R. Dollieslager's English 111 Daily Schedule, Summer 2005
The summer semester is over. Now relax.
A Tentative Schedule of Projects, Summer 2005
English 111-01, Computer-Mediated
Composition
The summer semester is over. Now relax.
A Tentative Schedule of Projects, Summer 2005
English 111-01, Computer-Mediated
Composition
This schedule for the summer term is subject to change based on class discussion and progress on assignments. I will add links to resources and elaborate on the projects as they come up, making changes to the schedule almost daily.
Since this is a summer class, we should all be outside somewhere having fun instead of sitting in some dusty old cubbyhole. Therefore, much of your homework for this class will be to get out and have fun. And then we're going to write about that fun. The first paper, I'll call a "hidden treasure" essay. Then we will do a restaurant review, an entertainment review, and either a descriptive analysis of a major attraction in the area, or a persuasive piece called "what this area really needs is..." The final major project will be the web folio.
The culmination of your summer writings will be an on-line database (or a class publication if you wish to look at it that way) of information about how to have fun in our part of Virginia during the summer.
Week One
Tues. 5/24
In-class: Discuss objectives, view web folios from previous semesters. Make
an email account (if necessary), register with Geocities, begin making your web
site.. Discuss paper #1.
Instructions for registering
with Geocities for web page building.
Instructions for uploading a
document file to Geocities Web Page Builder.
Instructions for uploading a
picture or other .jpg image to Geocities Web Page Builder.
Reading assignment for Thursday,
5/25:
1. Defines what an essay is and
what a thesis
statement is. In addition to the link provided, read sections 3 and 4 of the
Writing Essentials handbook.
2. Read this article about web folios (electronic portfolios) and be ready to answer some questions about why you might want to have a web site and how you can use it for your own purposes.
3. Read at least six student essays from Summer 2001 or Summer 2003 describing a "hidden treasure" (or a little known or minor attraction in the area). Identify the thesis statements of at least six of the essays (write or type them out to be turned in, but keep a copy for yourself for class discussion).
4. Go to the Daily
Press online, select the "Entertainment" link in the frame to the left, and
use the "search events" feature to preview the variety of local events that will
be happening around the area this summer. Over 150 are listed. From that list,
be ready to discuss what you plan to attend or participate in, and write about.
Likewise, take the "movies" link from the "Entertainment" menu and preview some
of the essay-length movie reviews. In addition, take the "Restaurants" link from
the left menu frame and find essay-length reviews of a couple of restaurants you
are familiar with.
Thurs.
5/25
In-class discussion: Define what an essay is
and what a thesis
statement is based on the readings from the Guide to Grammar and Writing and
sections 3 and 4 of the Writing Essentials handbook.
In-class
discussion: Summer
paper topics
Week Two
Assignment for Thursday,
6/2:
1. Finish composing your first
essay and bring it with you to class on disk and printed out. All hard copy of
essays this semester will be typed and double spaced, using Times New Roman,
12-point fonts.
2. Read and refer to section 5 (pages 22-28)
of the Writing Essentials handbook for guidelines on revision and peer
review. In addition, Read this revision and
editing advice and checklist from the Guide to Grammar and
Writing at Capital Community and Technical College in Hartford,
Connecticut.
Essays will be turned in after peer review at the end of class
on Thursday, 6/2.
3. Get registered, or finish registering with
Geocities, outside of class. I think this process will be successful if
you try it at times when there is not heavy volumn of access and use of the
Geocities service.
Thurs. 6/2
Exchange
papers with others in your "pod" and apply the evaluation criteria suggested in
section 5 of the Writing Essentials handbook, the revision section of the
GGW, and, most particularly, those outlined in my posted evaluation
guidesheet for the project. About 90 minutes
Revise, edit, perfect your
papers. About 60 minutes.
Assignment for Tuesday,
6/7:
1. Do some "experiential research" for your
next paper!!
2. Read why we have to take these stinking communication classes in college: A. professional communication skills interviews: Index #1, Index #2. B. The following press release from the College Board (publishers of the SAT college entrance exam) describes the results of a huge national survey of employment skills. "Writing Skills Necessary for Employment, Says Big Business" Writing can be a ticket to professional jobs, says blue-ribbon group... C. The hard copy hand out: "The Fine Art of Getting it Down on Paper, Fast"
Week Three
Tues. 6/7
In-class workshop: close reading and editing, a collaborative
exercise.
