Please read the Final Portfolio description and requirements, including the description of what the Final Exam will be like.

Final Portfolio = 50% of your grade
Final Exam = 10% of your grade

If you know you will have difficulty making the Final Exam, you must make arrangements with me for taking the Final Exam at a different time ahead of time.

If you have been required to include any particular essays in the Final Portfolio, this essay must be included. Missing required rewrites cause the portfolio to lose a letter grade.

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Be Sure to EDIT!
--What does Editing look like?????????????
Revising Sentences Guide and the Answers to EGW#13

Tips on Formatting Your Final Portfolio as a Single Document Using MS Word Styles:
--Using Styles
--Creating a Table of Contents with Styles (see video guides)
How to do styles and a table of contents in Google Docs

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Other Notes:

• Please have your portfolio printed before you come to class. I do not have enough paper to print everyone's portfolio.
• We will do the Course Evaluation in-class today. If you miss class, please do this evaluation by Saturday.
• I want to mail your portfolios back to you once I evaluate them. At the final exam, I will as for your mailing address and any contribution you are willing to provide to cover the cost of this mailing. The cost of mailing a portfolio runs from $2.50 to $5.00.

Finish Strong!!!

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A Note About the Contents of the Portfolio

One of the two essays you choose to revise must be either Essay #3 or #4. If you plan to select Essay #4 for your portfolio, I urge you to work on other writing pieces until I get this essay returned to you (by no later than Wed. or Thurs.).

The seven other writing pieces likely will come from your Process Journals and Freewriting Journals. EGW#11 (the Beholder imitation) is a good one to include too. Perhaps a practice description could be included. Please don't include EGW grammar exercises as writing pieces. Invention exercise or peer responses also don't fit. A Writing Review might work IF you actually re-review your writing piece and go deeper and farther in your self-evaluation and reflection on that writing piece. You can even include one or two of the other essays we have done if you like.

Reminder: EVERYTHING you put into the portfolio needs to be revised.
For each piece, be sure to go through all four of the phases of revision (even on a freewriting journal). Also, remember to include ALL previous drafts along with your final drafts.

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What do I mean by "Submission Drafts?"
A "submission draft" is the draft you turned in for evaluation. For essays, the means the third draft (like E1-3) and NOT the first and second draft. Be sure to include the draft that has my commentary and feedback on it. I also want you to include any subsequent drafts you may have done (draft #4 or #5) whether you had a required rewrite or wrote additional drafts as your revised for the portfolio.

For a free or process journal, the previous draft would be the original version that you turned in when it was due.

How do I revise a freewriting journal? Do I need to?
YES, you even need to revise a freewriting journal if you choose to include one. Follow the four phases of revision and try to shape and form and even develop this rambling rough piece. Definitely, edit it and clean it up. It is no longer freewriting anymore. The writing evaluation standards, which include grammatical correctness, even apply to our seven other writing pieces.
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A Focus on Revision!

As the description of the Portfolio states, everything in the portfolio MUST be revised one more time. What do I mean by revision???

Please review and study each of these documents:
Final Portfolio description and requirements
Phases of Revision
Revision and Re-Thinking
Writing Evaluation Standards (individual essay rubrics also apply)--this is the evaluation standard your writing will be graded upon!

Then follow carefully read this case study in revision that follows the "Phases of Revision" for one Process Journal (an example of the type of writing piece you might choose to revise for the portfolio).

Case Study in Revision

Imagine that this writing piece below is your original piece of writing--how will you go about revising it, and what will you revise? Follow the Phases of Revision and write down how you would approach revising this piece if it were yours.
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After writing your plan, view this discussion of revising this piece.

Study these examples of revision
--Examples of revising Freewriting Journals
--Examples of revising Process Journals

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Homework:
Work on your Portfolio. Revise one piece at a time.

BRING TO CLASS at least one piece you have revised so you can get feedback on it. Also, bring all your other past work and materials so you can work on the portfolio in class.

Next class we will discuss the Final Exam which will be Monday 12/9. Final Portfolios are due at this time.

NOTE: If you have a required rewrite of an essay due in the portfolio, this rewrite must be included as one of your two essay selections. Failure to include this required rewrite will result in loss of a letter grade on your Final Portfolio grade.

Today our Essay #4 is due!!!

We have the first 20 minutes of class to turn in the essay. (If you turn it in immediately, you can work on your E4-3 Writing Review.

Turn in your final draft two ways
--once to me in PRINT form
--once electronically into Canvas

CONGRATULATIONS ON COMPLETING ESSAY #4!!!

If you miss class today, the final draft of Essay #4 is still due today. Turn it in electronically.

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Information About the Final Portfolio and Preparing for the Final Exam

BEFORE you begin to review your writing in the course to decide what to include in your portfolio and revise them, you need to take two to three hours to prepare and review. (Maybe you will need more time?)

Follow these three items to learn about the portfolio and prepare for both doing the portfolio and the final exam:

1. Orient to the Portfolio Assignment
   Review the information describing your Final Portfolio and what it will contain.
   
   
2. Prepare to Work on the Portfolio
   Prepare for working on the Final Portfolio and for the Final Exam by doing a review of what we have learned and done in the class
   
   A) Put together a Process Journal collection
   (Open this MSWord collection of our Process Journal topics, SAVE it to your computer, and copy and paste in EACH of your Process Journals under the appropriate topic.)
   These process journals were on important concepts and strategies used in this class, and by putting them all together you will see in a broad sense what we worked on in the class and your thoughts and understandings of them
   
   B) Pull together all the key handouts and learning materials (many handouts found from the Lirvin Writing Guides) and go over them. Get out our textbooks--A Writer's Reference and Trimble's Writing With Style--and thumb back through them.
   
