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Project #2 Reflections

ENG1101 Project #2

Now that you have completed Project #2 for ENG 1101, write a post on your Learning Blog about about what you have written. In your post, write a one-paragraph summary of your project. Next, reflect on what you learned by working on this project–this can be about the area around City Tech, about your specific topic, about yourself as a writer, about the ideas of overlapping New Yorks that Whitehead introduced us to. Be specific. Then, reflect on what you wrote: what are you most proud of, and what do you think still needs work? In terms of the process of working on this project, what was helpful, and what additional support did you wish you had? Finally, estimate how much time you spent on the project, how you spent that time, and what knowledge you take from this experience about your writing habits and time management into your next project.

Choose the categories ENG1101 Project #2 and the tag Reflections, plus any other tags you find appropriate.

Project #2 was due at the start of class on Monday, 10/20. Your reflection is due by Tuesday, 10/21, at 10:00am.

Class 10: library session, Project #2 peer feedback

ENG1101 Project #2,

Please remember that we will not meet in our classroom on 10/8, but instead just outside the library, which is on the 4th floor of the Atrium building. If you are late, you will have some trouble finding us. The majority of our session will be held in A540, a classroom on the 5th floor that is only accessible by first entering the library on the 4th floor. Walk straight ahead, up the stairs, make a right at the top of the stairs, and then your next right. I trust that everyone will make his or her best effort to be on time, unless we already spoke about different arrangements.

Our library session will use as its subject the topic of photography, as we discussed in class on Monday. Come prepared with search terms you are interested in using to shape your research on photography. You will learn how to make those search terms work for you in a variety of research venues (the Internet, the college’s book holdings, all of CUNY’s book holdings, and the college’s database subscriptions). We will merge our efforts together into a collaborative annotated bibliography. For more information about what an annotated bibliography is, read about it on the Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL) site.

You should continue working on Project #2. To help you revise your drafts (which you should have already posted on your ePortfolio with the category ENG1101 Project #2 and the tag draft), please offer your classmates useful, encouraging feedback:

  • DUE end-of-day Thursday:
  • Read the drafts that two of your classmates posted on their ePortfolios.
  • Reply with a well-developed comment to each of them that answers the following three questions about each paragraph:
    • What do you understand?
    • What do you not understand, or need clarified?
    • With our interest in simplicity and economy in mind, what if anything is extraneous?
    • What if anything is missing?
  • Due end-of-day Friday:
  • Read the comments on your draft and write a post on your ePortfolio a checklist of revisions you plan to make based on your peers’ feedback. Use the category ENG1101 Project #2 and the tag Peer Feedback.

If you have questions about Project #2, please come see me in my office during office hours, Mondays and Wednesdays from 2:00-3:00.

Thinking about comparisons

ENG1101 Project #2

Introduction: what you’re writing about, what you’re arguing (thesis statement)

Body:

How are the two New Yorks similar?

How are they different?

OR: block format

one point of view: one New York

the other point of view: the other New York

comparison of the two NYs

OR: point-by-point

point one: each NY

point two: each NY

point three: each NY

etc:

Opening tonight: City Tech students’ work at BHS

Announcements, ,

Join me tonight from 6-8:00 for a great opportunity to go to the opening of Wonder: First Encounters with Green-Wood, a photography exhibit at Brooklyn Historical Society featuring work by your ADGA classmates! You can read more about this on the City Tech website, the CUNY Events Calendar, and BHS’s website.

If you are interested in attending the opening, please let me know either via email, OpenLab message, or by replying to this post. I can give you directions for you to meet me at BHS or can meet you at City Tech beforehand and we can walk there together. If you’re interested but can’t make it tonight, the exhibit will run through January 15th, so you can go on your own or with some classmates. We’re planning a field trip to BHS this semester, but I don’t know that we’ll have a chance to see the exhibit then.

***If you attend and write a blog post about the show–at least 300 words–you will earn extra credit that can be applied wherever needed in your ENG 1101 grade.***

Class 7: focus on Project #2

ENG1101 Project #2

Today, in addition to continuing to talk about Colson Whitehead’s “City Limits” and his earlier version, “The Way We Live Now,” and summary, and revision, and brainstorm about Project #2, let’s also look at a visual text. Here are two versions of Saul Steinberg’s “View of the World from 9th Avenue”:

Let’s think about how this map compares to those we looked at or drew for our walks, and how it relates to Project #2, to Whitehead’s ideas, and to our experiences as New Yorkers.

Project #1: Reflections

ENG1101 Project #1

After completing Project #1 for ENG 1101, write in your Learning Blog about about what you have written. Write a one-paragraph summary of your project. Next, reflect on what you learned by working on this project. What are you most proud of, and what do you think still needs work? In terms of the process of working on this project, what was helpful, and what additional support did you wish you had? Finally, consider how much time you spent on the project, what took the most time, and what knowledge you take from this experience about your writing habits and time management into your next project.

Choose the categories ENG1101 Project #1 and the tag Reflections, plus any other tags you find appropriate.

