If you didn't receive an invitation to the wiki, email Lisa at lsibbett@oc.ctc.edu ASAP!
From now on, visit the wiki to check assignments and print out handouts.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
ANNOUNCEMENT: We've Moved!
Our class website has moved from this blog to a wiki, which gives us a lot more tools and versatility. It allows students to participate in writing, editing, and designing the site -- and, in so doing, our course itself.
Friday, October 3, 2008
EXTRA CREDIT: Wikipedia experiment
Wikipedia claims to be getting more and more reliable, and faster and faster at fixing errors. They have an army of employees (or volunteers?) whose job it is to patrol all the entries and make sure people aren't going in and messing them up. Someone recently tried an experiment in which he introduced errors to 43 separate Wikipedia entries, and waited to see how long it would take Wikipedia to fix them. They were all fixed within 3 hours.
Wow, right? Let's see for ourselves. You can get extra credit in English 101 if you go into a Wikipedia entry and introduce a factual error, then monitor how long it takes them to fix it. Write up what Wikipedia article you used, the error you added, and the results (how long it took them to fix it, if they ever did) in a paragraph or two, and turn it in (by hard copy or by email). You'll get, say, half a homework assignment's worth of extra credit. No due date, just whenever you want. Limit 4 (or 2 HW's worth).
Results'll be posted on this website.
Wow, right? Let's see for ourselves. You can get extra credit in English 101 if you go into a Wikipedia entry and introduce a factual error, then monitor how long it takes them to fix it. Write up what Wikipedia article you used, the error you added, and the results (how long it took them to fix it, if they ever did) in a paragraph or two, and turn it in (by hard copy or by email). You'll get, say, half a homework assignment's worth of extra credit. No due date, just whenever you want. Limit 4 (or 2 HW's worth).
Results'll be posted on this website.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
HOMEWORK: They Say / I Say chapter 7
For Tuesday, read chapter 7 of Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein's They Say / I Say: The Moves that Matter in Academic Writing (NY: Norton, 2006). The handout you received also includes chapter 6, but we won't be reading that as a class until later in the term. Please save the handout until then.
UPDATE: I'm having technical difficulties posting the They Say / I Say reading to the web. I'll bring extra hard copies to class on Tuesday, and if you haven't had a chance to do this reading, you can do it during the Question of the Day writing period at the beginning of class.
UPDATE: I'm having technical difficulties posting the They Say / I Say reading to the web. I'll bring extra hard copies to class on Tuesday, and if you haven't had a chance to do this reading, you can do it during the Question of the Day writing period at the beginning of class.
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