en191f11s25: DAY 1 - what's going to happen?

Thursday, August 25, 2011

DAY 1 - what's going to happen?

- create a google identity and start a blog. Be sure to name the blog like this:
firstname(minus)lastname(minus)en191f11s25
for example: Amy Hiller would name her blog
Amy-Hiller-en191f11s25
and the blog address would be
Amy-Hiller-en191f11s25.blogspot.com
- review in a group of five the criteria you want to use to evaluate the first writing example: Story-in-a-Box. We will start that in the second half tonight.
What needs to be done with Story-in-a-Box?
Step 1: look at the items in the box and make a list and description of what they are
Step 2: Post your inventory list on your blog
Step 3: Start writing a story about these items. Use all items, and do not just "list" them as "sitting on a shelve, I saw 1, 2, 3, 4" etc. Each item needs to contribute to the story and add an important facet.
Step 4: Post your Story. Give it a title.
Step 5: Review at least five stories from classmates and rate them using the criteria we agreed on. Record the totals on the points sheet.

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Winners of paper competitions:

11/7/11	-	Registration for Spring semester 2012 begins by earned credit priority
11/11/11	-	Veterans Day; No classes, Offices closed
11/24 - 11/25/11	-	Thanksgiving Break
12/9/11	-	Last day of classes
12/12 - 12/16/11	-	Final Examinations
12/18/11	-	University Commencement

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Congratulations!
Story-in-a-Box - Jena Schnettler

Interview 1 - Puspak Sapkota
Interview 2 - Martha Mutwa
Interview 3 - Tim Coughlin + Hassan Abdurahman (2 winners)

Interview 1 review of all classmates' interviews due 10-27-11
Interview 2 due 11-10-11
Interview 3 due 11-24-11

Please prepare your three interviews now. At least two of them must be transcribed. All of them require the three basic reports.
- find an interviewee

- prepare the interview and get your recording technology up and running

-conduct the interview

transcribe the interview

finish the first interview and its four components: country report, preparations, interview and personal impressions report.

Sample 1

Sample 2

Sample 3

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Students in class

Abdullaev, Rukhshod K

Abdurahman, Hassan

Alghofaili, Majed I

Alotaibi, Eid M

Cai, Hanquan

Chen, Hanqiong

Coughlin, Timothy J

Crawford, Devon R

Girmay, Berekti K

Gu, Zhen

Isham, Jared N

Mutwa, Martha

Pan, Jiayin

Pokharel, Eliza

Wenda

Faisal

Qing

Xiang

Brice

Schnettler, Jena R

Shen, JiaLun

Wu, Wenjun

Xu, Cheng

Yu, Huan

Zhu, Xian

Sapkota, Puspak

Scroll down far to see the syllabus items.

Nutshell

1. Always write a thematic statement before you start on a writing project. (This paper is about...)

2. Always cross-reference information or web-data. Have at least three different sources for whatever you want to use.

3. Always cite your sources. You find it on the web, you cite it. Citations from the web are easy: url plus date visited

4. If you use text verbatim, put it in quotes and cite the source. Paraphrasing does not allow using source text unchanged. It means you report on what you read. You need to cite what/whom you are paraphrasing, of course.

English 191 section 25

Thursdays MC 207

17:00-20:20

Dr. Roland Specht-Jarvis, LH 116
320 224 2341
rhspechtjarvis@gmail.com
This blog serves as an extended syllabus.

All your blogs and entries are due at noon of the day we meet: Thursday (unless otherwise indicated).
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Recommended book:

General considerations: Please be sure to

...always write a thematic statement before you start on a writing project. (This paper is about...)
...always cross-reference information or web-data. Have at least three different sources for whatever you want to use.
...always cite your sources. You find it on the web, you cite it. Citations from the web are easy: url plus date visited

If you use text verbatim, put it in quotes and cite the source. Paraphrasing does not allow using source text unchanged. It means you report on what you read. You need to cite what/whom you are paraphrasing, of course.