   C) Review our Essay Cycle Assignment Sheets as well as the Class Announcements as well, especially as you target particular pieces for revision
   
   
3. Learn About Revision
   Learn about, think about, review what it means to revise a piece of writing.
   Re-read chpt. 5 in SFH. Read this guide on Revision and Re-Thinking and study the Phases of Revision . You should follow this "phases of revision" for each piece your revise (even a freewriting journal).
   
   

   The Goal: Seek to apply ALL of what you have learned this semester into improving the pieces of writing you select to revise.
   
   Once you have completed this preparation work, you can begin thinking about how you will go about doing your portfolio. Capture this thinking in your PJ#14.

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Homework:
1) Complete your E4-3 Writing Review by the end of today.
2) Do the prep work for your Portfolio (listed above) and do your Process Journal #14 (due by next class)
3) Post your Process Journal collection by Saturday
4) Start working on your Portfolio!!!!
--review your writing
--start selecting what you will include in your Portfolio
--start to revise following the Phases of Revision for EACH piece.

OUR FINAL EXAM IS ON MONDAY 12/9
--Final Portfolios are due at the Final Exam

Good Monday! Today the second draft of Essay #4 is due.

We are changing things up a bit with only TWO peer responses to do (with a third counting for extra-credit). You may also have time to do your Writing Review here in class. Only drafts that are complete drafts with a version of the Introduction through the Conclusion (or at least Part IV) will count as "on-time."

Before beginning your peer response, take a couple minutes to

a) review the Revising Sentences Guide and the Answers to EGW#13

b) review the guidance in theEssay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet for each part of the essay:
--pgs. 3-5
--Example Essay #4

Whatever peer response is not completed in-class is due by the end of the day.
--The E4-2 Writing Review is also due by the end of today.

--If you are absent today, I will expect all this work turned in by the end of the day unless I hear from you.
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The last 15 minutes will be reserved for discussion about

The Appendix
--What the Appendix should be and should look like
--5Ws Method of Evaluating Sources

MLA Documented Essay
--review this MLA Example essay from Purdue OWL closely. Your final draft should look like this one. Study it!

Editing following the Paramedic Method
--Revising Sentences Guide
--Answers to EGW#13 (example of what the Paramedic Method looks like when editing a text)

Homework for next class:
1) Complete peer response and Writing Review for Draft E4-2 due by the end of today (11/25) to have draft count as "on-time."
2) The Final Draft of Essay #4 is due next time
--Please follow the guidance for revising this essay found on page 16 of the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. Review our learning materials as well to help you complete this essay.

Be sure you handle and document quotes correctly.
Be sure that you EDIT your final draft. PRINT IT. MARK IT UP (using the Paramedic Method). Seek to be concise and readable.

Please keep your essays within the 4-6 page (1000-1500 word) range. If you are going way over, you need to do some cutting.
NOTE: This word count does not include the Appendix, so the 1000-1500 words applies to Sections I-V only.

3) Process Journal #14 due for next class.
--be sure to bring ALL your course writings to begin working on your Portfolio
You are encouraged to begin working on your Portfolio now. See page 17 for information about the Porfolio and the Final Exam.

Today we will start by doing our four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #13 on the Writing Spaces article "Walk, Talk, Eat, Cook: A Guide to Using Sources"

Please turn in your EGW#13 practice editing using the Paramedic Method. We will save a discussion of this editing for Monday.

Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet

We will focus today on doing two activites that will help you write drafts of Section II and Section IV of the paper.

Why Are These Charts Helpful?
Use these two charts to help you as you draft parts II and IV of the paper. They will help you be able to recognize and talk about your own research process USING THE LANGUAGE OF THE RESEARCH PROCESS, and they will provide your some critical perspective on your own research process in this particular project--where you did well, where you struggled, where you learned, where you have more to learn.

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Thinking about Draft #2 of Essay #4
Essay #4 Outline
Below is a graphic of the parts and likely paragraphing and length you will have for this complete dress rehearsal of your essay:

NOTE: You should really shoot for including FOUR Findings like you see in the example essay.

ALL of this needs to fit within 4-6 pages (1000-1500 words). Please keep within this range! Note: The Appendix does not count in the 1000-1500 words, just the main Parts I-V. See the Example Essay #4 to see a good example of what you are shooting for doing in this essay.

Homework:
1) Draft #2 of Essay #4 due on Monday
--please follow the guidance for revising what you wrote for draft #1 and adding the new parts for draft #2 found on page 13 of the EC#4 Assignment Sheet. The complete guidance for each part of the essay is found on pages 3-5 of the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. Follow the guidance for EACH part carefully.

Reminder: ALL required rewrites are due within one week after the paper is returned to you. Be sure to provide me with a paper copy along with your original submission draft.

Reminder: The second conference either with me or the Writing Center is due by the time we turn in Essay #4 on 10/27.

Happy Monday!

Today we will review our goals with Draft E4-1 and then doing peer response. Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. Our goal is to do three peer responses and a fourth for extra-credit.

About Feedback It is VERY important that you provide good and HONEST feedback to your peers. You certainly want to point out good things they are doing and encourge their movement in positive directions in their essay. But you also need to point out places where the writer may be off-base or going in the wrong direction. We will look at the example Essay #4 to discuss the "on track" goals of this essay to help you provide helpful feedback. --example Essay #4

Whatever peer responses you do not complete in class are due by the end of today. The Writing Review will be due on Wednesday.

