Weds 3/4 - happiness at work!

Papers due - Fri 2/27 by email or dropped off in Dr. M's mailbox in English Dept (Islip 200)

Happiness at Work

Briggs-Meyers Test  http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
other resources: http://www.personalitypage.com/html/index.shtml
http://www.16personalities.com

Interactive Career Satisfaction map http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/Choosing/career-satisfaction.htm

HW - Due fri 3/6
Write a 250 word response to the answers you got.

Friday 2.13

Today we'll cover a lot of ground.

I'll return your very first writings with comments.
We will review your assigned readings and notes.
We'll begin thinking about the revision.

Here is the full assignment for your paper #1 revision. 

Week of Feb 4th

Weds - Reviewing Introduction to Understanding Rhetoric

Fri - Make up Essay #1 Day (Students who were in class 1/30 and wrote essay then are excused from class)

HW due Weds (2/11) of next week: 

• Understanding Rhetoric - Read Chapter 1 and take 3-5 pages handwritten notes   

A helpful resource on taking study notes.

Still have pages to fill up.  Here are just a few other ways to use them:

• Predictions:  Before you read, judging only by the title and other obvious material, what do you think the chapter will be about?  Will it connect to something you learned earlier in life (Hs?)? 
• Personal Examples:  Are there experiences you've had/ seen/ heard where the principles of rhetoric and composition were made clear?  Any that conrtadicted them?
• Visualizations:  Graphing or charting certain ideas visually can really help one understand them at a deeper level. 
• Meta-analysis:  What do you think about the WAYS the materials are being presented? 
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Welcome Spring 2015.

For your weekend homework (Due Weds 1/28), you'll work on Fragments and Comma Splices And Fused Sentences
Be sure to keep track of your answers. You can use the worksheets provided - or your own record - to keep track of your answers (and to submit to me).

After this, you'll revise your three paragraphs written for today's class, taking all you've learned about paragraph construction and sentence structure into consideration.

14.1 = MLA and First Drafts Due

Ok 101 Campers:

Your drafts are due today.  Don't worry if they are hotter messes than your Aunt Shirley's stuffing disasters or your cousin Steve's new girlfriend, Esmerelda .... you will have time to fix them!

Ok - the schedule

1) Lets review the assignment carefully. 
2) We will review MLA style in general and then, more specifically, about your papers.

Very general MLA video if you need it:
http://www.teachertube.com/viewVideo.php?video_id=120829

Assignment:
Please note: I will not explan the assignment by email individually to students, especially not the night before the due date. Consider using the following as a checklist. 

The stapled research paper will have (in this order):

• A Body of at least 1,000 words (does not include multimodal elements, Works Cited, Title page, etc.)
• At least 2 multimodal elements (embedded or linked)
• A Work's Cited page with a minimum of 5 valid and reliable sources to research and write your paper, not including those used for multimodal enhancement.
• An Annotated Bibliography

Note: MLA Citation (in-text and in WC) must be done correctly. It alone will account for 10% of the grade. 

Note 2: Title page not needed

13.1 (11/25 and 11/26) Outlining a paper - using research

Today we'll talk about the "balancing act" of writing an analytical research paper. 

You'll need to include enough of everything, but not too much of anything.  You are ONLY writing 1000 words....Since you've just read tens of thousands of word on your topic, you know more than you could ever "fit" into a short(ish)  essay.

 

 Today you'll jump right in to outlining!

But wait ... too soon.  See, you have to make some decisions first.  What EXACTLY is your paper about, anyway?  And how many "subtopics" - or smaller parts - will your research support?  These might be "different relationships" or "various causes of an effect" or "stages in a progressions"  or even "opposing or divergent expert opinions/theories on a topic".  If its more than 4, can you cut or combine some of them.  If its less than 3, can you stretch somethings out - or do you need more research?

Here is a sample outline

Your paper will be at least 1000/words (about 4 pages).  I would aim for a distribution like this:

• Intro (150 -200words)
• 1st subtopic (250-350 words)
• 2nd subtopic (250-350words)
• 3rd subtopic (250-350 words)
• Conclusion (100 -150 words)

OR

• Intro (150 -200words)
• 1st subtopic (200-250 words)
• 2nd subtopic  (200-250 words)
• 3rd subtopic  (200-250 words)
• 4th subtopic (200-250 words)
• Conclusion (100-150 words)

I suggest you use subheadings to keep your organziation clear and tight - at least in your first draft.

Make sure that, along the ways, you always keep a detailed, written track of where your information/paraphrases and quotes come from (last name of author, page number, source).  Also, any language not your wown (quoted) must always remain in " " marks.  Never decide to put them back in later! 

What's due 14.1 (aka the first class back after Thanksgiving)?

A typed draft of at least 750 words divided evenly into different subtopic categories.  It can be printed or merely available on a FULLY CHARGED tablet or laptop. Each subtopic category (except the intro) must reference at least 1 source.  Each paper must reference at least 3 different sources total.  Bring all sources to class for an in-class MLA citation workshop.  Bring in a technology that you can use to edit your work - either a a FULLY CHARGED tablet or laptop or  a printed draft with pen/pencil for handwritten changes.

Have a lovely and wonderful break with your families - well, except for the part where you have to write these research papers :)

12.2 (11/20 and 11/21) - Annotated Bibliography

In class we will be working on annotated bibliographies.  The final, typed version in proper MLA format with at least 4 sources is due Week 13/Day 1 (aka next mon/tues)

draft my paper