Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Oral Debate Project!
Thanks to everyone for doing research for your groups and working on your outlines today. As you're continuing to prepare for the big performance day on Monday, you might want to keep a few things about your ethos in mind:
-Stay in character! You'll be more convincing to your peers if you seem invested in the argument you're presenting. If you don't care about what you're saying, chances are that they won't either. And if you've ever spoken in front of a class before, you know it sucks when the class isn't paying attention to what you say. While you prepare your statements, think: What would a real teacher be likely to say? What would someone who thinks like an educational psychiatrist want to emphasize in her presentation? etc...
-Work with your group! If your group seems scattered and doesn't present a united front, then it may detract from your believability in your presentation.
-Be interesting! Feel free to crack a few jokes, as long as they're appropriate for the context of the perspective from whom you're speaking. You can also wear something appropriate for the person you're representing to spice up your personal presentation.
When you're doing your presentation, I'll be paying attention to your professionalism, ability to work together (or at least look like you are!), clarity of articulation of the ideas you're presenting, and your ability to seem interested and dedicated to your cause.
As always, let me know if you have questions.
-Stay in character! You'll be more convincing to your peers if you seem invested in the argument you're presenting. If you don't care about what you're saying, chances are that they won't either. And if you've ever spoken in front of a class before, you know it sucks when the class isn't paying attention to what you say. While you prepare your statements, think: What would a real teacher be likely to say? What would someone who thinks like an educational psychiatrist want to emphasize in her presentation? etc...
-Work with your group! If your group seems scattered and doesn't present a united front, then it may detract from your believability in your presentation.
-Be interesting! Feel free to crack a few jokes, as long as they're appropriate for the context of the perspective from whom you're speaking. You can also wear something appropriate for the person you're representing to spice up your personal presentation.
When you're doing your presentation, I'll be paying attention to your professionalism, ability to work together (or at least look like you are!), clarity of articulation of the ideas you're presenting, and your ability to seem interested and dedicated to your cause.
As always, let me know if you have questions.
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Reminders for Friday, Feb 18
Hello, my pretties! Thanks for a good library session today. We'll have some time to play around with stuff and go through your questions about research on Friday on the computers in the Writing Center. Here are your reminders for Friday:
-Meet in the Writing Center on the 6th floor of HC White. You can take the elevators but you'll have to wait in line. To keep in shape, I often take the stairs up to the 6th floor (there's a door just before the elevators in the front of HC White). Whee! When you exit the stairwell turn left, or the elevators turn right, and you'll see a sign for the Writing Center in that first hallway. We're in the computer room just past the front desk. There won't be any writing center staff--it's just us. This day will be an opportunity for you to ask questions about your paper or library research stuff that wasn't covered today.
-Email a copy of your paper to yourself as an attachment. You'll be able to access it from the computers in the writing lab. The writing lab computers have Microsoft Word, so if you use that, just attach it as a Word doc. If you don't use Word, then save your paper as a Rich Text File (.rtf) and email it to yourself that way. I want to show you guys a few cool editing things in Word, and I want you to have some time to ask questions about my comments on your paper in class.
-Read Peter Sacks' article on the SAT, which you will find on e-res. Write a 1-2pg analysis (not a response!) of his argument. Let me know or visit me in office hours on Thurs at 4:30 at Catacombs if you want to talk more about analysis.
-NO JOURNAL DUE FRIDAY or MONDAY. You'll have one due Weds of next week instead.
-Turn in all previous drafts with your final draft of Paper #1 on Monday. I like to look at peer comments and the progress of your writing when I read your final draft. Please invest in a big paper clip or a folder to keep your drafts together!
As always, let me know if you have questions!
-Annette
-Meet in the Writing Center on the 6th floor of HC White. You can take the elevators but you'll have to wait in line. To keep in shape, I often take the stairs up to the 6th floor (there's a door just before the elevators in the front of HC White). Whee! When you exit the stairwell turn left, or the elevators turn right, and you'll see a sign for the Writing Center in that first hallway. We're in the computer room just past the front desk. There won't be any writing center staff--it's just us. This day will be an opportunity for you to ask questions about your paper or library research stuff that wasn't covered today.
-Email a copy of your paper to yourself as an attachment. You'll be able to access it from the computers in the writing lab. The writing lab computers have Microsoft Word, so if you use that, just attach it as a Word doc. If you don't use Word, then save your paper as a Rich Text File (.rtf) and email it to yourself that way. I want to show you guys a few cool editing things in Word, and I want you to have some time to ask questions about my comments on your paper in class.
-Read Peter Sacks' article on the SAT, which you will find on e-res. Write a 1-2pg analysis (not a response!) of his argument. Let me know or visit me in office hours on Thurs at 4:30 at Catacombs if you want to talk more about analysis.
-NO JOURNAL DUE FRIDAY or MONDAY. You'll have one due Weds of next week instead.
-Turn in all previous drafts with your final draft of Paper #1 on Monday. I like to look at peer comments and the progress of your writing when I read your final draft. Please invest in a big paper clip or a folder to keep your drafts together!
As always, let me know if you have questions!
-Annette
Monday, February 07, 2005
Conferences on paper 1
Hi everyone. I thought I'd take this space to explain a bit more about my expectations and hopes for conferences:
As always, I'm available via email for questions.
- First, I'd like you to come to your conference with all your drafts of your paper, including the one your peers wrote on.
- Second, I'd like you to come with a pen because it's really important to take notes on what we discuss. I've had a lot of feedback from students in the past that they found the conferences really helpful, but wished they had taken notes so they'd remembered more. Now you can learn from their mistakes. :)
- Third, I'd like you to come with some real, substantial questions about your paper. Think: what particular issues are you having? One of the objectives of this class is to help you look more constructively and critically at your own writing. The better you can pull apart your own writing and ask questions about it, the better it will be. This goes for writing at all levels, by the way.
As always, I'm available via email for questions.
Sunday, February 06, 2005
Journal #2
Just to clarify the journal assignment for tomorrow.... each journal should have just one central argument. But I'd like you to label 3 different parts of the argument with the vocabulary in the green book--ethos, rightness claim, etc. If you're typing your journal, then you can just handwrite your labels in the margin, or you can insert acomment in Word.
I'm really enjoying reading your first drafts! Many of you seem to have put some real thought into your ideas there, and I appreciate it.
I'm really enjoying reading your first drafts! Many of you seem to have put some real thought into your ideas there, and I appreciate it.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Paper #1
I forgot to mention in class today--please bring 4 copies of your paper to class so that you can exchange with your peers. I'll let you know which group you're in on Friday.
When you're working on your first draft, keep in mind our discussion about voice and how you want to "speak" or come across in your paper.
For reference both for your journals and your paper, here are a couple of blogsites that I think have some interesting, strong voices. This doesn't mean that you should channel these people to do well on the stuff you turn in to me! These are just some examples of stuff that's not boring to read, at least in my opinion. I'd be interested to get some links for what you're interested in, too.
Elyse Sewell, from "America's top model," I believe...
and a blog about video games from a developer.
Enjoy! And see you Friday.
When you're working on your first draft, keep in mind our discussion about voice and how you want to "speak" or come across in your paper.
For reference both for your journals and your paper, here are a couple of blogsites that I think have some interesting, strong voices. This doesn't mean that you should channel these people to do well on the stuff you turn in to me! These are just some examples of stuff that's not boring to read, at least in my opinion. I'd be interested to get some links for what you're interested in, too.
Elyse Sewell, from "America's top model," I believe...
and a blog about video games from a developer.
Enjoy! And see you Friday.