Homework for Next Class:
1) Complete any peer response you do not complete in class. Do your Writing Review by Wednesday.
2) EGW#13 is another exercise practicing the Paramedic Method. I will give you a paper copy to do physical editing of the text. Review the Guide on Revising Sentences and the answers to EGW#12 before you do this exercise. Bring in the paper copy to turn in on Wed. No need to post electronically unless you are absent. See how much "fat" you can cut from this text.
3) Process Journal #13 is a really good article from Writing Spaces on research and using sources. You have to read this article first before writing the journal.
4) Review these materials above on what plagiarism is and how to avoid it.
5) You may see that you have more research to do, so jump on that if you need to.

Reminder: ALL required rewrites are due within one week after the paper is returned to you. Rewrites can be resubmitted electronically by midnight, but be sure to provide me with a paper copy along with your original submission draft.

Reminder: The second conference either with me or the Writing Center is due by the time we turn in Essay #4 on 10/27.

Today we will start by reading the Process Journal #12s and doing our "ah-hah" replies. It will give us the opportunity to review "the art of integrating quotes" with more detail.

Using Quotations
The Art of Integrating Quotes
--yet more on integrating quote

Then we will review the Guide on Revising Sentences and the answers to EGW#12 and the sentence-edits following the "Paramedic Method."
--as an approach to editing, if you meld the awarenesses and strategies of conciseness (see EGW#10 and the Conciseness Strategies) with Lanham's paramedic method, you have a powerful tool in your possession to revise your sentences for sharpness, readability, and clarity.

Next, we will have some time to review our Preliminary Findings. Take some time to read through the posts of your peers, and offer one to two questions to at least four posts of your peers.

Given their Research Question and what they have found so far, what question or questions do you have (from the perspective of a reader curious to hear the answer(s) to the writer's research question)?

Finally, we will discuss what to do for the first draft of Essay #4.
--see pg. 11-12 in the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet
--study this example Essay #4

Homework:
1) KEEP RESEARCHING and processing what you have found. Keep chasing the answer to your research question all the way through Saturday.

2) Follow the directions for writing the first draft of Essay #4 carefully found on pages 11-12 in the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet. For this draft, you only need to do parts I and III of the paper.

Outline of E4-1 draft paper:

You may have only two key findings, but four is better. You need THREE bits of textual evidence from you research--at least--in EACH body paragraph. Seek to include information from more than one source for each finding. Be sure to "sandwich" your quotes!

3) Review and study the Guide on Revising Sentences
--double-check your answers to EGW#12

Happy Veterans Day!

Start today with a review of key learning objectives in Essay #3 where many people have struggled:
--Crafting a good Introduction
--Creating good "signpost" transition that are argumentative (not informative) in nature
--Integrating and "sandwiching" quotes correctly
--Fully supporting, including enough Secondary Support
See Example Essay #3 Parts

Next we will by find a "research buddy"--sit next to them.

Working with a "research buddy," we will

a) review (and edit if need be) our Evaluating Sources assignments
--we will look at the Appendix example in the assignment sheet and the example in the Evaluating Sources assignment
--our friend, Citation Machine

b) share how our researching is going so far and offer suggestions for researching
--help each other!
--use this time in-class for more researching of electronic sources

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Introduction to the Paramedic Method!
--funny video to introduce the Paramedic Method
--Exerpt from Revising Prose by Richard Lanham and Revising Sentence Guide

Homework:
1) KEEP RESEARCHING
--you should done with your researching by Friday or Saturday! Keep track of what you do and what you find as you research.
2) Write up your Preliminary Findings Report
--see page 10 of the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet for directions on writing this report
3) EGW#12 practicing the Paramedic Method
4) Process Journal #12 on Using Quotes focused on reading Trimble's chapter on using quotes.
5) REVIEW the Example Essay #3 Parts and the key learning guides on Introductions, Using Quotes, and Coherence that apply.

Good morning!

Quote of the day:
"Each time we write, we're making a choice as to the kind of person we prefer to be. Since it's so important, let's make that choice a conscious one for a change. Here's what it involves: 'Do I want to be authentically me, speaking my own thoughts in my own idiom, or am I content to be a pseudo-self, using borrowed thoughts, borrowed language, and a borrowed personality to gain the approval of a few literary traditionalists?'" (Trimble 71).

Today we will start by
A) reading the Process Journal #11s of our peers and doing the four ah-hah replies.
B) Then we will listen to and enjoy a few Beholder imitation pieces from EGW#11.
C) Review my researching guidance inside
--the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet
--LibGuide for our class
--Keyword search strategies guide I gave you

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Then, we will RESEARCH

Your goal is to research on your Research Question. Get down and dirty with seeking answers to your research question.
--Start by finding a book
--Then search for a peer-reviewed journal article

Follow the guidance and suggestions for researching found in the Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet and our LibGuide.

Homework:
1) Research! Now is the time. Follow your curiousity where it leads you.
--Re-read and follow the suggestions in AWREF in R2 Managing information; taking notes responsibly. Keep an informal research log.
2) The Evaluating Sources exercise found on page 8 of the EC#4 Assignment Sheet is due next time by class time. See the example of one done correctly in the Evaluating Sources assignment.

Be sure and VOTE tomorrow!
--check where to vote

Today we have our Essay #3s due!!!!

Please turn in your PRINT copy to me (be sure it is in MLA Format)
Then turn in your ELECTRONIC copy to Canvas

And do your Writing Review E3-3|
--we have the first 20 minutes of class to get this done.

If you have not made your selection for your E4 Research Question in the E4 Proposal forum, please reply to my feedback with which topic you are pursuing.

IF you are absent today, I still expect your essay to be turned in today unless I hear from you otherwise. Late essays need to be turned in within a week or they are considered late again and will count off more on your "On time drafts" grade. Contact me for help if you are struggling.

