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....

Draft #1 Due for Kickstarter on Paper

Today is about giving feedback. YOU are the audience, so you need to communicate to each other what YOU find effective. Politely. Also, remember to focus on the CAMPAIGN, not the idea. How can the presentation be MORE persuasive?

Note: the purple comment sheets earn YOU points. Be detailed and thoughtful.

ALSO, you may write ON the draft you read with your REACTIONS. This is a rough draft, so DO NOT PROOFREAD or edit -- just provide reactions/ input/ ideas.

Useful comments on a draft:    

What colors? How much? When will I get it? Why...? What does x mean? More info needed here...How does x work? I want THIS reward! Don't you need money for x?

As  you wait for a draft, or when you finish commenting on TWO drafts, (or if you did not bring a draft), please do Ex. 23.9 on page 272 in The Everyday Writer. Put a number in each blank, and write the correct word next to that number IN YOUR DAYBOOK. (There are 13 blanks.) Use the "Glossary of Usage" starting on page 274 if you need help on the tough ones.
 

Homework:

1. Use today's feedback and get your paper ready for Friday, when DRAFT 2 is due. Have Draft 2 be as close to perfect as possible, so people can help with editing and proofreading, as well as organization.

2. Finish Ex. 23.9 on page 272 of The Everyday Writer.

3. If you want MY feedback, send me an email (kloden@southeast.edu) with your draft attached.

4. TWFTD: novice

Persuasion

We are back to rhetoric and Aristotle. Remember I said there were a lot of rhetorical terms? See here: http://rhetoric.byu.edu/

But in order to discuss persuasion, Aristotle narrowed things down to three main categories, or pillars, of persuasion: pathos, ethos and logos. Since every Kickstarter is a piece of persuasion, you need to be thinking about this.
 
http://prezi.com/k1rgl9dv162t/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Did you run into any examples of this as you were looking at your Kickstarters?

Daybook Group Activity: Between you, come up with at least one example for each appeal from the Kickstarters you wrote about in Solo #1.

Time to work on draft?

Homework:

1. Work on the rough draft of your Kickstarter on Paper, due tomorrow. Please do have it typed.

2. TWFTD: pathetic

Solo #1 Due

Return of Lego paper. Keep the final version which is stapled to the grading rubric (on the top of your stack). The final version with grading rubric must be saved for your portfolio and the final page count.

You need one copy of your Solo Paper #1 AND the grading rubric/ assignment sheet to hand in.

THINKWRITE: Please look back at your lists of the steps in the writing process, from the first and second day of class. Think about the process you went through to write THIS paper. Which of those steps on the list did you actually do? Describe the process you went through. What was helpful, and what you would like to do differently for the next assignment?

Hand in "Language Use in Kickstarter" worksheet or submit in Forum in Moodle.(ALL must post in the forum. Follow the directions there.)

We shift gears to the Kickstarter on Paper.  I hand out the purple assignment sheet.

You get into groups and come up with a list of the Key Elements that you think the Kickstarters On Paper should have. Note these down in your daybook.

We combine your input into a CLASS LIST OF KEY ELEMENTS. Everyone will copy this onto their purple sheet.

[Next daybook check is Feb. 1.]

Homework:

1. Write a page of brainstorming notes in your daybook of ideas for your Kickstarter on Paper. The rough draft, due Wednesday, should be typed. It should have something in EACH of the Key Elements, but it need not be complete. There will be time tomorrow for typing your draft.

2. TWFTD: analogy