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Thank you for a wonderful semester. For those of you who I am not fortunate enough to have again, thanks for a great semester and feel free to stop by any time if you need help or just to say hi. Make sure I have the digital copy of your multigenre paper. I hope your break is restful and fun. BE SAFE, and I'll see you next semester.

FOR FINALS WEEK On Wednesday, Dec. 12, by 5:00pm, the following two assignments are due in the designated box outside my office: and Here's the master rubric for those who are sending lots of emails and feeling lost

FOR FRIDAY, DEC. 7 Multigenre paper portfolios due!! Check your rubric to make sure you have everything. Additionally, I need you to include all your research, printed out for me to look at. Also please go to Moodle, click on the link for our class, and upload a digital copy of the final draft of your multigenre paper. Be sure it is NOT a doc.x. I WILL NOT GRADE YOUR PORTFOLIO WITHOUT THE RESEARCH OR THE DIGITAL COPY.

FOR WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5 More presentations--and we won't be done, I'm afraid, which means we'll have to finish them up on Friday. I'll let you know Wed. if we have no final, a take-home, or are coming in finals week. Stay updated by reading this regularly!!

FOR MONDAY, DEC. 3 More presentations--and I'll check off your journals. Have a great weekend and be safe.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 30 Journal 2.10 due. Here's the prompt: As before, make this journal your most thoughtful and in depth. Spend a couple pages thinking about the writing process, the multigenre paper, what worked well, what didn't work so well, what you learned, etc. Think critically about your writing, your time, and your effort.

Presentations begin Friday. If you were not in class, please go to "handouts" and get the rubric and print it out. You will want to review it to know what is expected of you, and you will need a copy of it as you will be grading four of your classmates. We will have no more class time for working on your projects. Remember that the entire project is due Next Friday, Dec. 7. This is the entire portfolio--journals, paper, drafts, research, maps, etc. The rubric is on the handouts page. The Department portfolio will be due finals week. I will have office hours next week on Monday and Tuesday for any last-minute help you may need.

WEDNESDAY NOV 28 - Group work, editing citations, presentations, Journal 2.10 due for Friday: As before, make this journal your most thoughtful and in depth. Spend a couple pages thinking about the writing process, the multigenre paper, what worked well, what didn't work so well, what you learned, etc. Think critically about your writing, your time, and your effort. FRIDAY NOV. 30 - Presentations MONDAY DEC. 3 - Presentations WEDNESDAY DEC. 5 - Presentations FRIDAY DEC. 7 - Final exam, all sections, Paper portfolio due FINALS WEEK - Department portfolio due no later than Wednesday, Dec. 12, 5:00 pm
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FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28 No journal, no homework. Get your citations done, though, you haven't already, and bring your paper back to class. I won't be in for office hours Monday afternoon, but will be in the Writing Center Tues. from 7-10.

FOR NEXT WEEK No regular classes. Conferences are mandatory. Check below for your times. NOTICE: I have uploaded the rubric for your multigenre portfolio for you to look over and the group worksheets in case you need more. They are on the handouts page. NOTICE 2: Again my roster for 101 next semester has changed. The following people have been dropped: Marc Treat, Melisa Bromley, Kelsey Erwin, Andrew Graham, Sara Humphreys, Mike Rose, Tom Keiswetter, Stephen Tapping, Emily Schinnerer, Zach Haslett, Tyler Davila, Jessica Swan, and Cameron Augustyn. If you have been dropped and feel that you have an URGENT REASON to be added back, please send me an email explaining why you'd like me to consider adding you back. This is NOT a time for you to just try to be a suck up--please only email me if you have legitimate reasons. I have to make decisions by Monday, so email me promptly. I will NOT email you back; you'll find out if you've been added when you get your schedule.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 16 Journal 2.9 due. Here's the prompt: Do some looking back over your project as a whole, and think about the five criteria for good writing: how would you assess your paper? Is your content interesting, informative, and thoughtful? Is there new info in every genre? How about your purpose? is it clear? Are you convincing? Support: are you "showing" as much as possible? Got lots of info in there? How about the overall organization? the Transitioning? Write about all of these--what do you have left to work on the most?

Next week there will be no regularly scheduled classes for ENG100, but we will be having conferences instead. Please check the sign-up list below and make sure you are scheduled. If your name does not appear below, please send me an email with a time you'd like to conference and I will add you. A no-show will count as a zero and an absence.