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Congratulations on completing Essay #3!

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We are on to Essay #4!

See our new Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet.

In-class, we will nail down everyone's Research Question, review what the project will entail, and then begin researching!

Use the LibGuide created for our Project to help you research and evaluate sources --LibGuide for our class --Chapters R, Researching in AWREF on finding and evaluating information

Reviewing the Research Process
--"Deconstructing" your keywords in your Research Question

Starting to research (pg. 7 in EC#4 Assignment Sheet)
----Keyword search strategies (Illustrated version)
--Keyword search strategies

What is "parallelism?" Prepping for EGW#11
--see page 8 of Essay Cycle #4 Assignment Sheet.

Homework for next class:
1) Begin researching! DON'T WAIT. Keep track of what you do and what you find as you research. Read through the first few pages of the EC#4 Assignment Sheet and follow its guidance for researching. Familarize yourself with the assignment.

2) EGW#11 is on Parallelism. Follow the directions closely. You must read and study about parallelism before trying it out yourself. Have fun with this writing piece!

3) Process Journal #11 is over Trimble's chapters #6 and #7. Both are great chapters. Read those, and then do the PJ.

4) Extra-credit journals, if you are doing them, are due next class.

5) Next class, we will have the voluntary Re-take of the Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Quiz. If you are statisfied with your grade on the quiz, you don't have to re-take it.

Happy Halloween!

We will start today by

--turning in our freewriting journals (our last week!)
--doing the four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #10 on freewriting
--then discuss Conciseness and review the answers to EGW#10

See the Answers to the Punctuation and Sentence Boundaries Quiz
--quiz answers (re-do possible, see below)

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Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet

Next we will work do a collaborative exercise reviewing key aspects of writing this kind of argumentative, critical essay including:
1) Writing Introductions
2) Creating Coherence by sign posting your argument with good Topic/Transition/Linking Sentences
3) Integrating quotes as textual evidence by "sandwiching" them properly and documenting them properly

1. Introduction should
   --CONNECT with the reader (create an engaging Title and Lead sentence)
   --CLARIFY or RESTATE the ESSAY QUESTION/ISSUE
   --STATE your THESIS/CLAIM (in the LAST sentence of the Introduction--without a plan of development summarizing each reason)
   --Write into the "Writing Situation" and have a sense of audience and purpose
   
   
2. Coherence and Signposting your Argument with Topic/Transition/Linking Sentences
   --Signposting Arguments with Transitions
   --Guide on Coherence and "Topic/Transition/Linking" sentences
   
   
3. Using Quotes Effectively
   Using Quotations
   --The Sandwich Principle
   The Art of Integrating Quotes
   --yet more on integrating quote
   
   
4. Documenting following MLA Documentation--both in-text citation and the Works Cited
   --review EGW#9 answers
   --MLA Guide

Homework:
1) Complete PJ#10 ah-hahs by the end of tomorrow 10/31

2) Study MORE in Conciseness
As a follow up to EGW#10 and in preparation to edit your own final draft, take 15-30 minutes to review the content on Conciseness from Purdue OWL (See all four items in the left menu bar under Conciseness.)

#) The Final Draft of Essay #3 is due next class!
--please folllow the guidance for this final draft found on pages 17-18 of the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet.

Please come to class with a PRINT copy of your essay to turn into me and an electronic copy to be turned in to Canvas.

4) If you have not made a final determination on your Essay #4 Inquiry Project topic, please go back to the E4 Proposal forum and reply to your original message with what topic you are going to pursue. (It is still OK to change your topic if you wish, but let me know.)

5) Those interested in re-doing the Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Quiz may do so by going to the Writing Center either on Tuesday or Wednesday of next week to re-take the quiz. See the 10/23 explanation of EXACTLY what is on this quiz and what you need to know.

Please review our Late Work Policies found from our Canvas home page.

Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet

Task #1: Quiz Over Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors

Task #2: Select your Research Question for Essay #4
Go back to the E4 Proposals forum, read my responses, and reply with your ONE research question that you want to pursue for Essay #4. If you need to take until the end of today to decide, that is ok.

Task #3: Peer Response on Essay #3, draft #2
Today, we will focus on doing peer response on our draft #2s of Essay #3. While we are doing peer response, I will be touching base with any people who need help with this essay. Note: Only drafts that are close to being complete--all the way through the conclusion and approximately 800-1000 words--will be counted as on time.

Be sure that you have posted your Draft Letter on the top of your draft.

Our goal is to do THREE peer responses and the fourth will count for extra-credit.
--whatever peer responses are not finished in class are due by the end of the day
--The Writing Review E3-2 will be due by next class

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During the last 10 minutes, we will discuss EGW#10 over Conciseness by looking at the beginning of Trimble's chpt. 6.
--EGW#10 Readings: Read this Conciseness Strategies guide,Trimble’s chapter 6 on Diction, and AWREF W2-W3 pp. 150-156 on Wordiness.

Homework for next class:
1) Complete peer response by the end of today
2) Complete the E3-2 Writing Review by next class
3) Do EGW#10 on Conciseness
4) Do Process Journal #10 on Freewriting
5) WK 7 Freewriting Journals due (our last week!)

Other Notes:
A) You will be able to do another week of freewriting journals to count as extra-credit. This opportunity is voluntary.

B) This is a perfect time to get help from the Writing Center or from me by scheduling a conference over your draft. Conference #2 must be done before we turn in Essay #4.

Please start today by

• turning in WK6 of your Freewriting Journals. (Only ONE more week of freewriting journals!)
• reading through the Process Journal #9s on Rhetoric and doing your four "ah-hah" replies. You can also turn in your freewriting journals.
• having in hand the print copy of EGW#9 (you can print it if you need to)

Aristotle's Rhetoric--a good read!

