Problems?

You need the Bedford Guide today.

Thinkwrite: Look at the pictures on pages 134-135 in Bedford. Describe what you see and write about possible problems these pictures illustrate.

Answer questions about this next assignment. We discuss...

We look at a student's paper, "It's Not Just a Bike" pages 188-189 Bedford. You have the following questions to answer in your daybook:

• 1. What problem does Lacey Taylor want solved in her essay “It’s Not Just a Bike”?
• 2. This is her hook: “Imagine one day waking up to find that your car had been stolen. To many students, a bicycle is just like a car.” I think it would be more effective to do the imagining FOR the reader, and tell a little story. Using YOUR imagination, write a better hook that tells a story to help us imagine this situation. {This should be several sentences.}
• 3. ListTaylor’s five proposed solutions.
• 4. Which two solutions do you think would be MOST effective? Explain.
• 5. Which two solutions do you think would be LEAST effective? Explain.
• 6. When Taylor proposed the solutions you identified in question 5 above, did she acknowledge in any way that there might be difficulties? Quote her statements that point out potential difficulties with either of those solutions.

Homework:

1. You must choose a topic. Draft #1 is due Tuesday. Begin drafting over the weekend. On Monday class time will be used to create a "mind map" of your problem. If you wish to do so ahead of time, go to https://www.text2mindmap.com/ .

2. TWFTD: rehabilitation in OED

Problem/Solution Part 2

You need The Bedford Guide for class today.

Open your daybook to last night's brainstorm about problems.

Thinkwrite:  Start telling a short story involving an imaginary person facing one of the problems you brainstormed about. Be descriptive.

Do you know Jay-Z? His is a story of growing up surrounded by problems. We read it.

Here's a problem/solution presentation: INCarceration Nation

Now let's look at an example of a problem/solution essay on the same topic. Bedford Guide pages 185-187.

You answer these questions in Bedford about the reading: Q. 1, 3, 5, 7, 8 on page 187.

Homework:

1. Read the assignment sheet for your next paper. Be ready to answer questions about it.

2. Be deciding what you will write this next paper about.

3. TWFTD: incarcerate in OED

Problem/Solution

Neither book is needed today.

We are surrounded by Problem/Solution presentations. Here are two:

Copyright: Forever Less One Day

Thinkwrite:  What does CGP Grey think the problem is? What is his solution?

The Problem with Patents  Open this on your screen and make it a size you can read.

Questions:

1. What do you think is the main problem with the company Intellectual Ventures?

2. What are TWO problems that currently exist in our patent system?

3. Does this infographic propose any solutions?

4. What do you think could be done to solve some of these problems with the patent system?



Begin thinking about a problem that is bothering you. It can be personal (and expand into a larger topic). It cannot be so big that you have no personal connection with it. Could you discuss its causes and impact? Can you think of possible solutions? (Note: since I'm reading/grading these, gun control  is not an option. It is painful to grade papers on that topic.)

Homework:

1. Spend a half-page brainstorming about possible topics that you could write  a substantial Problem/Solution paper about.

2. TWFTD: ethical in OED