or e-file in moodle.

3. Only draft NOT ROUGH due Tuesday May 24.

ASEP Make Up Day 2.5

Using the CRAAP Test: google....

Handout: once you have decided on a problem for this paper, use google to find two sources about it, and fill out the handout for daybook points. Due at the next daybook check (May 24).

The other part of this paper? Persuasion: The Three Appeals. Take notes.

Homework:

1. Do some serious thinking and googling about a topic that this paper could be about. Tomorrow I'll ask you to write the PROBLEM on the board.

2. TWFTD: persuade in OED

ASEP Make Up Day Two

Problem Prezi

Craap Test

ASEP Make Up Day One -- Plagiarism Some More

Critical Thinking practice: problems.

Define plagiarism in your own words.

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Identify a problem in this story. State it.

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?State it.

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome? Is there a problem here?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Is there a problem?

If the courts are in charge...

5. Do you see a problem here?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?  Is there a problem?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Legos Day One

We review Audience/Purpose/Genre = Style/Content by looking your sets of directions.

Get out the green sheets you were to have read for homework. Compare the front and back of the page with the builder pictured on it. The information content is very similar between the two.

Thinkwrite: 1. What differences in style and content between the two sides do you see? 2. Which is more effective?

Audience, purpose, genre, content and style for the Lego project?

We look at MLA style page layout: pages A-2 and A-3 in Bedford.

You make the heading, insert page number top right with your last name, and the rest is up to you.


To get in the mood:
  Legos  we   love .  Indeed. And professional builder #1. Professional builder #2. Lego artist #3.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow bring:

• A. TWO copies of your directions printed
• B. An answer key picture (either drawing or photo)
• C. Your legos.

2. Go to our class in Moodle. In the light blue highlighted section, click on the Lego nomenclature reading. Read it. There are questions at the end that should be answered in your daybook.

3. TWFTD: nomenclature. Use the reading in Moodle for your quote, please.

4. No typo that I know of.

Rhetoric

About yesterday:

      "Smart practice always includes a feedback loop that lets you recognize errors and correct them -- which is why dancers use mirrors. Ideally that feedback comes from someone with an expert eye and so every world-class sports champion has a coach. If you practice without such feedback, you don't get to the top ranks.
      The feedback matters and the concentration does, too -- not just the hours. ..."

The Hidden Driver of Excellence

Author: Daniel Goleman

I.  Today we start with a video.

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

We look at p. 15 in Bedford and consider the equation for each. Witch is more effective?

II. Now we look at your examples.

In your daybook, create a chart for each of the terms in the "equation" and your direction examples that you brought to class, like this:

MP3 Player:
Audience-
Purpose-
Genre-
Style-
Content-
Effectiveness:

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?


III. Your first writing project is writing directions for a small Lego creation. I give you the directions now.

You will pick out pieces today and begin work on creating your directions. On Monday there will be class time for typing the directions, and on Tuesday you will build each other's projects (NO PICTURES ALLOWED -- just written directions).

On Wednesday you will build each other's REVISED directions, and on Thursday you will hand in the final version of your directions and all Legos.


Homework:

1. Fill at least one page (one side) in your daybook describing a situation where you experienced written communication (any genre) that was a rhetorical fail. This piece of writing failed to achieve its purpose. As you describe what happened, try to analyze what the specific problems were, based on today's discussions -- audience/purpose/genre/content/style. (Not due until daybook check.)

2. Read the green sheets thoroughly. Create a rough draft of your directions on the green sheet. If you wish you may type up your directions, but be ready with access to the document to revise on Monday during class. Also either draw your answer key diagram, or take pictures to print.

3. TWFTD: rhetoric

4. There is one spelling error (that I know of) in today's blog. Record it in your daybook.

The Writing Process

"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."

Ray Bradbury (SF writer)

Copy and thinkwrite. Discuss.
                Here's a link to an article about 10,000 hours of practice.
                And here's another link on the same topic.
                 Would you like a video on it?
          
Groups share lists. Discuss.

All look at pages 7-11. See anything there you did not discuss?

