Web Management

No class tonight, Wednesday, due to instructor illness.

We will reschedule the class.

Writing II MWF

Friday:


We continued with the introductions today and finished all but two.

After finishing the introductions, the instructor told the class that the most common problem was incomplete sentences, fragments, run-on sentences, and comma splices. She then told students three ways of correcting this problem:

--breaking the sentence into two
--using a BOYSFAN (coordinating conjunction) word (but, or, yet, so, for, and, nor) and a comma
--use of the semicolon

To do for next class:

--Read the first two chapters in Joy. Answer the questions on p. 4 and turn them in at the next class.
--Read and make notes on "Watcher at the Gate" for purposes of a class exercise or response paper. Try to use all three methods of correction on comma splices, etc., in the corrected paper.
--Do corrections on the intro. The introduction will be due on Wednesday.

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The instructor is ill, so there will be no class today. Please check this blog before coming Friday.

I notified all students for whom I had an e-mail address.

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Thursday

My illness is getting worse but I think I'll still go to class. I can't conduct a class but you can meet with your group and work on your project from Ch. 8. Bring magazines, paper, scissors, etc., and marking pens. We will stay for about one hour.



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Hand in name of advertiser (Part A) and instructor will photocopy
Photoshop revised exercise
Discuss layouts, chapter
Size image to 450 pixels
Ad words for Google ad
DVD ads

For next class:

1402

The instructor checked in the research and the "I Am" journal field notes.

Due to the instructor coming down with a respiratory flu, we adjourned the remainder of the class.

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Following were the plans for the class, which we will pick up on at our next meeting:

Go over Quick Speaking Guide
Check in research sources and "I Am" interviews, full-sentence outline, card
Hand out readable copy of symposium evaluation
Citation, MLA
Students will rehearse; need digital camera

Writing II MWF

Monday

The instructor checked in the online exercises and book orders.

We did introductions.

To Do for Next Class:

--Finish your intro, if you have not done so already
--If your intro was returned, correct it.

Web Management: Copyright Issues

Copyright Powerpoint


Project Guttenberg


Government web site, search "copyright"


Creative Commons

Articles:


Courthouse Rock

Are the MPAA and the RIAA Out of Their Minds?

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Second part of class:


What Every Webmaster Needs to Know About Copyright






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Writing II Friday Evening 6-9 p.m.

We worked on comma splices, as the instructor said this was the most common error found in the writing samples. We reviewed the material on comma splices, fused sentences, and run-on sentences from the text. Next the instructor showed a Powerpoint about the use of semicolons in correcting comma splices. We wrote sentences in class and looked at them on the overhead.

Next we had a quiz on person consistency. We corrected the quizzes in class. The instructor will review them, record the grade, and return them.

The instructor checked in exercises assigned last week, which were the ones at the link (subject-verb agreement, etc.). She also picked up the corrected introductions.

Finally we listened to the last few interviews.

For next week:

Read chapters 1 and 2. Write 1.5-2 pages on Topic 2, write a letter to the author....
Your paper should be typed, double-spaced, and in 12-point type. Identify the paper as "Reaction to 'Watcher at the Gate.'" <--and make sure you punctuate this correctly, just like I did.

A few students need to correct their introductions. They should be typed and double-spaced.