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After writing your plan, view this discussion of revising this piece. Study these examples of revision ************************************************************************************************* BRING TO CLASS at least one piece you have revised so you can get feedback on it. Also, bring all your other past work and materials so you can work on the portfolio in class. Next class we will discuss the Final Exam which will be Monday 12/9. Final Portfolios are due at this time. NOTE: If you have a required rewrite of an essay due in the portfolio, this rewrite must be included as one of your two essay selections. Failure to include this required rewrite will result in loss of a letter grade on your Final Portfolio grade. Class Announcement 11/27/19 |
Today our Essay #4 is due!!!We have the first 20 minutes of class to turn in the essay. (If you turn it in immediately, you can work on your E4-3 Writing Review. Turn in your final draft two ways CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING ESSAY #4!!! If you miss class today, the final draft of Essay #4 is still due today. Turn it in electronically. ************************************************************************************************* BEFORE you begin to review your writing in the course to decide what to include in your portfolio and revise them, you need to take two to three hours to prepare and review. (Maybe you will need more time?) Follow these three items to learn about the portfolio and prepare for both doing the portfolio and the final exam:
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Good Monday! Today the second draft of Essay #4 is due.
We are changing things up a bit with only TWO peer responses to do (with a third counting for extra-credit). You may also have time to do your Writing Review here in class. Only drafts that are complete drafts with a version of the Introduction through the Conclusion (or at least Part IV) will count as "on-time." Before beginning your peer response, take a couple minutes to a) review the Revising Sentences Guide and the Answers to EGW#13 b) review the guidance in theEssay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet for each part of the essay:
Whatever peer response is not completed in-class is due by the end of the day. --If you are absent today, I will expect all this work turned in by the end of the day unless I hear from you. MLA Documented Essay Editing following the Paramedic Method Homework for next class: Be sure you handle and document quotes correctly. Please keep your essays within the 4-6 page (1000-1500 word) range. If you are going way over, you need to do some cutting. 3) Process Journal #14 due for next class. Class Announcement 11/20/19 |
Today we will start by doing our four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #13 on the Writing Spaces article "Walk, Talk, Eat, Cook: A Guide to Using Sources" Please turn in your EGW#13 practice editing using the Paramedic Method. We will save a discussion of this editing for Monday. Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet We will focus today on doing two activites that will help you write drafts of Section II and Section IV of the paper.
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NOTE: You should really shoot for including FOUR Findings like you see in the example essay. ALL of this needs to fit within 4-6 pages (1000-1500 words). Please keep within this range! Note: The Appendix does not count in the 1000-1500 words, just the main Parts I-V. See the Example Essay #4 to see a good example of what you are shooting for doing in this essay. Homework:
Reminder: ALL required rewrites are due within one week after the paper is returned to you. Be sure to provide me with a paper copy along with your original submission draft. Reminder: The second conference either with me or the Writing Center is due by the time we turn in Essay #4 on 10/27. Class Announcement 11/18/19 |
Happy Monday!Today we will review our goals with Draft E4-1 and then doing peer response. Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. Our goal is to do three peer responses and a fourth for extra-credit.
Whatever peer responses you do not complete in class are due by the end of today. The Writing Review will be due on Wednesday.
Homework for Next Class: Reminder: ALL required rewrites are due within one week after the paper is returned to you. Rewrites can be resubmitted electronically by midnight, but be sure to provide me with a paper copy along with your original submission draft. Reminder: The second conference either with me or the Writing Center is due by the time we turn in Essay #4 on 10/27. Class Announcement 11/13/19 |
Today we will start by reading the Process Journal #12s and doing our "ah-hah" replies. It will give us the opportunity to review "the art of integrating quotes" with more detail. Using Quotations Then we will review the Guide on Revising Sentences and the answers to EGW#12 and the sentence-edits following the "Paramedic Method." Next, we will have some time to review our Preliminary Findings. Take some time to read through the posts of your peers, and offer one to two questions to at least four posts of your peers.
Finally, we will discuss what to do for the first draft of Essay #4. Homework: 2) Follow the directions for writing the first draft of Essay #4 carefully found on pages 11-12 in the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. For this draft, you only need to do parts I and III of the paper. Outline of E4-1 draft paper:
You may have only two key findings, but four is better. You need THREE bits of textual evidence from you research--at least--in EACH body paragraph. Seek to include information from more than one source for each finding. Be sure to "sandwich" your quotes! 3) Review and study the Guide on Revising Sentences Class Announcement 11/11/19 |
Happy Veterans Day!Start today with a review of key learning objectives in Essay #3 where many people have struggled: Next we will by find a "research buddy"--sit next to them. Working with a "research buddy," we will
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Good morning! Quote of the day: Today we will start by ***************** Your goal is to research on your Research Question. Get down and dirty with seeking answers to your research question. Follow the guidance and suggestions for researching found in the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet and our LibGuide. Homework: Class Announcement 11/4/19 |
Be sure and VOTE tomorrow!
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Use the LibGuide created for our Project to help you research and evaluate sources --LibGuide for our class --Chapters R, Researching in AWREF on finding and evaluating information |
Reviewing the Research Process
--"Deconstructing" your keywords in your Research Question
Starting to research (pg. 7 in EC#4 Assignment Sheet)
----Keyword search strategies (Illustrated version)
--Keyword search strategies
What is "parallelism?" Prepping for EGW#11
--see page 8 of Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet.
Homework for next class:
1) Begin researching! DON'T WAIT. Keep track of what you do and what you find as you research. Read through the first few pages of the EC#4 Assignment Sheet and follow its guidance for researching. Familarize yourself with the assignment.
