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Current Reading:
Prentice Hall Guide for College Writers
"Chapter Two: Purposes and Processes
for Writing"
and
"Chapter Three:
"Techniques for Writing
about Observations"
The Perfect
Storm: "The Flemish Cap" in The
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Announcement:
One of our students, Ryan Vanatta, has been
looking for his lost computer flash drive that he left in room 811 on Monday
morning. It is a 512K size, with some blue color on it. If you locate it, his
phone number is 209-9177, and he is offering a $20 reward. It has a lot of
important files on it.
In Class Agenda:
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Troubleshoot homework questions, problems. Group review of 3.3
bibliographies (which are due today). Help your group members correct
format and typos. Review of
formatting. |
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Discuss memory writes from Monday.
Have them ready! |
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Turn in homework -- just place on
table at the front of the room. |
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Try again to get into WebCT. They now have our class
linked. |
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4.1.
Boolean
handout, Boolean
presentation. If you'd
like more information, check out this
link.
Take notes, write a quick summary of what you learned. |
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Check into WebCT, go to
"assessments" and take the MLA quiz! |
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4.2.
The Perfect Storm discussion. Answer questions in
handout.
4.3. Do a "tour" write, using transitional
phrases. Return to class in 30 minutes
(4:10), briefly share your tour writes; turn in. |
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4.4. Review of
Summary.
Take notes, write a quick about what you learned. A summary of the
article you saved from your library search last Monday is due next week.
If you forgot to keep one, search and find another! |
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Discuss homework for Day 5. |
Due Today:
From
Library
Assignment Two:
3.4. Bibliography with entries properly
formatted. This bibliography should be to journals which you have found in EbscoHost in your
second library assignment. Here is a sample.
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3.5.
Library Report
3.6.
Index card due with the name of the journal from which you will be selecting articles
to summarize this semester. Write a sentence or two about why the
information this publication will be useful to you. For a reminder about
this, check "Semi
Weekly Summaries on your Syllabus.
Homework due on
Monday:
(ignore the items in yellow text)
Review information on
Sentence Fragments in your text on pages 716-18. Be
ready to score well on a quiz over this topic next week!
4.6.
I always
learn a lot about my
students from their writing and class discussion, but they learn very little about me. Follow the
"About MzH" link on my webpage, and read about my background.
Then compose at least one question about what you find
there. Put that on an index card and turn it in on
Monday. I'll answer some of them in class next week.
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4.7. Print out and
read "The
Right Chemistry" by Anastasia Toufexis. This is an example of an
Explanatory Essay, which will be assigned soon. Keep this in your binder, ready
for discussion in class on Monday. I recommend reading this article
more than once! Then SUMMARIZE this article using the techniques we
discussed in the Summary presentation above. Have this nicely formatted
and ready to turn in on Monday! |
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Make sure you have your textbook and have read the first chapter. We're
having a quiz on Monday!
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4.8. In your The Perfect Storm reading
assignment, underline or highlight the portions of the text
that stand out for you in terms of the writing.
Select one paragraph from this selection
and write 250 words about what you liked (or perhaps what
you didn't like!). Don't simply
repeat the selection, explain why you liked or disliked this
section of writing. This document should be typed and should reflect
your best grammar and spelling.
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Read the current chapter in The Perfect Storm.
Underline similes (see pg. 87-88 of your text), metaphors (also
see pg. 87-88 of your text) and transitional words.
Notice the areas of the text with detailed descriptions (54-55).
Look for definitions (see page 86). Create a document in which you give me
example of the five elements underlined here.
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Review the
Remembering
Essay requirements. Decide if you would like to continue writing about
your experience used in the first memory write, or expand on another one.
Be ready to report on your topic on Monday, and have at least two new or
additional pages written.
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| Discuss Remembering Essay.
Your textbook discusses in Chapter
Four the use of memory techniques. In this assignment we will incorporate
memory techniques into a Remembering Essay.
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View assignment details
here. Be sure to read
all of the assignment details before you begin to write.
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View one example of a remembering essay
here
and another essay
here. Which do you
think was the most successful? |
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four pages (1000 words). Use the memory write we started in class, or
use another memory. A first draft is due in class on Monday the 16th
(one week), and a polished final draft due on Wednesday the 18th. |
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PLEASE TURN OFF YOUR
COMPUTER BEFORE YOU LEAVE!
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