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Next, we will review EGW#9 and
--how to handle and "sandwich quotes" correctly
--how to document quotes correctly following MLA Documentation Style
Key Guides for you to study supplementing MLA1-4 in your AWREF:

a) Using Quotes and "sandwiching" them
--Using Quotes
--The Art of Integrating Quotes

b) How MLA Documentation works
--View a sample MLA paper to see the TWO STEPS of MLA Documentation
--View our MLA Guide

Citation Machine is your friend in creating properly formatted Works Cited entries.

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Then we will get our Essay #2s back

--NOTE: We will have our quiz over Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors on Monday
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Next We Will Review BASICS About Argument and Making an Argument

ALL ARGUMENTS CONTAIN A CLAIM (OR THESIS)

KEY CHARACTERISTIC OF ARGUMENTS
--they are structured around REASONS

KEY CHARACTERISTIC OF REASONS
--if you use "because," you almost always have a reason

THE CLAIM + REASON FORMS AN ARGUMENT

Fall is a wonderful season (claim) + because it gets cooler (reason).

Dogs are better pets than cats (claim) + because they are more affectionate (reason).

SAC is a great place to start college (claim) + because it has great professors (reason).

See Brainstorming for Reasons Guide

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Study this flow of logic in the following example because you want your paper to have this same type of logic.

Essay Question:Do these immigrants experience struggles getting to the United States and to our school that we as school employees need to be aware of? 

Thesis: According to Markham's account, our immigrant students have experienced many struggles entering the U.S. we need to be aware of.

Argument #1 Statement: First, these children face significant challenges getting to the US because of the violence they may have been exposed to.
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Claim/Thesis + Reason = Primary Support (or unit of argument)
First, these children face significant challenges getting to the US because of the violence they may have been exposed to.

See also the Development Guide which graphically represents the relationship between your Thesis, your Primary Supports (Reasons) and your Secondary Support (your textual evidence).

Doing the E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets

In class, we will start at least one Evidence Sheet
--write the Argument Statement at the top of one Evidence Sheet (claim + reason)
--write in one quote
--then write the connecting statement explaining how this quote is working to show or prove your thesis

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Homework for next class:

1) FIRST, work on filling out your E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets
--the ones we worked on in class.
--try to get at least FOUR quotes from the book to back up EACH of your reasons. Select the BEST four supporting quotes
--Due by Saturday!

2) Then write your second draft of Essay #3 (E3-2).
--follow the guidance for writing this draft found in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
--include at least three supporting quotes in each body paragraph

3) Reading--Reviewing our guides on using quotes will be helpful. You might also try reading Trimble's chapter on using quotes (12 or 13). It is great! As you use quotes inside your draft #2, please try to "sandwich" each one.
You should also review what we cover in class! You can always scroll down to view past class announcements.

4) Keep doing freewriting journals

5) Study for our Quiz on Punctuation and Sentence Boundary Errors
--see the 10/21 Class Announcement for exactly what you will be tested on

Good Monday!

Please begin right away doing peer response on draft E3-1.
--your goal is to do three peer responses and a fourth can be for extra-credit

Crossing the Bridge from Reading to Writing
--what we are doing

Note: The 9:25 class will not meet today (but the 12:15 class does). All peer responses are due by the end of the day.

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Handling and Documenting Quotes

Next we will review how we will use and document quotes in our essay:
--Guide for Using Quotes (and "The Sandwich Principle" for using quotes)
--MLA Guide

We will start EGW#9 in-class--practicing the "sandwich principle"

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Homework for next class:
1) Complete the peer response by the end of the day. Complete the Writing Review by next class.
2) Complete EGW#9 (follow the directions closely in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
--You must read and review MLA1-4 before doing this exercise.
--NOTE: PRINT this exercise to turn in. (You don't have to turn it in electronically.)
3) Process Journal #9 is on Rhetoric! (my favorite subject)
4) WK6 of Freewriting Journals due Wed--keep writing without stopping (suggestion: writing about the book and what you think about it)

Note: We will begin to work on your E3 Outline and Evidence Sheets next class! You are encouraged to begin working on it.

BRING YOUR HANDBOOK AND THE MARKHAM TEXT TO CLASS ON WEDNESDAY!

Today we will start by doing the four ah-hah replies to Process Journal #8.
--Williams on "Argument: a key feature of college writing" and Trimble on "the analogy" and "The checklist":

1. A sure sense of audience
2. A well-defined thesis
3. A clear strategy
4. Strong evidence
5. A clear narrative line
6. A persuasive closing

See 10/16 Honors Academy Announcements
--10/17 Out of State Transfer workshop 3PM
--10/18 UTSA Best Fest 4-6 PM (meet with UTSA Honors College, get tour)

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We will next discuss Subordination and Coordination and EGW#7 on Sentence Combining (answers to EGW#7). Hopefully, you are seeing the connection between our work on "sentence boundary" issues like comma-splices and run-ons as well as punctuation.

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Then we will discuss our evaluation of the two pairs of sources for EGW#8 and which is more credible and why. The 5Ws of Evaluating Sources.

Set #1: Compare the following sites. 

• The Effects of Pesticides from the Global Healing Center
• Pesticides and Public Health

Set #2: Compare the following sites. 

• Antibiotic Resistance
• Antibiotic Resistance –excerpted article
  

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Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet

Then we will focus on the E3 Invention in groups determined by our topic selection.