2) EGW#11 is on Parallelism. Follow the directions closely. You must read and study about parallelism before trying it out yourself. Have fun with this writing piece!
3) Process Journal #11 is over Trimble's chapters #6 and #7. Both are great chapters. Read those, and then do the PJ.
4) Extra-credit journals, if you are doing them, are due next class.
5) Next class, we will have the voluntary Re-take of the Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Quiz. If you are statisfied with your grade on the quiz, you don't have to re-take it.
Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Quiz--Next Class (Wed. 11/6) Also, regarding Sentence Boundary Errors I will ask you Study/Review punctuation and sentence boundary errors |
Happy Halloween!
We will start today by
--turning in our freewriting journals (our last week!)
--doing the four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #10 on freewriting
--then discuss Conciseness and review the answers to EGW#10
See the Answers to the Punctuation and Sentence Boundaries Quiz
--quiz answers (re-do possible, see below)
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Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
Next we will work do a collaborative exercise reviewing key aspects of writing this kind of argumentative, critical essay including:
1) Writing Introductions
2) Creating Coherence by sign posting your argument with good Topic/Transition/Linking Sentences
3) Integrating quotes as textual evidence by "sandwiching" them properly and documenting them properly
Homework:
1) Complete PJ#10 ah-hahs by the end of tomorrow 10/31
2) Study MORE in Conciseness
As a follow up to EGW#10 and in preparation to edit your own final draft, take 15-30 minutes to review the content on Conciseness from Purdue OWL (See all four items in the left menu bar under Conciseness.)
#) The Final Draft of Essay #3 is due next class!
--please folllow the guidance for this final draft found on pages 17-18 of the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet.
Please come to class with a PRINT copy of your essay to turn into me and an electronic copy to be turned in to Canvas.
4) If you have not made a final determination on your Essay #4 Inquiry Project topic, please go back to the E4 Proposal forum and reply to your original message with what topic you are going to pursue. (It is still OK to change your topic if you wish, but let me know.)
5) Those interested in re-doing the Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Quiz may do so by going to the Writing Center either on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to re-take the quiz. See the 10/23 explanation of EXACTLY what is on this quiz and what you need to know.
Please review our Late Work Policies found from our Canvas home page.
Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
Task #1: Quiz Over Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors
Task #2: Select your Research Question for Essay #4
Go back to the E4 Proposals forum, read my responses, and reply with your ONE research question that you want to pursue for Essay #4. If you need to take until the end of today to decide, that is ok.
Task #3: Peer Response on Essay #3, draft #2
Today, we will focus on doing peer response on our draft #2s of Essay #3. While we are doing peer response, I will be touching base with any people who need help with this essay. Note: Only drafts that are close to being complete--all the way through the conclusion and approximately 800-1000 words--will be counted as on time.
Be sure that you have posted your Draft Letter on the top of your draft.
Our goal is to do THREE peer responses and the fourth will count for extra-credit.
--whatever peer responses are not finished in class are due by the end of the day
--The Writing Review E3-2 will be due by next class
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During the last 10 minutes, we will discuss EGW#10 over Conciseness by looking at the beginning of Trimble's chpt. 6.
--EGW#10 Readings: Read this Conciseness Strategies guide,Trimble’s chapter 6 on Diction, and AWREF W2-W3 pp. 150-156 on Wordiness.
Homework for next class:
1) Complete peer response by the end of today
2) Complete the E3-2 Writing Review by next class
3) Do EGW#10 on Conciseness
4) Do Process Journal #10 on Freewriting
5) WK 7 Freewriting Journals due (our last week!)
Other Notes:
A) You will be able to do another week of freewriting journals to count as extra-credit. This opportunity is voluntary.
B) This is a perfect time to get help from the Writing Center or from me by scheduling a conference over your draft. Conference #2 must be done before we turn in Essay #4.
Please start today by
Aristotle's Rhetoric--a good read!
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Next, we will review EGW#9 and
--how to handle and "sandwich quotes" correctly
--how to document quotes correctly following MLA Documentation Style
Key Guides for you to study supplementing MLA1-4 in your AWREF:
a) Using Quotes and "sandwiching" them
--Using Quotes
--The Art of Integrating Quotesb) How MLA Documentation works
--View a sample MLA paper to see the TWO STEPS of MLA Documentation
--View our MLA GuideCitation Machine is your friend in creating properly formatted Works Cited entries.
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Then we will get our Essay #2s back
--NOTE: We will have our quiz over Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors on Monday
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Next We Will Review BASICS About Argument and Making an Argument
ALL ARGUMENTS CONTAIN A CLAIM (OR THESIS)
KEY CHARACTERISTIC OF ARGUMENTS
--they are structured around REASONSKEY CHARACTERISTIC OF REASONS
--if you use "because," you almost always have a reason
THE CLAIM + REASON FORMS AN ARGUMENT
Fall is a wonderful season (claim) + because it gets cooler (reason).
Dogs are better pets than cats (claim) + because they are more affectionate (reason).
SAC is a great place to start college (claim) + because it has great professors (reason).
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Study this flow of logic in the following example because you want your paper to have this same type of logic.
Essay Question:Do these immigrants experience struggles getting to the United States and to our school that we as school employees need to be aware of?
Thesis: According to Markham's account, our immigrant students have experienced many struggles entering the U.S. we need to be aware of.
Argument #1 Statement: First, these children face significant challenges getting to the US because of the violence they may have been exposed to.
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Claim/Thesis + Reason = Primary Support (or unit of argument)
First, these children face significant challenges getting to the US because of the violence they may have been exposed to.
See also the Development Guide which graphically represents the relationship between your Thesis, your Primary Supports (Reasons) and your Secondary Support (your textual evidence).
