UVU Writing
Garrett Winn’s Intermediate Writing Class for UVU
Class for March 9th
March 6th, 2010 by Garrett in Analysis & Synthesis, Announcements || No Comments ||

We have reading in AB and DK due for class. This gets us caught up on the reading (except for the Graphics and Data lesson).
You also need to have your peer reviews done before class.
Based on what I’m seeing in the Analysis and Synthesis papers, I am also asking everyone to read through the 2 [...]

This Tuesday we are talking about Annotated Bibliographies in more detail.
I will probably also finish up our discussion of Logos.
You need to email me your Review of Literature before class starts on Tuesday for homework.
You should also have your Peer Draft ready to go out, as we will be getting into peer review groups for [...]

Class for Feb. 23
February 22nd, 2010 by Garrett in Analysis & Synthesis, Announcements || No Comments ||

I apologize for the late notice on this – my internet went down over the weekend. Of course, this is all in the syllabus, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise.
On Tuesday, we are going to be talking about Reviews of Literature and Categorizing. These are both important for the Proposal part of the next [...]

Class on Feb. 9
February 8th, 2010 by Garrett in Analysis & Synthesis, Announcements || No Comments ||

Sorry about the delay in getting this up – it was a very busy weekend for Cub Scout stuff.
Your assignment for Tuesday was to read over the Teacher Drafts of the example Analysis and Synthesis papers (they are on Blackboard)
You are supposed to email me and attach a document with a paragraph or two of [...]

Class on Feb 2
January 29th, 2010 by Garrett in Announcements, Informative & Surprising, Reading || 7 Comments ||

Make sure to remember that we are starting our class in the library (LI 207) on Tuesday, so go there first. Make sure you bring the ENGL 2010/2020 Worksheet (it is called the Research Study Guide in the syllabus) with you. It must be filled out completely! You can get it by going to http://www.uvu.edu/library/tutorials/index.html.
You [...]

Reading for 1/21
January 20th, 2010 by Garrett in Announcements, Informative & Surprising, Reading || 8 Comments ||

Just a quick post about the reading and assignments for Thursday.

Review chapters 3 and 4 in AB as preparation for the group presentations on Thursday.
Make sure to fill out your Group Evaluation form so you can turn it in on Thursday.F
For those groups presenting – make sure everything is ready to go.
Read the Surprising Introduction [...]

Reading for 1/19
January 15th, 2010 by Garrett in Informative & Surprising || 2 Comments ||

The reading for this Tuesday is to review chapters 1-2 in AB. Make sure you read it so that the group presentations don’t have to go over everything.
You can optionally read AB 228-238, which are some example informative and surprising articles. However, while they have some similar parts to the paper required for this class, [...]

Homework and Reading for January 14
January 13th, 2010 by Garrett in Assignments, Reading || 39 Comments ||

Hello classes.
Since I had to hurry at the very end of class, this is to clarify what you need to have done for class on Thursday.
For the reading:

AB 181-183, 217-227
DK 28-33, 84-86
Read the 3 sources from the example students (go to Blackboard > Informative and Surprising Paper and then look for the documents that say [...]

Class for the week of December 7
December 7th, 2009 by Garrett in Announcements, Oral Report || 5 Comments ||

This week is all about presentations!
For section 601, we have 2 on Tuesday, but section 603 does not have any.
On Thursday, we’ll be back to the regular class time and will be there the whole time.
Make sure to bring a pen to mark the evaluation sheets with and don’t miss any presentations, or you’ll lose [...]

As requested, here are the requirements for submitting your Teacher Draft of the Proposal/Annotated Bibliography paper.

Open the version you are submitting for your teacher draft.
Choose File > Save As. Name it: Proposal Annotated Bibliography_Teacher Draft_yourname
At the very end of the document, type Ctrl+Enter to add a new page.
Now open the Peer Draft document.
Copy the peer [...]


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