The Invention exercise has you do three things

1. COLLECT evidence
2. SORT the evidence
3. NAME/LABEL REASONS as main arguments (or PRIMARY SUPPORTS) of your Thesis

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Homework:
1) Complete your E3 Invention by Saturday
--complete step 3 where you post all YOUR supporting evidence into the Collaborative Evidence Collecting sheet by the end of tomorrow, Thursday (these Collaborative Evidence Collection pages are found in the E3 Module in Canvas)
--THEN complete steps 4-7 by Saturday

2) Do more re-reading and notetaking surrounding your emerging REASONS in support of your thesis. You will need to continue to recycle back to the book to understand Markham's arguments and find good evidence in the text for these views. Your writing is based upon your reading, so digging into Markham's book is where to be.

3) Do your first draft of Essay #3 (E3-1). Doing a good E3 Invention sets you up to do a good E3-1 draft. Writing this draft should take you 25-40 minutes. Follow the directions closely found on page 10 of the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet carefully.

4) Read/skim AWREF MLA1-MLA3, especiall MLA3 on integrating sources.

5) Study/Review punctuation and sentence boundary errors
--Guide to Punctuation
--Guide to Sentence Boundary Errors

Bring your Markham text to class!

Evaluate Your Sources!

Today we focus on evaluating sources. What we do in class today extends what is found in chapter R-3 in AWREF. You must read and study that chapter!

Here is the link to the library LibGuide for our Inquiry Project.
The Information Cycle
F19 Rock Lab Sources

E4 Proposals are due today!

Homework for next time: Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet
1) Do the E3 Invention as best you can. It actually has you begin to seek out support in the text for your thesis and then sort it to discover your main arguments. This activity will take some time and may be difficult, but do the best you can. --Consider that this "seeking support" activity is only the beginning of your work on finding evidence from the text to back up your thesis in Essay #3.

2) EGW#8 is a follow-up exercise evaluating a pair of sources using our 5Ws Method of Evaluating Sources.--be sure to investigate each source following the prompts in the 5Ws handout.

3) PJ#8 is on Trimble chapter 4 and an essay by Joseph Williams on Writing in College.
--link to article (read only Part 1 through pg. 6). Be sure that you reference each reading meaningfully in your response. WAIT to do the ah-hah replies.

oday we meet in the Library! (actually in the SLAC Lab on the 7th floor of MLC707)

Here is the link to the library LibGuide for our Inquiry Project.

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About today's homework:
--check your answers to EGW#7
You should be making a connection between all the "sentence boundary" work we have done with punctuation and the two ways to connect sentences and EGW#6 and our review of run-ons where sentences are either not connected or separated correctly. See Guide on Sentence Boundaries.

--for Process Journal #7, please do your four "ah-hah" replies on your own by the end of today.

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For Next Class:
1) Finish reading The Faraway Brothers. Read closely and interactively--annotating while you read.
Note: If you are far from finished, you will need to work extra to complete the book. Ration your reading so you can complete the book by the 15th. That's six days--how many pages per day will you need to read to complete the book? You will need to begin work on Essay #3, despite not having the book finished.

2) Read the Essay #3 Topic sheet and do the "Getting Started with Essay #3" steps #1 and #2 (read pages 2-5 in the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet).
--pick your topic, begin doing your "focused re-reading" around that topic's Essay Question
--you might even check ahead to the E3 Invention and begin doing some work on it

3) Do the E4 Proposal--found in Canvas--where you give me ideas for topics you would like to pursue for your Inquiry Project in Essay #4.

4) Prepare for our 2nd Library Instruction on Evaluating Sources.

Essay #2s are due today!

Before turning in your paper, review it from the perspective of "the glass is half full." Rather than look for errors, look for where you have punctuated correctly and where you have done things correctly. You should KNOW why you punctuate and WHY it is correct. Pay special attention to places where you are not sure if you have done something correctly--for example, you look at a comma, and you can't identify whether it is correct. Re-examine it to see if you can verify it as correct or perhaps you will see it is not correct and you can fix it. Like before, hand-written edits on your final draft count--no need to fix the electronic copy and reprint.

Once you have done a "glass is half full" proofreading of your paper, turn it in TWO ways

--turn in the PRINT copy to me
--turn in the electronic copy into Canvas
(Be sure the essay is in MLA Manuscript format.)

Then do your Writing Review E2-3. Depending upon how much time you needed for your final proofreading, you may have to complete this writing review by the end of the day.

At 30 minutes after the start of class, we will migrate over to GH227. The 9:25 class will do a college survey and in the 12:15 class we will talk about The Faraway Brothers.

Review our new Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet!

Next class we meet in the Library for an orientation on researching. Meet in the lobby area of MLC on the 2nd floor right when you enter the building. We are going to be in one of the library classrooms to the right--MLC 208 or 209. Prepare for this library instruction session by a) Read AWREF R1 on Researching pp. 329-341. b) View this video on "What Databases and Why You Need Them" c) Then review this LibGuide comparing searching the web ("googling") and searching in a library database --LibGuide (click all the tabs and view the videos)

Homework: Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet!

1) Finish the E2-3 Writing Review (if you did not complete it in-class).
2) EGW#7 on Sentence Combining and PJ#7 on drafting due next class. PJ#7 involves reading, so be sure to allow time to read FIRST before you write.
3) WK4 of freewriting journals--write without stopping for 10 minutes; don't fix anything!
4) Review the Essay Cycle #3 Assignment Sheet and think about which of the topic options you may be interested in writing about for Essay #3.
5) Review the Essay #4 Topic Sheet and think about what possible possible topics for inquiry projects. The E4 Proposals will be due 10/14 where you will need to declare two or three possible research questions.
6) Prepare for our Library Instruction next class (see above).
7) Finish reading The Faraway Brothers this week (if possible). Keep reading from wherever you are.

