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Class:Section 71 - ENG 112 - Spring 2007/Fourth Homepage
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Come to Adam and Tom's Concert Tonight (Last Tuesday) At 8 at Bezanson in the Fine Arts Center!!
AAARGH! I wanted to; did you get a decent crowd? I hope so. If anyone went, I'll give you extra credit if you post a review. :-) Give us (me!) more warning next time. Anyone else up to cool and groovy stuff we might want to know about? steph (COM) 20:48, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Penguin Points
Hey all - there are five steps for each category to earn back the baseline grammar points from the Unit One Identity papers.
- Label the category of error (such as contractions, commas, diction, etc)
- Find one example of this kind of error in your paper and write/type it in the original, incorrect form.
- Find this category in the Penguin Handbook, identify the page number, and explain the reasoning.
- Rewrite your original sentence.
Announcements
Writing Center
Remember them? The Writing Center is in the Learning Commons (basement of the library), and they can be of help with those rewrites and/or the next paper. Take advantage! steph (COM) 20:50, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Withdrawing
From the English Department: "Students have until Tuesday, March 27 to drop a class with a 'W'." If you have any question about your performance to date, please be assertive and contact me. Remember your individual appointment with me next week! steph (COM) 11:49, 2 March 2007 (EST)
Academic Advising
Do you feel like you are wandering aimlessly in the bustle of this large University? Check out Undergraduate Academic Advising. They know their stuff! steph (COM) 11:49, 2 March 2007 (EST)
If you enjoy writing
and want to engage with a handful of brilliant people, register for the " UMass Writing Forum.
Course Quotes
Day 1: James Carey
Day 4: Text-Wrestling
Day 8: Penguin Handbook
Lesson Plans and Homework
8 March 2007, a wiki day
6 March 2007
1 March 2007
27 February 2007
22 February 2007
20 February 2007
15 February 2007, a wiki day
13 February 2007
8 Febuary 2007
6 Febuary 2007
1 Febuary 2007
30 January 2007
Quizzes
Quiz 1 was assigned on Day 2 about "a proposed course wiki."
Quiz 1 Results
Quiz 2 Prep
Quiz 2 Results
Quiz 3 Directions
Quiz 3 Results
Syllabus and Grading Policy
The general requirements and syllabus for all sections of English 112, including this one (#71) are available from the English Department's webpage. The required course texts are listed, along with an introduction, goals, and philosophy of this course.
The specific grading schema for Section 71 is two tiered. Half the credit revolves around points you lose for not doing the basic assignments and other commonly accepted elements of being a committed learner. The other half of credit involves the actual quality of your writing, with a particular emphasis on improvement.
Identity Narrative (Unit One)
The English Department has, over the years, refined five different formal assignment criteria for this particular personal essay. It is an essay in that there should be some "point"; it is a narrative in the sense that your life needs to provide the support for that point.
Here are descriptions of the five formal choices for your identity narrative/essay:
Stark Steph
My first serious draft identity piece is a response to the movie, The Jacket. Students are yet to be impressed. :-) Check out their feedback to me.
No Bullshit
The second draft describing my Identity has benefitted tremendously from student feedback. Is it done? No...it is still short (572 words), but where is expansion necessary? For extra credit, please critique me again! steph (COM) 01:06, 8 March 2007 (EST)
Interacting with Texts: Unit Two
The class voted on Geeta Kothari's If You Are What You Eat, Then What Am I?" and Gloria Anzaldua's "How to Tame a Wild Tongue" to read for the second unit essays on interacting with Texts.
more on curriculum
The University Senate authorized a committee of faculty to spend all of last year reviewing the Writing Program. I pulled out a few excerpts: Writing Program Background.
inclement weather
Will UMass close?
The Instructor
Find out more about the teacher from her UMassWiki user page.
anonymous feedback
How is this class proceeding? Students wrote informal feedback on the tenth day of class in response to two questions, What isn't working? and What is working?
mythic origins of that mullet
Students demonstrate their creativity: target - Steph.
Play
The instructor occasionally writes about teaching (you!) in her weblog: reflexivity].
too cool for school
I wrote about you being too cool for school. (Actually, I am already impressed with your potential as writers. This is good.) :-) steph (COM) 09:13, 7 February 2007 (EST)
laying groundwork for research
This post is specific to the Identity Narrative but the principle applies to each and every paper that you want to have taken seriously by its audience. steph (COM) 00:42, 2 March 2007 (EST)
the future...who? Doing what?
We are making progress with two distinct conversations: one about learning & teaching; and another about the meanings of identity. The skill of critical thinking is being developed through both these conversations. I wrote in my blog today about the relation of the future to/with
- a) concepts about and
- b) the construction of
Introducing...
The Wiki. Yep. I am poking a wee bit of fun at those of you who are shy of technology. We can learn this together. :-) Meanwhile, I don't think I ever posted a link to The Machine is Us/ing Us, which is a fancy sales pitch for Web 2.0 technology but ALSO seriously questions what all this online interaction is doing. Finally, I really want you to watch Did You Know, a video about projected trends. steph (COM) 22:09, 5 March 2007 (EST)
why belief evolved
As if you need another example! I wrote this for today's blogpost and thought it might serve as an example of how to read an article, research a few points, frame the larger conversation, and then position myself (as author) through an explicit claim. steph (COM) 20:55, 6 March 2007 (EST)
Homepage Archives
First Homepage built from Day 1 to Day 4 (January 3 - to February 9, 2007)
Second Homepage from Day 4 to Day 7 (February 9 - 20, 2007).
Third Homepage from Day 8 to Day 10 (February 22 - March 1, 2007).
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