Writing 102 Tues-Thurs

Thursday, March 31

We finished the apostrophe .ppt and did a worksheet on "its" and "it's."

We had two poetry presentations. Bernardo discussed Imagism and Shanika presented metaphysical poetry.

The instructor collected Pt II.

Roundtables for Apr 5 are:  Dana, Christian, ChaVonne
Roundtables for Apr. 7 are: Diana, Emily, Sindy

Link for student dates for poetry roundtable.

To Do for Next Class:

Read Lester chapter on plagiarism
Work on poetry paper/roundtable
Study drama vocabulary words and "How Drama Works" for April 7 quiz.,


Tuesday, March 29

We had our first poetry round table, which was Charlene's. Her genre was "The Spoken Word" and her poet was Amiri Baraka. Two other students were to go today but they weren't in class.

We talked about bringing in literary criticism to the poetry papers. An example was put on the overhead projector. Students read the literary criticism and then saw how to bring in the author of the criticism.

We talked about the drama paper and the instructor went over the various requirements for this part of the class:

a) read "How Drama Works"
b) attend play (see details below)
c) Study glossary terms (details below)
d) Write drama paper (example paper at links on right, due date below)

The instructor announced that the final will be on Thursday, May 5, the last day of class. Students with perfect attendance, no cell phone incidents, and no more than three lates from now through May 3 will not have to take the final.

The final activity in class was to work on apostrophes. We did in-class exercises that were worth 3 CPPs.

To Do for Next Class:

--Bring in Pt 2 of research paper
--Read link at right, "How Drama Works." There will be a quiz on April 7.
--Read the drama glossary, A-C, at right. The Apr. 7 quiz will include terms
--Continue to work on poetry paper

The drama paper will be due May 3.

We will attend the play on Thurs. evening, April 28. Students do not have to attend class on that date. Students who attend on other dates should bring their ticket stub to be excused from attendance on Thursday.

CSS Class Tues-Thurs 6-9 p.m.

Tonight's Powerpoints:


Class 3 (covers 132-55)

Overview (background)

Class 4 (covers 156-83)

Other types of HTML editors/WYSIWIG programs

Thursday's Powerpoints:

Class 5 (184-205) 

Class 6 (206-15)

Advertising 3765 Mon-Wed

 Wednesday

The commercials were returned with instructor feedback.

We went through the rest of the graphics file format .ppt. The instructor explained that the material is directly applicable to what students need to know to do their TV commercial.

At the end of class, she showed the Starbucks commercial as an example.

Superbowl grades were given to most students. A few remain and will be given back at the next class.

To Do for Next Class:

Work on commercial

Obtain photo imaging software.

Monday
Students turned in their 30-second ads and the instructor will read them and give them back on Wed.

The instructor asked about the coupon ads and she reminded students of the deadline.

We began work on graphic file formats.The instructor showed a .ppt and we worked our way through about 40% of it. We will continue on Wed. The .ppt is linked at right.

She asked students to check their computers for photo imaging software. If students do not have any photo imaging software, they can obtain some free software by looking through the following lists:

Recent link listing around 8 different free graphics/imaging programs.

Here's a 2009 link.

 This link is older (2008) and some of the software may not be available.

To Do For Next Class:

Obtain necessary software (check CNET), try above suggestions.

Speech Critical 1402 MWF

Wednesday

We had three speeches today:  Brandon's speech was on HAARP. Towana spoke on the lack of news watching by people in younger age categories. Marques talked about political cartoonists.

On Friday, we will hear from Sean, Tina, and Jessica.

To Do for Next Class:

Practice speech
Read chapter on speech anxiety



Monday
The instructor returned hard copy outlines of informative speeches.

We had two speeches, one by Keith and the other by Stephanie. The topics were alternative fuels and the emotion of fear, respectively.

To Do for Next Class:

Practice speech.

Read chapter on speech anxiety.

Speech Critical MWF

Mar. 28

The instructor returned hard copy outlines with feedback.

We had two speeches today:  Keith spoke on alternative fuels, and Stephanie spoke about fear.

On Wednesday our speakers will be:  Brandon, Towana, and Marques

On Friday our speakers will be:  Jessica, Tina, and Sean

To Do for Next Class:

Start reading the chapter on speech anxiety. 

To All 1402 Students

I am starting new assignment threads on Blackboard for everyone who wants me to look at their outline a second time (after the rough version I already returned) and also for those few people who did not get the outline in the first time.

I will check Blackboard at various times throughout the day.

Writing 102 Sat.

March 26, 2011

In the first 2/3 of the class, we worked on the research paper. Students now have all three points completed, so we will begin the process of revising and editing. The instructor had students call up writershelp and enter "revision" under "exercises." This brought up a checklist for revision (also in the Hacker book under "global revisions").  Using the "Improving the Organization" category as the starting point, the instructor asked students to look at all three points together and answer the questions in that category.

After that, she added "Does the paper flow logically?" and asked students to trade their papers. Students were asked to mark the paper where they became confused or where it did not make sense. They then were to convey this to their colleague both in writing with an asterisk and through conversation.

Next the instructor returned the feedback for Pt II (handed in last week).  She gave students different areas of the paper to work on and asked them to revise.  Examples of some of the areas were to break sentences down into more simplified versions or to add transitions to alleviate choppiness.  After students did this, she went around to various students and read the results and gave pointers if necessary.

Next we worked on the poetry paper. Some students were puzzled about how to blend the research material from the literary databases into their paper. The instructor gave a demonstration on the overhead projector. A copy of this demonstration has been posted.

To Do for Next Week:

Research Paper:  Take the input provided by the instructor for Pt. II and also the input given to you by the reading of your paper by your colleague. Revise, putting your three points together as a cohesive whole. Go through the revision checklist (listed above) and answer the sections under "Strengthening the Content" and "Clarifying the Point of View."

In addition, read Lester, Ch. 9. It is necessary to read and understand it before our revision session next week. You do not have to do the activities described by Lester, but read what he says.

Have the three points together to work with next week.  Have them available as a digital copy and as a hard copy.

Poetry Paper: Blend research material to your paper. We will have three students present their roundtable next week:  Robert, Melinda, and Rockell. These students must get their papers to the instructor by Fri., April 1, so she can format the papers for copying and distribution to the other students in the class.

Grammar, usage, etc.  Do writershelp exercises:  Hyphens, abbreviations, and numbers (under Mechanics)

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Instructor's explanation of how to blend literary criticism into poetry paper (also linked above).