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if you were not able to do your assignment last week, please do it this weekend and hand it in Monday. Thank you!

Week of 10/5 for 101-06 and 101-08

Today, we're doing peer review.

On Wednesday, your final drafts are due. What that means:

Staple together your first draft, peer reviewed drafts, and outline, and bring to class AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS on Wednesday. I will not be here. Someone else will be here for exactly 5 minutes to collect the essays. If you're not here with your essay, you are out of luck. (Yes, that is a cliché, and it means that your grade will suffer.)

Here are your assignments for the remainder of the week:

1. Listen to the following This American Life program online:

http://thislife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=360

click on full episode at the left side to listen to it. It's an hour long.

2. Find a partner in class. Exchange email addresses. Decide right now which one of you will write 100 words (slightly less than half a page, double-spaced) about why the approach taken in the story was morally right, and which person will write 100 words about why the approach was morally wrong. Once you have listened to the story, write your 100 words to each other in your emails. Then, if you like, have an email conversation in which you agree or disagree about your points and positions.

3. Now switch positions. Whoever wrote about it being morally right, write about why it was morally wrong. Whoever wrote about it being morally wrong, write about why it was morally right. You can write more than 100 words, but not less. It doesn't really matter what you REALLY believe; what I want you to do is try to think of what the arguments are for and against, no matter what you believe. We'll talk about this story more in class.

4. Once you've both written 100 words on both positions, print out the email or compile it into a Word file and print it out so that you can hand it in to me when we have class again on Wednesday, 14 October. (12 October is a school holiday.)

5. Reading that is also due that day:
Transitions, chapter 6 (this is a good one—read carefully)
Axelrod, chapter 5 (read carefully as well)

Have a good week!

assignments due monday

all students see below--there's something here for 101s and for 90s.

101s: remember that you're to bring to class a half-page, typed definition of academic writing with which we'll be working. don't forget! i'll check, and it's important to your upcoming paper and to your day's work.

90s: the first draft of your exploration paper is due--please bring it to class.

hope you've all had a good, rainy weekend.

101-06 and 101-08: Paper 1 DUE MONDAY

YOUR FINAL DRAFTS ARE DUE MONDAY AT THE START OF CLASS. please bring in your

1. final draft
2. first draft
3. partner's handwritten notes

all stapled together to hand in. if you don't hand in the final draft during class on monday, then you will lose one letter grade on it for each day that it is late. you don't want that to happen, right?

see you tomorrow. and don't forget to do all the reading you have due:
transition, ch. 5
axelrod, 59-63, 72, 99-123
hacker, G4, G5, G6 (skim)

things i forgot to tell you about paper 1, for 101-06 and 08

i think i told one of the classes these things, but not the other.

1. it should have a title.
2. the heading should look like this:
Your Name
ENG 101-06
Lena Rosenfield
Date
Title

3. it should have page numbers.
4. staple it.
5. staple it.
6. for pete's sake, borrow your roommate's, your sister's, the registrar's stapler and staple it.
7. it should be double-spaced, 3-5 pages long, printed on the front of paper only, and typed (not handwritten!), using times new roman 12 font. do not try to fool me.
8. reference the assignment sheet for useful information about how to put together the essay, or email me if you're stumped.
9. if your conference is monday, you must email me your essay by this afternoon.
10. staple it!

see you all in class tomorrow.

the first post: what do we know?

hey students: here we go. we get a blog. i get a blog. i've never had one of these before, so i'll be learning how to do this along the way, and you'll be learning things about me, too. for example, what have you learned so far?

waiting. . .

that's right. i don't like using caps in casual written correspondence, like emails and blog posts. wow. that's interesting, right? (or, as my 2-year old would say, maybe not.)

so here's how this blog will work: one blog for my three comp classes. when i have something to say to all three classes, i will just write a post, and you will read it. when i have something specific to say to one class only, i will be specific about which class i'm writing to in the title of the post, so you will know from the title whether or not you need to read the post.

please bookmark this page and check it every day--i may post important information, assignments, reminders, links, and readings here. i will occasionally require you to comment, and you are always welcome to comment on any post.

in fact, let's do this: let's everyone post a comment in which we share one thing that we think no one else at sunyit knows about us. remember to include your name in your comment. here's my thing: i have acted in many plays (10 maybe?), but i have forgotten my lines once every time.