• “How Happy are You? A Census Wants to Know” 

  *Make sure to actively read and annotate (take notes) this article & to look up words you don’t know. Bring this annotated reading back to class with you next week.**A lot of our readings this semester will be from the New York Times. As a City Tech student, you have free access to the digital edition of this newspaper. Click here to learn how to register your account.

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• Introduction
• Happiness Archive #1: summary/response to “How Happy are You? A Census Wants to Know?” (make sure to categorize both as this article & as ENG 1101). Some things to think about as you respond to the article: do you agree that happiness can be measured and promoted? Should it be measured and promoted by governments? What kinds of things are important to your well-being? What kinds of things (services, resources, incentives, etc.) would you include as being important to the well-being of a community? Are there any conflicts between individual and community well-being?

DUE

• register for OpenLab account, join our course site, and familiarize yourself with its navigation/content, especially the OpenLab Composing section (under “Assignments”) & the various Resources pages
• review syllabus

• Review my Strategies for Summarizing Post as well as the handouts on “Annotating a Text” and “Guidelines for Writing a Summary” (which can be found at the top of the Writing Resources page on our OpenLab site). I suggest printing out these materials
• Re-read (and annotate) “How Happy Are You?: A Census Wants to Know” and reverse outline (marginal comments for each paragraph about what its saying and how that functions in the text).

DUE

• If you haven’t yet registered for an OpenLab account, joined our course site, or made your Introductory post (due M 9/1), please do so ASAP.
• read through/comment on your classmates’ Introductions and “How Happy Are You?: A Census Wants to Know” posts.

• Print out & actively read/reverse outline “How to Buy Happiness”
  

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• Happiness Archive #2: summary/response to “How to Buy Happiness” (categorize as “ENG 1101,” “Summary,” and “How to Buy Happiness” & tag your post with 3-5 keywords)

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• Go back and “edit” your Introduction and “Happiness Archive #1” post to include 3-5 tags for each one.
• Don’t forget (if you haven’t done so already) to print out (& bring to class!) & read the three writing handouts listed under Th 9/4 above

• “How to Buy Happiness: What Good Is Money If It Can’t Buy Happiness?” (Sonja Lyubomirksy)

• Watch the complete victory speeches from the night of the NYC mayoral primary, 2013, for both the Democratic nominee, Bill de Blasio and the Republic nominee, Joe Lhota (apologies in advance: the quality is not fantastic on these videos, and the audio lags a little in the de Blasio video). *Remember that videos are “texts” too, and, as such, they must also be “actively” read. You should watch them more than once, and as you watch, you should take notes, identify relevant quotations, ask questions, reverse outline their various sections/points/etc.

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• Happiness Archive #4: Visions of Well-Being for NYC. Discuss each mayoral candidate speech separately (first summarizing it in one paragraph and then analyzing its rhetoric/vision of well-being for the city/New Yorkers), and then compare/contrast/discuss in the context of our class conversations/readings about different types of happiness, competing needs/wants, and the role governments should play in creating happiness for their constituents. This post will likely need to be significantly longer than the standard 500 words (but it’s your only one for this week, so that’s something!). Make sure to provide evidence (details, quotes) from the speeches, citing by using time–minutes + seconds–from video links above. In this blog, I am not interested in what others have said about these candidates, their speeches, or their policies. Your goal is not to read other texts and see what either experts or ordinary people have said about their visions for the city. Your goal is to read these speeches (texts) closely/actively, and from what is explicitly (or implicitly) said, articulate these politicians’ visions of happiness for New Yorkers (which groups of New Yorkers does each person represent?).  You will need to read between the lines to see what is said, and also what is not said, about well-being in NYC. Think also about how/when/why the two candidates use pathos, logos, and ethos in their speeches to appeal to their voters.

• “Why Conservatives are Happier than Liberals” (Arthur C. Brooks)

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• summarize article (bring into class with you)

• “What Suffering Does” (David Brooks)

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• prepare for (practice/diagnostic) final exam essay (to take place during Thursday’s class) by annotating the article, looking up vocabulary you don’t know, reverse outlining it, creating a summary, brainstorming ideas, etc. Make sure to bring this article (with your notes) on it back to class on Thursday, 10/2. You can only use this paper for the in-class essay exam.

• Essay #1
• ENG 1101 Essay Formatting, Guidelines, and Submission
• UNC Writing Center Handout: Argument
• UNC Writing Center Handout: Thesis Statements
• UNC Writing Center Handout: Introduction

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• Pre-Draft: Essay #1 Thesis Paragraph (bring four printed copies to class and post to blog by Monday night, 10/6: categorize as “Essay 1 Pre-Draft: Thesis Paragraphs”)

• UNC Writing Handout: Paragraphs
• UNC Writing Handout: Evidence
• UNC Writing Center Handout: Transitions
• UNC Writing Handout: Conclusions

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• First Draft of Essay #1 (bring four printed copies to class and e-mail file of First Draft to Professor Belli)

• UNC Writing Handout: Color Coding
• UNC Writing Handout: Getting Feedback

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• Peer Review of Two of Your Group Members’ Essays (for each essay, print out and complete the peer review assignment on that paper and bring in that completed document plus draft with marginal comments)

• UNC Writing Handout: Revising Drafts
  UNC Writing Handout: Reorganizing Drafts
• UNC Writing Handout: Editing and Proofreading

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• Review your peer review feedback and notes, and, with these comments in mind (and using the strategies we discussed in our in-class workshops and on the “handouts” we’ve been reading for HW), go through your own essay and “peer review” it. Then write a post that reflects on what you’ve learned so far about the drafting/revising process, and what your next steps are for your Essay 1 revisions (remember that you will need to do a number of drafts before you submit the “final draft”). Categorize as “Essay 1 Revision.”