Establish a vocabulary section in your daybook. Flag.

1. Enter TWFTD: drudgery.

2. Find a quote (by SOMEONE ELSE) that uses the word. For this word, today, you should use the sentence from the Bedford Guide. BUT for all other words, you must choose and copy down a quote using the word, AND GIVE THE SOURCE --an author and a site or publication.

3. Definition? Google? Always give teh source of your definition. Make sure your definition matches how the word is used in the text.

Homework:

1. Read pages 6-15 in Bedford. In your daybook, write out two paragraphs based on the "Learning by Doing" on page 14.

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.

3. There IS a typo on the blog today. If you found it, write it down, with a correction, in your daybook under the "Learning by Doing" assignment.

Welcome

This is the place for the daily happenings in class and HOMEWORK.

I will hand out the course information sheet and calendar. Copies are also available in the Moodle version of this course.

A. On paper, write the answers to these questions about the yellow handout:

1. Copy down my name. (You may call me Mrs. Loden, Ms. Loden, or Ms. Kate. Not a professor.)

2.  Read the "Course Objectives" section at the top. Copy down the four goals of this class.

3. Circle the goal in #2 that you think is the most important for you to practice this quarter.

4. How many points is the daybook worth?

5. How many papers (projects) with feedback will you write?

6. How many "solo" projects (papers) will you write?

7. How many "polished" pages do you have to write to skip the final?

8. What do you think an English teacher might mean by "polished" pages?

9. How can you get a zero on a paper?

10. On this blog, what is the first link under the "Useful Links" section?

11. Look at our class in Moodle, and click on the "Grades" link under "Settings" (on the left). How many spots for a future grade do you count?

We discuss.

B. Now, on the back of your sheet of paper, please do some creative thinking/writing. Please imagine a scenario in the future where you will need to communicate clearly and effectively in writing (this includes typing on computers or phone). Try to describe it in as much detail as possible. Is it work-related? Or is it a personal situation? Is something important hanging in the balance?

Pkease remind me to collect these sheets at the end of class!

Homework:
1. Get your books if you have not, including something to use for a daybook and a folder to hold all your graded papers.

2. On the first page in the daybook, write today's date and "Steps for Writing a Paper." Underneath that title, please use your past experience to put together a list of steps you would go through for writing a long paper. You might start with "Sit down at my computer."

3. Did you notice the typo on today's  blog page? Then skip a couple lines below your "Steps for Writing a Paper" and write the typo from this blog page with its correction.

Get Set

Get Ready

The Final

The prompt is on the handout.

You may come by my office tomorrow to pick up your final Problem/ Solution paper.

Count Day

Get out all your graded papers and arrange them in order.

Lego Directions -green
Kickstarter Analysis -blue
Kickstarter on Paper -purple
Summary/ Response about your choice -yellow
Summary/ Eval/ Response about your choice of reading -tan
Problem -orange
Summary/ Eval about your choice from Gale -gray
Problem/ Solution with MLA Sources -goldenrod
Common Assessment -white

Use your papers to do the Count Day Essay Analysis.

Then count up your pages. Each Works Cited page counts as a whole page; all other partial pages are fractional (1/4, 1/2, etc.)

If you have 25 or more pages, today is your last day. If you have fewer than 25, follow the homework directions and come to class tomorrow.

Homework:

1. If your page count is less than 25 pages, choose ONE of the following essays to read:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112219425  "Dodging the Concussion Discussion" by Frank DeFord


http://www.npr.org/2005/05/16/4651531/be-cool-to-the-pizza-dude "Be Cool to the Pizza Dude" by Sarah Adams


Come to class prepared to write a short essay about one of the readings. You will able to look at the reading as you write.

Last Paper Due

Do the course evaluation.

Print the final version of your Problem/ Solution paper.

You will ALSO hand in the graded Problem Paper with it. I will bring these to class tomorrow for Count Day so you can count them as well.

