Monday, March 27, 2006
Schedule details for the next couple weeks
Tues (tomorrow): peer review of ideas for the final project. Come to class tomorrow with your rough ideas and bounce them off your peers in order to make them interesting, feasible and smart. I'll come around to groups to help out. If you have time left over, you can draft your proposal (due Thurs) and run that by your peers, too.
Thurs: resume/cover letter/personal statement workshop. Bring a rough draft resume or cover letter or personal statement (my personal order of preference) in order to get the most out of the workshop. I'll talk for a bit about basic expectations in these genres and I'll give you handouts of examples and things to think about when you're writing these things. With time left over, you can get together in your groups and apply your newfound knowledge of these genres on each other's work. (also, your proposal is due to me via email by classtime this day)
Tues, April 4: LIBRARY DAY. Do the CLUE library tutorial online in preparation for the meeting: http://clue.library.wisc.edu/ . PRINT OUT YOUR QUIZZES!! Bring them to me at the library. We'll meet in Memorial Library, room 436. The librarian will give a short presentation and introduce you to some resources the library can offer to help you work on your final project. You'll have some time to research on your own while he and I go around to your computer to help you out. The library day is part of the requirement of English 201, but it's also a really useful way to acquaint yourself with the library's vast resources and how to access them.
Thurs, April 6: peer review of projects. At this point, you should have at least a rough version of your project--an outline, research, a few pages of writing, something like that.
Thurs: resume/cover letter/personal statement workshop. Bring a rough draft resume or cover letter or personal statement (my personal order of preference) in order to get the most out of the workshop. I'll talk for a bit about basic expectations in these genres and I'll give you handouts of examples and things to think about when you're writing these things. With time left over, you can get together in your groups and apply your newfound knowledge of these genres on each other's work. (also, your proposal is due to me via email by classtime this day)
Tues, April 4: LIBRARY DAY. Do the CLUE library tutorial online in preparation for the meeting: http://clue.library.wisc.edu/ . PRINT OUT YOUR QUIZZES!! Bring them to me at the library. We'll meet in Memorial Library, room 436. The librarian will give a short presentation and introduce you to some resources the library can offer to help you work on your final project. You'll have some time to research on your own while he and I go around to your computer to help you out. The library day is part of the requirement of English 201, but it's also a really useful way to acquaint yourself with the library's vast resources and how to access them.
Thurs, April 6: peer review of projects. At this point, you should have at least a rough version of your project--an outline, research, a few pages of writing, something like that.
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
What's the meaning of 9/11?
Please add the customary cover letter to the front of your essay and turn it in to the dropbox by Friday at 5pm at the latest. If you're citing references in your paper, then please include both parenthetical (or footnote) citations and a References/Works Cited section. You may use any formatting style you're most comfortable with, as long as it's a documented style (APA, MLA or Chicago). If you need tips on citations, visit the Writing Center's Writer's Handbook.
Blog post over spring break
According to our rotation, you're scheduled for a free post and response this weekend. I'm treating spring break as a giant weekend, so you can post either by this Friday (3/10) or next (3/17) and you can respond either this Sun (3/12) or next (3/19). If you'd like to get it out of the way before you leave on spring break, then do it for this weekend. A few people have already posted, so you should have something to respond to by this weekend. Just make sure that by the time you're back from spring break you've posted one free post and responded to one peer's free post.