Note: If you did not complete your Writing Review E2-3 in-class, it is due by the end of today.

Once you get logged in and skim this class announcement, please start on task #1:

1. Please turn in your WK 3 freewriting journals.
   
   
2. Do your four ah-hah responses to Process Journal #6 over Invention
   --Reinventing Invention
   
   
3. Check your answers to EGW#6
   
   
4. Review the goals for the essay related to Essay Form and Writing Toward a Rhetorical Situation found on page 5 of the EC#2 Assignment Sheet
   --Then review the Illustrative Essay Rubric to see how you will be evaluated and see how they match the goals for the essay.
   
   
5. Exercise Reviewing Your Rhetorical Stance
   How clear is your MESSAGE to a SPECIFIC AUDIENCE for a clear PURPOSE?

Prepare for this exercise:
--Open your draft (latest version) and copy and paste into a MSWord document just your Title, Introduction, and Concludion
--PRINT this page (no need to save it)

Group together in groups of three
--review the Rhetorical Stance sheet with Introductions and a Conclusion from our example Illustrative Essays
--discuss what you see these writers doing in terms of communicating a clear rhetorical stance

--Then share your Intro/Conclusion sheets and discuss ways the rhetorical stance is working and what improvements could be made

LOOK at how well each writer is --communicating a CLEAR MESSAGE --to a SPECIFIC AUDIENCE --for a CLEAR PURPOSE that involves some action.

Be sure that you have It will be OK to leave early if you have finished the above items, or you could use any spare time you have to work on the essay.

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Homework for next class:

1) The Final Draft of Essay #2 is due. Please follow the directions for doing this last revision and draft found on page 21 of the EC#2 Assignment Sheet.
--Please bring to class BOTH the print copy and electronic copy of your paper to turn in.
--Be sure your paper is in MLA Manuscript Format.

NOTE: You don't have to do the E2-3 Writing Review by class time. Only the final draft is due at the beginning of class.

2) Please bring The Faraway Brothers to class next time. Keep reading it. Keep prospecting for interesting ideas in the book you might be interested in learning more about in your E4 Inquiry Project.

Happy Almost October!

We will start today by checking in with a peer about reading The Faraway Brothers. You should finish reading the book in two weeks!!!

Next, we will do an activity related to punctuation and highlight what EGW#4 will be about related to sentence boundary issues:
--Sentence Boundary Errors: Comma-Splices, Run-ons, Fused Sentences
--Sentence Boundary issues in last Punctuation Test

PLEASE FOLLOW THESE DIRECTIONS FOR OUR CLASS WORK TODAY

1. Post your draft with a "Draft Letter" on top.
   --this draft letter is a short note to your reader preparing them to read your piece and asking for any particular feedback.
   
   
2. Do Peer Response
   --do THREE Peer responses (and you can do a fourth for extra-credit)
   --really try to do your best in being good, helpful and insightful readers for your peers
   --Spread the wealth. If someone already has two or more peer responses, look for someone else who doesn't have at least two responses to do your peer response on.
   
   
3. When you complete your peer response, then do your Writing Review as a reply to your own draft.
   --this writing review should be a minimum of 250 words

You should be able to complete all this work in-class. If you do not, the remainder is due by the end of today.

If you finish early, please stay in class and begin working on revising your essay.
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Homework for next time:

1) Complete Peer Response and your Writing Review if you didn't complete them in-class
--due by the end of today

2) EGW#6 on Sentence Fragments and Run-ons and Process Journal #6 on Invention (Follow directions for these activities found on page 19-20 of the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet carefully. EGW#6 can be done by hand or electronically.)

BONUS Site on Sentence Fragments--Grammar Bytes! Check it out!
BONUS Site on Comma Splices--Grammar Bytes! Check it out!

3) WK 3 of Freewriting Journals due next class
--10 min. writing without stopping about life, the universe, and everything

4) The Final Draft of Essay #2 will be due next Mon. 10/7, so you can begin working toward that final draft.

5) Continue reading Faraway Brothers. This week you should be reading up to pg. 227.
--be prospecting for possible inquiry project topics

Good Morning!

In the first ten minutes of class

Please turn in your WK2 Freewriting journals (print copies). Then read the WK 5 Process Journals and do your four ah-hah responses.

Today we will review some basics basics basics about Essays you should have viewed before doing Writing Review E2-1.

What will be the organization and development of our Essay #2?
--examine the organization of the example illustrative essay

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Focus on Introductions--Doing EGW #5
--Trimble on Openers pg 23-24
--AWREF 13-18
--Irvin Leads Guide to Introductions

Then, we will do the EGW#5 Exercise in class--Titles and First Lines
--examples

Middles--Focus on Organization
Organization
--see Trimble chpt. 4 (our reading for this and next week in Trimble)

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Homework for next class:
1) Complete the EGW #5 exercise (if needed) by the end of today by going back to your original post in Canvas and editing it.
--you should follow the directions for the exercise found in the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet

Your final exercise should have 10-20 possible titles, seven -twelve different first line leads, and then a final section where you select your provisional title and lead and write about why you have chosen these. BE SURE TO USE THIS TITLE AND LEAD IN YOUR DRAFT #2!!!!!