Final Daybook Activity:

AM class: We watch this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbgwmTum6JA&list=PLwfzU5uvU-lKLEvGiyabJxxazND2S7lC-&index=10

1. In your daybook, as you watch, write down the six things he lists, leaving space between each.

2. When he is finished, go back and respond to each one. Do you agree/disagree? Is this happening for you at this school? Can this be changed?

PM class:

We watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU

Then watch this: https://vimeo.com/47943352

So....how do these videos relate to you? You tell me...


You will hand your daybook in at the end of class.

For tomorrow:

Bring to class ALL your graded essays and the colored rubrics they are stapled to. You will have an activity to do using them, and then the pages will be counted, and we'll discuss the final on Wednesday for those who want/need to take it.

Draft #2 Problem/ Solution Paper

You will submit your draft to Turnitin in our class in Moodle.

Print one copy of your Draft #2.  In your daybook, answer the following:

1.     1. How many sources are on your Works Cited page today?

2. How many of those are from a library database? 
  

3    3. Underline all your in-text citations. How many in-text citations do you have?

a.     How many of these are done author-tag (signal phrase) style?

b.     How many are done using parentheses?

Then get out your copy of Bedford.

Read Juliet Schor's article "The Creation of Discontent" on pages 611-614 of The Bedford Guide. As you read, notice that her sources are cited using MLA style.  Answer these questions in your daybook:

 1. How many sources are cited by Schor on her Works Cited list? (Be sure to turn the page to p. 614)

2. How many in-text citations do you count?


3. How many of those are parenthetical citations?

4. How current are Schor's sources? How important is currency to this topic, do you think? Explain.

5. How credible do you think Schor's sources are? Are there any you find weak?

Homework:

1. Final version Problem/ Solution Due Monday.

2. TWFTD: your choice from Schor using OED.

Work Day

Time for help with your Problem/ Solution sources/ citations, etc.

Homework:

1. Have Draft #2 ready tomorrow to upload into Turnitin in our class in Moodle.

Draft #1 Problem/ Solution

You print out your draft, and read each others' drafts.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow, Thursday, is a work day. I will be available to help with source and citation questions.

2. Draft 2 is due Friday. You will need to be able to upload the draft to Turnitin in Moodle on Friday.

In-Class Assessment Essay

Please prepare a Word doc with the standard heading, and save it where you can find it. At the end of class you will turn this paper in by submitting it to a forum in our class in Moodle, as you have many times this quarter.

Please read the prompt choices carefully and choose ONE to respond to, AFTER you have written a BRIEF summary of the article's point.

Homework:

1. Tomorrow bring Draft #1 of your Problem/ Solution paper to class. It should have a Works Cited list and some in-text citations of credible sources that support your points about either your problem or solutions.

2. TWFTD:  trajectory in OED.

Citation Practice

Handout. Underline all the in-text citations as you read.

Answer these questions in your daybook:

1.  How many in-text citations are there?

2. When you read an in-text citation, check to see if it clearly leads to a source in the Works Cited list. List any problems you find.

3. Are there items on the Works Cited list that were NOT cited in the paper? List them.

4. If you know the page number where information occurred, you should include that in an in-text citation. Please put a star next to each in-text citation in "My Friend Michelle" that SHOULD have included a page number in parentheses. How many are there? [Hint: use the bibliography to help decide if there were page numbers in the source.]

Homework:

1. Tomorrow is the Common Assessment Essay.You should have read "How My Illiterate Grandmother..." before class. Bring your copy with you, with any other resources you might need.

Wednesday Draft #1of the Problem/ Solution with Sources is due. Bring a hard copy of your Problem/ Solution paper with in-text citations that clearly lead to a credible source on the Works Cited page. Cut out your weak points and strengthen your evidence.

Friday you will upload your Draft 2 to TurnItIn and fine-tune your citations.

2. TWFTD: succinct in OED.

Reading Info.

EasyBib for Problem/ Solution?

Reading assignment for In-Class Assessment Essay.

Homework:

1. Finish Solo #3 due Monday. You are summarizing your database article, and evaluating it using the CRAAP Test criteria.

