ENG 1101 Composition 1, Fall 2023

Hi Students,

I’m feeling good, testing negative, and so I’ll see everybody on Tuesday for our last class!

Remember:

These seven documents go inside your Final Portfolio folder:

1–Original/graded IH essay

2–Original/graded RAB

3–Documentation guide for IH

4–Documentation guide for RAB

5–Revised IH essay with highlighted changes (20)

6–Revised RAB with highlighted changes (20)

7–Reflection essay

Hello Students,

This morning I woke up achy all over. I took a test, and it’s confirmed. I have Covid.

What does this mean for us?

First, I means that I won’t be coming to class on Thursday. Students are not required to go to my class.

Second, it means that students can still gain 5 extra points if they email their Final Reflection Essay to me before 5 p.m. on the 14th. I will email a confirmation to students as they submit. Hold onto all other process work until December 19.

Third, we still have class on Tuesday, December 19. I hope to be able to attend the class (with a mask). But, if I don’t recover in time, then I will have to figure out a way to collect your other documents.

Honestly, this is not the way I wanted to end the semester. I have enjoyed this semester, and I hold all of you in high regard.

Expect more emails on Friday or Monday.

Best,

Prof. Scanlan

Question: What should I turn in on the 14th or the 19th for my  Final Portfolio?

Answer: These seven documents go inside your Final Portfolio folder:

1–Original/graded IH essay

2–Original/graded RAB

3–Documentation guide for IH

4–Documentation guide for RAB

5–Revised IH essay with highlighted changes (20)

6–Revised RAB with highlighted changes (20)

7–Reflection essay

Agenda,

-Freewrite

-Discuss favorites

-Peer Review of Reflection Essay draft

-Q & A

-In-class work

HOMEWORK due Thursday, Dec 14: if possible finish your Final Portfolio and bring it to class for five extra credit points. If you are not finished, this will be an in-class workday

NOTES:

1–We have class on Tuesday, Dec 19. (final class)

2–Dec 19: Bring the Final Portfolio to class, printed in your folder with your process work. Full credit.

3–Dec 19: The deadline for turning in the Final Portfolio is 5pm (via email to Prof. Scanlan) I will deduct five points for turning in the Final Portfolio after class, but before 5pm.

4–Dec 19: I will not accept any work after 5pm. Any work submitted to me after 5pm receives no credit or points.

Note: I updated BlackBoard grades. Please double check to make sure my numbers match your numbers.

Agenda:

-Quiz 2

-Q & A over Final Portfolio

-Work Flow and Weekly Schedule

-In-Class time to work on Reflection Essay/Portfolio

Homework due Thursday, Dec 7: Bring in two printed copies of a draft of your Reflection Essay–at least one page. We will have peer review, and I will meet with each student. It will help to bring in all of the pieces of your portfolio.

Agenda:

–Conferences

–Source Quality (#5: Rhetorical Analysis. Students can gain points if they state something like:

“this is a high quality source because of the following reasons: the author is named: Edith Wharton is a post-doctoral researcher at North Texas University; she provides a contact email that is associated with a university (EWharton@email.texas.university.edu) she has published 23 articles on the topic of handwriting and intelligence; the journal (Frontiers of Higher Education) is a peer reviewed journal published by Duke University Press; her article has 59 endnotes; the article has been cited 19 times by other scholars; her language seems balanced; and even though the language is academic, the effort here is to provide cutting-edge research without bias.”

—Preparation for Quiz 2

Example: MLA Citation

Witt, Stephen. “How Jenson Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the AI Revolution.” New Yorker, 28

Nov. 2023. newyorker.magazine/2023/12/04/how-jensen-huangs-nvidia-is-powering-the-

ai-revolution. Accessed 30 Nov. 2023.

Example: Sentence introducing a direct quotation

When researching AI, it may be helpful to know that in Stephen Witt’s “How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia is Powering the AI Revolution,” in May of 2023, “Nvidia’s value increased by about two hundred billion dollars.”

Example: Sentence introducing a direct quotation

Stephen Witt cites an unnamed Wall Street analyst who said, when speaking about the scary power and value of Jensen Huang’s Nvidia, “‘There’s a war going on out there in A.I., and Nvidia is the only arms dealer’” (“How Jensen Huang’s Nvidia Is Powering the AI Revolution”).