Doing the E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets
Step #1: You may need to Refine/Revise Your E3 Mini-Outline--i.e your PRIMARY SUPPORTS You created a draft mini-outline at the end of the E3 Invent. In your E3-1 draft, you should have three or four paragraphs (#2-4 or 5) where you presented a reason/support for why you think your thesis is true following this mini-outline. (Perhaps you were off track, so you will need to define these reasons better.) Each of your Body Paragraphs (your "Primary Supports") will need an "Argument Statement" (like above) containing your Claim + Reason for each of your Body paragraphs (your "Primary Supports"). Be sure that you use a "because" statement for your reason. Essay Question: Argument#1 Statement: See the above example that goes for what you need to do. Revise your mini-outline FIRST before you jump into doing the Evidence Sheets. |
Step #2: Connecting Claims to Evidence in the E3 Evidence Sheets Next, we will review E3 Evidence Sheets. Each Evidence Sheet Contains One Argument Statement: claim + reason Then we will begin in-class to fill in your E3 Evidence Sheet Use your E3 Invention where you collected quotes to select the four best quotes to use in your Evidence Sheets. HINT: You have already been collecting textual evidence in your E3 Invention and then in our collaborative Google Doc inventions found in Canvas. You can go back to those places as well as the book to find good supporting textual evidence for each reason. |
In class, we will start at least one Evidence Sheet
--write the Argument Statement at the top of one Evidence Sheet (claim + reason)
--write in one quote
--then write the connecting statement explaining how this quote is working to show or prove your thesis
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Homework for next class:
1) FIRST, work on filling out your E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets
--the ones we worked on in class.
--try to get at least FOUR quotes from the book to back up EACH of your reasons. Select the BEST four supporting quotes
--Due by Saturday!
2) Then write your second draft of Essay #3 (E3-2).
--follow the guidance for writing this draft found in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
--include at least three supporting quotes in each body paragraph
3) Reading--Reviewing our guides on using quotes will be helpful. You might also try reading Trimble's chapter on using quotes (12 or 13). It is great! As you use quotes inside your draft #2, please try to "sandwich" each one.
You should also review what we cover in class! You can always scroll down to view past class announcements.
4) Keep doing freewriting journals
5) Study for our Quiz on Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors
--see the 10/21 Class Announcement for exactly what you will be tested on
Please begin right away doing peer response on draft E3-1.
--your goal is to do three peer responses and a fourth can be for extra-credit
Crossing the Bridge from Reading to Writing
--what we are doing
Note: The 9:25 class will not meet today (but the 12:15 class does). All peer responses are due by the end of the day.
ESSAY CONSTRAINT: Representing Markham's views; Using ONLY the book Your job in the essay is to formuate your argument from the events and perspectives Markham presents in the book. You may disagree with the views of the book, but whether you agree or disagree, your job is to represent the arguments Markham communicates in the book. You won't insert personal experience or research/data from outside the book. Use ONLY the book. So this essay is not about making a personal argument, although you will individually be pulling together and interpreting what you think is Markham's argument and the evidence she presents in her book to support that argument. Your primary job is not to argue against the views of the book. If you disagree with Markham's views, you can save any critique you have for the conclusion. |
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Handling and Documenting Quotes
Next we will review how we will use and document quotes in our essay:
--Guide for Using Quotes (and "The Sandwich Principle" for using quotes)
--MLA GuideWe will start EGW#9 in-class--practicing the "sandwich principle"
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Homework for next class:
1) Complete the peer response by the end of the day. Complete the Writing Review by next class.
2) Complete EGW#9 (follow the directions closely in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
--You must read and review MLA1-4 before doing this exercise.
--NOTE: PRINT this exercise to turn in. (You don't have to turn it in electronically.)
3) Process Journal #9 is on Rhetoric! (my favorite subject)
4) WK6 of Freewriting Journals due Wed--keep writing without stopping (suggestion: writing about the book and what you think about it)
Note: We will begin to work on your E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets next class! You are encouraged to begin working on it.
BRING YOUR HANDBOOK AND THE MARKHAM TEXT TO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY!
5) Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Test--Next Class (Wed. 10/23) Also, regarding Sentence Boundary Errors I will ask you Study/Review punctuation and sentence boundary errors |
Today we will start by doing the four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #8.
--Williams on "Argument: a key feature of college writing" and Trimble on "the analogy" and "The checklist":
See 10/16 Honors Academy Announcements
--10/17 Out of State Transfer workshop 3PM
--10/18 UTSA Best Fest 4-6 PM (meet with UTSA Honors College, get tour)
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We will next discuss Subordination and Coordination and EGW#7 on Sentence Combining (answers to EGW#7). Hopefully, you are seeing the connection between our work on "sentence boundary" issues like comma-splices and run-ons as well as punctuation.
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Then we will discuss our evaluation of the two pairs of sources for EGW#8 and which is more credible and why. The 5Ws of Evaluating Sources.
Set #1: Compare the following sites.
Set #2: Compare the following sites.
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Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
Then we will focus on the E3 Invention in groups determined by our topic selection.
The Invention exercise has you do three things
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Homework:
1) Complete your E3 Invention by Saturday
--complete step 3 where you post all YOUR supporting evidence into the Collaborative Evidence Collecting sheet by the end of tomorrow, Thursday
(these Collaborative Evidence Collection pages are found in the E3 Module in Canvas)
--THEN complete steps 4-7 by Saturday
2) Do more re-reading and notetaking surrounding your emerging REASONS in support of your thesis. You will need to continue to recycle back to the book to understand Markham's arguments and find good evidence in the text for these views. Your writing is based upon your reading, so digging into Markham's book is where to be.
