Thanks to the COM352 students for contributing a bunch of new pages! I'll be moving these pages into the main area of the wiki soon.

From UMassWiki

"The dynamic nature of the rhetorical [situation] is the key to understanding how an audience is persuaded" (p. 7).

YOU must "become aware of the historical dimensions of particular subjects for particular audiences" (p. 10).

"The Rhetorical Situation"

Penguin Handbook, Custom Edition

Pearson Custom Publishing

Boston. 2007.

Announcements

Special Project?

Are you feeling ambitious yet? I am!  :-) Let me know if we should apply for $200 or not. steph (COM) 17:24, 24 February 2007 (EST)

NOTE!

Four of you earned baseline points for posting answers in Notes on Identity. (Although one of you forgot to sign. Sigh.) Also, for the reports on the feedback, I've created a page where these can be posted. Thanks, and remember to include your "signature" for credit! steph (COM) 19:15, 20 February 2007 (EST)

Need help now?

You have two resources available to you, the formal choice of the University's Writing Center (go there) and the informal choice of an anonymous forum created by a few of my former students (go there too).

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)

Writing Center

A message from Director, Pat Zukowski:

Please inform your students about the Writing Center and share its hours and locations with them. The Learning Commons Writing Center will open on February 12, 2006. Hours are from 10:00 am - 10:00 pm, Monday - Wednesday; 10:00 am - 7:00 pm, Thursdays, and 2:00 pm - 7:00 pm on Sundays. The Learning Commons Writing Center is located on the Main floor of the DuBois Library near the Calipari Room.

All graduate and undergraduate students are welcome to bring any type of writing they are working on to share with our trained instructors. We also assist students with a wide variety of application letters and personal statements. Visitors to the center should bring both a paper copy AND an electronic version on diskette or CD.

Note: the link to The Learning Center includes additional helpful information about the library's array of resources and support services. steph (COM) 11:43, 5 February 2007 (EST)

A Forum for Feedback

Brainchild of last semester's stellar wiki-team of Martel, Chalek, and Kinzler:

Chance to be Published

The last day to submit essays for next year's Anthology of Student Writing is March 15. The English Department will only accept the essays along with the signed permission slip from your instructor. steph (COM) 13:44, 6 February 2007 (EST)

Lesson Plans and Homework

1 March 2007
27 February 2007
22 February 2007
20 February 2007
15 February 2007
13 February 2007
8 Febuary 2007
6 Febuary 2007
1 Febuary 2007
30 January 2007

Identity Narrative (Unit 1)

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:

“The Contexts that Make Me” or

“The Self as Writer” or

“The Self in Contradiction” or

“Blowing Things Into Proportion” or

“My Self in Words”

Stark Steph

I've been working on an identity piece as a response to the movie, The Jacket. Students are yet to be impressed. :-) Check out their feedback to me.

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

Course Quotes

Day 1: James Carey
Day 4: Text-Wrestling
Day 8: Penguin Handbook

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.

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.

mythic origins of that mullet

Students demonstrate their creativity: target - Steph.

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).