Hacker on-line exercises

if the page does not load, go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/bedhandbook7enew/and click Free and Open Web Site "go to site", then Grammar exercises and results, then hit the cancel button and you are there.
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LEO st SCSU
The Write Place at SCSU
U of Ottawa Writing Centre
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Interviews:
Challenges and benefits1 2 .

Preparations and considerations

Outlines- example food

Sample interview 1

Sample interview 2

Final paper on Malaysia

Sample prep report

Phases of an interview

Possible questions
Elements of each interview that must show up on your blog:

1. Describe the preparations.

How did you approach people?

When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview?

Whom did you interview?

2. Describe the interview. What did surprise you?

3. Report on country/region and culture.

4. Transcribe the interview.

At least two interviews need to be transcribed. That allows for one report without the transcription. Still, we need to know the preparations, approach, interview process, etc. of that interview (1-3 above). Please be sure to choose interviewees from one country or region.

Class edited version of interview questions

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Objectives of en191f11s25

Reading, writing, and critical reasoning based on different text types and situations related to Global Cultures & Communications. We will explore the creative as well as analytical side of writing, discourse, and structure together. You will write short and longer papers and learn to edit your writing, improve your arguments, and become more effective communicators using blogs. All the while you will learn about other countries and cultures and explore the otherness of non-US speech, text, discourse and argument.

Please scroll far, far down for the basic syllabus! Sorry, I cannot fix that html bug.

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Thursday, August 25, 2011

DAY 1 - what's going to happen?

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Course syllabus

The course objectives

story-in-a-box results

Course syllabus Welcome to your English Composition class! We will be meeting in the Miller Center and enjoy access to the world-wide web during class time in Room 207. When using internet resources, please remain critical about what you find. We will conduct the class with a handbook that I recommend to have: The Bedford Handbook, 7th edition (or 6th, 8th), Bedford/St. Martin's, Boston and New York, 2006-2009. You can buy the softcover 0-312-59504-2 version or the hard cover 0-312-59505-0. The book is not mandatory. Just highly recommended. You will have to invest in paper for printing, and other resources you may need, including a dedicated USB memory stick for your work. You are expected to maintain all files for this course on your home computer or husky space and also on that memory stick. You will create your own blog on blogger by google. It is free. All members of class will be asked to read and review writing samples. Everything you do for class goes into the blog. When you work in a group, each member will post the group results in her or his blog. The semester will be structured as follows: Part I: Five meetings August-September we will cover LEO and writing topics from the University of Ottawa Writing Center. Part II Preparing for interviews with international students, conducting interviews, and writing interview and country reports. This will cover October until mid November. Part III You personal Final Project. This could be an additional interview, a comparison of several interviews, a research paper, or anything else we agreed on. The day of finals is December 15. Your final project is due that day in your blog. -- Several drafts are needed until a paper or presentation reads well . -- Writing and researching improves as you allow others to critique your work, and make suggestions for your benefit. -- If in doubt about a sentence, paragraph, or page of your text and its role for the entire paper, just cut it out. -- Less is usually more, if less was edited and revised intelligently. -- Any text element in your paper that is not your own writing and expression, needs to be referenced as the work or idea of others. -- Use of technology cannot make up for lack of reflection and poor writing design. -- You can only write about what you know; resist writing about things you do not understand. Journal or Blog You are expected to keep a paper journal or blog. Whenever you freewrite, list, research, or keep records of books and urls used, use your journal. The journal is supposed to show evidence of how you went about tasks, which books and homepages you used, etc. Every time you search for a topic (e.g. www.google.com) I require you to record the urls used and the date you visited that page. Use a word-processing program or an editor simultaneously with the browser to keep records. Print the pages after you saved it to your personal disk, USB storage card, or Husky account and paste it into your journal. If you forget or loose your journal you cannot work effectively in class that day. Immediately buy a new journal and reconstruct what was lost in the first one. A person without a correctly kept journal/blog cannot achieve better than a B – even if everything else is A+. Grades will be based on: Completeness and appearance of blog 30% Post assignments, interviews 50% Class participation, presentations 20% Best paper (or post or interview) in class gives you a 10% bonus for the final grade. Missing a meeting without talking with me ahead of time costs you 5% on the final grade. Missing more than 25% of total class time, by department policy, forces me to fail you in this class.	The course objectives . story-in-a-box results

