Welcome to English 2010 – Fall Semester 2011 And, welcome to my class. This will be a tough semester, but I know that if you apply yourself, learn from your mistakes, and rewrite often, that you will be better prepared for college-level writing and researching. I also work on preparing you a bit for life [...]

Your final exam is your portfolio and your oral presentation. SO, that is what we’ll be doing on Monday. The exam time is the exact same time as our class time. You’ll turn in both the hardcopy and the electronic portfolios on Monday, at the start of class. The electronic version can be emailed before [...]

You should be working on getting your oral presentations ready to go. You should also be revising and/or editing your drafts for the final portfolio. Since we only got to watch part of this in section 604 (and not at all in 601), here is the link to a presentation that I think was well [...]

Keep working on your Researched Argument papers. Remember, they are due by 11:59pm on Friday. If I get it after that time, there is a good chance that I won’t be able to review it and get it back to you before the last day of class. For Monday, read the assigned pages in DK [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]