CONFERENCES – these are individual conferences. Please bring all your genre work so far, including your complete draft (which is due at the time of your conference), and your works cited page Monday, Nov. 19 In my SAC 334 office

10:00am – Jim Speer 10:15 - 10:30 – Nick Townsend 10:45 – Tom Gray 11:00 – Geoff Ferguson 11:15 – Mike Rose 11:30 – Ted DeYoung 11:45 – Brandie Samuels 12:00 – 12:15 – Brandon Youngston 12:30 - Hanannah Horn 12:45 - Marc Treat 1:00 - Justin Emery

2:00 – Zach Haslett 2:15 – Emily Schinnerer 2:30 – Kelsey Erwin 2:45 – 3:00 – Ana Galloway 3:15 – Sara Campbell 3:30 – Jake Weiss 3:45 – Jake Champion

Tuesday, Nov. 20 In the Writing Center office

7:00 pm – Tyler Davila 7:15 – Chris Reiter 7:30 – Melisa Bromley 7:45 – Tagarae Price 8:00 – Tiffany Sedlar 8:15 – Cameron Augustyn 8:30 – 8:45 – Andrew Graham 9:00 – David Lewis 9:15 – Steven Lewis 9:30 – Josh Rummery 9:45 – Bridget Schellie

Wednesday, Nov. 21 In my SAC 334 office

10:00am – Jay Sackett 10:15 – Tom Keiswetter 10:30 – Mackenzie Jacobs 10:45 – Jessica Swan 11:00 – Michael Dayringer 11:15 – Mike Colucci 11:30 – Stephanie Bradshaw 11:45 – Bobby Fryling 12:00 – Erica Rayburn 12:15 – Jamie McArthur 12:30 – Tyler Kreft 12:45 – Dan LaClair 1:00 – Jennie Wegner 1:15 - Megan Howard 1:30 - Casey O'Connell 1:45 - Sara Campbell 2:00 - TJ Morris

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 14 Genre 4 due. Please bring your handbooks with you on Wednesday. This is the last required piece for your project, but you will still need to write transitioning material and your prologue and epilogue, which you can also bring in to your group for feedback.

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 12 Rewrites of your first paper are due--with either a form from the Writing Center or after conferencing with me. Without one or the other, I will not accept your rewrite.

Journal 2.8 due: Here's the prompt: What ideas do you have about transitioning and making your pieces hold together? Describe what you think you'd like to do -- AND WHY. What do you think this will add to your pieces, making it one? Why is this choice the best choice?

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 9 Genre 3 due. Keep revising previous genres and bringing those in as well. Journal 2.7 due. Here's the prompt: One of the requirements for this multigenre piece is that your genres are significantly different, that they differ in tone, voice, purpose, length, etc. Now that you've done three (or more?), describe the differences you feel you have. Are they enough? When compared, do they show variety and creativity? Or do they sound an awful lot alike? What work do you need to do to make your overall project more diverse?

FOR WEDNESDAY, NOV. 7 Journal 2.6 due. Here's the prompt: After completing your second genre, talk about how things are going so far. Is there anything you need help with? Are you getting the help you need? If not, why? How are things going in your group? Are they giving you helfpful feedback? Have you turned in anything to me to look at yet? What particular areas of writing in the various genres do you find to be the most challenging? The easiest? Think through this project as a whole, and be sure you are not putting off things that don't have specific deadlines.

FOR MONDAY, NOV. 5 No journal due. Genre 2 due and its Activity map. Remember, you are mapping the activity of writing this particular genre, not its contents. Also bring revisions of Genre 1 if you have them.

FOR FRIDAY, NOV. 2 Journal 2.5 due. This is a continuation of what we worked on in class: going through your research to find all the info you want to be sure to include in your multigenre project as a whole, making a list of that information, then matching the info in the list with various genres you'd like to write for your project. I call it "genre matching"--whatever you call it, this is what is due Friday (there is NOT another genre due till Monday--the due dates on the second pag of the handout are wrong. We'll follow the due dates on the calendar page of the Unit two handout--and, of course, always check the wiki.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT 31 (HAPPY HALLOWEEN!) Research, print it out, and bring it to class. Be sure to get all necessary citation info as you research (i.e. if it's from a magazine, you'll need the name of the magazine, the date of publication, the editors of the magazine, the page number(s) of the article, etc.) You need a minimum of three sources, but I HIGHLY recommend finding 10 or so to choose from--the better your sources, the better your writing will be.