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Do your first draft of Essay #3 (E3-1). Doing a good E3 Invention sets you up to do a good E3-1 draft. Writing this draft should take you 25-40 minutes. Follow the directions closely found on page 10 of the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet carefully.
4) Read/skim AWREF MLA1-MLA3, especiall MLA3 on integrating sources.
5) Study/Review punctuation and sentence boundary errors
--Guide to Punctuation
--Guide to Sentence Boundary Errors
Bring your Markham text to class!
Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Test--Next Wednesday NOTE: Reviewing your Essay #2, it is clear that we need to spend more time studying and reviewing punctuation and especially sentence boundary errors. Also, regarding Sentence Boundary Errors I will ask you |
Today we focus on evaluating sources. What we do in class today extends what is found in chapter R-3 in AWREF. You must read and study that chapter!
Here is the link to the library LibGuide for our Inquiry Project.
The Information Cycle
F19 Rock Lab Sources
E4 Proposals are due today!
Homework for next time: Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
1) Do the E3 Invention as best you can. It actually has you begin to seek out support in the text for your thesis and then sort it to discover your main arguments. This activity will take some time and may be difficult, but do the best you can. --Consider that this "seeking support" activity is only the beginning of your work on finding evidence from the text to back up your thesis in Essay #3.
2) EGW#8 is a follow-up exercise evaluating a pair of sources using our 5Ws Method of Evaluating Sources.--be sure to investigate each source following the prompts in the 5Ws handout.
3) PJ#8 is on Trimble chapter 4 and an essay by Joseph Williams on Writing in College.
--link to article (read only Part 1 through pg. 6). Be sure that you reference each reading meaningfully in your response. WAIT to do the ah-hah replies.
oday we meet in the Library! (actually in the SLAC Lab on the 7th floor of MLC707)
Here is the link to the library LibGuide for our Inquiry Project.
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About today's homework:
--check your answers to EGW#7
You should be making a connection between all the "sentence boundary" work we have done with punctuation and the two ways to connect sentences and EGW#6 and our review of run-ons where sentences are either not connected or separated correctly. See Guide on Sentence Boundaries.
--for Process Journal #7, please do your four "ah-hah" replies on your own by the end of today.
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For Next Class:
1)
Finish reading The Faraway Brothers. Read closely and interactively--annotating while you read.
Note: If you are far from finished, you will need to work extra to complete the book. Ration your reading so you can complete the book by the 15th. That's six days--how many pages per day will you need to read to complete the book? You will need to begin work on Essay #3, despite not having the book finished.
2) Read the Essay #3 Topic sheet and do the "Getting Started with Essay #3" steps #1 and #2 (read pages 2-5 in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet).
--pick your topic, begin doing your "focused re-reading" around that topic's Essay Question
--you might even check ahead to the E3 Invention and begin doing some work on it
3) Do the E4 Proposal--found in Canvas--where you give me ideas for topics you would like to pursue for your Inquiry Project in Essay #4.
4) Prepare for our 2nd Library Instruction on Evaluating Sources.
Next class we meet in our regular classroom (GH 228) for a session on Evaluating Sources Prepare for this library instruction session by
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Before turning in your paper, review it from the perspective of "the glass is half full." Rather than look for errors, look for where you have punctuated correctly and where you have done things correctly. You should KNOW why you punctuate and WHY it is correct. Pay special attention to places where you are not sure if you have done something correctly--for example, you look at a comma, and you can't identify whether it is correct. Re-examine it to see if you can verify it as correct or perhaps you will see it is not correct and you can fix it. Like before, hand-written edits on your final draft count--no need to fix the electronic copy and reprint. |
Once you have done a "glass is half full" proofreading of your paper, turn it in TWO ways
--turn in the PRINT copy to me
--turn in the electronic copy into Canvas
(Be sure the essay is in MLA Manuscript format.)Then do your Writing Review E2-3. Depending upon how much time you needed for your final proofreading, you may have to complete this writing review by the end of the day.
At 30 minutes after the start of class, we will migrate over to GH227. The 9:25 class will do a college survey and in the 12:15 class we will talk about The Faraway Brothers.
Review our new Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet!
Next class we meet in the Library for an orientation on researching.
Meet in the lobby area of MLC on the 2nd floor right when you enter the building. We are going to be in one of the library classrooms to the right--MLC 208 or 209.
Prepare for this library instruction session by
a) Read AWREF R1 on Researching pp. 329-341.
b) View this video on "What Databases and Why You Need Them"
c) Then review this LibGuide comparing searching the web ("googling") and searching in a library database
--LibGuide (click all the tabs and view the videos)
Homework: Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet!
1) Finish the E2-3 Writing Review (if you did not complete it in-class).
2) EGW#7 on Sentence Combining and PJ#7 on drafting due next class. PJ#7 involves reading, so be sure to allow time to read FIRST before you write.
3) WK4 of freewriting journals--write without stopping for 10 minutes; don't fix anything!
4) Review the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet and think about which of the topic options you may be interested in writing about for Essay #3.
5) Review the Essay #4 Topic Sheet and think about what possible possible topics for inquiry projects. The E4 Proposals will be due 10/14 where you will need to declare two or three possible research questions.
6) Prepare for our Library Instruction next class (see above).
7) Finish reading The Faraway Brothers this week (if possible). Keep reading from wherever you are.
Note: If you did not complete your Writing Review E2-3 in-class, it is due by the end of today.
