UVU Writing
Garrett Winn’s Intermediate Writing Class for UVU
Class on Feb. 4
February 3rd, 2010 by Garrett in Announcements, Reading || 4 Comments ||

Make sure to email me your summary of a source. Bring to class with you a printout (or electronic version) of 2 sources.
Review AB 121-140
Read AB 346-368
This is a review of strong response and an introduction to text analysis.

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 1/28
January 27th, 2010 by Garrett in Announcements, Reading || 5 Comments ||

I forgot to post this last night, but here is where you can comment on the reading for Thursday.
The reading covers information about doing peer reviews and a review (hopefully) of the strong response paper you did in 1010.
For class, make sure to bring your filled out peer review sheets and a printout of your [...]

Grammar Day
January 23rd, 2010 by Garrett in Grammar, Reading || 29 Comments ||

This post is for commenting on grammar and for posting your examples of poor grammar.
Make sure to tell WHY it is poor grammar.

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reading for Oct. 22
October 21st, 2009 by Garrett in Reading || No Comments ||

The reading for Thursday is all about making evaluative claims. This is very important for your classical argument paper and a valuable skill to develop.

Reading for Oct. 20
October 15th, 2009 by Garrett in Classical Argument, Reading || No Comments ||

The reading for Tuesday is about the Classical Argument. You should REALLY pay attention and make sure you understand what this is saying so that you can write a good classical argument paper.
As always, comment here as you like.

Reading for Oct. 8
October 7th, 2009 by Garrett in Announcements, Reading || No Comments ||

The reading for this Thursday is all about incorporating sources into your research papers.
In class, we’ll cover Summary, Paraphrase, and Quote; APA style; and Using Sources in your paper.
On Thursday, I’ll bring in the schedule for the rest of the semester for reading and due dates.
Also, I have a new version of the Formatting handout [...]

The reading for Tuesday is about your next paper: Proposal/Annotated Bibliography.
As always, comments and questions and information should be posted here.


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