Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we first worked on a fluency writing prompt that will also help me know how to help you on your Process Analysis essay. We then went through a student sample of a detailed outline and an annotated bibliography, and followed this up with an activity where we looked at references and information from sources and compiled an annotated bibliography entry in groups. We finished up the class with a vocabulary review game. The PowerPoint for today can be found here.

Homework:

• Detailed Outline and Annotated Bibliography (Draft 1) due on Monday, July 28th, by 5 pm on turnitin.com
• Have a fantastic weekend! Yes, this is homework. I expect you to have a good weekend. :)

Today in class

Welcome to class, today we will be doing 3 things:

• Taking a quiz on Vocabulary List 6.
• Filling out our "Excellence Is" cards.
• Drafting and revising Draft 2.

1.  Please open http://m.socrative.com in another tab. Once you are there, it will ask you to put in a room number. The room number is: 978947. Wait until the teacher starts the assignment and you can begin. When you are finished, you can exit out of the window.

2.  I will give you back your "Excellence Is" draft and the final draft card. Please fill it out and give it back to me by the end of class today.

3.  You may now work on your essays. The second draft is due at 5 pm tomorrow (Friday) on turnitin.com.

Draft 2 Requirements (Homework for tomorrow):

• Length: 
• Must be at least 1 ½ pages long
• Introduction with thesis statement
• 3 organized and developed body paragraphs
• Conclusion
• APA: 
• Properly formatted (title page, font, reference page, etc.) Follow this EXACT format: APA ELC Paper Template
• In-text and Reference page citations, (mostly) properly formatted. 

Other Helps:

Example References (paragraphs):
Example paragraph July 4 with citations

Introducing references (signal phrases):
This is a GREAT worksheet that gives examples for signal phrases (e.g. “According to _____”, or “_____ explains…”): http://www.davidglensmith.com/wcjc/PDFs/signal-phrases.pdf

Citation Creator (reference page):
Here is a link to a website that can help you create citations: http://citationmachine.net/index2.php, but BE CAREFUL, they are not always correct, so you have to check them.

Classwork and Homework

Today we learned about the "Excellence Is" competition and we started brainstorming for our own "Excellence Is" quotes that we will turn in on Thursday in class. The examples are in the PowerPoint for today, if you need a reminder/refresher. The next part of class we reviewed APA References, In-text citations, and signal phrases, and played a game to keep the energy high with some competition. :) Lastly, we reviewed the importance of the revising stage of an essay, which is what we will be doing this week.

Homework:

• Spend at least 40 minutes total working on: 
• Your reference page (If you need help, here is an APA handout)
• Developing other body paragraphs in your essay 
• Your conclusion 
• Drafting your “Excellence Is” quote 
• Go to a tutor and get feedback on your essay (You can do it this week or next week, just go!).
• Bring a printed copy of your essay on Wednesday, because we will be doing a peer review.

THERE IS NO JOURNAL THIS WEEK! HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Classwork & Homework

Today we finished our presentations and took our Vocabulary List 5 quiz. For the remainder of the class, you can work on revising your essays.

The requirements for Draft 1 are:

• Be at least 1 page in length.
• Have an introduction
• Have at least 1 developed body paragraph
• Have all topic sentences (in short, less developed paragraphs [2-3 sentences])
• APA Requirements
• A reference page (you don't need to have the references perfect yet)
• At least 1 paragraph with in-text citations

Homework:

• Sign up for Writing Conferences next week!
• "The Real Thing" body paragraph breakdown (purple worksheet) DUE TODAY by 5 pm.
• Draft 1 DUE TOMORROW by 5 pm
• Journal DUE TOMORROW by noon

Classwork and Homework

For class today, we first talked about the different types of feedback that you can expect at the ELC. The feedback that I give you on your drafts is formative. We also reviewed citing sources in APA, and talked about both in-text citations and reference page citations. Next we talked about the differences between details/examples and commentary. Lastly, we broke into groups so that we could prepare brief presentations on good paragraph writing that will be presented tomorrow (make sure you know what you're doing!). The PowerPoint we used in class can be found here.

Homework:

• Complete your last page in your purple packet, “The Real Thing.” This is due by 5 pm tomorrow.
• You must have it all filled out, if you’re missing some commentary, write some more commentary, if you’re missing a detail, add a detail.
• Draft 1 is due by 5 pm on Friday.
• Journal is due by noon on Friday.

Classwork and Homework

Today we reviewed introductions and peer reviewed each other's papers using the principles that we learned yesterday. In addition to that, we reviewed how integrated writing is scored on the TOEFL (I will be giving you a score and feedback for the second integrated writing practice [the in-class one] by the end of this week). Lastly, we talked about how to improve our thesis statements and write topic sentences (the PowerPoint from class can be found here), and had some time in the lab to work on the thesis statements and topic sentences.

Homework: 

• Spend at least 40 minutes working on drafting your essay. You should have the following completed by tomorrow:
• A revised thesis statement 
• All of your topic sentences 
• 1 full body paragraph for your essay 
• This can be handwritten or typed. 
• You can print it out OR email it to me before class time.

Reminder! Please bring your Commentary in Main Paragraphs Packet with you tomorrow (purple)! If you have lost your packet, you can download and print one here.