UVU Writing
Garrett Winn's Writing Classes for UVU

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 [...]

Class for Apr. 20
April 19th, 2011 by Garrett in Final Portfolio,Oral Report || No Comments ||

We’ll be continuing the oral presentations for the final regular class day. I will have all the papers done by the start of class and I will also have grade printouts for everyone. Make sure to bring a pen and paper with you to class. You won’t need to bring your textbooks, though. Also, as [...]

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 [...]

Final Paper Due
April 8th, 2011 by Garrett in Classical Argument || No Comments ||

Your Researched Argument paper is due by 11:59pm tonight. You should email me the following: 8 PDFs of your articles (minus any printed versions you turned in to me – if you forgot to turn it in, do so on Monday). Make sure to put your name in the file name of each one. Teacher [...]

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 [...]

Class for Apr. 4
March 31st, 2011 by Garrett in Announcements,Classical Argument || 4 Comments ||

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]