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ENG 100: Enhanced Composition I Section G4: Wednesday/Friday, 11:00 am�12:15 pm, North 212; Friday 12:30�1:20 pm, Bradley AB (Lab) Section K4: Tuesday/Thursday, 1:00�2:15 pm, North 213; Tuesday 2:30�3:20 pm, Bradley AB (Lab) 
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Bradley Hall, Y-203 e-mail: [email protected] |
Important Announcements and Updates
Monday,
21 December:
I have finished reading and evaluating
your
research essays project;
of those who
submitted their essay, fully thirteen did not include copies of their sources as
required. Remarkably, another four students did not bother to underline their
thesis statements, despite being told innumerable times that this is required.
Your final grades for the semester will be posted at MyNCC (login required) and are also listed below by ID number. These grades contain generous scaling, including bonus points and adjustments, and all extra credit opportunities were announced in class and were also posted here as well as on the main page. Therefore, do not email me to ask about �extra credit� or other things you can do to bring your average up since you were �almost passing� or �just one point away� from the A and so on; in reality, you were closer to five or six points away.
Research essay folders may be picked up in the Spring 2015 semester, by appointment only. Enjoy the break.
| ENG 100 G4 | ||||||||||
| Student ID | Quizzes/ Exercises | In-Class Writing | Essay 1: Narration | Essay 2: Process | Essay 3: Comp./Cont. | Essay 4: Argument | Midterm (In-class) | Research Essay | Final Average | Final Grade |
| N00727126 | W | |||||||||
| N00804001 | 99.4 | 100.0 | A� | A | C+ | B+ | B+ | A | 100.0 | A |
| N00825163 | UW | |||||||||
| N00828433 | 61.9 | 94.9 | B� | C� | C� | C� | B� | B+ | 84.0 | B |
| N00829883 | 55.1 | 71.6 | B� | 0 | B� | D | C+ | F | 59.7 | D |
| N00830029 | 16.3 | 74.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | C�/D | 0 | 16.1 | F |
| N00830727 | 82.5 | 90.8 | B� | C | B� | C� | B+ | C | 89.8 | A |
| N00831400 | 59.4 | 87.5 | C� | C+ | D | F | C� | D� | 72.1 | C |
| N00831860 | UW | |||||||||
| N00833303 | 71.1 | 87.9 | C+ | C� | B+ | C� | C+ | C+ | 77.3 | C+ |
| N00834338 | 75.9 | 88.4 | C� | C | B | C | B� | C� | 85.8 | B+ |
| N00834595 | 87.8 | 96.8 | C+ | B� | B | C� | B | A� | 89.9 | A |
| N00835320 | 31.9 | 76.4 | C+ | B | B+ | C� | D | C�/D | 72.3 | C |
| N00836005 | 77.4 | 76.0 | B� | C� | F | F | C | B� | 74.0 | C |
| N00836278 | 87.9 | 99.1 | C+ | C�/D | D | C� | C | B� | 85.8 | B+ |
| N00837594 | 71.4 | 96.6 | B� | C� | C� | F | C+ | F | 76.9 | C+ |
| N00837839 | 68.2 | 89.3 | C� | B� | B� | F | C� | C | 70.6 | C |
| N00838545 | 36.7 | 91.3 | B | C+ | C� | C | C+ | C�/D | 81.0 | B |
| N00840598 | 76.6 | 89.9 | C+ | B� | D | F | C | C | 76.8 | C+ |
| N00841217 | 88.1 | 94.2 | B� | C | C | D | F | B | 84.5 | B |
| MAX: | 99.4 | 100.0 | A� | A | B+ | B+ | B+ | A | 100.0 | A |
| MIN: | 16.3 | 71.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.1 | F |
| MEDIAN: | 71.4 | 89.9 | C+ | C | C� | D | C | C | 77.3 | C+ |
| MODE: | #N/A | #N/A | B� | 0 | 0 | F | C | 0 | #N/A | #N/A |
