Category: Announcements (Page 5 of 8)

• Transforming your rough draft into a final draft
  • How can a piece of writing be improved? What is the difference between revising and proofreading?
  • Follow the Writing Process guide for the *quote sandwich* and *essay formatting*

• Complete Peer Review with partner (in class). Share google doc link with partner or email them feedback.
• Revise Unit 1 essay with feedback from Writing Center tutor, Professor, peer review partner
• Copy and paste your partner’s peer review feedback at the end of your essay document.
• Upload your final draft to the Google Drive Unit 1 folder  by 10/11  (Major Assignments–> Google Drive)

• Mentor Texts
  • Modeling connection:  2019 LAF student video on Olivarez
  • Modeling use of detail
    • Barack Obama, A Promised Land (excerpt) and Interview
    • Mamadou Diallo, “A Rare Gift”
    • What do the details in Obama’s A Promised Land and Diallo’s “A Rare Gift” illustrate?

• Resource Library
  • Writing Process PPT
  • How to Write a Summary PPT
  • In addition to Obama and Diallo above, other possible texts for connection:
    • Diana Diaz, “Overnight Pandemic” (2020); Caroline Hellman, “In Defense of the Classroom” (2020); Mike Bunn, “How to Read Like a Writer” (2011); Toni Morrison, “The Reader as Artist” (2006); José Olivarez, “Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing,”  “(citizen) (illegal),” and “Mexican American Disambiguation” (2018)

• Deliverables
  • Schedule appointment at Writing Center  before final draft of Unit 1 is due Friday 10/8

  • Upload your Unit 1 Rough Draft to the Google Drive by Sunday 10/3 (the Google Drive is where I will leave comments on the rough draft)
    

From Provost Pamela Brown: In order to provide students more time to upload their vaccine verification, the university has extended the deadline for submitting vaccination information until October 7. After that date students risk being assigned a WA in their hybrid and in-person courses Please encourage students in hybrid and in-person classes, who have not yet uploaded their proof of vaccination, to do so now!

The roll-out of Cleared4 has been plagued with technical issues, most critically that not everyone has received the needed link. The university is focused on resolving this issue, and hopefully a solution will be found soon. In response, use of VaxPass has been extended until October 7. Additionally an in-house system has been created by CIS  which allows public safety to look up those whose vaccine verification has been approved. Fully vaccinated students, faculty and staff whose submissions have been approved will be allowed into the building. Public Safety has been instructed to look  up anyone having issues with Vaxpass or Cleared4. Anyone fully vaccinated and approved, will have a green shield next to their name and will be allowed into the building. Those who require weekly testing will still need Everbridge VaxPass or Cleared4 clearance however. Instructions for using VaxPass and Cleared4 are provided on large posters by the doors.