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Students should be going through the class blog and capturing their posts for the cyber-assignments and creating a folder on their personal blogs for Spring 2009 for later retrieval.
The two narratives are the introductory essays for your portfolio, which after the cover page, includes: the student name, course number, and title, student phone number and mailing address.
The second page is the table of contents listing the assignments by section: Introduction, Revision strategies (with two essays for support), Pidd essays with grades, Research essay section (including research cyber assignments, prewriting and other posts and feedback from peers), planning sheet(s), outlines, document search, library assignment grade and narrative about what you learned about evaluating a website; cyber-assignments, and freewrites.
You can also include a section called Appendices for extra credit assignments. This can include a graded essay from another class and discipline written this semester (if the other teacher doesn't mind. Ask and have them to write me a note stating this.)
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
We are meeting in L202E for the rest of the week: Tuesday-Thursday, May 12-14. The research essays were due last week for the first peer review. The deadline was changed to accommodate those students who needed more time. What this means though, is students will not be able to revise their research essay if they are submitted after Monday, May 18, unless it doesn't receive a passing grade.
The Pidd essays seem deceptively simple, but for those students who have not done the grammar exercises, miss class, come in late and disruptive or sit quietly and don't ask questions, he or she will not pass this course. Successful students are engaged and active participants in the learning process.
The Pidd Effect will not become evident until students matriculate from this course and find themselves confronted with writing situations and are able to address them, especially the academic writing situation, with ease and confidence. The student in English 1A can write a 4 page essay with competence. The graduate from said course can address a thought-provoking topic, analyze issues and use critical analysis based on sound evidence and criteria. The English 1A student is a scholar who is not intimidated by the unknown because she knows how to ask questions and find answers to those questions.
We'll go through the Paraphrase package also tomorrow if we have time. For the second portfolio essay on revision, read the Bedford handbook section on the topic (it's in the Writing Process) and see what is said about the revision process. You can also use any other college writing style book as a resource. Compare what you learn to your own revision process and incorporate this information into your essay.) Bedford is on the desktop on all the computers in the L-Building. If you have any of Diana Hacker's handbooks it's in there also.
We did peer reviews today. Hassan and Jennifer were able to use Microsoft Comment to give each other feedback. (Comment is located in Review, in Office 2007, and Insert in Office 2003). Readers highlights what they want to comment on and click the comment icon and a bubble appears in the margin for the comment.
Students can utilize the Writing Center staff for peer reviews. Share the assignment and ask the reviewer to note whether or not the questions were answered. You can see if staff will use comment. Include this essay in your portfolio. We will also utilize the read-aloud-protocol this week. It is a review process where the reader externalizes their thoughts and tells you what they are thinking as they read your work.
We will talk about Parallel Structure tomorrow, write the SV Agreement essay on Thursday, and Hootenanny on Monday, May 18 together. We'll write the Parallel Structure essay on Wednesday or Thursday next week. Again, the Pidd essays were supposed to be review, not new information.
Portfolio Assistance Workshop, Thursday, May 28
Next week is the last week of classes. I will make myself available the following week, Thursday, May 28 for a few hours to students for all classes who'd like help assembling the portfolio. I will be between L-235 and L-202E from 8-11 AM. Bring your assignments in a digital format and we can put the portfolio together. I can also look at the two portfolio essays.
Finals at Tilly's is out. We might have to have a breakfast potluck, if too many students need technical support for their presentations. Let me know if you need projectors, laptops, TV/VCRs, DVD players, or anything else. I have to reserve it, so the sooner I know the better.
Revisions are consuming too much of my time, so I am going to have to limit the revisions to essay C- and below beginning today, so I can stay on top of the assignments. On Pidd, if there are no revisions necessary I will give students a pass. Pidd essays have to be perfect. The problem I am noticing is that students are not paying attention to the details--a missed period in a works cited entry makes the entire works cited page wrong. I am going to stop being an editor.
The goal of English 1A is to produce sophisticated writers and thinkers who know how to utilize multiple resources for innovative and creative discourse. The English 1A student is on able to synthesize this information and come up with unique and different conclusions based on what she has learned. The ability to manage information is crucial and this is why the MLA
Students should be going through the class blog and capturing their posts for the cyber-assignments and creating a folder on their personal blogs for Spring 2009 for later retrieval.
