Note:  These assignments are subject to change at the whims of the instructor & for the needs of the class.

DW 1            CyberAdventure

• Read through the CCIT publication
• Have a 1 hour Cyber Adventure
• Follow the instructions on the englstuds page to subscribe to the englstuds listserv.  If you are having trouble logging on to your account with telnet or problems sending email with Pine, Click Here!

DW 2            Diagnostic Essay:  500-750 words w/ word count -- required regardless of attendance

         Choose an advertisement (any media is fine) that appeals to you.  Write an essay in which you describe the advertisement for someone who may not be familiar with it and explain why it appeals to you.  Organize the body of the paper into appropriate paragraphs in which you focus and develop the ideas you have about this topic.  Offer specifics -- details and descriptions -- to give your reader a full sense of  the advertisement, and be thorough in your explanation of its appeal.  Aim for an essay that is thoughtful and reflective.
         Present this essay the way you've been taught to present formal work.  Give your paper a title.  Type it neatly.  Proofread it carefully.  In other words, put your best foot forward.  See Format Requirements on page 3 of your syllabus for help in this area.  It is due at the beginning of class on Friday, August 27.  I will use this essay to get a sense of your writing abilities and to recommend tutoring
 

DW 3            Advertising & You        At least 400 words -- include a word count

         Reflect on your responses to television and magazine advertisements.  Do you leave the room when commercials are aired?  Do you stay put but mutter obscenities about their waste of time and stupid gimmicks?  Are you more often mesmerized and amused?  Do you find yourself spending more time studying advertisements than reading the actual articles in a magazine?  Are you affected by advertisements?  (That is, do you think they persuade you to buy certain products?  Do you think most people are affected by them?  How?  Why or why not? By some more than others?  Which ones?  Have your responses to advertisements changed over the years?)  Do you think it is appropriate for advertisers to use any techniques available to them to persuade you to buy their products?  Do you think there are any ethical issues involved in advertising?
         Write a mini-essay on this topic.  Don't confine yourself to answering my questions and certainly don't think you have to answer all of them.  Write whatever strikes you as relevant.  Due at the beginning of class on Monday, August 30.
 

DW 4 & 5:        Writing Summary
        Read Fowles' "Advertising Fifteen Basic Appeals" EP 3-9.  Use the summary worksheet you received in class to help you.  Then write a paragraph (at least 100 words, include a word count) in which you explain Fowles' major ideas to an audience unfamiliar with his work.   Save this assignment on your 3.5 inch pc floppy disks and bring these disks to computer lab.
        Since the reading was just recently posted, I have postponed the due date for DW4 until Friday Sept.3.  For DW 5, simply rethink, edit & revise your summary to make it the best darn summary possible.
 

DW 6          Pick your advertisement & analyze it!      At least 500 words -- include a word count.
        Study the magazine advertisement(s) you have chosen.  Write in response to the following questions:  What are the major appeals operating in the advertisement or in the campaign? (Use Fowles' categories or your own.) How are each of these appeals created?  That is, what specific features in the advertisement contribute to the appeal(s) you have identified and how do these features work with one another and on the viewer's mind?  What is the viewer supposed to think and feel if the advertisement is succeeding?  How do you know this is what the viewer is supposed to think and feel?
         If it helps you to organize your materially visually, you might start by creating a chart (bubbles, etc) of some sort and then writing the assignment.  At the end of the writing, you must propose three possible thesis statements around which you might write your Essay 1.  Bring this assignment to computer lab on a 3.5" floppy disk.
 

DW 7        Develop your thesis        At least 500 words related to your thesis.
        1)  Type a tentative thesis at the top of your first page.  Remember that a thesis is a claim about the meaning of the advertisement you are analyzing.  This statement should assert something that others might disagree with so you will have something to do in the rest of your paper--test your claim against the evidence in your text (advertisement) to see if what you've asserted holds up.
        2)  Skip a few lines and go on to develop and test your tentative thesis. In other words, try to explain and argue your thesis.  Don't worry if you change your mind as you write.  A shift if perspective happens during a lot of good writing
        3)  Make sure you include a paragraph of conclusion.
 