IF you are ever absent, I still expect work to be turned in today unless I hear from you. |
Once you get logged in and skim this class announcement, please start on task #1:
Prepare for this exercise:
--Open your draft (latest version) and copy and paste into a MSWord document just your Title, Introduction, and Concludion
--PRINT this page (no need to save it)Group together in groups of three
--review the Rhetorical Stance sheet with Introductions and a Conclusion from our example Illustrative Essays
--discuss what you see these writers doing in terms of communicating a clear rhetorical stance--Then share your Intro/Conclusion sheets and discuss ways the rhetorical stance is working and what improvements could be made
LOOK at how well each writer is
--communicating a CLEAR MESSAGE
--to a SPECIFIC AUDIENCE
--for a CLEAR PURPOSE that involves some action.
Be sure that you have It will be OK to leave early if you have finished the above items, or you could use any spare time you have to work on the essay.
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Homework for next class:
1) The Final Draft of Essay #2 is due. Please follow the directions for doing this last revision and draft found on page 21 of the EC#2 Assignment Sheet.
--Please bring to class BOTH the print copy and electronic copy of your paper to turn in.
--Be sure your paper is in MLA Manuscript Format.
NOTE: You don't have to do the E2-3 Writing Review by class time. Only the final draft is due at the beginning of class.
2) Please bring The Faraway Brothers to class next time. Keep reading it. Keep prospecting for interesting ideas in the book you might be interested in learning more about in your E4 Inquiry Project.
We will start today by checking in with a peer about reading The Faraway Brothers. You should finish reading the book in two weeks!!!
Next, we will do an activity related to punctuation and highlight what EGW#4 will be about related to sentence boundary issues:
--Sentence Boundary Errors: Comma-Splices, Run-ons, Fused Sentences
--Sentence Boundary issues in last Punctuation Test
PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR OUR CLASS WORK TODAY
You should be able to complete all this work in-class. If you do not, the remainder is due by the end of today.
If you finish early, please stay in class and begin working on revising your essay.
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Homework for next time:
1) Complete Peer Response and your Writing Review if you didn't complete them in-class
--due by the end of today
2) EGW#6 on Sentence Fragments and Run-ons and Process Journal #6 on Invention (Follow directions for these activities found on page 19-20 of the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet carefully. EGW#6 can be done by hand or electronically.)
BONUS Site on Sentence Fragments--Grammar Bytes! Check it out!
BONUS Site on Comma Splices--Grammar Bytes! Check it out!
3) WK 3 of Freewriting Journals due next class
--10 min. writing without stopping about life, the universe, and everything
4) The Final Draft of Essay #2 will be due next Mon. 10/7, so you can begin working toward that final draft.
5) Continue reading Faraway Brothers. This week you should be reading up to pg. 227.
--be prospecting for possible inquiry project topics
Reminder: Conference #1s are due BEFORE you turn in Essay #2. Plan to have your conference by Thursday at the latest. If you can't fit in with me, set up a session with the Writing Center in GH 203. |
In the first ten minutes of class
Please turn in your WK2 Freewriting journals (print copies). Then read the WK 5 Process Journals and do your four ah-hah responses.
NOTE: The 12:15 class will not meet today and will need to review and do today's activities independently. All this in-class work is due by the end of today. Hold on to freewriting journals to turn in on Monday. |
Today we will review some basics basics basics about Essays you should have viewed before doing Writing Review E2-1.
from Writing Guides |
Essay Form |
Essay Organization |
Development |
What will be the organization and development of our Essay #2?
--examine the organization of the example illustrative essay
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Focus on Introductions--Doing EGW #5
--Trimble on Openers pg 23-24
--AWREF 13-18
--Irvin Leads Guide to Introductions
Then, we will do the EGW#5 Exercise in class--Titles and First Lines
--examples
Middles--Focus on Organization
Organization
--see Trimble chpt. 4 (our reading for this and next week in Trimble)
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Homework for next class:
1) Complete the EGW #5 exercise (if needed) by the end of today by going back to your original post in Canvas and editing it.
--you should follow the directions for the exercise found in the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet
Your final exercise should have 10-20 possible titles, seven -twelve different first line leads, and then a final section where you select your provisional title and lead and write about why you have chosen these. BE SURE TO USE THIS TITLE AND LEAD IN YOUR DRAFT #2!!!!!
2) Essay #2 draft #2 is due next time
--review my feedback on your E2 on-track check. I hope to have this feedback done by Friday.
--follow the guidance carefully for doing this draft found on page 15 in the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet carefully! Part of the preparation for writing this draft is to read and study the information on "essay basics" reviewed in class today. Be sure you read this material,
--be sure to use a different color as your add to, revise, and rethink the elements of your paper you have brainstormed on in your six brainstorming sheets
--expect that this second draft will take some time and effort to revise
--due in Canvas by class time
Note about STORIES in the body of your paper
--be sure that you include events or incidents that SHOW your truth: that is, you want a specific thing that happened on a specific day with specific people in a specific place that shows/demonstrates that your truth is true. Even if you are using as an illustrative example of something that "typically" or usually happens, include one instance of this typical happening to give this event concrete significance
--focus your stories just to show your truth, like a YouTube video clip. Use the techniques of description to SHOW and make your message that much more powerful
3) Keep studying and reviewing Punctuation!
--Punctuation Guide , AWREF Section P, Chpt 13 in Writing With Style
Exercise Answers: #1 & 3, #2, #4
4) REQUIRED REWRITES of Essay #1 are due in one week (i.e. 10/1)
On-going work
--WK3 Freewriting Journal
--reading in The Faraway Brothers
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Conference Reminder:
MANY of you have still not had your conference with me or tutoring session in the Writing Center or a piece of writing you are working on for this class. You must accomplish this conference
or tutoring session by the time Essay #2 is due. Period. Those who do not get this conference done will lose -10 points on their On-Time Draft and Conferences portion of your grade.
