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Week 5 Assignments
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This week, we will be reading and writing about thesis-based texts!
- Week 5 Assignments
- GA, LJ and first part of RWA DUE by Tuesday, March 10
- RWA and DUE by Thursday, March 12
- LEARNING JOURNAL 5
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Please spend five to seven minutes comparing and contrasting how you read things in print and how you read things on the Web. If you are looking for a place to start, you may want to consider these questions: Do you read the same kinds of things in print and online? Are there some things you would only read in print and others that you would only read online? What specific differences do you notice do you notice when you read in print versus online?? What similarities?Group Assignment 5: What Is Grammar?
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- 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 of grammar in a dictionary. Write down the definition. Please also include the title of the dictionary from which you took the definition and the page number on which the definition was found. For example: Definition of the term grammar. The Oxford American College Dictionary (2002), p. 707.
- 3/ Your response to Question 1 is your own connotative definition of grammar. Your response to Question 2 is a denotative definition of grammar. Now, please read the essay by Sandy Chung and Jeff Pullman entitled “Grammar.” In three to five sentences, please reflect on and describe what you have learned as a result of this exercise by comparing and contrasting your connotative definition of grammar, the denotative definition of grammar, and Chung and Pullman’s discussion of grammar.
- 4/ Post your responses to Questions 1-3 as a reply to Professor Rodgers’ blog post “GA5: What Is Grammar?”
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- RWA5: Actively Read and Respond to Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
College Writing
Professor Rodgers
To complete this assignment, please do the following:
First, based on the guidelines for Active Reading, please read, annotate, and take notes on Professor Rodgers’ introduction to Chapter 4 of her textbook in progress and on Nicholas Carr’s essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”
Second, please complete a “Reverse Outline” of Carr’s essay. For an introduction to Reverse Outlining, please read the Purdue OWL introduction to Reverse Outlining, which was handed out in class.
Third, please read Professor Rodgers’ Handouts on “Writing About Texts,” which you can access in the Handouts section of this website or by clicking here: Writing About Texts
Fourth, please read Professor Rodgers’ Introduction to Summary Writing. Afterwards, following these guidelines and those for writing about texts, write a one paragraph summary of Carr’s article.
LJ 5: By looking at the words shown on paper and on the web both have good similar traits of reading. However, not all literature in print and online is because some people might search in a website that makes the words less similar to the print. In my point of view, I believe that the difference of the print and the web share the same article but in different words and a different perspective which can make the similarities alternate. Either way, the print and the web are similar but show different words depending by the author’s reasons.
GA 5: 1) I used to think that grammar has something to do with cookies but that was when I was a child which made me believed to be true. At first when I started to write well, I had problems with spelling out words that difficult and large to pronounce. My teachers say that I need to improve my writing in order to fully function and understand the reader.
2) Grammar (noun): language study dealing with the forms of words and with their arrangement in sentences. Webster’s New World Dictionary, pg. 264.
3) In the essay, “Grammar”, Sandy Chung and Geoff Pullum explain that Grammar is simply the collection of principles defining how to put together a sentence in definition. Grammar can be common to explain things that are good and bad but in language there is no grammar can it’s the choice of the people speak what they feel at heart. It’s called syntax where the person or group talks in an order of words that are in place in grammar.