DW 8      Revise your thesis & work on paragraphs        At least 750 words -- include a word count

        Review the posted "Five Kinds of Weak Thesis Statements & How to Fix Them".  Take the advice you find on these pages and the response you got to DW 6.  Use this information and feedback to rethink what thesis you should be working with for this first major paper.   Then do the following:
        1)  Revise your thesis to make it more responsive to the evidence in your advertisement and to avoid the weaknesses covered in the posting readings.
        2)  Type your revised thesis at the top of a page.
        3)  Skip a few lines and go on to develop this revised thesis.  Be sure that you have read the assigned & posted reading "Analyzing Your Evidence".  Make your draft as coherent and convincing as possible.  Coherence usually comes from organizing you materially logically and creating links between ideas.  A convincing paper is one that makes good use of evidence. Make sure your draft has paragraphs and that these paragraphs include a discussion of evidence from the advertisement to help you develop your thesis.
 

DW 9      TWO COPIES OF A FORMAL DRAFT -- at least 1000 words -- include a word count.
           YOU MUST ALSO BRING ONE COPY ON 3.5" FLOPPY TO COMPUTER LAB

        This is a special 2-POINT ASSIGNMENT.  You must submit this draft to me regardless of attendance.   However, I do not provide feedback on papers of students who skip the review & revision process.  In other words, if you want my help, you must participate in the peer review process.
        Type, double spaced, a formal draft of your first major paper, one that includes an introduction (may be more than one paragraph), body, and conclusion.  Reminders:
        * Read the assigned posting "Introductions & Conclusions" to make sure you have accomplished the important objectives of an introduction.  Please state your working thesis near or at the end of your introduction.
        * Make sure you have strong body paragraphs that are clearly related to your thesis, that have strong topic sentences, that offer convincing evidence from your advertisement, and that explain your thinking about that evidence.
        * Review the posting "Introductions & Conclusions".  Aim for a conclusion that does more than restate your thesis and summarize your main points.
 

DW 10     PEER REVIEWS
                --special 2-POINT ASSIGNMENT
            Be sure that you have read the posted reading assignment "Revising for Style" and PSM (Pocket Style Manual) pp. 87-95 before attempting DW 10.

            Authors: Before your distribute copies of your draft to your peers, take a minute to do the following: (1) Draw a line at the end of your introductory material. (2)  Number all of your paragraphs in the left margin. (3) Get into your group of three and show each other your advertisements, talk, ask questions, etc. (4) Distribute your copies to your two peers.

            Peers: You must write your responses to the following questions on separate sheets of paper, one for each paper you are reviewing. Do NOT come to class on Friday with all your responses on one sheet of paper. You must provide thorough and specific responses to each item below. If you bring in skimpy DW 10’s, you will get half credit or less!  As you are reading the paper, please mark any errors & make constructive comments in the margins.

           1.Read the introduction, stopping where the author has drawn the line. Based solely on the introduction, what do you expect this paper to be about? Does the introduction grab your attention? Does it provide adequate background information to understand where the paper is going?
           2.Now read the rest of the paper. Was it about what you expected it to be about? Where, if at all, did the author shift focus or wander away from the topic that was established or suggested in the introduction?
           3.What do you take to be the author’s thesis? In other words, what is the major argument the author is making in his/her analysis? Is it a strong thesis? How might it be made stronger?
           4.Produce a quick fragment outline of how this essay is organized. You can plug in the words introduction & conclusion where appropriate. How has the author related the parts of his/her analysis to one another? What logic is governing the arrangement or order of the parts? (If you can’t determine the logic, say so.).  How might the organization of the paper be improved?
           5.Where in the analysis (cite by paragraph #, please) do you find evidence in support of the thesis? Where in the paper does the analysis break down or otherwise not support the thesis?  What other evidence might be considered?
           6.Pick one supporting body paragraph. Underline all of the inferences, interpretations, and claims you find there. Put a check mark by all of the evidence in support of those inferences. What can you say about the balance the author has established between these two? Does the author explain the links, connections & warrants between the evidence and the claims?
           7.What questions remained unanswered by the paper? What are you still confused or curious about?  Did any counter arguments come to mind that the author did not consider?
           8.What did you enjoy most about the paper?
 

