Tuesday, September 30, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT: EN workshop draft due date extended
In case you missed this announcement in class today, the Experience Narrative workshop draft is now due NEXT TUESDAY, 10/7. We will have the workshop on that day.
HOMEWORK: EN paper proposal and reading
For Thursday, please type up a 2-3 paragraph proposal for your Experience Narrative paper. Let me know what story you intend to tell, which scenes you intend to include, and what your exigence might be. You may use your proposal to work on narrowing down what you want to do -- that is, you might have three or four scenes you're deciding between, or you have some different ideas for exigence (or no ideas for exigence) and want help with the thinking through.
Submit your proposal by email to lsibbett@oc.ctc.edu. It is due by classtime on Thursday.
Also for Thursday, please read Maya Angelou's essay "Champion of the World" and George Orwell's "Shooting an Elephant" (both in your textbook).
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Thursday, September 25, 2008
HANDOUT: How to Use the Rubric Form
Click here for the handout on how we will use rubric forms for this class.
PAPER ASSIGNMENT #1: Experience Narrative
HOMEWORK: due Tues 9/30
For Tuesday, please do this copia assignment, which is a follow-up to our in-class copia activity today.
Also, bring in a list of about 5 possible stories you might use for your Experience Narrative paper. It is a good idea for you to get started on your paper this weekend, since the workshop draft is due this coming Thursday, 10/2. Email me (lsibbett@oc.ctc.edu) if you want to discuss which story you might use.
Finally, read the short essays "Fish Cheeks" (by Amy Tan) and "The Chase" (by Annie Dillard) in your textbook. Come to class prepared to discuss them -- especially their use of rich, thick description (or RTD).
We will have a mock workshop on Tuesday, in which we will practice workshopping techniques using sample papers I will provide.
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Welcome to English 101
In this course, we will approach academic writing as a skill that can be learned and developed, regardless of the writer’s beginning ability. We’ll think, talk, and write about writing as a means of persuasion, communication, and inquiry, focusing especially on writing for college classes. We will cover a range of topics important to writers: thoughtfully and capably analyzing texts we read, thinking of meaningful and interesting topics to write about, assessing the values and expectations of your audience, making an argument and supporting it with persuasive evidence, organizing that argument in a way that makes sense to readers and using strategies that will impact readers successfully, and using writing as a means for critical thinking; we will also develop such crucial practical skills as doing good research and using that research effectively in your own writing, undertaking significant revision and editing, and sharing your work with other writers and readers.
This class will require a lot of work from you: lots of discussion and in-class work, lots of reading, and most of all, lots of writing, in and out of class. Not all writing tasks (or quizzes!) will be announced ahead of time. Expect to have some homework due for nearly every class meeting, and to have major assignments due nearly every week.
This class will require a lot of work from you: lots of discussion and in-class work, lots of reading, and most of all, lots of writing, in and out of class. Not all writing tasks (or quizzes!) will be announced ahead of time. Expect to have some homework due for nearly every class meeting, and to have major assignments due nearly every week.
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