Let’s brainstorm in class on March 11 and 15.

That is all.

We will study for our Midterm on March 11.

We will take our Midterm on March 18.

The Midterm will be a single essay. On March 11 I will show you the exact format. We will then have a Practice Run-Through of the Midterm in real time. If time does not permit on March 11, we will have a Practice Run-Through of the Midterm on March 15.

I will take your pop quiz on March 11. I will be allowed: use of my smartphone or the computer console in the lecturn; one phone call; scratch paper and pencil or pen. Thank you. Please type up this quiz for me to take.

Please consult the Purdue OWL Website for help with your grammar needs. Here is a link:

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/

The above includes many exercises you can do on your own.

https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/566/1/

And this link, above, will give you examples and rules that will help you complete the exercises.

As you get your papers back, you will see information in the margins that will guide you towards which exercises to complete.

Check POLICIES, above, for a list of abbreviations.

I just also want to thank you for a really enjoyable “Quiz” Day. I learned a lot!!! -Prof. S.

Ok, so your Professor is now also an official Tutor in AG 31 — part of the Atrium Learning Center (AG 18) — that’s the basement of the same building the Library is in. If you would like to have Prof. Schmerler as your tutor, come by:

Wednesdays from 10AM to noon.

Mondays app. 12:30PM to 7PM (there may be a break time).

Student Kayle Greenidge, for bringing his textbook to class; for looking up the information quickly using the Table of Contents; and, with lighting speed, citing the page numbers.

Okay, there is no Grammar Appreciation Award. We made it up just now; but there should be!

P.S. Please note the use of semicolons in this post.

…to find your next assignment, as well. Please print from this location, do the exercise, and put it in your Journal by the due date. Our first due date is this Friday, Feb. 19. Exercise #1: Quotations.

Your new assignment is now there. : )

Due: Feb 26.

Hi Class,

Don’t report to the classroom on Feb. 23. Rather: our Session with a Librarian has been assigned to us at the above date, Feb 23.  Please show up outside the Ursula C. Schwerin Library on the fourth floor where we will take roll at 1:PM sharp. We will then go inside the library and get our research tour, which is scheduled to last the rest of class time.

C U!!

(Above, a still from the video installation by artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, “Sea of Buddha,” 1997, on view soon at Pace Gallery, Manhattan. Hopefully, we will look as calm on Library Day.)

First class, some inspiration for you: Martin Wilner is an artist who works on the subway. He records the things he hears around him — conversations of fellow passengers, sounds — and he even notes, along the bottom of his notebook pages (which combine image and text) the exact times of his subway rides, the train # or letter, and the stops announced by the conductor. He calls his project the “Journal of Evidence Weekly.”

(Here’s an image of that same page, further back.) Wilner also puts, onto the same page, the “inner dialogue” he hears in his head at the same time — stuff he’s thinking to himself, or feeling.

Your Assignment. Make 5 entries of Inner and Outer Dialogues. Please note the time-range/date/and location of each one to keep them clear to yourself. You can work on the subway, in a Starbucks, in the Cafeteria, on a street corner, in any public place, really. You don’t have to draw or make pictures. You do, however, have to take out your “small journals” for this assignment, and, working unobtrusively like Wilner with only your pen, note down or otherwise record the dialogues and speaking you hear around you. At the same time, listen to yourself: how are you thinking/feeling? Note that down, too.

There is no specific length or time limit for each entry. Keep at it as long as you want or need to get good material. It can be anything. So don’t censor yourself.

Bring the results of the first 2 you do to class on Friday, Feb. 5. By Tuesday, Feb. 9, all 5 should be completed. Grading: these will not be given a letter grade, but will be checked and will go in your Journal. Your Journal will constitute 15% of your overall grade (Class Participation). Aspects of this exercise will be incorporated into future, letter-graded assignments.