DW 11    Revise your essay

        Part A:  First summarize what you heard people saying to you during your in-class conference & in their written comments.   Then write a memo to yourself about what you intend to do to improve this paper.  You don't have to follow all the advice that you were given.  Part of what you need to learn how to do is judge the usefulness of the advice you've been given.  Tell yourself what advice you intend to follow and why and what advice you intend to reject and why.
        Part B:  Make sure you have read PSM, pp. 2-16.  Revise your essay based on the advice you received via conferences & written comments.  Bring your latest version to class.  Your goal here is to settle all major matters of content and organization so that these aspects of your paper are the best you can possibly make them.  (Don't forget to tweak your transitions between paragraphs!)   From this point forward, we will concentrate more on more expression and mechanics than on content and organization.  Do the best you can with these two parts of your revision and we'll build from there.
 

DW 12    Continue editing your essay

        Make sure you have read the posted writing "Revising for Correctness".   Edit your draft carefully for both the stylistic concerns we discussed in class, as well as the more technical, grammatical issues that you read about (e.g., "BWE's", etc.).  Bring your most recent draft on a 3.5 inch floppy disk for p.c.'s to computer lab (if you are having trouble saving to floppy and then using your floppies in computer lab:  1.  save the file as a .txt file,  2.  bring a hard copy).
 

DW 13    And revise and edit it one more time...
                --bring two copies to class!

        Revise your essay paying particular attention to style and basic writing errors (see the earlier posted readings as well as PSM, pp. 17-50 for help with grammar trouble).  With a highlighter, mark every sentence you revised during this process.  In the white space between lines, record the original version of the sentence, before you revised it.  Print out an additional copy of this paper and bring both of them to class on Friday (you do not need to highlight the second print out).

DW 14    Comparing Solomon & Manning  --   at least 300 words, include a word count

        Now that you have read both Solomon & Manning, think about the similarities and differences between these two articles about advertising.   Think about what these authors are trying to achieve for their particular audiences.  Begin your DW14 by identifying each author's thesis statement and writing them at the top of the page.  Then explore the ways that each author supports their thesis and attempts to persuade the audience that you have identified.  How have they constructed their personas through their writing?  In other words, how do you envision them after reading the text?  What sort of people do you now imagine them to be?
 

DW 15    Assignment on the OldPuebloMoo.

        Connect to the OldPuebloMoo & go to the Mount Lemmon Classroom using a computer at home or in a computer lab.  I have posted instructions for using the new Encore Express interface on the website ("HowToMOO").  You will need your new password to log in!
        Read & complete the DW 15 assignment that is written on the blackboard in the main classroom.  You can read the blackboard by typing 'look blackboard'  (w/ no quotes).  Follow the instructions!  Print out this assignment as per the instructions on the blackboard and bring it to class on Monday.
 

DW 16    Responding to Readings -- At least 500 words -- include a word count.

        Select three texts from any that you have read thus far.  Why did you select them?  What appealed to you?  How did it appeal to you? What are the theses and purposes of these texts?   Do you agree or disagree with thesis or purpose of these pieces?  What strategies did the authors' use to persuade you?  What appeals are being used & why?  How do your own pre-existing opinions and values resonate with the text?  What does that tell you about the authors' rhetorical strategies for the intended audiences?
 

DW 17   Writing about our own opinions  -- At least 250 words -- include a word count.