Journal 2.4 due. Here's the prompt: After reading others work in class today and getting feedback on yours, have you decided to make any changes? What changes might you make? Do you think a different genre might be better? What do you need to work on? What are you struggling with? Talk for a bit about how things are going so far, questions you may have (bring them up in class if you want them answered), and concerns you have about the project thus far.

PS - On the "handouts" page, I have added a few sample multigenre papers from previous years. Keep in mind that for some of them the requirements may have been different (number of genres, page length, different topics, no research required, etc.) If you're confused about what shape the final product might take, reading these may help give you an idea of where you're headed.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 29 Genre #1 due (summary as genre other than summary). Samples of genres from class are on the "genres" page. Also an activity map, with the multigenre project as the activity and your genre as the object--remember to start with the (desired) outcome. Also due: Journal 2.3. Here's the prompt: discuss this genre choice: why did you choose this particular genre? What others did you consider, and why is this the best choice? What is your audience? Your purpose? Your voice and tone? Do they fit the genre?

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 26 Journal 2.2 due. Here's the prompt: Begin thinking about what kinds of genres might work well with your topic. What kind of writing goes on in this field? How difficult/easy will it be to determine genre for your topic? Make a list of some of the genres you think will fit well, some that you might like to try. Think outside the box, too: be creative. Bring your list to class.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24 Journal 2.1 due. Here's the prompt: As we launch into this new unit, I’d like you to start thinking about the idea of genres: after going over them briefly in class, what questions do you still have? What concerns do you have about the unit? How easy or difficult do you think this will be for you and why?

Also remember to bring one newspaper article and one magazine article--on anything at all, current or old. If you missed class, the unit handout is on the "handouts" page of the wiki. Be sure to check out the genres page as well, and feel free to add genres as you encounter them.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 22 (AFTER BREAK) Paper proposals are due. The handout for Unit Two is on the Handouts page, and the details for the proposal are there. Be VERY CAREFUL to choose an appropriate topic.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 17 Your portfolios are due (please see the rubric for details. if you have lost your copy, I have put it up here on the wiki on the "handouts" page) Your journals are due. Details also in the rubric and the "journals" handout, also on "handouts" page. You will be taking an in-class writing exam on Wednesday. The article you will respond to is titled "Don't Let Stereotypes Warp Your Judgment" and can also be found on the "handouts" page. You will definitely want to print a copy, read the article, and do some prep work before the exam so that you have the hour to write.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 15 Journal 13, your last journal, is due. I expect this one to be at least two pages double spaced typed. Think well here--be critical of yourself and of the class--and even of me. I can learn from you. And you will learn from yourself by going through this process. This is the most important journal you'll be writing, so do well.

FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 12 No journal due. Bring your completed paper, including your works cited page, to class for final editing and polishing.

FOR WEDNESDAY, OCT. 10 Journal 12 due. Be sure to bring your paper back to class so we can keep working on it.

FOR MONDAY, OCT. 8 Journal 11 due. Draft 3--your re-vision of draft 2--is also due. Print out and bring to class. Also bring your handbook.

__FOR FRIDAY, OCT. 5__ Journal 10 due. Your paper--draft 3--is now due Monday. I'll explain more in class on Friday.

__FOR MONDAY, TUESDAY, AND WEDNESDAY__**__NOTICE: IT TURNS YOU THAT YOU MUST SIGN IN TO UPLOAD DOCUMENTS TO THE WIKI. I HAVE MADE A USERNAME AND PASSWORD FOR EVERYONE. SO WHEN YOU ARE PROMPTED TO SIGN IN, TYPE IN "wendtstudent" AS YOUR USERNAME (WITHOUT THE " OBVIOUSLY) AND "student" AS THE PASSWORD.__**There will be no regular class on Monday and Wednesday due to group conferences. For details on group conferences, for schedules, the worksheet, and links to your group's page, please click on the "group pages" link to your left in green. Not showing for your group conference will result in a zero AND an unexcused absence. Coming but not being prepared will count as a zero for each paper you did not work on. So show up and be prepared!

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT 28 Journal 9 due. Be sure as well to know exactly what it is you'll be using for your final paper--which needs to be 3 - 4 pages long. Here's Journal 9 Prompt: Journal about transitions: what do you know so far about transitions? What have you been taught?