Assignment for Thursday,
6/9:
8 a.m. section: All of the group
exercises had sentence boundary errors, where you had recast the Williams poem
and punctuated it as a prose description of the Breughel painting. I want you to
re-read and correctly punctuate that passage in complete, grammatically correct
sentences--no fragments, no run-ons. Take the links I
provide here (from the previous "hot words") to the Guide to Grammar and
Writing's sections on sentences, fragments, and run-ons.
If you have not yet successfully registered with Geocities, try again, numerous times if need be, so that we can forge ahead with web folio development.
We will do a Geocities workshop in which I will show you how to save word processed documents in the correct ".html" format to upload to your web folios. I will also demonstrate how to upload image files to your web folios, so if you have any digital images (photos, for instance) which you wish to use in your web folio, bring them with you on disk or send them to yourself in email. If you have print photos that you want to use in your web folio, you may bring them and go to the Academic Computing Lab to scan them and save them to disk. Should be great fun if you are prepared!
Thurs. 6/9
In-class: 1. Discuss the Icarus exercise and turn it in for
evaluation. 2. Geocities workshop, uploading essays and image
files.
In-class workshop: close reading and editing, a collaborative exercise.
Assignment for Tuesday,
6/14:
Conduct "experiential research" for the
summer projects.
Week Four
Tues. 6/14
I will
be out of town for an OnCourse
work shop in rural Maryland from
Saturday through Tuesday. Your assignment during class time today is to do your
"experiential homework."
Thurs. 6/16
Today's
agenda: composing workshop. Start writing the second paper, for which you did
your experiential research this past week.
Week Five
Tues.
6/21
Group project: Prepare presentation on various editing
conventions assigned to your group.
Assignment for Thursday,
6/23:
1. Finish drafting paper two.
2. Finish preparing the group presentations about editing
conventions. 3. Bring essay number 1 with you in print and
electronic copy, and bring my evaluation sheet as well. You will need these for
class on Thursday. 4. IF you have not successfully registered
with GeoCities.com to build a web site, email
me NOW so that I can plan an alternative (collaborative) project for you to
do.
And now for something completely
different:
You may think you've seen pretty
much everything there is to see on the Internet. And you may be wrong
about that. I don't want to say that this is having fun with someone else's
misery (because I don't know exactly what the heck it is), but this is certainly
a unique site. (At least I hope it is unique): Crying While Eating.
Thurs. 6/23
In-class: 1. Group presentations on editing
conventions. 2. Revising and editing paper #1 to make it perfect!
Week Six
Tues.
6/28
In class collaborative review of editing
skills: Work sentence
combining exercises
In your group pods today you will read the
GGW section on sentence combining, and then work the first sentence
combining quiz at the bottom of that section of the GGW.
Geocities workshop: Post the revisions and corrections to paper #1 in your websites.
Assignment for Thursday,
6/30:
1. Be ready to turn in paper #2 at
the start of class.
2. If you are in the group which was not able to register with Geocities, check your email immediately. There is good news from me. (Monique, your email came back to me unreceived, so I don't have your correct address. Mr. D.)
Thurs.
6/30
First, if you did not do so on
Tuesday, then turn in the marked copy of paper #1 with the evaluation sheet and
write out the URL to your corrected copy of that paper which will be posted in
your webfolio. I will need to access your webfolios to ensure that you have made
the revisions and corrections, and I will award credit accordingly, so you must
give me the correct URL for this paper.
Second, form into groups of three to exchange paper #2 and do peer review. Read each of the other two papers in your group and then discuss each paper individually, making suggestions to the author for improvements, comments on the things that work well or that you particularly like in the paper, and calling to the writer's attention what you think may be editing errors. Make any corrections or revisions to paper #2 and then turn it in to me with an evaluation sheet for that topic within two hours of the start of class.
Third, in the final 45 minutes of class, we will brainstorm topics for, and discuss the nature of, the final project, a group researched paper on "What we really need around here is..."
