Although you want to read this page online in order to explore links, consider printing these instructions and then check each step when completed.

 

 

Online Activities/Writing Exercises for Week 8

(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 8, we're going to include
  • Writing exercise
  • Writer's Café
  • Online activity letter

Do note that the order I present these may vary from week to week, depending on what we're doing. 

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Step 1: Complete the writing exercise as follows:

We will be starting, and possibly completing, this exercise in class on Monday. Make sure you have LPH open at pages 65+.  Also place on screen or have a printed copy of the virtual lecture "Using MLA Works Cited" in front of you, particularly for Internet sources. Send your results to Week 8>works cited exercise drop box. Have completed by Wednesday, when we'll go over it in class. And make sure you save as an RTF file.

WORKS CITED EXERCISE

Using the following information, compile a Works Cited list following MLA style. Do note that there is no particular order, that some sources have more information than is necessary, and that some sources don't have enough. Furthermore, you may need to click on links to get information you need.

Also, make sure to do  the following:

  1. double space
  2. use hanging indents
  3. alphabetically arrange
  4. save as rich text format before sending to me

Also,

  1. do not number the sources on your page.
  2. do not create hyperlinks for any URLs.
  1. Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths, by Stephen B. Oates. Harper & Row, Publishers. This book is published in the following cities: San Francisco, New York, Cambridge, Philadelphia, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, and Sydney. Copyright 1984.
  2. Barbara W. Tuchman. Practicing History. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright 1936, 1959, 1966, 1974, 1981. Introduction copyright 1981. New York. You quote only from the introduction of the book in your paper.
  3. Times's Arrow, Times's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time. Stephen Jay Gould. A book published by the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. 1987.
  4. Thomas J. Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr. In Search of Excellence. Harper & Row, Publishers, New York City, 1982.
  5. "Caring for your introvert: the habits and needs of a little-understood group." An article written by Jonathan Rauch. Published in The Atlantic Monthly Magazine 291.2 (March 2003): p133-4. (1367 words). Full text article found in General OneFile at Lansing Community College Library, http://lcc.edu/library, downloaded today. And do note you will need to find the article and look at it in order to complete this citation.
  6. "Looking for Luck in Bangkok." Poem written by Maxine Kumin. Published in The New Yorker, June 12, 1989, p. 42.
  7. "Rhetorical Implications of School Discourse for Writing Placement." Written by Kathryn R. Fitzgerald. Published in Journal of Basic Writing. Spring 1988, Volume 7, No. 1, pp. 61-72. Each issue is paginated by issue (each issue begins on page 1).
  8. The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and Other Clinical Tales. A book by Oliver Sacks. New York. Summit Books. You summarize only the essay "The Autist Artist." Pages 125-141. No year of publication listed.
  9. The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici. 1974. Penguin Books. Christopher Hibbert. New York.
  10. You just found the article entitled "The Uncompassionate Conservative" on the Mother Jones magazine web site. The author is Molly Ivins. It's in published November/December 2003 issue. And it's found at http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/11/ma_559_01.html  and has 2344 words. Again, you'll need to look at the article to complete this citation.

Step 2: Post a response to the Writer's Café.
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 To earn full credit, you need to complete this step by Thursday midnight.
  • First: Summarize an article from your annotated bibliography for essay 3.
    • 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.
Done___
  • Second: Evaluate the article, explaining what you found effective, what you found ineffective, and why. Include support from your own experience and/or observation.
Done___

 

Step 3: Reply to other class member's Writer's Café postings.

  • You can agree, disagree, question, qualify what your fellow class members say.
  • However, you also need to explain why you think so, again with support from your own experiences and observations.
  • You will need to reply at least twice to fulfill attendance requirements. However, you may enjoy replying to more.
  • And you will likely find yourself writing a stronger letter with fuller participation.
Again, see step 4 just below: those who have responses chosen by class members as interesting and insightful will likely earn more points for their online activities letter.
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Step 4: Write Online Activity letter:

Tell me about your experience on the Writer's Café and in class discussing our reading and writing.

  • And choose one response in the Writer's Café from another class member that you think was particularly interesting, thoughtful, or insightful, and explain why you think so. Make sure to include the name of the class member.
  • It can either be an initial response, or a reply.

I would also like you to include quotations from the 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 up a string of quotations.
  • Instead, reserve quotation for when class members say something particularly well, and you want to give me a sense of the "voice" presented in Angel.

In other words, the goal of the letter is to tell me what you experienced with and learned from the interaction with each other.

  • Use quotation, summary and paraphrase to back up what you're saying in the letter.
  • And make sure to use names, so it is clear whom you are talking about.
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Step 5: Send activity letter/exercise

Use the letter-exercise drop box found at Pages & Workspaces>Week 8.

These letters are due by Saturday midnight, 10/20/07.

  • 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. Writer's Café cannot be completed past Saturday midnight. Otherwise, you will be counted absent.
See week 5 explanations for attendance and grading, if you need a refresher.
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 10/12/1997
Revised 17 Oct 2007 03:19 PM -0400