2. Work on Problem/ Solution with MLA Style Sources. Find at least 3 credible sources that will support your points. Pay attention to alternative views. One database source is a requirement. Revise the Problem paper.

3. Read the article "How My Illiterate Grandmother Raised an Educated Black Man" by Terrell Jermaine Starr pages 493-495 in Bedford. Here's an online link: http://newsone.com/1809905/my-illiterate-grandmother-raised-an-educated-black-man-terrell-jermaine-starr/

4.  TWFTD: your choice from any source you're reading.

The Three Appeals

Part of your job as you discuss your Problem/ Solution is to persuade us to see things from your perspective. How is that done?

Use the Three Appeals.

Remember, you should spend time in your paper acknowledging any opposing viewpoints to the ones you present.

Homework:

1. Continue to work on the two projects, Solo #3 and Problem/ Solution.

2. TWFTD: a word from your article using the OED.

 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/01/where-did-all-the-workers-go-60-years-of-economic-change-in-1-graph/252018/

Problem/ Solution Preview

Today you need to work on your Summary/Evaluation of your Gale article.

Be sure to fill out the CRAAP Test worksheet about the article and keep that in your daybook.

On Monday be ready to turn in a hard copy of your essay and the annotated hard copy of your article.

But what about the Problem Paper revision? I hand out the assignment sheet.

What does MLA Citation Style involve? http://prezi.com/qmf4siv3xukj/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

 Homework:

1. Be working on either project -- Solo #3 or Problem/ Solution. You need to write up the Solo #3 OR be finding sources to use for the Problem/ Solution paper.

2. TWFTD:  your choice from your Gale article.

Close Reading

You are working on Solo #3 (gray handout yesterday).

Now, what do you do to your article, once you find it?

I. Print, read  and annotate your article. Use Google to verify?

Annotation: 
1. Chunk the text.
2.  Circle key words -- especially if they are repeated.
3. Underline and define any terms you are uncertain of meaning.
4. Left margin: short summary of each chunk.
5. Right margin: use an -ing verb to describe what the writer is doing in each chunk. (Explaining? Describing? Defining? Comparing? Contrasting? Ranting? )

II. Begin filling out the CRAAP test worksheet on it, as well. Comment on as many of the questions as possible. This will be part of the last daybook check.

(http://www.juniata.edu/services/library/instruction/handouts/craap_worksheet.pdf)

Homework:

1. Work on reading and annotating your article. Fill out the CRAAP Test worksheet about your article.


2. TWFTD: annotate in OED.

Problem Paper Due/ Solo #3 Assigned

Hand in your papers.

1. Meet Mike Mulligan! Which leads to this article.

2. One source of credible material is a library database. (Maybe. CRAAP test still necessary.)

Go to The Hub and click on the Library (LRC) link (bottom of MENU items on top left).

We will all look at the top two databases, specifically Gale.

3. I hand out the assignment sheet for the last Solo paper.

You will have some time tomorrow to look for and print out an article on your topic. You're looking for solutions.

Homework:

1. You are looking for an article in the database that you can write Solo #3 about AND use in your Problem/ Solution with MLA Sources.

2. TWFTD: no word.

Proofreading

Papers returned.


Copy down the sentence that cites the article, with correct puntuation.

How is your use of quotation marks? Which is correct?

a.  According to Jones, the Hulk is "overgendered and undersocialized, half-naked and half-witted, raging against a frightened world that misunderstood and persecuted him".

b. According to Jones, the Hulk is "overgendered and undersocialized, half-naked and half-witted, raging against a frightened world that misunderstood and persecuted him."

c. Jones describes one example, "a middle-class 'nice girl'," in order to demonstrate just how serious he is.

d.  Jones describes one example, "a middle-class "nice girl"," in order to demonstrate just how serious he is.

 Put paper in TurnItIn. Proofread.

Daybooks due Monday.

Homework:

1. Your Final Version Problem paper is due Mmonday. Please bring all drafts and comment sheets to class, with one printed copy of your final version.

2.  No word.

Draft #2 of Problem Paper Due

You'll read two drafts.

