Apr
21
Reminder
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
For Wednesday 4/23: Bring a copy of either essay #2 (Crash) or essay #3 (blog topic) to class with you. Also, be sure to have your journals, as I’ll be collecting them.
Apr
21
Final Portfolio
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Due: Monday, 4/28
Please compile your end-of-the-year portfolio in the following order. Each individual draft should be stapled separately. The entirety of all the drafts and reflections and writing prompts (aka your portfolio) should be bound with a large binder clip (please no folders, binders, envelopes, rubber bands, etc. — one simple binder [...]
Apr
21
Presentation
April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment
due: Monday 4/28 and Wednesday 4/30
5 – 7 minutes
Next week you will be presenting one of your three papers to the class in the form of an oral presentation. You can choose any of the three papers. You won’t be reading word-for-word, but rather presenting the class with a summary of [...]
Apr
12
Reminder
April 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Don’t forget to bring to class on Monday one of the sources you are working with for essay #3 (as well as any writing you’ve done toward this essay). Bring your They Say/I Say books too.
Also, if you are doing a draft #2 of your “Crash”essay, be sure to attach draft 1 [...]
Apr
7
essay assignment #3
April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Essay #3: Cultural Criticism/Commentary/Academic Essay
3-5pp.
due: Wednesday 4/16
(E.g. Nickel and Dimed, “Virtual Gangstas Coming to a Suburban House Near You”, “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies”, “Essential Play”)
Your topic (taken from the blogging you’ve done this semester) must be a “thorny” one–one that is complex and for which there is no easy [...]
Mar
26
Optional draft
March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment
of Crash essay due: Monday 4/14
Feb
18
Components of mid-term portfolio
February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Please compile your mid-term portfolio in the following order. Each individual draft should be stapled separately. The entirety of all the drafts, writing prompts, and any brainstorming (aka your portfolio) should be bound with a large binder clip (please no folders, binders, envelopes, rubber bands, etc. — one simple binder clip will suffice). [...]
Jan
30
Qualities of Effective Writing as Described by ENG105 classes
January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Here is a compilation of both sections’ (ENG105-01 and ENG105-18) responses to the question of what makes a piece of writing effective. These elements describe the strengths of two personal narratives contained in the Strose Prose anthology of ENG105 essays. They are the strengths and qualities I will be looking for in your [...]
Jan
7
digital assignment #1: setting up your blog
January 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment
due: Tuesday, January 15th by 5pm
1. Go to wordpress.com
2. Click on “Get a Wordpress Blog now”
3. Choose a username. Please note that this username will become part of the URL for your blog. For example, the username for this blog is eng105, and the URL is www.eng105.edublogs.org. In other words [...]