Assignment for Tuesday,
7/5:
1. Do your experiential research
for paper #3 (there should be plenty of opportunities to have fun over the
holiday weekend!), and begin drafting paper #3.
2. Read the
following guidelines for compiling works cited
entries for Internet-based sources.
Additional points to
consider when compiling and presenting works cited from
Internet-based sources.
Peruse the guidelines for
documenting sources, following MLA conventions, from the on-line Guide to
Grammar and Writing. Bookmark this direct link to the guidelines because
you will be using it often: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/index.shtml
Week Seven
Tues.
7/5
Guidelines for compiling works cited
entries for Internet-based sources.
Additional points to
consider when compiling and presenting works cited from Internet-based
sources.
In class: Works cited
exercise ("quiz")
The Landmark Project's citation machine should be of assistance
in developing the works cited entries for this and other researched assignments
you write. However, bear in mind that you, and not a computer program, have to
assume responsibility for the correctly formatted documentation of sources, so
compare your citation machine results with the guidelines and models in Section
11 of the Writing Essentials handbook and in the research paper
sections of the GGW.
Assignments
for Thursday, 7/7: 1. Read this advice on writing
summaries 2. Turn in the works cited
exercise ("quiz") at the start of class. 3. Turn in paper #3 at the start of
class
This is the direct link to the GGW section on writing summaries without plagiarizing: http://www.ccc.commnet.edu/mla/plagiarism.shtml
DUE: Paper #3, at the start of class. Also the works cited exercise.
Thurs.
7/7
I won't be with you in class today, so
here is what you are to do.
1. The works cited
exercise: Compare your works cited with some of your colleagues'
and discuss which are correct or why not. Use the resources that I have
suggested to make them correct. Don't number your responses, but rather format
them as a works cited page, alphabetized by the first letter of the first line
of each entry. Turn these exercises in to me today by either placing them in my
mail box in my Division's mail room (room 852 on the first floor of Templin
Hall), or by emailing them to me as an email attachment in MS Word or RTF
format. (You can copy and paste my email address into your email reader. It is
dollier@tncc.edu )
2. Paper # 3: Exchange yours
with one or two colleagues for feedback on both content and editing concerns.
Don't edit (i.e., "correct") each other's papers, but rather point out obvious
editing errors for the writer to consider and correct as he or she feels
appropriate. Turn these papers in to me today by either placing them in my mail
box in my Division's mail room (room 852 on the first floor of Templin Hall), or
by emailing them to me as an email attachment in MS Word or RTF format. (You can
copy and paste my email address into your email reader. It is dollier@tncc.edu
)
3. Final paper: Email me today with the topic of
your final paper. If others in your class are working on the same or very
similar topics, I will connect you via email so that you may decide if you wish
to collaborate on the assignment. Or you may discuss a collaborative topic with
your colleagues and let me know whom you will team up with if you have decided
to collaborate. (You can copy and paste my email address into your email reader.
It is dollier@tncc.edu )
Emailing me. If you email
me your essay and works cited exercise rather than placing them in my mail box
in room 852, send me just one email with the topic for
your final paper and the two attachments. Type your name in the subject line of
the email so that I know that it is not spam, which I delete without reading.
Week Eight
Tues.
7/12
Discussion: Writing
summaries
--->Break
Composing
workshop. Researched paper: "What we really need around here is..."
Thurs. 7/14
Researched papers due at the end of class.
Week Nine
Tues. 7/19
I have another travel day today and so I won't be joining you. Review each others web folios and help to make them good. Use these evaluation guidelines to make your web folios as good as they can possibly be.
Web folios due at the end of class. No extensions, no
exceptions.
Thurs.
7/21
All of the assignments have been posted on this web page since the day the class began, so there is no reason that they should not have been completed. I will have mini-conferences during our final class to go over webfolios and your grades for the term. I will submit grades at the end of your class today, so this is it. If you aren't in class for the final, I will have to submit your grade based on the projects that I have and that I can access from your webfolio. Don't even ask for any extensions.
I hope you had fun this semester, since that was your assignment.
Mr. D.
To get started building your web site with any of our great
tools, just
go to http://www.geocities.com/.
If you already have pages and images on your computer that you
want to
transfer to your new site, you can get information about
our FTP service at
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/gftp
If you need help building your site, please visit
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/
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