When you finish, read pages 380-381in Everyday Writer. OR read this. Do Ex. 36.1 by rewriting into your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish the above grammar assignment.

2. Create the Final Version of your Problem/ Solution paper, due Mon. Feb. 29.

3. TWFTD: unintended consequences as a phrase

Preconceptions?

Number in your daybook from 1-3. Write down your own answers as you watch the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pVlaEbpJ7k   

(Mr. Rosling's sources: http://www.gapminder.org/)

Thinkwrite: Where do you get your "facts"? How do you know facts are facts? What does being "open-minded" mean to you?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge

Get out your Bedford Guide book: read pages 40-42. We discuss.

Think about your Problem paper and the kinds of evidence you are using to support your view of the problem.  Are you using strong sources for evidence? What are your own preconceptions? Are you using others' opinions?

See page 43 to doublecheck what you use as evidence.

Or, check here:

Truth O Meter

http://www.factcheck.org/

Homework:

1. Create Draft #2 of your Problem paper. You may use other sources. Please do cite them as best you know how. I will not be grading you on how you cite sources; that will come on the second version of this paper, due at the end of the quarter.

2. Be prepared to upload your draft into TurnItIn again, so you can tell how well you are paraphrasing information from other sources.

3. TWFTD:  preconception in the OED

Rough Draft of Problem Paper Due

You will read two drafts and fill out comment sheets.

When you are done, read "Why Prisons Don't Work" by Wilbert Rideau pages 187-189 of Bedford. Please answer the comment sheet questions about his essay in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish answering the comment sheet questions about "Why Prisons Don't Work" in your daybook.

2. Read the feedback you were given, and work on Draft #2, due Thursday. Come talk to me at coffee break in my office if you'd like help.

3. TWFTD:  incorrigible in OED.

Choosing Sources

Have you looked at any online sources for information regarding your topic? What constitutes a trustworthy source?

The CRAAP Test. Fill out the worksheet and keep it in your daybook for the next check.

Use any remaining time to create the rough draft due tomorrow of you Problem Paper.

Homework:

1. Find three credible sources that discuss some aspect of your  problem. Have you been to Opposing Viewpoints? Put their links on your Problem Map. Upload the revised copy in a reply in the forum in moodle where you posted the map on Friday.

2. Begin writing your paper. Draft #1 is due Tuesday.

3. TWFTD:  credulous in OED.

 Still looking for a problem? 

Filling Out the Problem Map

Brainstorm some more: download the problem map from our class in moodle.

You may change the appearance of the template as much as you like, but the assignment is to get text typed in each box, save, and post it in the Moodle forum at the end of class today.

Homework:

1. Work on the Problem Map at home, and post an improved version to the same forum (reply to today's post) before class on Monday.

2. Draft #1 is due Tuesday. This draft needs to define the problem and begin discussing causes and effects.

3. TWFTD: credible in OED.

More About Problems

The assignment.

The assignment sheet. This is not a full-blown research paper, but you do need to do some online reading to find out more about the problem you choose to write about. KEEP TRACK OF ANY SITES YOU VISIT on your topic. You will cite your sources if you use information from another source.  Make sure your browser history will help you with this?

Thinkwrite: using the theme "Don't get me started," go ahead. Feel free to rant on a problem that is presently bugging you. But what about something that you know little about and have mostly questions? Ask away....

Now back to intellectual property, and associated problems. What's a patent?

Have you heard of patent trolls?  https://www.ted.com/talks/drew_curtis_how_i_beat_a_patent_troll

What kinds of things are NOT protected? https://www.ted.com/talks/johanna_blakley_lessons_from_fashion_s_free_culture

Have you heard of creative commons? Wikipedia's explanation.

And in the automotive industry, terms and conditions? For suppliers? "4) grant GM licenses for all background intellectual rights relating to the goods and services in question, including those
developed prior to the contract; ....." ("Top Legal Issues Facing Suppliers in 2014")

 Homework:

1. Create some sort of brainstorming page about possible "problems" you might be interested in writing a paper about. Be prepared to discuss this tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:   rant in OED

Sum/ Eval/ Response Paper Due

Turn in your Final Version with all drafts and comment sheets.