| AVERAGE: | 67.5 | 88.5 | D� | D� | D� | F | C� | D� | 76.3 | C |
| ENG 100 K4 | ||||||||||
| Student ID | Quizzes/ Exercises | In-Class Writing | Essay 1: Narration | Essay 2: Process | Essay 3: Comp./Cont. | Essay 4: Argument | Midterm (In-class) | Research Essay | Final Average | Final Grade |
| N00815918 | UW | |||||||||
| N00826566 | 73.2 | 84.0 | C+ | B� | B+ | F | B | B� | 82.1 | B |
| N00828662 | 57.4 | 89.0 | A | B� | B� | F | B+ | A� | 82.8 | B |
| N00828752 | 58.5 | 83.7 | B | C+ | C | C� | C+ | A� | 83.4 | B |
| N00829110 | 67.4 | 87.9 | B� | C� | 0 | F | C | A | 69.1 | D+ |
| N00829552 | 65.1 | 89.7 | C� | C�/D | D | D | C | B� | 83.5 | B |
| N00830333 | 79.1 | 90.9 | C� | D | D | C� | C+ | D� | 81.6 | B |
| N00830395 | UW | |||||||||
| N00832193 | 88.4 | 97.5 | B | C | D | B | C | A | 93.4 | A |
| N00832605 | 90.0 | 86.1 | B+ | B� | B� | B+ | A� | A | 91.6 | A |
| N00834120 | 80.1 | 99.4 | B+ | B� | B+ | B | B� | A | 100.0 | A |
| N00834804 | 88.5 | 100.0 | B� | C+ | D | F | C+ | A | 88.6 | B+ |
| N00835088 | 53.7 | 89.7 | C+ | C+ | C� | C+ | C+ | A� | 88.7 | B+ |
| N00836289 | 76.4 | 92.1 | C+ | C | B | C� | C+ | B+ | 90.1 | A |
| N00836854 | 96.2 | 87.0 | B+ | F | 0 | 0 | C�/D | 0 | 45.8 | F |
| N00838703 | 95.7 | 95.0 | A� | B+ | C�/D | C� | B+ | A� | 94.1 | A |
| N00839092 | 89.1 | 85.3 | A� | B | C+ | C | C | C+ | 85.7 | B+ |
| N00840007 | 73.3 | 90.6 | C� | C� | C� | C�/D | C� | B+ | 87.2 | B+ |
| N00840249 | 71.2 | 84.9 | B+ | B+ | B+ | C� | A� | A | 91.7 | A |
| N00843455 | 61.7 | 91.2 | C+ | C+ | B� | C� | C� | B+ | 89.1 | B+ |
| MAX: | 96.2 | 100.0 | A | B+ | B+ | B+ | A� | A | 100.0 | A |
| MIN: | 53.7 | 83.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | F | 0 | 45.8 | F |
| MEDIAN: | 74.9 | 89.7 | B� | C+ | C� | C� | C+ | A� | 87.9 | B+ |
| MODE: | #N/A | #N/A | B+ | C+ | D | C� | C | 0 | #N/A | #N/A |
| AVERAGE: | 75.8 | 90.2 | C+ | C� | D� | F | C+ | C | 84.9 | B |
Friday,
18 December:
We are done.
The final Research essay project was due in class on Wednesday, Dec. 16 (G4) or Thursday, Dec. 17 (K4). As per instructions, the essay had to be submitted in a research folder, including copies of all sources used. You were instructed repeatedly to print out or photocopy all secondary sources, and highlight all relevant passages, whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. A surprisingly high number of students did not include copies of their sources and so should receive grades of zero for the assignment; instead, I have merely deducted ten percent off of their research essay grade.
As announced in class, grades will be posted online when
available; at
MyNCC
(login
required) and here by ID number.
I will not reply to students' emails asking for their grades.
Research essay folders may be picked up in the Spring 2015 semester, by appointment only. Enjoy the break.
Monday,
14 December:
I have added up the
Extra Credit opportunities
announced in class and posted on the
main page this semester.
Students could have earned as much as fifteen extra points; this is the
equivalent of one and a half letter grades. Therefore,
do not ask now at the end of the semester for �extra
credit�
to bring your average up!
