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You'll see something like this when you click the office visit link. The blue areas are already booked; the white/gray buttons are open slots you can click on in order to request a meeting with me.
1) Office Visit (Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday)
First, a reminder that class does not meet on Wednesday. In order to get credit for Wednesday’s class, you must sign up for, attend, and participate actively during a 10-minute meeting in my office (403 St. Joseph Hall). During that meeting, I will give you feedback on the discovery draft paper you uploaded to Turnitin.com, and I will give you credit for Wednesday’s class.
Sign up now for your office visit ; slots are available on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The gray boxes are open slots; they will fill in as blue when the slots are taken.)
(Clicking the link will take you to my Google Calendar page, where you can click on a button and add yourself to my calendar. There are more than enough slots for everyone in the class. If you wish, you can sign up during Monday’s class.)
2) Readings 2-3 and 2-4
You will pick two of the following three readings.
- Postman, “Television as Teacher” (421-430)
- Johnson, “Why Games are Good for You” (481-494)
- Teare, “Harry Potter and the Technology of Magic” (548-562)
It doesn’t matter which one you choose as “2-3″ and which you choose as “2-4″ — you’ll be evaluated once, on your response to both.
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We will complete this activity online, in Turnitin.com. You can start on it in class, and finish it by Friday.
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To receive attendance credit, schedule and complete a satisfactory 10-minute office visit on the 19th, 20th, or 21st.
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Bring your iPad — we will be looking at some free apps that I recommend for helping you work on your pre-writing (thinking, planning, outlining) activities.
Most are free; some may cost a few bucks.
- Corkulous
- Popplet Lite
- SimpleMind
- EverNote
- Dragan Dictation
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Paper 2:
Use the words and ideas from at least one of our authors (in readings 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, or 2-4) to modify, augment, extend, challenge, refute, reinvent (or some other intellectually significant verb) an idea from a different author.
Your ultimate goal is to write an academic paper that includes a thesis statement, several body paragraphs that develop your thesis, and a conclusion, all of which work together to demonstrate critical thinking skills.
Workshp Part 1: Exploration
What general topic do you want to explore? Freewrite for 10 Minutes.
Part 2: Mapping
Experiment with a grid, a venn diagram, a flowchart, a bubble map, a flowchart, or some other visual representation of your idea. (You may use your iPad, your MacBook, or pencil and paper, if you wish.)
Part 3: Discussion and Evaluation
What worked? What’s worth keeping? What would require further exploration? Where do you see evidence that your claim is about the specific readings written by the specific authors, rather than about the topic in general? (Thus, a paper that argues “for equality of the sexes” is too general, while a paper that argues “Edmundson is a more ethical feminist than Kilbourne” would be more challenging.)
Part 4: Planning
What next? Use a brainstorming tool (on your iPad, or pen and paper) that maps out the shape of your paper. (Work on this as homework; bring it to class after break.)