Critical Thinking practice: problems.

Define plagiarism in your own words.

Here's a definition of plagiarism. Here is intellectual property.

First of all, plagiarism stories: Viswanathan

1. Identify a problem in this story. State it.

Helene

2. Why so different? Is there a problem here?State it.

Herr Guttenberg

3. Was this the "right" outcome? Is there a problem here?

Beyond "plagiarism" to "intellectual property":

Book covers?

4. Was this a case of theft? Is there a problem?

If the courts are in charge...

Down Under

Comparison.

5. Do you see a problem here?

If there's time....better news, for some: music... TV iTunes

6. Whom do you think the law says that TV news footage "belongs" to? What do you think? Have you heard of "fair use"?  Is there a problem?

All the questions above are answered in the daybook.

Homework:

1. Be thinking about problems that interest you. Your next paper is a "Problem" paper. You choose the problem. (One prohibition: gun control as a problem.) Possible ideas:  issues with emissions/ fuel/ consumers.  GMOs. Global trade issues. Technology? Robotics? What's a problem that's bugging you? Politics?

2. TWFTD:  intellectual property from Wikipedia?

Preventing Accidental Plagiarism

What's plagiarism, again?

 But what about this: http://questioncopyright.org/minute_memes   

Thinkwrite: Do you agree or disagree with this short? Explain.

But you "Always give credit where...."

Not only do you need to quote accurately, you must avoid this tricky problem:

Student paraphrase: He is scarcely able to hold a knife to a raw chicken, let alone someone’s throat.

Staples' essay:  As a softy who is scarcely able to take a knife to a raw chicken -- let alone hold one to a person' throat -- I was ....

How would you fix this situation?

Now we see what TurnItIn can do to help you check that you are citing your sources clearly.

Open your draft in the Turnitin document reader.
In your daybook, copy down one of YOUR sentences that uses coordination to connect two or more clauses, and one sentence that uses subordination to connect two clauses.

You have time to do some final proofreading/editing and create your bibliography page using EasyBib.

Homework:

1. The Final Version of Summary/ Evaluation/ Response is due tomorrow. Bring ALL drafts/ comment sheets to turn in.

2. TWFTD:  stint in OED (used in Kate's example paper).

Draft #2 Due

We go over the sub/ coord worksheet.

You post your draft in TurnItIn in moodle.

You read each others' drafts.

DAYBOOKS DUE.

Homework:

1. Work on your paper. If you make large changes, submit the newer version to TurnItIn in Part 2 .

Rough Draft Due of Summary/ Evaluation/ Response

Midterm grade breakdown.


Now you read and comment on drafts.

When you finish two drafts, get the handout example paper from me and do the following to it:

1. Label each paragraph out in the margin. They are either intro/concl./summary/ evaluation/ response.

2. Underline the sentence that gives the title of the article and the author of the article.

3. Double underline where a quote was used as an example in the evaluation of the writing.

4. Bracket and label as "positive" the part of the evaluation that has something good to say about the writing.

5. Bracket and label as "negative" the part of the evaluation that has something negative to say about the writing.

6. Draw a wavy line under the two topic sentences that transition by referring back to what went before and then bringing in the new topic.

7. Find and circle a sentence that uses subordination.

8. Find and draw a rectangle around a sentence that uses coordination.

Homework:

1. Create Draft #2 of this paper. On Monday have your e-file of the paper available for class as well as a hard copy.

2.Finish marking the example paper (see directions above).

3. TWFTD:  your choice from your article, using the OED.

Subordination and Coordination

For starters: http://delanceyplace.com/index.php

How many errors did you have on Solo #1: frag., r.o., p.sub, p. coord, c. ? (See Mon. Feb.1)

The Everyday Writer pages 287-292.

Now, you go through this prezi at your computer:  http://prezi.com/q2xhxi74tjqg/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

When you finish, do the worksheet.

