Sat., Feb. 10, Writing 102

What we did in class:

We did an exercise from Lukeman to learn the where long sentences might be appropriate. The instructor showed five or six ways to make a sentence long (yet grammatically correct). Students wrote a sentence that was a half-page long. We looked at a few of the sentences on the doc cam. Next week we will focus on short sentences and where to use them.

Instructor distributed poetry assignment and re-scheduled the poetry presentation dates. We talked about Dylan Thomas briefly and the instructor is looking for input on a poem to explicate. Jasmine suggested Poe and Shakespeare. Students gave their genre selection and we put them on a table.

Instructor lectured on characteristics of poetry and discussed the Jungian theory of the collective unconscious and how it relates to the arts. She reminded students there is a poetry quiz Feb. 23.

Students turned in their annotated bibliographies (AB) and received five points. There will be five more points next week if the AB is in correct form. Students are to write Point 1 of the research paper. The instructor also reviewed the readings for the coming class session.

Writing 102 Tues Thurs

What we did in class:

Notebook check on Thursday and point system discussed
Topics and topic selection. Students can download file of starter research.
Annotated bibliography. Instructor showed how to pull up only 102 posts and find the Links Post. Instructor showed how to develop keywords and where the databases were from the UCC Web site.

After class, the librarians were consulted regarding the date mix-up. The new date for our citation class is Tuesday, February 12. Students should still do the annotation assignment as previously planned. It will be considered a rough draft. You will have the chance to revise it after the February 12 class. A grade will be given on the revision.

Topic for the Thursday class is how to write Point 1 of the research paper.