You have the option of revising your second major paper for a new grade. This revision will be due by 5 p.m. on Friday, December 16th. (This is the latest possible date that the revision can be submitted.) If you choose to revise your essay, you must also submit a Revision Memo (1 pg, single-spaced), […]
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Revision Guidelines for MP2 Leave a comment
Friday Announcements: Threshold Concepts Essay, MP3, Week9Blog Leave a comment
Upcoming readings: Here is the essay that you’ll need in order to write the third major paper for this course: “Threshold Concepts and Troublesome Knowledge: Linkages to Ways of Thinking and Practising Within the Disciplines,” by Jan Meyer, and Ray Land In class today I was referring to it as a 14 page essay — […]
Week7blog and readings Leave a comment
1. Next week, your blog post will focus on your rough draft. Its primary purpose will be to communicate to your peer reviewers what areas of the draft you would like feedback on.This blog post will be due with your rough draft, on Friday. Your comments will be part of the 2nd round of conferences. […]
Week 4 reading, and extra credit volunteer opportunity Leave a comment
[We are reading Hobbes. But I think you’ll prefer dealing with him over Rousseau.] Monday: Hobbes, Leviathan, Chs. 17 and 18. Focus question: Who is the Leviathan, and what does Hobbes mean by conceiving of such a person? You should be ready to interpret the section on the bottom of page 109, using the techniques and […]
Week 4 Blogging Assignment Leave a comment
For this week, I’d like you to tell me about your experience as a writer and reader just in the last 2.5 weeks. I’ve offered you three questions to guide you, though you can also approach this from a different angle if you choose. However you approach it, write your entry as a post — […]
Conference Groups Leave a comment
Note: comments on all the blog posts are almost up. If you don’t see a comment on your post by 6 p.m., feel free to email me and ask me about it. I call these conference groups because they’ll be the groups that you work with for group conferences on each of your major papers […]
Reading Schedule for Week 3 Leave a comment
During Week 3, you’ll be reading Emma Goldman’s “Anarchy: What It Really Stands For,” in which Goldman harshly criticizes the effects of religion, property, and government on individuals. Today, anarchy is associated with events like the World Trade Convention riots (which took place in downtown Seattle almost a dozen years ago) or the riots […]
Week3blog assignment, and blog commenting for Week 2 Leave a comment
For this week, I’d like you to leave comments on at least two of your classmates’ blog posts. A reminder: comments are meant to be substantive, i.e., more than just “this is cool” or “I like this post.” You can review the guidelines for blogging posted above, if it’s helpful. A substantive comment might agree, […]
Blogging Assignment, Week 2 Leave a comment
[Autumn quarter has 10.5 weeks, rather than the usual 10. Usually, I refer to the first half-week of the quarter as “Week 0” — but I see that Professor DiStefano is using Week 1 for this first half-week, so in order to avoid confusion, I’ll do the same.] This assignment is the first one that […]
Welcome to ENGL 298 B! Leave a comment
This course website will be the main hub of our class — I’ll use it to disseminate information to you, and you’ll use it to post weekly blogging assignments, and share documents for peer review. In addition to this main page where posts appear, there are also four other pages listed at the top of […]