Tuesday, November 23, 2010

FINAL MEETINGS....

081---Dec. 2----- Dec 7------- Dec 9----------- Dec 14th----------------

.5.40.......Xavier..........Melanie.........Jorge.....................Liliana

.6.00......Destanie.......Karl.................Ross........................Vanessa

..6.20.....Marina..................................Holguin....................Giselle

...6.40....Bishnu....................................Joel............................Francisco


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091.....DEC 2..............DEC 7..............DEC 9...................Dec 14

.710..........Anna................Susie................Cynthia...............Dawna

.730..........Jorge.................Lee..................Marta................Thomas

.750.........Ester............Melissa...............Abreanna.........Yoseni

..810.....Jerardo.........Bernice................Teymur...........Thanna

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Portfolio Cont.

1. Journal-- Gather all your portfolio entries...

2. How many should you have?

3. Check to make sure you have completed all pieces except for one.

4.Composing in Electronic Environments

Use electronic environments for drafting, reviewing, revising, editing, and sharing texts

Locate, evaluate, organize, and use research material collected from electronic sources, including scholarly library databases; other official databases (e.g., federal government databases); and informal electronic networks and internet sources

Understand and exploit the differences in the rhetorical strategies and in the affordances available for both print and electronic composing processes and texts

5. Pick one and begin your last entry....don't forget, Definition, Example, Explanation.


6. Portfolio overview....

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Coventions

Knowledge of Conventions


  • Learn common formats for different kinds of texts
  • Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure and paragraphing to tone and mechanics
  • Practice appropriate means of documenting their work
  • Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

WPA guidelines Cont.

Here is the second section from which you will choose two:

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Writing

By the end of first year composition, students should

  • Use writing and reading for inquiry, learning, thinking, and communicating
  • Understand a writing assignment as a series of tasks, including finding, evaluating, analyzing, and synthesizing appropriate primary and secondary sources
  • Integrate their own ideas with those of others
  • Understand the relationships among language, knowledge, and power

Let's, as a journal, define all four....



Then, let's, as practice, complete our entries for two....



Remember:

Define,

Example,

Explanation.....