We did two things in class today: we pulled together all the material from the TS/IS text you will need to write a response essay, and I talked through how to make sure your portfolio is complete for the Summary unit.
Getting ready to write a response:
We started class by asking each of you to report to the class what your planned to write for your response essay ( to discuss the brainstorming you did for homework). As you talked about your ideas, we noticed that there are really 3 ways to respond (see Chapter 4 in TS/IS): agree (with a difference); disagree and explain why; agree + disagree simultaneously.
For essays where you disagree, we emphasized that you need to state why you disagree (explain) and give evidence (from your personal experience, something you 've read => an example, study, personal story) which supports your position.
For essays which agree: you need to raise and idea or evidence that is NOT mentioned in the essay. This can be a new point, a specific example/story/reference to research which agreeswith/supports the author's point but in a different way than stated in the essay,
For essays which agree and disagree, you will put forward new material or different ways of seeing things for both sides.
We took a look at the templates for stating positions for the three ways to respond, and noted patterns in the kinds of language they used.
Completing the summary unit to earn your "grade-so-far."
We went over the writing that will be graded for the summary unit, piece by piece. The list of what to include in your portfolio is posted in the previous post.
Naming documentes. I requested that you give the assignments you attach as document smeaninful names: Ungar draft; Ungar revised, Reflection on Summary, etc, so I will be able to see at a glance what is in your portfolio and what is not. Titles like Summary, or Revised summary are not so helpful.
Inserting links to Google.doc pages. Each of you should past the link to your google doc group summary into the summary page. To do this, go to your google.doc (you sent me the link in an email, so you should have access to it), put the cursor in the URL, copy by pressing control C, go to your portfolio, click the "pencil" icon (so you can edit the page); place your cursor in the field for the page, and hit control V. Then, be sure to save this change (click the save button). This will copy the link to the document into your portfolio. Any additional changes you make to this document will be added and I will be able to access them from the same link. Make sure the "Share" settings allow for anyone with the link to view your work.
Reflective writing. The directions for the reflective writing are posted to the right under Assignments, Reflective writing on summaries. I suggested that you open the assignment sheet, and write directly into that document. Answer each question listed on the assignment sheet.
Best summary. For the "best summary," you should select on of the three summaries you wrote for homework as your best. If you think you can make it better still, you may revise it one more time, then attach it to the Summary page in your portfolio as your Best Summary.
For next class:
Read: Addison, "Two Years are Better than Four," p.211.
Review Chapters 4, 5 & 6 as you need them (pay attention to the templates/moves for academic writing).
Write: Draft response to the reading of your choice (the one you talked about in class). Note: if you find you want to change your mind - go ahead. Just make sure to write back to one of the three essays we have already discussed: Carey, Ungar, or Hacker + Dreifus.
The portfolio writing is due by Saturday morning. I will begin grading Saturday. If there is some reason why you cannot turn in your work by that time, let me know in an email. Otherwise I will grade what is posted, and we will talk about possiblities for make-up work in class.
In class on Tuesday we will do two things. It will be donut day - where we will talk over the Addison reading with donuts (bring your own coffee). We will use this talk to help you brainstorm a response essay. For this part of class we will NOT be in a computer classroom, so bring yourbook, your laptop, and whatevery you need to write down your brainstorming ideas.
When we go back to the computer classroom, we will spend time workshopping your draft response essays on one of the first 3 readings.
Have a great weekend and see you on Tuesday.
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