        OK.  So the MOO crashed on me this week.  It seems that those connecting from home around 1:30-2:30 were out of luck.  We will try it again next Friday.  If you did the assignment online, excellent! -- you're done with DW17 (bring a print out in for your group on Monday).  If you were unable to connect for one reason or another, then here is the alternate assignment:

        Here is what I would like you to do.  Go look at the last weeks's student blackboard postings.  Read through the opinions posted by the students our English 100 classes.  Look for patterns.  Describe these patterns.  Now, go look at Nike's human rights home page & the Sweatwashing page of Corporate watch or the homepage of the Students Against Sweatshops.  Consider the relations between between initial student opinions and the media/advertising/education  industries.  Then consider the way opinions are changed through something like the SAS protest or even this class.  How do the authors involved (Nike, SAS, Me) try to achieve their purpose for their audiences through particular rhetorical strategies?  Consider the whole rhetorical situation & be specific.  Look at particular passages, quotes, etc.  Print out your 250 words and bring it in on Monday.
 

DW 18    Brainstorming Essay 2  --  At least 500 words -- include a word count.

         Study the terms on your assignment sheet for Essay 2.  What would you like to do in this essay?  Which texts would you like to take a closer look at?  Why are you interested in pairing or grouping those texts?  How are they similar?  How are they different?  What would you like to argue about those texts?  How can you express your own thoughts and opinions while developing an analysis of these texts?
 

DW 19    Drafting Essay 2  -- At least 800 words -- include a word count.

        Begin to develop your analysis of the texts that you have chosen to work with.  Develop a strong thesis statement.  Introduce your argument & analysis for your target audience.  Write logically organized paragraphs that develop your thesis through assertions supported by well-explained evidence from your texts.
 

DW 20      Virtual Class Assignment -- Here are some introductory instructions....

        Before you come to class, you must familiarize yourself with the assigned readings for today on the syllabus. You will be working in small groups to draft and revise paragraphs on the blackboards in your breakout rooms (e.g., 'one', 'two', etc.).  To look at the paragraph in your breakout room type 'look blackboard' (with no 'quotation marks' of course).  Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the paragraph with your fellow students.  You will need to find additional evidence to support & develop the topic sentence -- go look at the websites & documents assigned, or elsewhere, as you see fit.  Engage in analysis of your evidence.  Explain how it supports or develops the topic sentence.
        When you want to add a sentence to the blackboard paragraph, just type 'writeb Your sentence goes here.' (with no 'quotation marks' of course).  To change the order of the sentences on the blackboard, type for example 'moveb 5 to 3' (this would move sentence 5 to position 3).  To erase a sentence, type 'eraseb 5' (this would erase sentence 5 entirely).
        Your paragraph can always be made stronger, more dynamic, more fully developed.  Revise at the level of the sentence, as well as at the level of the paragraph as a whole.
        These paragraphs will be put together and revised as an essay next week in class.
 

DW 21      THREE COPIES OF CONFERENCE DRAFT -- at least 1000 words -- include a word count.
        This is a special 2-POINT ASSIGNMENT. You must submit this draft to me regardless of attendance.   However, I do not provide feedback on papers of students who skip the conference process.  In other words, if you want my help, you must participate in the peer review and conference process.

         Draft a full version of Essay 2 with an introduction, body, and conclusion.  You may want to review the posted writings on introductions and conclusions and on analyzing your evidence.  Because this essay assignment requires you to analyze at least two texts, you must read the posted reading on binaries & comparison/contrast before trying DW 21!  You should certainly review my comments on your first essay.  Pay special attention to the weaknesses I pointed out there and try to repeat the things you did well.  At the very least, I will be looking for papers with a clear thesis and strong analytical points developed with evidence from the texts you are analyzing.  You must print out three copies and bring them to class.  As usual, late daily writing assignments will not be accepted.
 

DW 22   PEER REVIEW  --special 2-POINT ASSIGNMENT

        You must complete a peer review for each of your two peer's essays.  Please mark errors & offer corrections on their printed draft.  Praise their strengths.  You must bring both the marked drafts and the peer reviews to class.  As usual late daily writing assignments will not be accepted.

            Authors: Before your distribute copies of your draft to your peers, take a minute to do the following: (1) Draw a line at the end of your introductory material. (2)  Number all of your paragraphs in the left margin. (3) then, get into your group of three and read each others essays, talk, ask questions, etc.