If you have had your tutoring session in the Writing Center, please be sure to get a stamp verifying that you have had your session and show it to me. These sessions in the Writing Center need to be 30 minutes at least to get the stamp.
Be sure if you go for tutoring that you go to the SAC Writing Center in GH 203--no where else.
Today we will start with a punctuation quiz! ... as promised
Then we will get our Essay #1s back and do an editing exercise with them.
Next we will review Freewriting and how to do it
--10 minutes writing without stopping
--Let it be messy! No need to fix errors! Let it fly!
--One journal per day.
Last, we will turn to Essay #2 and the first draft of Essay #2 (E2-1)
--Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet
We will do peer response in-class. The goal is to do three peer responses with a fourth counting as extra-credit.
--whatever peer responses are not done in-class need to be completed by the end of today
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Homework for next class:
1) Complete any peer response not finished in class by the end of the day Monday 9/23.
2)
Review AWREF pp. 13-18 about essay form, drafting, and introductions.
3) Do the Writing Review for E2-1
--remember, for the draft to count as "on time" all three need to be completed on time: draft, peer response, AND writing review
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Do your E2 "on track" check
--particularly go back to your "data sheets" on the parts of the essay to do some re-thinking about your topic. REALLY think and refine your "thesis" (or Illustrative Truth)
5) Do Process Journal #5 on Trimble chapters 1-3
6) NOTE: DON'T DO EGW#5--we will do this exercise in-class together!
7) WK2 of Freewriting Journals are due next class.
Keep Reading The Faraway Brothers --pp. 135-181 this week (You should have the book finished in THREE weeks!) |
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Not exactly sure how Dr. Irvin grades?????
--see this explanation of daily grades
Please turn in your first week of freewriting journals as you arrive.
Today we will start by reading the Process Journal #4-Bs and doing our four short "ah-hah" replies of 25-50 words.
Next, we will review EGW#4 and punctuation.
Punctuation Quiz--Can you name the five things punctuation does and what punctuation marks are associated with each function? Can you provide an example for each function?
Then we will look at the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet and the Essay #2 topic and do our E2 Invention exercise in-class
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If you are absent, this E2 Invention
is due by midnight unless I hear from you.
Homework:
1) Complete the reading for this week
--Trimble chpts 2 and 3
--Re-read AWREF pp. 3-18
2) Study for the Punctuation Quiz next class: punctuation guide (read Trimble's chapter on punctuation if you have not already!)
3) If you did not finish your E2 invention in-class, complete it by the end of today. If you decide to change your topic before next class, please re-do the E2 invention exercise with your new topic and post it.
4) Essay #2 draft #1 is due next class
--Follow the directions for doing this draft CLOSELY found on pages 9-10 of the EC#2 Assignment Sheet. Bring your SIX pieces of paper to class with you.
--ONLY THE DRAFT IS DUE NEXT TIME!!!!!!!
We will do peer response in-class and the writing review by the following class.
5) WK2 of Freewriting journals begins.
6) Keep reading Faraway Brothers! You should be up to pg. 134 by the end of this week if you are following my suggested reading schedule.
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MORE on The first draft of Essay #2 (E2-1)
--please trust my pre-writing activity of making the sheets and do this activity before you draft. Trimble talks about them in his book as data sheets. Let these sheets be little sketch pads for each part of your essay where you experiment and tweek that part. Doing these sheets will help you write this first draft.
For example
The sheet on your Illustrative Truth (thesis)
--you could try writing and rewriting your thesis five (or ten) different ways until you found the right wording. Trick: write "It is true that ____" and complete the sentence. Your thesis is the last part. It is true that starting college is hard. Thesis = Starting college is hard.The sheet on your audience
--you could scratch down details that were specific to this audience and what they want or need, what they know or believe
--you could brainstorm other possible audiences if this audience is not workingThe sheet on your purpose
--you could delve in more detail about what you want THIS specific audience to see, think, feel, or do when they read your piece
--maybe there are multiple possible purposes and you can decide the best
--adjustments to your audience might shift your purpose, and you could explore thoseEach sheet on your illustrative stories
--like we did with the family story, you can list any details related to the story out on the page to gather things you could include and trigger you to remember more about itBut WHY do this????
Here is the secret--when you scratch down your ideas onto paper, you are making your thinking visible. When you make your thinking visible, you can then examine this thinking to add to it, to adjust it, to make connections you might otherwise not make.Trust this process and see if it doesn't help you when you sit to do the first draft.
We will begin class with an activity, and then turn in the essays. WAIT to turn in your essay. (Check Your Answers for the punctuation exercise in EGW#3: exercise 1 and exercise 3!)
Turn in your essay TWO ways
--turn it in electronically inside Canvas to the Essay #1 Final Draft (E1-3) assignment (you click "submit assignment" and upload your file)
--print and turn in the paper copy to me (be sure it is in MLA paper format).
IMPORTANT: There is a problem with the originally created assignment for your to turn in your Final Draft. Please RESUBMIT your Final Draft to the "Essay #1 Final Draft (Resubmit)" assignment. |
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Congratulations on getting Essay #1 finished!!!!
But wait... you are not done...
You need to do the E1-3 Writing Review. This Writing Review needs to be completed by the end of today and needs to be completed for your essay to be counted as "on-time."
You may be able to get a start on this Writing Review during our regular class time.
ONLY ESSAYS TURNED IN BOTH WAYS (in Canvas and Print) AND WITH THE E1-3 WRITING REVIEW COMPLETED WILL BE COUNTED AS "ON-TIME"
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Are you absent today?
I still expect you to turn in your essay into Canvas and complete the E1-3 Writing Review by midnight today (unless I hear from you otherwise). Please bring the print copy of your essay next class.