Remember that a finished, typed copy of the completed
Research essay must be brought to class on
Tuesday, Dec. 15 (K4). This should be
a clear, well-written, properly documented (MLA
format) argumentative essay of at least five to seven pages (1250-1500
words minimum), with a cover page and
Works Cited page (cover
page and Works Cited do not count
toward the five- to seven-page requirement) on the topic you chose for your
argumentative essay. That is, you will now further
develop your essay by adding additional sources and refining and expanding your
argument.
The research paper must be argumentative (persuasive), with a clear, explicit,
and assertive thesis statement, and must use a minimum of three to five
secondary sources; secondary sources must be scholarly/professional
criticism or analysis, not summaries, reviews, or �analysis� from sites such as
e-Notes, SparkNotes,
Wikipedia,
123HelpMe, or Gradesaver.com. Instead, use the library
resources, including the
available electronic databases such as
Academic Search Complete,
InfoTrac General OneFile,
Lexis-Nexis Academic,
Opposing Viewpoints in Context,
Points of View Reference Center, and
CQ Researcher, to locate appropriate sources. (To access the databases
from home, click on the individual database link. Then, when prompted, enter
your username (N #) and password (PIN).) You must include at least one short
quotation, one long�block�quotation, and one paraphrase, and these sources must
be properly documented (utilizing
MLA format), and
integrated into your writing smoothly and correctly.
The final Research essay project is due in class on Wednesday, Dec. 16 (G4) or Thursday, Dec. 17 (K4). The essay must be submitted in a research folder, including your Preliminary Draft (see above) and copies of all sources used. Be sure to print out or photocopy all secondary sources, and highlight all relevant passages, whether quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. Failure to submit a complete research essay in a folder according to these instructions will be grounds for failure on the assignment. In addition, plagiarism, either in whole or in part, will result in automatic failure (a grade of zero) for the assignment, just as for any essay, and therefore likely failure for the course as well.
Monday,
7 December:
As we head into the last two weeks of the semester, it is crucial that students
stay on track. You should be aware of the following due dates, all previously
announced in class and posted on the
main page:
Sunday, 29 November (modified Monday, 30 November):
97 students were originally registered for ENG 100 (G4 and K4) and 101 (CC and EB).
Of these, only four students have officially withdrawn.
Another six have stopped attending, and will receive grades of UW.
This leaves 87 students still attending at least semi-regularly.
- Of those 87 students, only 61 students (approximately 70%) submitted Essay 4 on time.
- Eleven of those essays, another 13%, were off-topic. The most common error was writing on Alternative Energy without specifying what type, even though the instructions specifically stated that the topic required students to argue pro or con, for or against, one specific type of alternative energy.
- Another five students, almost 6%, submitted essays that were not even close to the minimum word count or page length, although I specifically stated that essays must be at least 750-1,000 words, or 3-4 pages.
As a reminder, revisions of Essay 3 are due Dec. 1 (Section K4) or Dec. 2 (G4). As explained in class last week, Essay 3 is a new essay, worth 15% of your final grade, and therefore requires more work than just a few minutes of "correcting" a previous essay. You are strongly encouraged to resubmit Essay 3, this time demonstrating significant change in both content and organization in addition to whatever slight editorial changes you may have made. However, in addition to submitting the revision along with the previous draft(s) of the essay, do not forget that you are required to submit one typed page detailing the changes made, in the following pattern:
Tuesday, 17 November:
In addition, as announced in class, specified on the handout, and posted here and on the main page, Essay 3 was due Session 21, Nov. 17 (Section K4) or Nov. 18 (G4). As announced in class and as per the handout, an addition revision of either Essay 1 (Narration/Description) or Essay 2 (Process), or another comparison-contrast essay from the list above, on one of the topics you did not choose for your midterm. In either case, the original graded essay and/or draft(s) or the midterm (and midterm revisions, if completed) must also be submitted. Essays submitted without these required materials will not be graded, and you will receive a zero for the assignment. If you submitted Essay 3 today without them, you have until noon tomorrow, Wednesday, to have them in my mailbox in Bradley Hall.