            Peers: You must write your responses to the following questions on separate sheets of paper, one for each paper you are reviewing. Do NOT come to class on Wednesday with all your responses on one sheet of paper. You must provide thorough and specific responses to each item below. If you bring in skimpy DW 22’s, you will get half credit or less!  As you are reading the paper, please mark any errors & make constructive comments in the margins.

           1.Read the introduction, stopping where the author has drawn the line. Based solely on the introduction, what do you expect this paper to be about? Does the introduction grab your attention? Does it provide adequate background information to understand where the paper is going?
           2.Now read the rest of the paper. Was it about what you expected it to be about? Where, if at all, did the author shift focus or wander away from the topic that was established or suggested in the introduction?
           3.What do you take to be the author’s thesis? In other words, what is the major argument the author is making in his/her analysis? Is it a strong thesis? How might it be made stronger?
           4.Produce a quick fragment outline of how this essay is organized. You can plug in the words introduction & conclusion where appropriate. How has the author related the parts of his/her analysis to one another? What logic is governing the arrangement or order of the parts? (If you can’t determine the logic, say so.).  How might the organization of the paper be improved?
           5.Where in the analysis (cite by paragraph #, please) do you find evidence in support of the thesis? Where in the paper does the analysis break down or otherwise not support the thesis?  What other evidence might be considered?
           6.Pick one supporting body paragraph. Underline all of the inferences, interpretations, and claims you find there. Put a check mark by all of the evidence in support of those inferences. What can you say about the balance the author has established between these two? Does the author explain the links, connections & warrants between the evidence and the claims?
           7.What questions remained unanswered by the paper? What are you still confused or curious about?  Did any counter arguments come to mind that the author did not consider?
           8.What did you enjoy most about the paper?
           9. Identify the key binary oppositions organizing the analysis.  Does the author effectively deal with these binary oppositions, avoiding the traps of reductive thinking?  How might the binary oppositions in the paper or the comparison/contrast topic be complicated or improved by the reading on binaries/comparison/contrasts?  Is the comparison / contrast topic handled effectively?  How might it be improved?
           10. Based upon the grading criteria & scale of essay 1, what grade do you think this essay should receive?  Why?  What should the author do to improve this grade?

DW 23    Revise your essay for content, analysis & organization

        Reread "Revising for Style".  Revise your essay based on the advice you received at your conferences and bring your latest version to class.  Have you effectively used binary oppositions to develop your argument or have you fallen into any of the traps described in the reading on binary oppositions?   Read through your selected texts once again.  Identify any logical fallacies in these texts.  Carefully consider your own arguments.  Can you find logical fallacies in your own essay?
        Write down your thesis statement.  Then write down each topic sentence from each paragraph in your essay.  Read these sentences.  Does a coherent, well organized and developed argument emerge?  What is missing?  Is something out of order?  Revise your essay accordingly.
        Try to have all matters of content and organization in place on this draft so you can concentrate on more technical concerns in subsequent drafts.
        Print out a hard copy for your own use, but bring along the file (saved as .txt file preferably) to the computer lab that you use to connect to the MOO.  Be prepared to cut and paste sections of your paper to the MOO.
 

DW 24   Revising your essay for style

        Edit your draft carefully for the stylistic concerns we discussed in class.  Use the ideas in "A Writer's First Aid Kit" in the SG to help with any rough edges or problems you are experiencing.  Make sure that your quotations, citations & works cited page are in proper MLA parenthetical style.  Come prepared to workshop essays with attention to documentation in class.
 

DW 25    Revising your essay yet again!

        Take into consideration the comments from your peers, from your required visit to the Writing Center, and from my reading of your draft.  Make sure that you understand all the patterns of basic writing errors in your essay.  Locate the sections in "Revising for Correctness" and PSM that deal with these sorts of errors and learn how to correct them.  Look at carefully at each sentence in your essay by itself.  Read each one aloud & see how it sounds.  Revise as necessary.
 

DW 26 Virtual Class Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!
 