• In-Class work on The Secret (film)

• In-Class work on The Secret (film) & its parodies

• Happiness Archive #5: “The Secret” response/analysis (based on your individual freewriting/group discussion last week of The Secret film, two parodies, and discussion questions)

DUE

• Final Draft of Essay #1 (bring Essay #1 “portfolio” folder to class and e-mail file of Final Draft to Professor Belli)

• “The Problem with Positive Thinking” (print out/annotate/bring to class with you)
  
• Happier
• Happify
• Hedonometer
• World Well-Being Project

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• Happiness Archive #6: big data, social networks, social media, apps (categorize as “Digital Happiness”)

• H(app)athon Project
• “An App for Happiness? Somerville to Test it Out” (print out & bring to class)
• Sun, sand, surf: What’s wrong with Santa Monica? (print out & bring to class)
• The Well-Being Project (Santa Monica, California)
• “The Happiest and Saddest Places in NYC, According to Twitter” (print out & bring to class)
  
• “The Happiness App” (print out & bring to class)
• “Positive Thinking, with a Little Help from Your Phone” (print out & bring to class)
• “Happiness Apps: Actually a Huge Bummer” (print out & bring to class)

[Apps]

• Mappiness
• Emotion Sense
• T2 Mood Tracker
• In Flow
• Happify
• Expereal
• Headspace
• GPS for the Soul
• Happy Habits
• Track Your Happiness
• Live Happy
• Mood Kit (website & app): don’t pay for the app … just browse!
• My MoodTracker (this is a paid app … just look at the website: don’t buy it!)
• Others that you find? Please share with us 🙂

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• Happiness Archive #7: Happiness Apps
• Happiness Archive #8: Happiest Place in NYC

• First Draft of Essay #2 (bring four printed copies to class and e-mail file of First Draft to Professor Belli)

• Research Project Assignment

DUE

• Peer Review of Two of Your Group Members’ Essays (for each essay, print out and complete the peer review assignment on that paper and bring in that completed document plus draft with marginal comments)

*If you would like Professor Belli’s feedback on your Essay #2 draft, you should schedule an appointment to conference with her this week for Tu/W/Th (but preferably during her office hours)

• Research Project Assignment

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• First Draft of Research Project Proposal + 1 Annotated Source (categorize as “Research Proposal / Annotated Bibliography”)

*If you would like Professor Belli’s feedback on your Essay #2 draft, you should schedule an appointment to conference with her this week for Tu/W/Th (but preferably during her office hours)

• Second Draft of Research Proposal + 3 (new, additional) Annotated Sources (blog & bring 4 printed copies to class)

*Mandatory Conferences with Professor Belli this week to discuss individual research projects

• Final Draft of Essay #2 (bring Essay #2 “portfolio” folder to class and e-mail file of Final Draft to Professor Belli)

*Mandatory Conferences with Professor Belli this week to discuss individual research projects

Class Notes (Arlene)

• Citing Information
• Annotated Bibliographies
• Evaluating Print Sources

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• Research Essay Pre-Draft: Introduction (clarify argument, define key terms, limit scope of project) and 3 body paragraphs (must include background information, sources, in-text citations and works cited, etc.). Post to OpenLab (categorize as “Research Essay Pre-Draft) + bring four printed copies to class.

• Final Draft of Research Proposal + 6 Annotated Sources (bring “portfolio” folder to class and e-mail file of Final Draft–as one document–to Professor Belli, labelled as: Jill Belli, Proposal and Annotated Bibliography, Final Draft)
• First Draft of Research Essay (bring four printed copies to class and e-mail file of First Draft to Professor Belli, labelled as: Jill Belli, Research Essay, First Draft)

• Peer Review of Two of Your Group Members’ First Draft of Research Essays (for each essay, print out and complete the peer review assignment on that paper and bring in that completed document plus draft with marginal comments)

• Continue to work on revising Research Essay

Class Notes (Dominique)

*Print out and actively read/annotated the following materials

• Signal Phrases (from the Plattsburgh Learning Center)
• Tips on Introducing Quotes (UHCL Writing Center)
• Quotations: Using signal phrases to integrate quotations into your writing (Loyola University New Orleans WAC)
• Paraphrase: Write it in Your Own Words (Purdue OWL)

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• Continue to work on revising Research Essay

Finals Week

• Final Draft of Research Essay (bring Research Essay “portfolio” folder to class and e-mail file of Final Draft to Professor Belli)

*As discussed in class, in addition to the individualized written feedback I provided on your first drafts, I also wrote up some helpful notes for revision that apply to everyone. You can read/download/print them here. Happy revising!

• Final Exam Practice Exams: take 3 practice final exams & submit (either in mailbox or scanned copies by e-mail) to Professor Belli by 5pm on M 12/15

• Read/look up vocabulary/annotate/reverse outline/summarize article for Final Exam (to be distributed in class on Th 12/11); bring this article (with your notes on it) back to class with you for today’s class, so you have it when you write the final exam essay

DUE

• Final Course Reflection (bring one printed copy to class and e-mail file to Professor Belli)