- Professor Rodgers
Advanced College Writing
Week 4 Assignments - ALL DUE by BEFORE OUR CLASS SESSION MEETS on Thursday, Feb. 24
- GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
- GA4: With a pen in hand, read aloud Draft 2 of your essay. Ask the listener to take notes while you are reading and to make a note of any parts that were particularly strong or particularly confusing. Also ask you listener to make a list of questions for you. Depending on whom you choose to be your “audience” for this exercise, you may also want to ask them to complete one or more of the revision/editing/proofreading worksheets that were discussed in class.
READING JOURNAL ASSIGNMENTS
RJ3: Read the essay you chose to read last week. Take notes on the reading. Then, write down a list of five to seven questions that you have for the author about the reading. Finally, complete the “Analyze” questions for the reading that are in the textbook.
- READING AND WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
- Reading and Writing Assignment 4: Revising, Line Editing and Proofreading a Definition and Response Essay
- Professor Rodgers
- This week, working from your first draft, 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 revise the first draft of your essay. Print out a copy. This will be Draft 2. Then, please line edit draft 2. Make the needed changes. Print out another copy. This will be Draft 3. Please proofread Draft 3. Make the needed changes. Finally, print out a final draft of your essay. You will be handing this in to me next Thursday.
- Defining Technologies Essay Guidelines
Professor Rodgers
College Writing
City Tech - Final Draft DUE: Thursday, Feb. 26
- 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 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.
