Good job with yesterday's essays -- I saw many good ones.
Thinkwrite: How is writing under a time limit different from the other work you have done for this class? How did it work for you? Should you always set a timer?
Today you will exchange drafts. Read and comment ON the draft, and fill out the comment sheet as well. Give each other useful feedback. Especially consider whether the writing is persuasive (if the topic lends itself to persuasion); is this paper making you WANT to be part of the solution?
Homework:
1. Upload this draft in TurnItIn in Moodle for tomorrow. You should be paraphrasing information in a way that keeps your matching percentage below 10%.
2. TWFTD: compare "convince" to "persuade" in OED.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Tuesday, September 10, 2013
Assessment Essay (Common Final)
Today you spend the class period typing (or writing) a summary/response essay to the reading "Leave Your Name at the Border" by Manuel Munoz.
Print and hand it in; format as you would any paper.
Homework:
1. Draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources due tomorrow. Have a Works Cited page and in-text citations to get credit for the draft being on time.
2. TWFTD: find something strange in the OED. Your choice.
Print and hand it in; format as you would any paper.
Homework:
1. Draft of Problem/ Solution with Sources due tomorrow. Have a Works Cited page and in-text citations to get credit for the draft being on time.
2. TWFTD: find something strange in the OED. Your choice.
Monday, September 9, 2013
EasyBib and Writing About a Reading
I return your cliché papers, and we look at an example. This is writing about a reading and a prompt at the same time, just like what you'll do tomorrow.
How to pass? Read the essay. Figure out Munoz's point. Respond according to one of the prompts. Make sure that everything you write demonstrates that you read and understood the essay (give the author's name and title of editorial, use evidence FROM WHAT HE WROTE as you discuss it).
Now, go to EasyBib and create a "project" for your Problem/ Solution paper.
If you wish, you may discuss the reading with each other -- what's his point?
Homework:
1. Tomorrow is the Assessment Essay. Bring your annotated copy of the editorial and your daybook and any other books you wish. You have the class period to write a summary/response based on the prompt I hand out tomorrow.
Remember that the annotated article will be worth daybook points.
2. TWFTD: a word chosen from "Leave Your Name at the Border."
How to pass? Read the essay. Figure out Munoz's point. Respond according to one of the prompts. Make sure that everything you write demonstrates that you read and understood the essay (give the author's name and title of editorial, use evidence FROM WHAT HE WROTE as you discuss it).
Now, go to EasyBib and create a "project" for your Problem/ Solution paper.
If you wish, you may discuss the reading with each other -- what's his point?
Homework:
1. Tomorrow is the Assessment Essay. Bring your annotated copy of the editorial and your daybook and any other books you wish. You have the class period to write a summary/response based on the prompt I hand out tomorrow.
Remember that the annotated article will be worth daybook points.
2. TWFTD: a word chosen from "Leave Your Name at the Border."
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