Project #1 is due at the start of class on Monday, 9/22. Your reflection is due by Tuesday, 9/23, at 10:00am.

Peer reviews of Project #1 drafts

ENG1101 Project #1

To develop your ideas for Project #1, you’ve had the benefit of sharing your ideas with classmates in class this week, getting their feedback and hearing their ideas, too. Now that you have completed a draft of Project #1, collaborate with your classmates again to offer feedback:

  • DUE end-of-day Tuesday:
  • Read the drafts that your two group-mates posted on their ePortfolios.
  • Reply with a comment to each of them that answers the following three questions about each paragraph:
    • What do you understand?
    • What do you not understand, or need clarified?
    • With our interest in simplicity and economy in mind, what if anything is extraneous?
    • What if anything is missing?
  • Due end-of-day Thursday:
  • Read the comments on your draft and write a post on your ePortfolio reflecting on the process of receiving—and offering—critiques on Project #1. Use the category Project #1 and the tag Peer Feedback.

Beginning the glossary

Glossary

Each week, you will post a glossary entry in your ePortfolio, using the category Glossary. You can copy the category as it appears at the bottom of this post to make sure you have exactly the same category I do.

In class on Wednesday, you will watch the first episode of the BBC production, “Ways of Seeing,” which was the foundation for the materials we are reading of the same name. As I previewed this episode I jotted down some words you might want to look up. You could even draw from this list for  your glossary entry, if you can point us back to where in the video you heard the word, and explain what you understand about that section based on understanding that word. Some of these words might also be in the reading, so you could refer to them there as well. Keep in mind that this is an activity aimed to help all of us learn more words, improve our vocabularies, and make sense of our work. If the definition of a word isn’t helpful, it isn’t helpful–that is, you might need to change the part of speech to find a better definition. If callousness is defined as the state of being callous, dig deeper and look up callous! Here is the list I compiled:

  • gilt
  • integral
  • icon
  • converge
  • reproduction (noun)
  • distort
  • facsimile
  • authenticity
  • pedigree
  • Perspex
  • relic
  • shrine
  • awe
  • allegorical
  • metamorphosis
  • callousness
  • devotional
  • landscape painting
  • sprightly
  • somber
  • manipulated
  • jostling
  • ambiguous
  • inhibit
  • mystification
  • alms
  • destitute
  • peat
  • disparaging
  • unwavering
  • clairvoyance
  • skeptical

ENG 1101 Class 3: Peer feedback; Ways of Seeing

ENG1101 Project #1

In class, we will work in small groups to brainstorm about Project #1 and provide peer feedback. In your groups:

1. Review your outline/brainstorm on your own, adding anything you want to add. (5 minutes)

2. Each group member takes a turn explaining what they are planning to write in Project #1 (5 minutes each =15 minutes)

3. After each group member explains what he or she has planned for Project #1, the other two group members will offer a say-back. That is, the other two group members will sum up what they heard the presenter say. They will also review the instructions for Project #1 to determine if the plan fits the requirements for Project #1. (5 minutes each=15 minutes)

4. Each group member will take notes during his or her turn for receiving feedback.

5. After everyone has had a turn, each group member will write a plan for the next stage of drafting. This can be a freewrite, a bulleted list, a mind map, etc. (5 minutes)

6. Remember that drafts are due by Friday, 9/12 on your ePortfolio. When you submit your draft, look on the Ways of Seeing site for instructions about reviewing your peers’ work.

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After groups have completed this work, the class will watch the first episode of the BBC production of “Ways of Seeing.” This groundbreaking television series was the basis for the book of the same name, which is the source of our reading for this class and subsequent classes. (note: some of the words in the captions are incorrect.)

At the end of class, take the remaining time to write a reflection, answering the following questions: what remains with you after watching Part 1 of “Ways of Seeing”? What questions do you have? These reflections will be collected to help guide the next class’s discussion.

Please read further in Ways of Seeing, to page 23, up through the second paragraph.

Preparing for Project #1

ENG1101

To prepare for writing Project #1:

  • If you haven’t already, register for an OpenLab account and join our Learning Community site, Ways of Seeing.
  • From the OpenLab home page, click on People to see OpenLab members
  • Browse through, looking at the avatars.
  • Without reading anything about the person, choose an avatar of a member of the OpenLab that you think says something about the person.
  • Still without reading anything about the person, what do you understand about them based on their avatar? If you click on the avatar, you will see a larger version—but be careful not to read the member’s details yet!
  • Make a list of what you observe when you look at the avatar.
  • Make a list of the interpretations you make about the details you observe.
  • Write a paragraph about how you interpret the avatar.
  • Now finally read about the member. Can you confirm or correct any of your interpretations or inferences? Do you think that the avatar does not represent them accurately? Add a few sentences to answer these questions.
  • Include your lists and paragraph, as well as a link to the member’s profile, in a comment in response to this blog post.
  • Submit your comment by Tuesday, 9/9.
  • Offer feedback to at least two classmates about the avatars they have chosen to write about—do you see an alternative reading they haven’t thought of? Are their details they haven’t contemplated enough?