Today, we had a double session of English. In this double session we took the opportunity to work on our Project 4. During the first half of class, we discussed the assignments of Project 4,5 and the Persuasive Speech more thoroughly and self-evaluated ourselves before our peers got the chance to do so. During this time, Professor Rosen also walked around and gave individual help to those who asked and gave important feedback. We then moved on to the second part of class. In this part of class we had the chance to do peer review. A chance to evaluate and give helpful feedback to our classmates and also take a look at different Project 4 essays. This gave us a view of how our essays compared to others and how ours could change or what we were doing right. We used the guiding feedback worksheet to help us provide feedback to our classmates. This was a very effective time as people received help and also worked on their essay if they were still not finished. Then we began discussing as a class on what we saw during our revisions, what was done right, what needed work. We used examples and learned how to better our essays to strengthen and better our Project 4.
Daily Archives: November 25, 2013
diddly
(noun)
Definition: (Slang) Diddly-squat ——the least amount : anything at all
Source:Â http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diddly-squat?show=0&t=1387336890
“They head down the mountain, back to base camp, and when they get there they don’t say diddly. They don’t talk. Not a word, like they get there they’re deaf and dumb.”
I understand that soldiers are scared, so they done something crazy and do not know how to explain it to the others, and ashamed to talk about that.
November wrap-up
Today we had our last class in November. It was a productive double-session that focused on peer review and self-reflection for Project #4. If you want to share additional advice, ask questions, or connect with classmates about Project #4, feel free to do so in comments to this post.
Project #5 and the ENG 1101-SPE 1330 speech assignment are now posted on the Assignments page of our site. If you didn’t get a paper copy, please be sure to look at the assignments there instead.
One other follow-up: one of the great features of using a WordPress-based system, which the OpenLab is, is that you can Google a question about how to do something and find the answer pretty quickly and easily. That’s how I found the solution for the hanging indent on citations. It requires switching from visual to text in the way you look at the post you’re writing, and then pasting in some HTML code before and after the citation. I’ve updated our Readings page to use the hanging indents–doesn’t that look better? If you’re inspired to learn a new trick, especially if you’re interested in trying to use HTML, feel free to try, too!
I hope everyone has a productive week, with some time for relaxing, too, whether you’re celebrating Thanksgiving or not.
See you on Monday for the first day of speeches!
Clamoring
Clamoring: Noun
Definition: a loud continuous noise
In the article â Gotham Farmers Sprout cash Cropsâ by Adrianne Pasquarelli she says â consumers are still clamoring to buy themâŚâ
It means that the consumers were arguing buy them.