Solo #3 Assigned

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  and  EbscoHost

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

Begin looking for an article you can print, annotate, and assess using the CRAAP Test, and write about for Solo #3. Hopefully the article could also be a source included in your last paper, the Problem/Solution with Sources paper.

Homework:

1. Draft #1 of your Problem paper is due tomorrow, Thursday. Over the long weekend you should create Draft #2 and begin working on Solo #3.

2. TWFTD: credible in OED.

Example Problem Essay

Persuasion.

"Lay Off the Layoffs" by Jeffrey Pfeffer pages 138-141 in Bedford.
Read and answer questions 1, 2, 4 and 5 in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Begin writing your Problem essay. Draft #1 is due Thursday.

2. TWFTD:  empathy in OED

The CRAAP Test

Get out the assignment sheet for the Problem paper.

Problem Prezi

Topic: Self-driving cars.

http://prezi.com/cfbbhuup0xyl/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share

Google the topic you have in mind for the problem paper.  In your daybook, list the first 5 sites Google gives you, and do a quick CRAAP assessment of them. Write an explanation of why each would pass or fail for use in this paper.


Homework:

1. Take a page of daybook notes that begin to answer these questions:

A. What is the problem?

B. What are some causes of this problem?

C. What are some effects of this problem?

D. Who should care about it and why?

E. Are there any opposing views about this problem? What are they?

2. TWFTD:  relevant in OED.

Evidence

Thinking about problems:

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/)

You need to learn about your problem! 

What kinds of evidence will help?

Bedford pages 41-42.

Here's an example:  http://mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

How can this meet the assignment?

Homework:

1. Come up with two possible problems you could write this paper about. State a topic AND an actual sentence that states the problem.

2. TWFTD:  anecdotal evidence (phrase)

Sum/ Eval/ Response Paper Due

You hand in your paper -- see board for instructions.

Red Sox fun!

Critical thinking? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLyUHbexz04

The next genre: assignment sheet.

Homework:

1. Read Ch. 3 Bedford pages 37-45.

2. TWFTD: critical thinking 

Using TurnItIn

Seems like you don't like being copied by someone. 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: Zinsser says that an adult who spends his time watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than a kid who quits college.

Zinsser's essay:  "Yet an adult who spends his days and nights watching mindless TV programs is more of a dropout than an eighteen-year-old who quits college..."

How would you fix this situation?

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

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.

Walk-through EasyBib again?You should have a bibliography for this paper.


Do the Red Sox assignment.

Turn in daybooks.

Homework:

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

2. TWFTD: none

Draft #2 of Sum/ Eval/ Response

Upload your draft into Turnitin in Moodle.


I return papers.

You read drafts.

Homework:

1. Use Turnitin to revise your paper. Final Version due Wednesday Aug. 24.

2. Daybook Check #3 tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: scrutinize in OED

Problems with Plagiarism

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.

Homework:

1.  Your Draft #2 of the Summary/ Evaluation/ Response is due Monday. Have the e-file available as well as a hard copy.

2. TWFTD:  intellectual property (the phrase -- use Wikipedia?)

Draft #1 Due

Get out the subordination/ coordination handouts.

Education is an elusive word, it means many things to many people.


You exchange drafts.


Homework:

1. Draft #2 will be due Monday Aug. 22. You need the e-file of your draft for class, as well as a hard copy.

2. TWFTD:  elusive

Understanding the Article

For homework, you read one of the articles.

Group discussion. Write the answers in your daybook.

Handout. Fill it out, either together or alone, your choice.

Homework:

1. Rough draft of the paper is due Wednesday. Have something for each required part -- summary, evaluation and response.

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

Solo #2 Due

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

B. Now you are going to highlight YOUR 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. DO NOT MAKE THIS THE PERMANENT FINAL VERSION, OVERWRITING YOUR FILE.

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. This is your point about the article.

4. Make the summary yellow.   

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

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

7. Make BOLD any time you used “Zinsser”  or "the author" or "the article"– these are your author tags.

When you are done, please post this in the forum, in a reply to your post on Thursday.

C. NOW print your final version to hand in (PLAIN, NO COLOR).


Now about Paper with Feedback #3. See the handout. See the example in Moodle.


Homework:

1.  Look at the reading choices and choose which article you will write the next paper about. Read the whole article.

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

Writing Solo #2

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

Key Elements from the tan 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. Polish and or rewrite Solo #2. The hard copy with rubric is due on Monday.

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

What's Your Point?

First of all, let's look at the colorized paper. Use your tan assignment sheet to find Key Elements for a summary/response paper.

Review of thesis statements:

What was yours for Solo #1? Copy into your daybook.