Homework:

1–Bring your revised RAB and the graded RAB for conferences: A good goal is to have 20 substantial changes made; make sure to highlight the changes on the new draft.

2–Prepare for Quiz 2: citations and incorporating quotations into your own writing.

Agenda:

–Freewrite

–Return RAB

–In-class work (At least five changes–use document guide)

–Conferences

Homework due Thursday, Nov 30: Come to class with at least ten changes to the RAB. Update your RAB and highlight the changes so that Prof. Scanlan can see them.

Student Example:

Student RAB Example

Agenda:

CONTINUING UNIT 1 REVISIONS: Today’s goal: 5 additional changes; this should bring everybody to 20 changes (which is the minimum number of changes)

1–Quotations: Do you have the minimum number of quotations? Are they in the proper format?

2–In-class work

3–Conferences

Homework due Tuesday, November 28:

Finish making the 20 (minimum) changes to the Intellectual Home essay. Make sure to write the changes on the documentation guide sheet. And also make the changes to a new draft the IH essay. Lastly, make sure to highlight or underline the changes. Print out the newest draft of the IH and bring it–along with the documentation guide–to class.

END OF SEMESTER

Nov 23: No Classes (Thanksgiving)

Nov 28: Unit 2 revisions

Nov 30: Unit 2 revisions

Dec 5: Portfolio essay

Dec 7: Portfolio essay

Dec 12: No Classes: Reading Day

Dec 14: Portfolio Due for Extra Credit points (regular class)

Dec 19: Last Class: Portfolio Due in class. I will not accept any work after 3:55 p.m.

NOTE: I updated our Notepad with today’s notes.

Agenda:

Discuss the 10-minute freewrite.

UNIT 1 REVISIONS: Today’s goal: 5 changes

1–Improve the title of your IH essay.

2–Explore ways to improve the introduction.

3–Avoid vague language.

4–Improve your thesis and method.

5–Quotations: Do you have the minimum number of quotations?

6–In-class work

Homework due Tuesday, November 21: work on filling out the Revision Documentation for Unit 1. Come to class with at least 10 substantial changes. Make sure to transfer the changes you describe on your documentation sheet to your actual final draft of the IH essay–print out this new version and bring to class. Also, make sure to highlight or underline all the changes, so that readers can see them. 

Nov 16: Unit 1 revisions

Nov 21: Unit 1 revisions

Nov 23: No Classes (Thanksgiving)

Nov 28: Unit 2 revisions

Nov 30: Unit 2 revisions

Dec 5: Portfolio essay

Dec 7: Portfolio essay

Dec 12: No Classes: Reading Day

Dec 14: Portfolio Due for Extra Credit points (regular class)

Dec 19: Last Class: Portfolio Due in class. I will not accept any work after 3:55 p.m.

NOTE: I have to change tomorrow’s office hours due to conflicting meetings. I will be available from 4:30-5:30 only. Sorry about this late change. Email any questions.

Agenda:

1–Turn in and discuss RAB

2–Reflections

3–Freewrite

a. improving RAB

b. improving IH

c. Writing Tools:

-5 part reading tool

-Thesis blueprint

-Academic Summary

-Radical revision-modifiers

-Comma confidence

-Logical Fallacies

-4 definitions of home

-Conditional sentences

-Paragraph order (nostalgia)

-Sentence types

-Sentence kinds

-Genre awareness

-Rhetorical pentagon

4–Unit 3: The Portfolio

5–Instructions

Homework due Thursday, November 16: Read over your Intellectual Home essay and, at home, freewrite for ten minutes. This freewrite should address this question: Now that I’ve put the essay away for a few weeks and brought it back out, what obvious things need work?

Bring in your Intellectual Home essay and grade report to class on Thursday–make sure it is the copy with my comments on it. Of course, bring your freewrite, too.

Hi Class,

My long title above gets at the heart of the matter: Please bring your printed RAB to class tomorrow.

**Please be on time.

**Make sure to proofread your RAB!

**Use spell and grammar check.

-Prof. Scanlan