Homework:

1. Rough draft of  Summary/ Evaluation/ Response of a reading is due tomorrow. One copy, printed, is what you need tomorrow.

2. TWFTD:  your choice from the article you are reading, defined using the OED.

Evaluating Writing

Thinkwrite:  You are going to have to evaluate the article you read last night for the effectiveness of its writing.  What are choices that a writer makes that you could discuss as you analyze the effectiveness of the article?

Everyday Writer Ch. 8 pages 82-93.

Work on the tan handout.


Homework:

1.  Draft #1 is due Friday, February 12. For this rough draft, you may have a very rough collection of ideas. BUT for credit, you must have something for each of the three main parts of this paper: summary, evaluation and response.

2. TWFTD: your choice from your current article using the OED.

The articles online:

http://www.newsweek.com/americas-fat-hatred-78971 (missing an author?)

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/06/violent-media-good-kids-0 

http://faculty.uml.edu/bmarshall/Lowell/whywecravehorrormovies.pdf

Solo #2 Due

A. First of all, we use EasyBib to create a Works Cited page for this paper.

B. Print a copy of your Solo #2 to hand in.

C. Now you are going to highlight the final version and post it in a reply to your post from Friday. So the two versions will both be posted in the forum in Moodle; your final version will be color-coded.

Please do a SAVE AS to create a NEW VERSION of your Final Version. If you find corrections to the final version that you want to make, do so by writing on the hard copy. That's fine with me.

1. Italicize the sentence in your paper where you gave the title and author of the article you are writing about.

3. Make your  thesis green.

4. Make the summary yellow.   

5. Make your response to the content of the article pale blue. 

6. Underline any quotes. These are places that used the exact words of the article.

7. Make BOLD any time you used the author's name  or "the author" or "the article"– these are your author tags.

When you are done, please post this in the forum. Click on the title of your post yesterday, then click on the reply button. You decide what goes in the title/message boxes.

Hand in the hard copy, paper-clipped to the yellow rubric.

Now about Paper with Feedback #3. See the handout.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdZiTQy3g1g

Bedford Ch. 2.


Homework:

1.  Look at the reading choices and choose which article you will write the next paper about. Read the whole article. Begin the note-taking process.

2. TWFTD: sinister in OED.

Write Solo #2 -- A Timed Writing Practice

Put the normal heading on a paper, and write up a summary/ response essay about the article you read.

Key Elements from the yellow sheet:

1. Make up your own title.
2. Have a hook.
3. Later in your introduction, mention the title AND author of the article.
4. At the end of your intro, state your own point about the reading. (Thesis statement.)
5. Spend one paragraph summarizing the article objectively. Use author tags. (According to Staples...)
6. Spend a couple paragraphs explaining your opinion or reaction to the article. Use short quotes to support your reaction.
7. Finish your essay with a concluding paragraph. Revisit your hook? Point us in a new direction?

At the end of class, you will submit what you have written into a forum.

Homework:

1. You may take this essay home and rewrite, if you wish. Tomorrow you turn in a hard copy to be graded with the yellow rubric.

2. TWFTD: your choice from your article, using the OED.

Getting Ready for Solo #2

Now you read an example essay that is doing summary/ response (download from Moodle, do "Save As"  and add YOUR LAST NAME to the file name).

Then colorize YOUR copy of the essay, using these directions:

1. Make the first and last sentences in the paper red. The first should be a hook. The last is a “clincher.”

2. Italicize the title and author of the article I'm writing about.

3. Make the thesis orange.

4. Make the summary yellow.   

5. Make any response to the content of the article pale blue. 

6. Underline any quotes. These are places that used the exact words of the article.

7. Make BOLD any time I used “the writer”  or "the author" or "the article"– these are called author tags (and would have used a name if there was one on this article).

When you are done, go to Moodle to upload your colorized version in the forum there. Be sure to follow the instructions so that you answer the required questions as you post.

What's a thesis statement? What was yours for Solo #1? Copy into your daybook.

http://prezi.com/qzgs6z_droz-/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 

Does my thesis statement have context/subject/claim?  Does yours?