Finally, this is the last week to submit late or missing online exercises from October or November. The online exercises are all posted on the lab schedule; the following are the ones you may still submit with the session on which they were originally posted:
Lab session 6: Shifts in tense and mood, Shifts in subject and voice, Misplaced modifiers: Unclear placement, Misplaced modifiers: Awkward placement, Dangling modifiers
Lab session 9: Connotation, Standard English, Unbiased and Gender-Neutral Language, Empty Words and Repetition, Choosing the Correct Word (Spelling) 1, Choosing the Correct Word (Spelling) 2
Lab session 10: Commas 1, Commas 2, Semi-colons, Apostrophes 1, Apostrophes 2, Quotation Marks 1, Quotation Marks 2, Colons, Dashes, and Parentheses, Italics (Underlining), Spelling
Note that the last set has just been assigned; therefore you have one full week�until the lab next week�to complete them.
Monday, 16 November:
Alternatively, y
ou may write another comparison-contrast essay from the list provided, on one of the topics you did not choose for your midterm. That is, if you contrasted two television shows, you may now only write about the movie and book versions of the same story or two similar fictional characters, ideally from the same genre. Note that if you changed topics for your revision, then both of those choices are now proscribed. This must be a persuasive contrast essay and must assert something significant about the subjects, that one of the two is in some specific way �superior� to the other (for example, �A is funnier than B because...�). You must avoid �the standard model� and adhere to the following form:Thesis: An assertion concerning the subjects chosen for your essay, indicating the specific significant difference between them and the major divisions of your essay.
For example:
Although A and B are (similar in some way or ways), A (is superior
in some way to) B because of (major criteria: the divisions of your essay).
Although Batman and Superman are both internationally famous superheroes,
Batman is a human being and therefore a far better superhero than Superman;
Bruce Wayne's intelligence, his self-developed skills, and his much cooler toys
make him more believable and realistic than the alien, Superman.
Topic sentence 1: An assertion about how one single criterion, your first major division, distinguishes the two subjects.
For example:
The first way in which A (is superior in some way to) B is (first
major criterion):
First, while Superman is undoubtedly stronger than Batman, due to his
extraterrestrial origin, Bruce Wayne is far more intelligent than his
Metropolis-based competitor.
Topic sentence 2: An assertion about how one single criterion, your second major division, distinguishes the two subjects.
For example:
In addition, A (is superior in some way to) B because (second
major criterion):
In addition, since Superman came from Krypton, his powers are merely a
seemingly magical result of his extraterrestrial origin, whereas Bruce Wayne has
developed his own strength, agility, and crime-fighting abilities through
constant training and practice.
Topic sentence 3: An assertion about how one single criterion, your third major division, distinguishes the two subjects.
For example:
More importantly, A is also (superior in third major criterion to)
B:
Superman is completely dependent on the powers he receives from Earth's yellow
sun, and is totally helpless when confronted with Kryptonite, whereas Bruce
Wayne as Batman has an almost unlimited supply of wonderful weapons, devices,
and means of transportation he has developed.
And so on....
You must also submit the midterm (and midterm revisions, if completed) to demonstrate which topics you had previously written on.
In addition, be sure you have read
Douglas, �The
Dark Side of Science� (Bullock 124-127);
there will be a quiz and/or an in-class writing assignment.
Wednesday, 11 November:
Also, read
Douglas, �The
Dark Side of Science� (Bullock 124-127)
for Session 21, as there will be a quiz.
Remember that
Essay 3 is due Session 21, Nov. 17 (Section K4) or Nov. 18 (G4), and
Essay 4 Session 24, Nov. 24 (K4) or Nov. 25 (G4).
Details of each have been posted on the
main page.
In addition, I have finished reading all of your submissions.
This includes revisions of
Essay 2 and the Midterm essay, responses to
�Some Like
It Hot,� and the
Nursery rhyme assignment.
You will get everything back next class, and be able to see your current
projected grades as well.