Thesis Statements and Summary/ Response

Now, read and take notes (objective/subjective)  over the Zinsser article. During class on Thursday you will type or Solo #2, a summary/response essay about Zinsser's article. (Bring earbuds, if you wish.)

Homework:

1. Look at the assignment sheet to help you know how to write this essay. Decide on a point you wish to make about the article.

2. TWFTD: your choice from "The Right to Fail" using the OED. Find the definition that matches how the word is used in your article.

Kickstarter Due, New Genre

Hand in your Kickstarter on Paper, and post Language Use in Kickstarter in its forum (or put in daybook).

New genre -- summary/response. Pat Bourne questions? You do some writing....

Subjective vs. objective?

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

Go to Moodle for the forum with instructions on colorizing this example essay, so you understand how it is constructed. It is different from the last one you colorized. When you are done, submit your version in the forum.

See handout. There will be time tomorrow during class to take notes over "The Right to Fail."

Daybooks turned in.

Homework:

1. Read the assignment sheet carefully for Solo #2.

2. Read "The Right to Fail" once before class tomorrow.

3. TWFTD: fink in OED.

Citing for Kickstarters on Paper

Citing pictures in YOUR Kickstarter? Use EasyBib. I demonstrate -- you have one more day to do this correctly; turn the paper in tomorrow.

I return your essays, Solo #1.

Record number of errors: cs   ro    frag    sp     q    cap   c     apos      ?

I'm going to focus on these errors through the quarter.  We'll start here:  Coord/ Sub. Prezi .

Handout illustrates the comma rules connected with using these conjunctions.

Open The Everyday Writer to page 400.

Ex. 39.1and Ex. 39.2.

 Last 10 minutes -- one more handout. Read and answer the questions at the end in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Finish reading and answering the questions about Pat Bourne in your daybook for tomorrow.

2. Final Version Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow. Bring ALL drafts and comment sheets (purple) to hand in with your final printed copy.

3. Daybook Check #2 tomorrow. Have it ready to hand in at the end of class, and the Language Use in Kickstarter worksheet, as well.

4. TWFTD: mastectomy

The OED and Draft #2

A. Correct yesterday's exercise.

B. 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. ( If you pick the first definition, it will be the oldest, and possibly very different from any way you would use the word NOW).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.

C. You read drafts and give feedback.

Homework:

1. Do the final polish on your Kickstarter on Paper. The printed copy is due Tuesday, 8/ 9.

2. Complete the Language Use in Kickstarter worksheet, using Kickstarter and your notes over Sec. 23a-d. Due Monday.

3. Daybook Check #3 due Monday.

3. TWFTD: punk from the OED.

Why Is English So Hard To Spell?

Open Everyday Writer to Ex. 23.9 page 272. Number in your daybook 1-13, number the blanks in your book, and write the correct words down in your daybook.

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.

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


Homework:

1. Draft #2 Kickstarter on Paper is due tomorrow, Thursday. Have one typed hard copy.

2. TWFTD: punk

3. If the history of English interests you, watch this video, a "lighthearted" history of English in 10 minutes.

Draft #1 Due

Today feedback is for ideas. Help each other refine what you have. Try things out.

Step 1:  In a group of three, pass your drafts around. Each of you will read two drafts and fill out a Reader's Page for each. As always, you earn credit towards your paper based on the quality of feedback you give on those pages.

Step 2: When all in the group are done, have a discussion about what each writer plans to work on. Discuss each draft in turn. Give each other ideas for the different Key Elements.

When all are done, I'll assign the Language Use in Kickstarter activity.

Homework:

1. Draft #2 is due on Thursday Aug. 4. It must be typed. Pay special attention to layout; all of page 1 is your hook.

2. Work on Language Use in Kickstarter. It is due with the next daybook check, August 8.

2. TWFTD: cliché.

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.

Thinkwrite:  Look back through your Lego papers. What was the most useful piece of feedback that you got? Why? What did NOT help? What kind of feedback did YOU give?

We make a Works Cited page for Solo #1.

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

THINKWRITE: Please look back at the graphic on page 9 of Bedford. Think about the process you went through to write Solo #1. Describe the process you went through. What was helpful, and what you would like to do differently for the next assignment?

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

You get into groups and come up with a list of the Key Elements or sections 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/SECTIONS. Everyone will copy this onto their purple sheet.

Time to brainstorm.  Doodle over a page in your daybook.

Homework:

1. Write up a rough draft of a Kickstarter on paper. You may format it however you like. This is NOT an essay. You're trying to make a persuasive "pitch" for the idea, using the Kickstarter genre. Be creative! Have a hard copy of Draft #1 for tomorrow. It can be typed or written.


2. TWFTD: analogy