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Process Journal #4-part A--we will do the first part of this journal in-class
We are launched into our second essay! See the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet
Homework for next time:
We start today with a tour of the Writing Center.
ALL writers benefit from feedback and collaboration; all learners benefit from support. It is FREE, so take advantage of it.
Conference Requirement:
Two conferences are required over a draft in process for our class. One must be with me and one with the Writing Center. One must be completed by the time we turn in Essay #2 and the second by the time we turn in Essay #4.
You are responsible for setting up and attending these conferences.
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Next, we will discuss The Faraway Brothers.
What are your impressions about the book so far?
Read interactively! Annotate. Look words up!
Carry the book with you all the time. Whenever you have a moment, read it. Carve out devoted reading times. You should read about 35-40 pages per week--our target is to have the book finished by 10/12.
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Next, we will begin our Freewriting Journal
Watch this video explaining Freewriting! (Scroll down to find the video and watch it.)
See page 16 of our Essay Cycle #1 Assignment sheet with exact instructions for how I want you to keep your freewriting journal. Also, this guide on journals discusses how to do a freewriting journal.
How we will do our freewriting journal:
- Write for 10 minutes, continuously (no stopping)
- Write on any topic you wish (within decent bounds)
- Write without correcting or fixing anything
-- I would expect that your freewriting journals will BE MESSY!!!! See this example of a very messy freewriting journal.- Write FOUR journals per week, turned in each Wed.
- Turn in a paper copy of the journals (whether handwritten or typed)
--we do not share these journals with the classIf I see neat, correct journals from you, I know you are not getting this freewriting thing yet. Just write--without editing! ... for ten minutes, without stopping!
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Then we will learn about our grammar review goal for this essay--Punctuation
My guide to punctuation and sentence structure
--I expect you to KNOW every bit of this guide. Study it. Memorize it.
You should be able to recite from memory the five things punctuation helps you DO. Study it especially in reference to what AWREF and Trimble say about punctuation.
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Homework for next time:
1) Do your four "ah-hah" replies for Process Journal #3. I am sorry we did not get to these in class.
2) Read about and study punctuation for EGW#3
--my guide to punctuation and sentence structure
--my video version of this punctuation guide with my commentary and example of editing writing for punctuation
--Read Trimble’s chapter 12 or 13 on Punctuation in Writing with Style. It is excellent!
--Review Punctuation--AWREF (read/skim) pp. 257-302. You should skim through this to reinforce what the two previous guides have said about punctuation.
Complete the two punctuation exercises (#1 and #3)--working them by hand on the exercise sheets I gave you in class. Bring to class on Monday!
3) The final draft of Essay #1 (E1-3) is due next class.
--see page 16 of our EC#1 Assignment sheet for guidance on revising for your final draft. Please follow these instructions for revising, editing, and proofreading and then formatting your paper.
--Check the dialogue in your story. Are you handling is correctly?
--see example of dialogue use from Obama's family story
Be sure you arrive in class with your essay completed and in MLA paper format.
Writing Review E1-3 will not be due at class time. It will be due by midnight on Monday.
4) Keep reading Faraway Brothers
--suggested reading pg. 46-89 this week.
Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet
Once you login, skim this class announcement and begin right away with the first task:
Task 1: Today we will start by reading our Process Journal #2 posts on "What WE Value as Writers" and do our four short "ah-hah" replies of 25-50 words. For process journals, only the journal response is due by class time. Then we spend the first 5-10 minutes of class when it is due to do the short "ah-hah" replies.
Task 2: Learning About the Writing Process
Today we will begin by reviewing the Writing Process and the reading you did in A Writer’s Reference (AWREF) C Composing and Revising, pp. 1-54.
--the Writing Process
Task 3: Reviewing the Power of Description and doing character description(s).
--examples of telling to showing from EGW#2
Task 4: We then will work on doing Peer Response
(Be sure you have included a brief "Draft Letter" to your readers on top of your draft.)
--your job is to do THREE peer responses and a third can be for extra credit
--review HOW to do peer response
Task #5: Getting a Tour of the Writing Center
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Homework for next class: Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet
1) Complete whatever peer response to Draft E1-2 or "ah-hah" replies to PJ#2B not completed in class by midnight tonight.
2) Do your Writing Review E1-2 by next class
--remember, for your draft to be considered as "on time," you need all three done on time: draft, peer response, and writing review
3) Do Process Journal #3
--really review description and how you have been using it so far. Think about it. Study what we have done so far. ONLY the response to the journal topic is due by class time.
NOTE: EGW#3 is NOT due by class time. We will begin it in class. It will be due by Sat.
4) Studying Punctuation--AWREF (read/skim) pp. 257-302
5) Bring your Faraway Brothers book next class. We will discuss the first part of the book. You should be reading pg. 46-89 this week.
Readings for the Week (from pg. 7 of EC#1 Assignment Sheet) 1. Continuing to Reading and Studying about Writing and the Writing Process |
Let's talk about reading and reading in college! What is Close, Critical Reading?
Doing our First Peer Responses and Learn What Writing Reviews are
Next, we will work on doing peer response for Essay #1, draft #1
--we will follow the explanation for peer response found on page 10 of the Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet
--your goal is to complete THREE peer responses and a fourth can be for extra-credit
--the Writing Review (and any peer responses not completed in class) is due by midnight tomorrow 9/5
EGW#2 Continued Work on Description
--Examples of EGW#2 revision of "telling" parts of a story to "showing" descriptions
--Examples of describing characters
Find sentences or phrases in your 1st draft that are "telling" and could be opened up with "showing" description. Highlight them.