Finally, I did not previously post the best responses from the diction exercise; below are a few of my favorites, including several from previous semesters. I have not edited or revised any of these works; words including asterisks below were so written in the students' work. Also, note how many students begin their colloquial translations the same way.
| Colloquial: | Pretentious: |
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Alright, so; Jack and Jill are walking up this hill 'cuz it's leg day and they
decide to get their buzz on, so they get some liquor ("water" for the kids) and
start chuggin' it. So Jack comes to it and is like "Whoa, Jill; how blitzed was I?! I might be concussed up in this piece!" And they went home like ASAP. Then Jack decides he's gonna sleep off this brutal hangover and he wraps his head, just t o be safe. He was like "vinegar and brown paper are pretty bitchin' so I'll use that; get outta here with this 'gauze pad' bullshit!" So this sparkling shit be shining down on me like I'm in love with it. Bitch Im higher than a kite of course. imma be staring at chu.. Lil Miss Muffet went to go sit on some shit to eat real quick when some lil bum-ass spider wanna come and scare the shit out of this bitch.
Yo Mary had a little lamb, son, Yo, der wuz this gian egg that sat on this wall this giant egg busted its fxxxen a$$ the kings ridarz and his boys tried to fix that giant egg but he splatterd and broke so bad that he couldn�t be put back together again.
Yo, dere
was 5 little piggies
Yo tell me why
Yo, come here son I gotta story to tell ya.
Harold perched himself on high |
Pocket-sized, underaged minor Muffet took the weight off her feet, resting lowly on the terrain, breakfasting on a thick substance that forms when milk becomes sour and that is used to make cheese; lengthways moved towards [her] a small creature that has eight legs and usually creates a web of sticky threads in which it catches insects for food, parked itself downwards adjacent to the girl in question, terrified the Mistress Muffet toward another direction. An injudicious ovum perched on a parapet, that ovum then plummeted off of that bulwark. All the crown header's steeds, and all of his fellows could not sync the ovum once more. Scintillate, scintillate, miniscule hot ball of gas that appears as a miniature glistening luminous energy in the upper atmosphere of the earth. Causes one to query the existence of the unknown object incandescent in the murky witching hour. It is positioned in an incredibly sky-scraping placement in the twilight. Its scintillating shimmer illuminates in the dusk, making one become bewildered and query its existence. A duo of Homo Sapiens, each of representing their respective genders owning simplistic names, Jack and Jill, embarked on a journey up a non-descript esker to retrieve a certain amount of the compounded substance of hydrogen and oxygen. The male of the duo, Jack, had collapsed and had suffered extensive damage to his cranium and Jill eftsoons descended in an equally rough and crude manner. The child had situated himself into the normal bipedal stance known to the species, Homo Spaiens, and forthwith set off towards his abode as swiftly as his injured frame would allow. Arriving at his place of dwelling, Jack deposited humself in his bed while treating the wound to his cranium with a substance called vinegar combined with a variation on papyrus that held a brown coloration. Utilize your oars to displace the fresh water that is bearing our vessel to engage in motion, in a relaxed and calming manner, down the tributary. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically! Our existence is nothing more than a series of images, sounds, and experiences initiated in the mind during the REM cycle of sleep. As I gazed into the astronomical firmament, I became mesmerized by a brilliant luminary that enthralled my trentonomous sicoglicenerals. Thus was the initial luminary I fixated my ocular organs upon throughout these hours of darkness. I may perhaps anticipate for implementation. An infinitesimal arachnid ascended a protrusive spigot that emanated a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Liquid precipitation descended, and the arachnid plummeted forthwith. The self-luminous celestial body, at the point equidistant between extremes in our solar system, emerged and desiccated the aforementioned precipitation. The arachnid embarked anew with its previous endeavor. The miniscule vermin, of the family arachnid, ascended a hollow shaft associated with the deterrence of hydrogen bonded to oxygen that comprises a molecular structure in liquid state. Due to precipitation, the said arachnid was taxied downwards and came to an end in a perpendicularly state to the afore-mentioned shaft. Abruptly afterwards, the largest known star in the solar system directed its effect upon the residual precipitation and the above mentioned fauna reconvened its vertical ascension previously attempted. The miniscule arachnid was violently flushed down the drain by severe meteorological conditions. After the storm system dissipated and the aqueous hydrogen dioxide evaporated into its gaseous state, the hapless arachnid somehow managed to escape its doom. Propel your vessel down the rivulet, while joyfully examining existence. As the daylight comes to a conclusion, the grand celestial bodies of twilight become apparent in the upper atmosphere. I covet the chance to be able to take into my possession the desired outcome I beseech from the blazing heavenly bodies above.