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT 26 Please read article #4 - "I Want a Wife" by Judy Brady. It's the last article in your packet (I think). Write Response #4 and be sure to focus this time on organization, which includes having a good intro and conclusion, transitioning well, and leading your reader in a sensible direction. Also focus on the previous three criteria.Also write Journal 8: Journal about your intros, conclusions, and organization: do you struggle with these, with knowing how to get started, be interesting, wrap things up, keep things in order? What have you been taught about these so far? Do you think there are other/better/more interesting ways? Are there rules you can or cannot break?

__**FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 24**__ I'm sorry I couldn't be there today--not feeling so great. I'm sure you're all just heartbroken. But the good news is that we were ahead anyway, so now we'll be back on track. This is what I'd like you to do before Monday: here are two response samples, and. Open and print each of these and read them carefully. On them, make note of anything you find that works particularly well or doesn't work so well. Remember, too, that even good papers have flaws and even not-so-good papers have good things. Bring both of these to class on Monday and we'll talk about what makes a good response. And have a good weekend. Be safe.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 21 Journal 7 is due: "Journal on details: look back at your responses so far and see if you can identify showing and telling. How about being specific and giving details? Write for a while about this area of writing, about supporting your ideas without doing research or having stats. Is this easy for you or hard? Why do you think this is so?"

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 19 __**NOTICE: PLEASE SKIP JOURNAL FIVE IN THE HANDOUT AND RESPOND TO THE JOURNAL SIX PROMPT, THE ONE THAT IS DUE ON 9/21**__. This is the prompt, for those of you who may be confused (my bad--I'm sorry) : Journal about support: what do you think of when you think of supporting your ideas in your writing? Do you imagine lots of facts and research? How might you support your ideas when responding to an article like this one?

Also read "The Appeal of the Androgenous Man" by Amy Gross and write response number 3, focusing this time on content and purpose again and also on support: be sure to have a strong opinion but one that you back up with quotes from the text and experiences and examples from your own life and the media.

And here's the video. Notice how societal norms have changed in the past few decades--not just in the way they dress or do their hair, but in the whole male/female scheme of things. media type="youtube" key="2Rgbg0INRD4" width="425" height="350"

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 17 Journal 4 is due. Also bring to class both your first and second response, and also print out the article packet and bring that along as well. For those who missed class, I HIGHLY suggest that you get with someone from class and get notes on Engestrom's Activity Theory--have them explain it to you as best they can.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 14 Read Susan Brownmiller's essay "Femininity" in the reading pack in "handouts". After reading (read carefully--it's a little more difficult that the Theroux piece) write "Response 2"--in this you should focus on critical thinking once again, and this time I want you to think about the purpose for your writing: have a thesis statement, imagine an audience, decide why you would write this response (besides because you have to for class). Also do Journal 3. (In case you forgot, all the journal prompts are in the Unit One handout--which is on the wiki "handouts" page if you lost your copy).

FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 12 Journal 2 is due. Consider this time how the debate helped your critical thinking, if it spawned any good ideas, etc. In what ways was your way of thinking challenged? What were some of the competing ideas? What new ideas occurred to you? How important is a debate like this to spur your critical thinking? After doing your journal, go to your response and add any new ideas that came up during the debate. Did some of Theroux's ideas have any validity? Which ones? In what ways is he right? This is a good time, while the ideas are still fresh in your head, to get them on paper and show even more critical thinking in your response (be sure to save draft one and start a new one and save it as draft two).

FOR MONDAY, SEPT. 10 Please read "Being a Man" by Paul Thereaux. It is in the reading pack in "handouts". After you have read the article, type up a response to it, focusing on thinking critically, on asking why, on deciding whether or not you agree with Thereaux and why you agree or not. There is no page limit, but it is potentially a draft for your fist paper, so try to get a couple pages. Save it as Response 1 and print it out and bring it to class. You will get credit for having it done. No journal is due.

FOR FRIDAY, SEPT. 7 Please look over and familiarize yourself with this wiki and bring to class any questions about it. Write your first journal entry to the following prompt. Journal Prompt for Friday: How do you see yourself as a critical thinker: is this something that comes easy for you? Is it easy when you talk but not so easy when you go to write? Is it difficult for you? If so, why? What hinders you from thinking critically? Try to address some of these issues and bring your journal to class as well.

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