For Monday’s class, make sure to get all your peer reviews done. If someone in your group didn’t send their paper by midnight last night, you are not obligated to review it. However, I am sure that they would be greatly appreciative if you are able to make the time for it. Bring the peer [...]

Only those who signed up to come need to appear for class. Come at the time you signed up for. Make sure you send out your peer draft and sources to your reviewers by Wednesday evening. Any paper revisions that you want me to look at are also due by Wednesday evening. Make sure to [...]

Add your comments to this post. Give an example of bad grammar and then explain why it is bad. It can be a mistake from your own papers, something you’ve seen somewhere, or something you make up. Also, feel free to comment on other people’s comments (especially if you haven’t done all 5 peer comments [...]

For Monday, do the following: Review the grammar stuff in DK Handbook (you know, in case you have a quiz or something where you have to figure out what is wrong and how to fix it). DK (old) 248-299, 464-623 DK (new) 220-259, 276-288, 449-593 In the post about grammar (to be posted next), give [...]

I totally thought I put this up already. Shouldn’t be any surprises though since I went over it in class. Read Green and Lidinsky pages 201-225 about introductions, paragraph development, and conclusions. Print out the draft of your introduction to bring with you to class. You also need to email me a copy before class. [...]

Everyone should be working on putting together a rough draft of the Researched Argument paper. The easiest way to do this to to take your Annotated Bibiography and save it as a new file. Then, cut and paste the citations (but leave the annotations where they are) and put the citations at the end of [...]

Use this topic to post your group free write. Feel free to comment on the stories at any time.

For Monday: Type up your team write and make a new comment on the blog (under the Team Write post – NOT THIS ONE). Prepare your Teacher Draft of the Annotated Bibliography for sending to me by 11:59 pm on Monday. You’ll need to bring your peer review sheets and any printed sources (remember, I [...]

Make sure to get your 2 peer reviews done before class starts. You’ll want to bring the peer review sheet and any notes or info to share with the owner of the paper you reviewed. Also, read pages 186-189 in Green and Lidinsky. We’ll be talking about Rhetorical Appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos – [...]

Wow, class tonight went by way too quickly. Next time we will get to plagiarism and how to format the citations. So, bring your sources and references pages next time to work on stuff. You’ll also want to bring DK Handbook for finding out APA stuff. For Monday: Read GL 167-185 Read DK (old) 155 [...]