Oh, ball-shaped
gaseous celestial body |
Sunday, 8 November:
In addition,
the due dates for both
Essay 3 (Compare-Contrast)
and
Essay 4 (Argument)
have been changed, as announced in class:
Essay 3
has been moved from Session 20 to 21, Nov. 17 (Section K4) or Nov. 18 (G4).
Essay 4 has been moved from Session 22
to 24, Nov. 24 (K4) or Nov. 25 (G4).
Thursday, 5 November:
Also, note that I have changed the due dates for both Essay 3 (Compare-Contrast) and Essay 4 (Argument), as announced in class.
Wednesday, 4 November:
Be sure to read �Some Like It Hot� for next class; there may be a quiz.
Monday, 2 November:
Remember that for next class, you must read
�Audience� and �Genre� (
In the Lab there will be another in-class writing assignment. You might consider the following passage:
A trio of pestiferous rodentia, of the family Muridae, genus Mus, all equally afflicted with extreme visual impairment: observe their locomotion at high velocity! This afore-mentioned triad pursued the domestic partner of the agricultural worker, who responded in a retaliatory fashion by removing their posterior appendages utilizing a large kitchen implement intended to dismember prepared animals preparatory to consumption. Has such an extraordinary spectacle ever heretofore intruded itself upon your ocular organs?
Online exercises (Connotation, Standard English, Unbiased and Gender-Neutral Language, Empty Words and Repetition, Choosing the Correct Word (Spelling) 1, and Choosing the Correct Word (Spelling) 2) are to be completed as homework and submitted according to instructions after class.
Monday, October 26:
In addition, remember that revisions of Essay 2 are due this week; revisions must be submitted with the original graded essay attached. Students who did not submit Essay 2 on time have received a zero for the assignment, and only those who followed instructions and brought a completed essay to my office or to the Writing Center may submit a second-chance essay.
Finally, remember that the last day for automatic withdrawal is Friday, November 6.
Monday, October 19:
Thursday, October 15:
As announced in class this week and posted below, students who
did not submit
Essay 2 on time may bring a completed essay to my office to review it
together with me during
office hours, or make an appointment in the
Writing Center and review it with a tutor, revise it, and submit both versions (the revised and the original) on the date
to be announced for revisions.
In addition, further Extra Credit opportunities have been posted on the main page; this brings the possible total up to twelve points so far.
Wednesday, October 14:
If you did not submit
Essay 2 on time, you have a zero
for the assignment. As per the
syllabus, late
papers will not be accepted except under extraordinary circumstances with
appropriate documentation.
However, students may receive at least partial credit for the assignment by doing the following:
Complete the essay as per the instructions and on one of the assigned topics. (See main page.)
Bring the completed essay to my office to review it together with me during office hours, or make an appointment in the Writing Center and review it with a tutor; be sure to bring a copy of the assignment instructions with you if you go to the Writing Center.
Revise the essay based on my input or that of the tutor. Submit both versions, the revised and the original, on the due date announced for revisions.
Failure to follow these instructions will result in the grade of zero being made permanent, seriously lowering your final average.
Also,
students in Section K4, remember that
we are not meeting in our normal
room on Thursday, October 15; we will be meeting in CCB 252 instead.
You must have a clear, persuasive, well-written paragraph with you, explaining
what text you would recommend to other students (book, essay, story, poem, and
so on) and why.
Thursday, October 8:
Now that
Essay 1 has been graded and returned,
you have one week to revise. Be sure to refer to the
Revision and Editing Checklist
as well as
�Assessing Your Own
Writing,�
�Getting Response and Revising,�
and �Editing and Proofreading�
(Bullock
269-286), in addition to your class notes.
