• Professor Rodgers
  Advanced College Writing
  
  Week 3 Assignments
• RWA DUE by BEFORE OUR CLASS SESSION MEETS on Tuesday, Feb. 17
•  GROUP ASSIGNMENTS

• GA3: Please post any questions that you have about the assignments for next week. Please also try to respond to at least one question posted.

READING JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS

RJ3: Read pp. 1-14 of They Say/I Say (this was handed out in class). Write one to two paragraphs about what you have learned from the reading. Afterward, with a pen in hand, please re-read the exploratory draft of your essay and mark places where you may be able to place your essay in dialogue with one of the four essays from Technology: A Reader for Writers that we read last week: Thomas Hughes’ “Defining Technology,” Eric Schatzberg’s “What Is Technology,” and/or Johannah Rodgers’ “Preface” and “Introduction to Chapter 1.”

• READING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
• Reading and Writing Assignment 3: Drafting a Definition and Response Essay
• Professor Rodgers
• This week, working from the exploratory draft that you wrote last week, your course notes, your reading journals, your reading of pp. 1-14 of They Say/I Say (this was handed out in class), and your reading of pp. 4, 6 – 10 and 16-18 of “10 Things You Need To Know About College Writing” (this was handed out in class), please put together a first draft of an essay dedicated to the topic of your understanding of and relationships to technologies based on both your personal experience and the readings we have done in this class to date. Below are the guidelines for this essay.

• Defining Technologies Essay Guidelines
  Professor Rodgers
  College Writing
  City Tech
• First Draft DUE: Tuesday, February 17
• The focus of your first essay is on defining your understanding of and relationships to technologies.   The purpose of this essay is to give you an opportunity to think about your understanding of and your relationships to technologies based both on your personal experiences and on what we have read in class about technologies. Of course, this essay, like every essay, a word that is derived from the French verb “to try” is also designed to give you an opportunity to practice and learn more about some specific aspects of academic writing, including: 1/ drafting and revising a thesis statement; 2/ engaging in a dialogue with the textual works of others; and 3/ reviewing what you learned in ENG1101 regarding the conventions of writing for academic purposes and academic audiences. Please make sure you write this essay for a specific audience.  This audience can be your instructor, your classmates, the students at City Tech, or the readers of a particular publication.  I ask you to choose and specify an audience so you know who you are writing to and are therefore able to tailor the content and style of your essay to that audience.
• The draft that you will be bringing into class on Tuesday, February 17 is A FIRST “READER’S” DRAFT, meaning, it is neither just a lot of interesting unstructured ideas written down, nor a finished draft. Rather, this draft is one that you can show to a peer editor to receive feedback on and suggestions regarding. As a result, put your best foot forward but also know that the draft you are writing WILL CHANGE in some substantive way based on the suggestions of others and your own thinking about the draft and the topic. Your draft essay, although still a draft, should include a title, a working thesis statement, and paragraphs; it should also be no less than three pages.
• The final draft of your essay, which will be three to four pages in length, will be graded on the effort you have put into thinking about the topic for this particular essay, as well as on the clarity and thoroughness of the presentation of your material to your audience. The essay will include a title, well structured paragraphs, and writing that not only clearly describes and explains information, but also engages your reader. For MLA essay formatting guidelines, see http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/  or your English handbook.
• PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU BRING A PRINTED DRAFT OF THIS ESSAY TO CLASS ON Tuesday, February 17.