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Online Activities/Writing Exercises for Week 11
(Tip: the page links in the table of contents below is to help jump to a specific task in this assignment. I suggest you read through the page first and use the table when you need to review a specific section.)
As your Syllabus states, ten percent of your grade is based on the online activities and practice writing that we'll call Online Activities/Writing Exercises.
- For week 11, we're going to include
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Do note that the order I present these may vary from week to week, depending on what we're doing.
Step 1: Post a response to the Writer's Café .
Note: again, to earn full credit, complete this step by Thursday midnight.
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- First: Summarize an article you're using in essay 4. Also, do not choose an article you discussed last week.
- Your summary should be complete in expressing the supporting points that the author uses in backing up his or her thesis. Therefore, it should be a substantial paragraph.
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- Second: Evaluate the article,
explaining what you found effective, what you found ineffective, and why.
Also, explore who wrote and who originally published the article. What
makes the writer and original place of publication credible?
- Search online for the writer and see what you find out about him or her.
- Search the magazine's website and see if you can find a link that tells what the magazine's mission or goals are. If not, explore the site a bit and see what you surmise about the publication's purpose, audience and credibility.
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- Third: Include the bibliographic information with the response, again using MLA works cited style--see the virtual lecture on
works cited.
- Hint: you'll find this easier to complete using the html toolbar (found right above the Message box) so that you can include formatting like underlining. (If you want to put together the citation in Word and then paste into the html editor, click on CTRL-V or right click your mouse and choose Paste. And if you're using a MAC, you'll need to use Firefox to be able to find the html toolbar.)
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Step 2: Reply to other class members' Writer's Café responses.
- You can agree, disagree, question, qualify what your fellow class member says.
- You also need to explain why you think so, again
with support from your own experiences and observations, or from another article or web
page.
- Extra points--if you include support from an article or web page, you will earn some extra points. Make sure you include what you did in your letter.
- Also, when reading class member postings for
step 1, reply if you see someone veering off the course from MLA style. And
make sure to use the virtual lecture on MLA works cited and LPH as support
for your suggestions.
Do note, that the virtual lecture takes precedence over LPH if they
differ. And they do differ concerning online sources.
- If you're right, and you note the correction in your letter, you will earn an extra point or two.
You will need to respond at least twice to fulfill attendance requirements. However, you may enjoy responding to more.
- And you likely will find yourself earning more points with fuller participation.
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Step 3: Write Online Activity letter:
Tell me about your experience in the Writer's Café forum discussing essay 4 articles and whatever we end up doing in class this week.
And choose one response on the Writer's Café from another class member that you think was particularly interesting, thoughtful, or insightful, and explain why you think so.
- It can either be an initial response, or a reply.
- And make sure to note the class member's name.
And as usual, I would like you to include quotations from Writer's Café. You should be able to copy text from Netscape or Internet Explorer from the Edit pull down menu.
However, please do not simply copy and paste entire postings, so that
your letter ends ups a string of quotations.
In other words, the goal of the letter is to tell me what you experienced with and learned from the interaction with each other.
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- And make sure to use names, so it is clear whom you are talking about.
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Step 4: Send letter
Use the letter drop box found at Pages & Workspaces>Course Calendar and workspaces>Week 11.
These letters are due by Saturday midnight, 11/10/07.
It is true that you have a 24 hour grace period for the letter (see the syllabus about our late policy) but this doesn't extend to the online activities. The Writer's Café activities cannot be completed past Saturday midnight. Otherwise, you will be counted absent.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to call me or e-mail me. My phone number and office hours are right above the Table of Contents on the Online Syllabus. I do have voice mail for my phone if I'm not in.
Also, I will be available during my office hours by phone, in person, through email, and on AOL Instant Messenger (my user name: profdan1032) if you want to talk about the assignments. (If you want to meet at some other time, contact me and we can arrange such.)
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Created by Dan Holt 11/3/1997
Revised
06 Nov 2007 10:37 AM -0500