Revisions must be substantially revised, not merely �corrected� versions
of the original essay, and must be submitted with the original graded essay attached. Evidence of
substantial revision may result in a better grade for the assignment.
Remember that Essay 2 is also due soon; refer to your syllabus for due dates and instructions.
Next week we will be starting the next rhetorical mode, comparison and contrast.
Monday, September 28:
Just a reminder:
Essay 1 is due Session 8, Tuesday
September 29 (K4) or Wednesday, September 30 (G4).
In addition, be sure you have completed the assigned readings before class:
�Explaining a Process� (Bullock 382-386)
Goodheart, �How to Mummify a Pharoah� (Handout).
There will be a quiz. Maybe.
Finally, you may want to look up Howard Carter.
Wednesday, September 23:
You should have read
�All Over
but the Shoutin'� by Rick Bragg for next class; it is in
The Norton Field Guide to Writing,
pages 183�187,
as well as
here and
here.
(In the online texts, scroll down to and start reading with the paragraph
beginning,
�He
was living in a little house in Jacksonville, Alabama.�)
There will be an in-class writing assignment on the text, which should use the
full class period on Thursday and Friday.
Also, Writing Center Grammar Review Workshops start tomorrow.
Finally, only three students sent me emails regarding John Lewis on Monday, October 5; I have will try to ensure that all three of you get seats.
Monday, September 21
As posted on the
main page under Extra Credit,
on Monday, October 5, 2015, Congressman John Lewis,
co-author Andrew Aydin, and graphic artist Nate Powell will be
speaking about March, their graphic memoir trilogy addressing the
American Civil Rights movement. The event will be in CCB MPR (College Center Building,
Multi-Purpose Room) from
2:00�4:00
pm, and seating is extremely limited. If you wish to reserve a seat,
email me by
Tuesday evening, including your name and course and section number, and I will
attempt to reserve a seat for you.
In addition, I may be able to bring one student to the special, closed reception afterwards, at 4:00; if you wish to attend that, let me know as well. If more than one student wishes to go, I will draw names from a hat or something.
On another note, as previously announced in class and posted below, the online exercises were to be completed within one week; in other words, before the third lab session. For Section K4, that means they are due before lab tomorrow; for Section G4, they were due by 12:30 on Friday, September 18. As per the syllabus, late work will not be accepted.
Wednesday, September 16:
Instructions and topic choices for
Essay 1 have been posted on the
main page.
Also, two additional Extra Credit possibilities have been posted on the main page.
Finally, remember that the first set of online exercises must be completed before the next lab.
Friday, September 11:
Your Diagnostic Essays have
been read and
depending on your section number
have either been returned or will be returned next session. If
you did not write one, please use this link
to read the directions, and spend just one hour composing one, to submit next
class. Your essay must be typed (12-point Times New Roman), double-spaced, with one-inch margins,
and stapled when submitted.
Your essay will not receive a grade, nor will it affect your final average
if submitted properly; however, failure to submit the essay will affect
your average.
The link for the In-Class Writing Exercise for the second lab session has been corrected; the document is now available.
Note that the online exercises listed are to be completed before the third lab session.
Finally, the first Extra Credit possibilities have been posted on the main page.
Wednesday, September 2:
As announced in class, next class (Session 2) will be devoted to
the Diagnostic Essay.
Your essay will not receive a grade, nor will it affect your final
average; this is for evaluative purposes only.
You will have approximately one hour to complete this essay.
(Use of �I� is allowed.)
Bring a pen (blue or black ink only) and a notebook and/or supply of 8� x 11" ruled paper, not spiral bound.
Paper torn out of spiral-bound notebooks is not acceptable and will be
returned unread.
See also, General Essay Instructions.
Monday, August 24:
The
main page and
syllabus have been
updated for the Fall 2015 semester.
The lab schedule is still in process, but will be
finalized before the first class meeting.
Thursday, August 13:
The previous semester's page, for Spring 2015, is located
here.
If you are looking for announcements from last semester, they are
here.