For EGW#2, you will open TWO "telling" sentences with 3-5 sentence "showing" descriptions and find TWO characters to describe with 3-5 sentences of detailed description. See pg. 13 of our EC#1 Assignment Sheet as you do this assignment.
--EGW#2 due on Sat. 9/7 by midnight
Revising your Family Story 1st Draft
These additional guides will assist you in this revision:
--Revising and Developing the Family Story
--Reviews these two examples of revising from draft 1 to draft 2: revision example #1 | revision example #2. See pg 14-15 in our assignment sheet.
For the last part of class, we will discuss
Process Journal #2B: What We Should Strive to do as Writers
--We will follow the guidance for PJ#2B found on pg. 12 of our EC#1 Assignment Sheet
--NO "ah-hah" replies needed on PJ#2A posts.
--PJ#2B is due Sat. 9/7 by midnight
--We will do the "ah-hah" replies on PJ#2B on Monday.REMINDER: ALL assignments are found in the Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet . Be sure to follow the directions found in these assignment sheets carefully.
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Homework for next class:
1) Complete any peer response you need to do--by midnight 9/42) Do your Writing Review on your draft E1-1
--can be done by midnight tomorrow 9/53) Do EGW#2
--follow the directions in the EC#1 Assignment Sheet
--due by Sat. 9/7 midnight4) Complete your PJ#2B. Try to use what you learn readers want and need to guide what you see you need to do as a writer.
--due by Sat. 9/7 midnight5) Revise your Family Story--create draft #2 of Essay #1 (E1-2). Please use the materials we covered today to help you with this revision (be sure to use some of the "showing openings" you created in EGW#2 in your revision). Follow the guidance for revision found on page 14-15 of the EC#1 Assignment Sheet.
6) Learn MORE about the Writing Process
--Complete reading A Writer's Reference pgs. 1-52 if you haven't already
--Then read The Writing Process7) Read Faraway Brothers-- Prologue and Chpt. 2 to pg 45 and Trimble, Writing With Style, chpt. 1.
I apologize that today's homework is longer than normal, but we are making up some ground we lost by missing a class day on Monday.
You can always scroll down to see past class announcements!
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What we are up to today!
--Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet
Act I: Process Journal #1
We will view an example video literacy narrative first.
We will read some of our early stories of our development as writers (and readers) in the Process Journal #1 forum and do our first "ah-hah" replies.
--Review HOW to do Process Journals and what the "ah-hah" replies are.
NOTE: Only the journal response is due by class time. We typically will do the four "ah-hah" replies in-class.Act II: Class Policies in the Syllabus. Class Orientation Review
Dr. Irvin's Keys to Success in College
Our adventure with the Faraway Brothers book
--suggested reading planAct III: Enjoying our EGW#1 practice descriptions
We will hear some of these "showing openings" and practice a bit more ourselves.
Power of Description handoutAct IV: Getting Started on Essay #1--The Family Story
See pgs. 6-7 of the EC#1 Assignment Sheet
NOTE: IF for any reason, you are not able to post your homework in Canvas by class time today, I will still accept these first assignments by midnight tonight. Normally, late work gets no credit, but as we start out I allow these first assignments to be late. Let me know if you have ANY questions or need help.
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Homework for Next Class:
(Always read our homework assignments closely!)
1) Continue orienting yourself to our class reviewing the course website, orientation videos, and the Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet
2) Review the topic sheet for Essay #1 found on pgs. 6-7 in the Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet. Follow the "getting started" brainstorming activities for Essay #1, and then write your first draft. Post only the draft inside the E1-1 Assignment inside Canvas.
--this draft will be due anytime on Monday
--WAIT to do the peer response and writing review (we will do that on Wed.)
3) Get your textbooks and start reading A Writer's Reference pgs. 1-52 reviewing the writing process. (complete by next Wed.)
4) Write your Process Journal #2-part A (found on page 10 of the EC#1 Assignment Sheet).
--this can be turned in by any time on Monday
--(NOTE: We will do PJ#2B in-class on Wed. and we will start EGW#2 in-class)
5) Start reading Faraway Brothers
--finish the book by Oct. 12.
--read through pg. 45 by the end of next week 9/8.
Congratulations! and Welcome to English 1301!
The Faraway Brothers--an important and provocative contemporary book we will read and write our last two essays on.
What we will do with the book.
Get the book and start reading it! |
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We will get an overview of our class today and introduce ourselves to each other. Then, we will begin doing some writing right away!
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Learning About the Power of Description
--The Techniques of Description
Then we will practice writing descriptively...
Homework:
1) Go back to our course home page and check out all the links to see what our course is about. In particular, look over the entire syllabus. You might be interested in view the course orientation videos I make for my online classes.
--Review our Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet. Read pages 1-5 closely.
2) Write the "Introduction: Who I am" assignment. Post it in the forum inside our Canvas class. (due next class)
(View THIS VIDEO on how to do this assignment and post it. --note: "EGW#1 in the video is the "Introduction" assignment for us).
3) Do Editing/Grammar/Writing Exercise #1 found on page 3 of the EC#1 Assignment Sheet.(due next class)
--you need to write three "showing openings" of "telling sentences" where you practice the techniques of description.
Turn this work into Canvas.
4) Write Process Journal #1 on your career as a writer, posted in Canvas (due next class).
(If you are not positive about how to post your first assignments or your forget, please watch this video on Going to Class and Doing the 1st Assignment post.)
--video 1
--video 2
5) Get your textbooks and start reading in A Writer’s Reference (AWREF) C Composing and Revising, pp. 1-54. (Due in one week.)
6) I recommend that you get a three-ring binder for our class. Print our assignment calendar, the syllabus, as well as the Essay Cycle #1 Assignment Sheet and hole-punch them into your binder.
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