Classwork & Homework

Today in class we will be working on fleshing out our essays so that you will have enough time to get to Draft 2. Your Draft 2 is due on Friday, August 1 by 5 pm, uploaded to turnitin.com.

Requirements for Essay Draft 2:

• Correct Formatting: Cover Page, Headers, Reference Page
• References: Generally correct formatting for reference page and in-text citations
• All body paragraphs written/drafted with sources
• Introduction and Conclusion are not required, but would be good so you can get feedback before the final draft

However, first I would like you to do a writing fluency exercise. You will spend 20 minutes on it. Choose one of the prompts below.

Journal Prompt One (TOEFL 30-min):

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Face-to-face communication is better than other types of communication, such as letters, email, or telephone calls. Use specific reasons and details to support your answer.

Journal Prompt Two:

Respond to one of the quotes below about effort. Explain if you agree or disagree with the quote. Think about your own effort to learn English. What kind of effort will you make to continue learning English this semester? after this semester? Why is effort important? How do you know when you put effort into an activity or task?

• “Be of good cheer. Do not think of today’s failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost." ― Helen Keller

• "Continuous effort – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential". ― Winston Churchill

• "Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought." ― Napoleon Hill

When you are finished, please email me your fluency exercise.

The rest of the class period can spend looking at my feedback on your outlines on turnitin.com and developing body paragraphs for your essays.

Homework:

• Have at least one body paragraph printed and brought to class tomorrow. We will be doing an activity with it, so you need to bring it.

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. :)

Lab Day and Homework

Today is a day for you to further research, compile your annotated bibliography, and develop your detailed outlines.

By 5:00 pm on Monday, July 28th, you must have:

• A detailed outline (see handout "Outlines" in your pink packet) 
• An annotated bibliography (see handout in your pink packet) with at least 4 sources.

First, please take this short questionnaire about your homework.

• Homework July 21st

To help you with your writing today:

1. To find more sources for your paper, go to lib.byu.edu, and use advanced search. The button looks like this:  
2. You can then search for the main topic (example: cognitive development), and a sub topic (example: sensorimotor development) in the two fields:
   
3. This should help you get the sources that you need for your paper.

If you have had a conference with me already, look through the sources I have found for you, and see if they will work for your paper and write down the information you find in your annotated bibliography and detailed outline.

Work on your annotated bibliography and detailed outline. Please click to view and download the outline template and the sample student annotated bibliography and detailed outline below. 

Outline Template

Sample Student Detailed Outline

Sample Student Annotated Bibliography

Homework: Work on drafting your outline and annotated bibliography 

Classwork and Homework Helps

Today in class we briefly talked about the importance of creating our own personal study space. We watched a BYU Library advertisement that was a parody of this advertisement. The main thing that we talked about today was how to complete the detailed outline and annotated bibliography, and we practiced paraphrasing and note taking to help us with those tasks. Here is the PowerPoint that was used today.

Homework:

• Draft your detailed outline for 20 minutes
• Create an annotated bibliography entry for a paraphrase summary you have done for this essay (use the information below to help you : 
• Author: Roger Sipher. 
• Title: So That Nobody Has to Go to School If They Don't Want To 
• Title of Print Source: The New York Times. 
• Date: December 19, 1977 
• Page: 31 
• Type: Print 
• You can use citationmachine.net or Google Scholar to create the citation, but I want it to look like the example in your pink packet when it is finished.

Example:
Lewis, M., & Coates, D. L. (1980). Mother-infant interaction and cognitive development in twelve-week-old infants. Infant behavior and development, 3, 95-105.

• Mother response to a baby is more important than stimulation from the mother. 
• Mother and child correspondence helps baby cognitively. 
• Stimulation was not shown to be a significant portion of cognitive development

Today in class

Today in class,we will first have a quiz on Vocabulary List 8. Secondly, we will be working on finding background resources to help narrow our topics, and using the BYU Library to help us out with this. You must follow all of the steps in the order they are given.

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. You should go to http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=44757&sid=2728463, and read the information in sections Picking a Topic, Gathering Information, & Narrowing Your Topic.

3. On the side of the same page, there is a section titled Basic Background Information Resources. I would like you to look at the section Indexes to Specialized Encyclopedias. You should practice using the 3 tools in this section (Gale Virtual Reference Library, Brittanica Online, RefSeek) using the general terms of your topic. 

4. Download this Background Research Worksheet. You will need to put the information that you find from the background sources You will need to complete this and email this to me by 5 pm tomorrow. Use Gale Virtual Reference Library and Brittanica Online to find the information. These will be for your background knowledge and to find key words and other references.

5. (Optional) If you have enough background knowledge for your topic, you can add real resources to your worksheet. Go to http://guides.lib.byu.edu/content.php?pid=220379&sid=3231114#,  Please watch the tutorials for Academic Search Premier (EBSCO), and Scholar Search Books and More, and then use them to find real sources for your paper. These will be for your support and details of your essay.

Homework: Complete both of the following by 5 pm on Friday, July 18th.

• Process Analysis Planning Worksheet (in the pink Process Analysis packet) 
• Background Research Worksheet (today's lab worksheet)

Classwork and Homework

Today in class, we talked about selecting a topic, conducting background information, and narrowing a topic of research. I also introduced the outline and annotated bibliography that you will need to do for your first draft (due July 28th), and the requirements for them as well. In addition, we also talked about how to create a good thesis statement for Integrated Essay prompts. The PowerPoint for today can be found here. (9:30 class, it is a little different than what was presented in your class, I had to revise it so it was more coherent. See, even teachers need to revise!!!)

Homework:

• Come up with at least 2 solid ideas for your process analysis essay (you might want to review the information in your book for help.)
• Determine if the ideas are directional or informational. 
• Study for your Vocabulary List 8 Quiz

Classwork and Homework

First today, we went over your homework assignment from yesterday, and reviewed the types of the Process Analysis Essay, particularly going over the two types of essays: directional and informational. The PowerPoint used today in in class can be found here. After reviewing the essay, watched a video about procrastination and how how to combat it while you are working on big projects. The worksheet mentioned in the video can be found here. Lastly, we talked about the homework and finished up with a review of definitions and words on Academic A Vocabulary Word List 8.

Homework: 

• Assignment #1 – Bookwork
• Read the example essay on pg. 212-213.
• Answer questions 1-7 (we’ll do 8-9 in class tomorrow). Write your answers. Miss Lutz will check that you did it.
• Spend 20 minutes on this assignment. Make sure you understand it well.

• Assignment #2 – Writing fluency
• Write 1 of the 2 following prompts for 20 minutes (time yourself).

• Prompt 1: Describe yourself as you hope to be in five years. Will you be attending an American university? How good will you be at English? Who will your family and friends be? Be as descriptive (detailed) as possible.

• Prompt 2 (TOEFL prompt): Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? People should sometimes do things that they do not enjoy doing. Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.