left-right authors	author - R style='display:none'>ukhshod	author - F style='display:none'>aisal	author - M style='display:none'>ajed	author - Ei style='display:none'>d	Hanquan	Hanqiong	Tim	Devon	Berekti	Zhen	Jared 2	Martha	Jiayin	Eliza	Wenda	Janaka	Qing	Xiang	Brice 3	Jena 1	JiaLun	Wenjun	Cheng	Huan	Xian	Puspak	other
up-down reviewer's names
Rukhshod			10	10	11	12	14	12	10	11	14	14	13	11	10		12	10	13	12	11	11	10	9	9	12
Alghofaili, Majed I
Alotaibi, Eid M	10		13		10	8	8				12	15	10	7	10			10	10	12	8	10	11	7
Cai, Hanquan	10		9	10		11	14	12	9	11	15		12	12	10		12	11	13	13	11	12	11	9	9	12
Chen, Hanqiong	10		7	9	11		12	12	9	13	15	13	15	12	11		14	10	14	13	11	12	11	9	9	12
Coughlin, Timothy J	7	N/A	7	9	10	9	N/A	13	7	11	15		12	12	10	N/A	14	10	14	13	12	11	11	8	8	14	NA
Crawford, Devon R
Girmay, Berekti K
Gu, Zhen	10		8	9	10	15		12	8		15	14	15	12	12		15	11	14	14	13	13	12	11	9	14
Isham, Jared N	7	N/A	7	6	8	9	14	11	7	9	N/A	13	10	10	9	N/A	12	9	12	12	10	11	10	9	8	9
Mutwa, Martha	10		10	11	11	12	15	13	11	13	15		15	12	12		14	11	15	14	12	13	12	11	10	13
Pan, Jiayin			7	10	10	15	12	12	8	11	15	15		11	11		12	10	13	13	11	12	10	10	8	12
Pokharel, Eliza			7	8	10		15	12	9	12	15	14	12		9		14	9	14	14	12	13	12	9	9	14
Qian, Wenda																					12	11	11	9	9	14
Rajapaksha Gedara, Janaka P
Ren, Qing	12						15					15								15		14
Ren, Xiang
Schnapp, Brice H	10	N/A	11	9	11	12	14	13	8	12	15	14	13	13	10	N/A	13	10		14	11	12	11	8	8	14
Schnettler, Jena R	7		7	8	10	12	15	14	8	13	15	15	15	12	9		14	12	15		11	13	11	9	8	10
Shen, JiaLun	11		8	6	10	12	13	12	9	12	13	14	12	12	11		14	11	13	13		13	11	10	10	10
Wu, Wenjun				10								15	14				14		15	12
Xu, Cheng	10		8	10	10	13	15	13	8	12	15	14	10	12	10		14	10	13	14	11	12
Yu, Huan	9		8	8	13	14	13	12	9	12	15	14	15	12	11		14	12	14	13	12	13	11	11	10	13
Zhu, Xian	10		7	13	10	9	14	11	7	10	15	15	8	11	9		13	12	15	12	12	11	11	11		7
Sapkota, Puspak	8		8	9	9	9	14	12	9	9	15	12	12	12	8		11	9	13	12	10	11	10	8	8
other	141	0	142	155	164	172	217	196	136	171	234	226	213	183	172	0	226	177	230	235	190	228	186	158	132	180