 

DW 27        Response to readings -- 500 words, include word count

        After you have read Rodriguez' "The Issue Is Social Class" and "Class and Comfort," write about the following topics and questions:

         Rodriguez  points out that Americans find it difficult to talk about social class.  Many of us like to believe there are no classes in this country as there are in England or India, for example.  However, for Rodriguez and others, class is a determining factor in our lives, our attitudes, our assumptions.  Rodriguez identifies tolerance of failure, slight expectations, fear of success, preference for the readily available but poorly paid job over the riskier proposition of a job that requires a college diploma, and finally risk of alienation from family when one becomes upwardly mobile as lower class markers.  White talks about the differences in the whole educational culture that exists in upper & lower class schools.

         First describe your class background.  Then reflect on the values and attitudes that have been instilled in you as a natural part of that background?  What is your attitude toward money and the kind of job that you should have?  What view of higher education have you been encouraged to adopt?  According to your family's way of thinking, what good is an education?  What does it do for you or to you "if it works" -- to borrow a phrase from Rodriguez?   Explain how social class relates to the school that you attended and your experience there.

         If you come from a lower class background or have friends from a lower class background, what do you think of the markers Rodriguez covers as those that identify lower class beliefs and attitudes?  Do you recognize any of those attitudes as ones you or your friends have been encouraged to adopt because of class background?  How do you think your class background affects the way other students and teachers have looked at you in your past and/or present educational experiences?
 

DW 28        Virtual In-Class Writing Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!

        Note:  In order to get credit for this in-class MOO writing, you must have read the assigned readings and must demonstrate knowledge of these texts through your MOO interactions!  Be sure that you have these texts handy when you connect to the MOO.
 

DW 29        Response to readings -- 500 words, include word count

        These essays all consider racial and ethnic difference in an educational context.  This daily writing asks you to explore how your ethnic and/or gendered identity & those of "students" and "educators" around you has made a difference in your educational experiences (even "white" can be considered an ethnicity).
        Use the texts you have read as spring board and think about how difference matters as you have learned how to participate in various social groups (e.g., family, schools, jobs, etc.).  Write about specific experiences.  Try to make sense of these experiences in terms of our ongoing conversation about education, language, discourse & identity.  This is an exploratory free writing.
 

DW 30        Draft of Essay 3 with tentative thesis -- 650 words, include word count

        Take another look at the assignment sheet for Essay #3.  Read back over your daily writing assignments for this unit.  Spend some time thinking about which of your educational experiences you might want to narrate and analyze.  Think about how your analysis & narrative might fit together.  Come up with a assertive thesis that explains this connection.  Put this thesis at the top of the page.
        Write your narrative in a way that makes it both clear and "real" for your reader.  Analyze your narrative.  Use this draft as an exploratory draft.  See what ideas come to you.  Don't be afraid to take some chances or try out some new thoughts!
 

DW 31        Virtual In-Class Writing Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!

        Note:  In order to get credit for this in-class MOO writing, you must have read the assigned readings and must demonstrate knowledge of these texts through your MOO interactions!  Be sure that you have these texts handy when you connect to the MOO.
 

DW 32        Full Draft of Essay 3
                    at least 1000 words--include a word count--Bring THREE COPIES for Peer Review--2 POINTS

        Study the draft you produced last week.  Decide what changes in content and organization need to be made to strengthen the paper and make those changes.  Type up your revision--double spaced--and bring three copies of it to class for peer review.   As usual, no late daily writings will be accepted.
 

DW 33        Special 2-POINT assignment:  Peer review of DW 32 (see handout in class)

        You must complete a peer review for each of your two peer's essays.  You must bring both of your peer responses & the marked essays to class today in order to get credit for dw 32.  No late daily writings are accepted. Please mark errors & offer corrections on their printed draft.  Praise their strengths.

What do you take to be the author’s thesis or main point?  Is it clear why the author is telling these particular stories?  In other words, what is the major arguments or interpretations the author is making in his/her narrative?  Remember that there can be a considerable variety of strategies for integrating and balancing narrative & analysis (consider "Girl" and "They Taught Me Different is Wrong").