Now, read and take notes (objective/subjective)  over the reading you have chosen. During class on Monday you will type or handwrite Solo #2, a summary/response essay about the reading of your choice. (Bring earbuds, if you wish.)

Homework:

1. Read your chosen reading through several times and be ready to write about it during class. Look at the assignment sheet to help you know how to write this essay.

2. TWFTD: your choice from the article you're reading, using the OED. Find the definition that matches how the word is used in your article.

Kickstarter On Paper Due/ Next Genre

Hand in your Kickstarters on Paper.

New Genre: Reading.

Answer the Pat Bourne questions.

We discuss. Subjective vs. objective?

Now you read an example essay that is doing summary/ response (download from Moodle, do "Save As"  and add YOUR LAST NAME to the file name).

Then colorize YOUR copy of the essay, using these directions:

1. Make the first and last sentences in the paper red. The first should be a hook. The last is a “clincher.”

2. Italicize the title and author of the article I'm writing about.

3. Make the thesis orange.

4. Make the summary yellow.   

5. Make any response to the content of the article pale blue. 

6. Underline any quotes. These are places that used the exact words of the article.

7. Make BOLD any time I used “the writer”  or "the author" or "the article"– these are called author tags (and would have used a name if there was one on this article).

When you are done, go to Moodle to upload your colorized version in the forum there. Be sure to follow the instructions so that you answer the required questions as you post.

Homework:

1. Make sure all the above is complete.

2. TWFTD:  tirade in OED

Snow Day AGAIN

Do please study the yellow assignment sheet, choose a reading, and read it a couple times so that you will be able to write about it. We'll do the in-class writing on Monday.

Snow Day

Please read the handouts from Monday:

1. The yellow assignment sheet for Solo #2. Be choosing a reading to write about.

2. The tan reading -- an article about Pat Bourne from the Beatrice Daily Sun.

The OED and Citing

I return Solo #1.

In your daybook please do the following:

1. Copy down the strength and weakness I wrote on your grading sheet.

2. Write down your title:

3. Copy out your hook:

4:  Tally the errors I labelled in the margins:

Crowd sourcing examples? mPING, from Scientific American.  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.

TWFTD: punk from the OED.

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

I hand out the assignment sheet for the next paper, Solo #2, in case school is cancelled.

I hand out a reading about Pat Bourne, and you start reading it.

I collect daybooks.

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. Bring ALL DRAFTS AND COMMENT SHEETS with you tomorrow to turn in with your final version.

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Draft #2 of Kickstarter on Paper Due

Here's a link of interest about English as a world language: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/04/23/the-worlds-languages-in-7-maps-and-charts/?tid=pm_pop_b

Print ONE copy of your Draft #2.

Get out the purple Writer's Page from Draft #1 to pass around with your draft and the new comment sheets. Everyone reads and comments on TWO drafts.

Please look at the back of the Writer's Page, and read from top to bottom through the "Excellent" column.

Now you are reading closely for details that need work, and ways to help each other earn the "excellent" in each category. You may help each other with spelling and punctuation details, so you can write on the draft as well as filling out the comment sheet.

When you finish, please read the above link more carefully. Pay special attention to Section 7.

Homework:

1. Have your daybook ready to hand in Monday.

2. The final version of your Kickstarter on Paper is due Tuesday Feb. 2.

2. TWFTD: a fancy word of your choice

Why Is English So Hard to Spell?

Correct the homework.

Why is English so hard to spell?

I hand out a sheet. Read it over and complete anything on it you can.

Here is the link to today's lecture on "Why Is English So Hard to Spell?

Fill your handout in as we go. After class I'm hoping you'll open this up and look at the links I skipped over.

Tuck the handout in your daybook for the daybook check (Monday).


Homework:

1. Draft #2 Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow, Friday. Have one hard copy and the Writer's Page from Wednesday.

2. TWFTD: punk

3. If the history of English interests you, watch this video, a "lighthearted" history of English in 10 minutes.  Of course, this is a topic that could provide a lifetime of study....