The two narratives are the introductory essays for your portfolio, which after the cover page, includes: the student name, course number, and title, student phone number and mailing address.
The second page is the table of contents listing the assignments by section: Introduction, Revision strategies (with two essays for support), Pidd essays with grades, Research essay section (including research cyber assignments, prewriting and other posts and feedback from peers), planning sheet(s), outlines, document search, library assignment grade and narrative about what you learned about evaluating a website; cyber-assignments, and freewrites.
You can also include a section called Appendices for extra credit assignments. This can include a graded essay from another class and discipline written this semester (if the other teacher doesn't mind. Ask and have them to write me a note stating this.)
LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION
We are meeting in L202E for the rest of the week: Tuesday-Thursday, May 12-14. The research essays were due last week for the first peer review. The deadline was changed to accommodate those students who needed more time. What this means though, is students will not be able to revise their research essay if they are submitted after Monday, May 18, unless it doesn't receive a passing grade.
The Pidd essays seem deceptively simple, but for those students who have not done the grammar exercises, miss class, come in late and disruptive or sit quietly and don't ask questions, he or she will not pass this course. Successful students are engaged and active participants in the learning process.
The Pidd Effect will not become evident until students matriculate from this course and find themselves confronted with writing situations and are able to address them, especially the academic writing situation, with ease and confidence. The student in English 1A can write a 4 page essay with competence. The graduate from said course can address a thought-provoking topic, analyze issues and use critical analysis based on sound evidence and criteria. The English 1A student is a scholar who is not intimidated by the unknown because she knows how to ask questions and find answers to those questions.
We'll go through the Paraphrase package also tomorrow if we have time. For the second portfolio essay on revision, read the Bedford handbook section on the topic (it's in the Writing Process) and see what is said about the revision process. You can also use any other college writing style book as a resource. Compare what you learn to your own revision process and incorporate this information into your essay.) Bedford is on the desktop on all the computers in the L-Building. If you have any of Diana Hacker's handbooks it's in there also.
We did peer reviews today. Hassan and Jennifer were able to use Microsoft Comment to give each other feedback. (Comment is located in Review, in Office 2007, and Insert in Office 2003). Readers highlights what they want to comment on and click the comment icon and a bubble appears in the margin for the comment.
Students can utilize the Writing Center staff for peer reviews. Share the assignment and ask the reviewer to note whether or not the questions were answered. You can see if staff will use comment. Include this essay in your portfolio. We will also utilize the read-aloud-protocol this week. It is a review process where the reader externalizes their thoughts and tells you what they are thinking as they read your work.
We will talk about Parallel Structure tomorrow, write the SV Agreement essay on Thursday, and Hootenanny on Monday, May 18 together. We'll write the Parallel Structure essay on Wednesday or Thursday next week. Again, the Pidd essays were supposed to be review, not new information.
Portfolio Assistance Workshop, Thursday, May 28
Next week is the last week of classes. I will make myself available the following week, Thursday, May 28 for a few hours to students for all classes who'd like help assembling the portfolio. I will be between L-235 and L-202E from 8-11 AM. Bring your assignments in a digital format and we can put the portfolio together. I can also look at the two portfolio essays.
Finals at Tilly's is out. We might have to have a breakfast potluck, if too many students need technical support for their presentations. Let me know if you need projectors, laptops, TV/VCRs, DVD players, or anything else. I have to reserve it, so the sooner I know the better.
Revisions are consuming too much of my time, so I am going to have to limit the revisions to essay C- and below beginning today, so I can stay on top of the assignments. On Pidd, if there are no revisions necessary I will give students a pass. Pidd essays have to be perfect. The problem I am noticing is that students are not paying attention to the details--a missed period in a works cited entry makes the entire works cited page wrong. I am going to stop being an editor.
The goal of English 1A is to produce sophisticated writers and thinkers who know how to utilize multiple resources for innovative and creative discourse. The English 1A student is on able to synthesize this information and come up with unique and different conclusions based on what she has learned. The ability to manage information is crucial and this is why the MLA
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