Author Archives: johannah rodgers

Please read over Professor Rodgers’ Handouts related to writing THESIS statements and her structural overview of a thesis-driven essay in your What Is Writing? A Brief Introduction to Writing As an Act of Communication reading packet. After reading these, please … Continue reading →

1/ In one to three sentences, describe your understanding of the term grammar and the basis for that definition, e.g., I’ve been told that I have bad grammar by teachers because I cannot spell well, etc. 2/ Look up the definition … Continue reading →

Thesis Statements Positives: A thesis statement… 1. presents the main idea of an essay (Matthew) 2. keeps your essay organized; every paragraph relates to the thesis statement (Matthew) 3. is helpful to the reader in allowing him/her to understand what … Continue reading →

Dear Students, In reading through your generally excellent RWA2 responses to Sherman Alexie’s essay, I noticed that many of the most interesting paragraphs contained in the assignment read like draft paragraphs.  As a result, for this group assignment, I’d like … Continue reading →

For anyone interested in doing an extra credit assignment, here is one! First, please watch the 12-13 minute video on the following website: http://thewritingcode.com/   and WHILE YOU ARE WATCHING it please take notes in order to respond to the following … Continue reading →

Please feel free to post any and all questions that you have about the Week 3 Assignments as a comment to this blog post. Since we did not have any time to discuss the Week 3 Assignments in class AND … Continue reading →

Please leave a comment to this post in which you write one paragraph describing HOW you brainstormed for the Personal “Literacies” Narrative Essay and a second paragraph describing YOUR SPECIFIC APPROACH/FOCUS for this essay. Regarding HOW you brainstorm:  Did you … Continue reading →

Dear Students, Each week, I will ask one of you to post your notes from our Tuesday class session, and to make a list of ten to fifteen keywords discussed.  Since I did not ask any of you to post … Continue reading →

GA2.1:  Please read through Professor Rodgers’ responses to student questions in the GA1.2 blog post.  If you find that your questions have still not been answered, please post your question(s) there. GA2.2:  Please read through the introductions that your classmates have posted … Continue reading →

Dear Students, There are three types of weekly assignments for this course:  the Learning Journal (LJ), the Reading and Writing Assignment (RWA), and the Group Assignments (GA).  Most of you have already completed the GAs for this week ;) by … Continue reading →