2) Essay #2 draft #2 is due next time
--review my feedback on your E2 on-track check. I hope to have this feedback done by Friday.
--follow the guidance carefully for doing this draft found on page 15 in the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet carefully! Part of the preparation for writing this draft is to read and study the information on "essay basics" reviewed in class today. Be sure you read this material,
--be sure to use a different color as your add to, revise, and rethink the elements of your paper you have brainstormed on in your six brainstorming sheets
--expect that this second draft will take some time and effort to revise
--due in Canvas by class time


Note about STORIES in the body of your paper
--be sure that you include events or incidents that SHOW your truth: that is, you want a specific thing that happened on a specific day with specific people in a specific place that shows/demonstrates that your truth is true. Even if you are using as an illustrative example of something that "typically" or usually happens, include one instance of this typical happening to give this event concrete significance
--focus your stories just to show your truth, like a YouTube video clip. Use the techniques of description to SHOW and make your message that much more powerful

3) Keep studying and reviewing Punctuation!
--Punctuation Guide , AWREF Section P, Chpt 13 in Writing With Style
Exercise Answers: #1 & 3, #2, #4

4) REQUIRED REWRITES of Essay #1 are due in one week (i.e. 10/1)

On-going work
--WK3 Freewriting Journal
--reading in The Faraway Brothers

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Conference Reminder:
MANY of you have still not had your conference with me or tutoring session in the Writing Center or a piece of writing you are working on for this class. You must accomplish this conference or tutoring session by the time Essay #2 is due. Period. Those who do not get this conference done will lose -10 points on their On-Time Draft and Conferences portion of your grade.

If you have had your tutoring session in the Writing Center, please be sure to get a stamp verifying that you have had your session and show it to me. These sessions in the Writing Center need to be 30 minutes at least to get the stamp.

Be sure if you go for tutoring that you go to the SAC Writing Center in GH 203--no where else.

Today we will start with a punctuation quiz! ... as promised

Then we will get our Essay #1s back and do an editing exercise with them.

Next we will review Freewriting and how to do it
--10 minutes writing without stopping
--Let it be messy! No need to fix errors! Let it fly!
--One journal per day.

Last, we will turn to Essay #2 and the first draft of Essay #2 (E2-1)
--Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet
We will do peer response in-class. The goal is to do three peer responses with a fourth counting as extra-credit.
--whatever peer responses are not done in-class need to be completed by the end of today

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Homework for next class:
1) Complete any peer response not finished in class by the end of the day Monday 9/23.
2) Review AWREF pp. 13-18 about essay form, drafting, and introductions.
3) Do the Writing Review for E2-1
--remember, for the draft to count as "on time" all three need to be completed on time: draft, peer response, AND writing review
4) Do your E2 "on track" check
--particularly go back to your "data sheets" on the parts of the essay to do some re-thinking about your topic. REALLY think and refine your "thesis" (or Illustrative Truth)
5) Do Process Journal #5 on Trimble chapters 1-3
6) NOTE: DON'T DO EGW#5--we will do this exercise in-class together!
7) WK2 of Freewriting Journals are due next class.

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Not exactly sure how Dr. Irvin grades?????
--see this explanation of daily grades

Happy Wednesday!

Please turn in your first week of freewriting journals as you arrive.

Today we will start by reading the Process Journal #4-Bs and doing our four short "ah-hah" replies of 25-50 words.

Next, we will review EGW#4 and punctuation.
Punctuation Quiz--Can you name the five things punctuation does and what punctuation marks are associated with each function? Can you provide an example for each function?

Then we will look at the Essay Cycle #2 Assignment Sheet and the Essay #2 topic and do our E2 Invention exercise in-class
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If you are absent, this E2 Invention is due by midnight unless I hear from you.

Homework:
1) Complete the reading for this week
--Trimble chpts 2 and 3
--Re-read AWREF pp. 3-18
2) Study for the Punctuation Quiz next class: punctuation guide (read Trimble's chapter on punctuation if you have not already!)
3) If you did not finish your E2 invention in-class, complete it by the end of today. If you decide to change your topic before next class, please re-do the E2 invention exercise with your new topic and post it.
4) Essay #2 draft #1 is due next class
--Follow the directions for doing this draft CLOSELY found on pages 9-10 of the EC#2 Assignment Sheet. Bring your SIX pieces of paper to class with you.
--ONLY THE DRAFT IS DUE NEXT TIME!!!!!!!
We will do peer response in-class and the writing review by the following class.
5) WK2 of Freewriting journals begins.
6) Keep reading Faraway Brothers! You should be up to pg. 134 by the end of this week if you are following my suggested reading schedule.
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MORE on The first draft of Essay #2 (E2-1)
--please trust my pre-writing activity of making the sheets and do this activity before you draft. Trimble talks about them in his book as data sheets. Let these sheets be little sketch pads for each part of your essay where you experiment and tweek that part. Doing these sheets will help you write this first draft.

For example

The sheet on your Illustrative Truth (thesis)
--you could try writing and rewriting your thesis five (or ten) different ways until you found the right wording. Trick: write "It is true that ____" and complete the sentence. Your thesis is the last part. It is true that starting college is hard. Thesis = Starting college is hard.

The sheet on your audience
--you could scratch down details that were specific to this audience and what they want or need, what they know or believe
--you could brainstorm other possible audiences if this audience is not working

The sheet on your purpose
--you could delve in more detail about what you want THIS specific audience to see, think, feel, or do when they read your piece
--maybe there are multiple possible purposes and you can decide the best
--adjustments to your audience might shift your purpose, and you could explore those

Each sheet on your illustrative stories
--like we did with the family story, you can list any details related to the story out on the page to gather things you could include and trigger you to remember more about it

But WHY do this????
Here is the secret--when you scratch down your ideas onto paper, you are making your thinking visible. When you make your thinking visible, you can then examine this thinking to add to it, to adjust it, to make connections you might otherwise not make.

Trust this process and see if it doesn't help you when you sit to do the first draft.