Produce a quick fragment outline of how this essay is organized. You can plug in the words introduction & conclusion where appropriate.  But remember that an introduction and conclusion to a personal narrative essay will be quite different from those for essays 1 & 2.  Nevertheless, the first few paragraphs should grab the reader's attention and suggest in some way where the essay is headed.  The conclusion should provide a sense of completion and tie things up in one way or another.  How has the author related the parts of his/her analysis to one another? Why are the episodes of the narrative presented in this order?  What logic is governing the arrangement or order of the parts? (If you can’t determine the logic, say so.).  How might the organization of the paper be improved?

Do the narrative sections of the essay seem "real" to the reader?  Can you see, hear, taste, feel, sense what's happening?  Are there sufficient details so that the reader isn't lost.  Identify any sections of the essay where you are unclear what's going on.

What was your favorite (or most compelling) scene?  Why?

Does the author suggest the larger significance of their stories?  Are there any episodes that seem not to fit with the rest?  Why?

Does the author write in a consistent and effective voice (think about "Coming into Language", for example).  How would you describe this voice?  Where does it lapse or change?

Identify any patterns of Basic Writing Errors.  Is the writing generally fluent, clear and up to University levels of competence?  Why or why not?

What questions remained unanswered by the paper? What are you still confused or curious about?  What would you like to hear more about?

Did any counter arguments come to mind that the author did not consider?  Are you convinced by the author's interpretations of his/her personal experiences?  Why or why not?

What did you enjoy most about the paper?
 

DW 34        Virtual In-Class Writing Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!

        Note:  In order to get credit for this in-class MOO writing, you must have read the assigned readings and must demonstrate knowledge of these texts through your MOO interactions!  Be sure that you have these texts handy when you connect to the MOO.
 

DW 35        Revised Draft -- 1000 words

        Consider what your classmates said to you about how to strengthen your peer review draft of Essay 3.  Make a plan for how to go about improving that paper.  Set up a blueprint for revision.  That is, make a list of the things you need to do to make your essay better.  Then make these revisions.  And print out a draft to bring to class for workshopping.
        Bring this list or written plan to class so that I can see it, along with your double-spaced print out of the revised draft.

DW 36        Virtual In-Class Writing Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!

        Note:  In order to get credit for this in-class MOO writing, you must have read the assigned readings and must demonstrate knowledge of these texts through your MOO interactions!  Be sure that you have these texts handy when you connect to the MOO.
 

DW 37        Virtual In-Class Writing Assignment -- Check Blackboard in Mount Lemmon Classroom!

        Note:  In order to get credit for this in-class MOO writing, you must have read the assigned readings and must demonstrate knowledge of these texts through your MOO interactions!  Be sure that you have these texts handy when you connect to the MOO.
 

DW 38        Preparation for the final exam: Part I

        This is a very important daily writing assignment as you will be able to use it directly to help you write your final exam!  So take your time and do it completely.
        Answer questions 1, 2, 3, and 4 of the Study Questions for the English 100 Final Examination found on page 1 of your English 100 Final Exam Material Packet that you bought in the UA bookstore.
        Keep in mind that some version of one of these questions will be on the final exam.  You should prepare to write an in-class essay by at least brainstorming, clustering/bubbling, finding a thesis/argument that responds to the question, and constructing a detailed sentence outline for each question.  If you wish, you might even draft a bit of the essay.  The more you prepare in advance, the better that you will do on the final essay (10% of your grade!).

DW 39        Preparation for the final exam: Part II

        This is a very important daily writing assignment as you will be able to use it directly to help you write your final exam!  So take your time and do it completely.
        Answer questions 5, 6, and 7 of the Study Questions for the English 100 Final Examination found on page 1 of your English 100 Final Exam Material Packet that you bought in the UA bookstore.
        Keep in mind that some version of one of these questions will be on the final exam.  You should prepare to write an in-class essay by at least brainstorming, clustering/bubbling, finding a thesis/argument that responds to the question, and constructing a detailed sentence outline for each question.  If you wish, you might even draft a bit of the essay.  The more you prepare in advance, the better that you will do on the final essay (10% of your grade!).