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English 80 TThF - Douglass

Track It Packet #4

Activities for Weekly Attendance Weeks 8-11

Turn in completed packet at beginning of week 12: Tues, May 3

The Purpose

To illustrate your use of the Writing and Reading Center as well as your ability to self-assess some of your grammar and writing needs and make use of the resources available to you. This self-motivated work as well as the actual skills you will be working on are part of what prepares you for and helps to illustrate that you are ready for Eng. 1A.

Most of these activities will use all or a fairly sizable portion, but will not always use ALL of your weekly hour. Any remaining time in the WRC should be used working on coursework using resources in the lab, in particular THE PEOPLE. Whenever possible, use remaining time to meet with an instructor or tutor to go over an aspect of your writing that you think some advice could benefit – or plan ahead and make a tutoring appointment. DLAs, worksheets, confirmation slips, etc. should be stapled to the back of this sheet in the order they are assigned.

You need to do some additional work in the area listed below:

Sometimes I will list here a specific assignment I want you to do. Other times, I will just list a topic such as “run-ons” or “pronoun agreement”. If I only list a topic, you can choose for yourself if you want to do a DLA or worksheet (both with signature REQUIRED) or other learning activity.

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  1. DLAs:
  2. The lab activities below that ABSOLUTELY require an instructor or tutor signature will be noted.
  3. Some DLA activities are noted as “No Signature – Conditional.” This means that under certain conditions you don’t have to meet with an instructor and get a final signature (though you always can if you want). These are the conditions that would still REQUIRE a signature:
  4. If you complete the DLA, but feel like you still don’t understand it, you need to meet with an instructor.
  5. If the DLA covers an area I have noted you need specific additional help based on a writing assignment. I will make a pen or highlighter notation on these that you MUST meet with an instructor if that’s the case.
  6. Worksheets: In the same place on the WRC website where you find the DLAs, there is another link right next to “DLAs” that says “Other Resources” – if you click this link and scroll down, you will see the list of worksheets. If you decide to do the worksheet option (a good choice if you “get” the concept, but need more practice with it) follow these steps:
  7. Find the worksheet, print it, and complete the activity.
  8. Go to the receptionist desk and ask for the answer key; correct your activity.
  9. If you didn’t miss any – you’re done; if you missed ANY, meet with an instructor or tutor to go over an explanation of why and get his/her signature on the worksheet.
  10. Some of you have additional grammar DLAs or worksheets that have been assigned to you (listed above - if yours is blank; you weren’t assigned any) based on writing errors you are making in your assignments. Fit these in whenever you can over the next five weeks and complete them to turn in with the rest of this packet.
  11. Finally, remember that you still must meet your weekly time requirement in the lab regardless of what English 50 activities you do.

Date and Time / Activity / Student check off or Inst./Tutor signature
Week 8
Ask an instructor or tutor a specific question relating to an area of concern on your CRC#2 assignment. You can discuss organization, development, thesis, paragraph organization, grammar, sentence structure – anything related to the essay, but pick a specific and narrow area to ask about. You can see an instructor or tutor with specific questions as many times as you need to, but you are required to do so for point credit once. Write your specific question here:______
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WRC Instructor or WRC Tutor signature
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Date
Week 9 (APRIL 11-15)
Spring Break: Get your book club book and start reading
Week 10:
If you are doing the optional revision of CRC #1, do DLA C19, Revising Your Own Work.
If you are not doing the optional revision, do PM 10, Improving Editing Skills: Various / An instructor signature is preferred.
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WRC Instructor or WRC Tutor signature
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Date
Week 11:
Go through the CRC#2 paper copying every sentence with an identified by uncorrected grammar error. Then copy and paste a second copy of each sentence directly below the first copy. Go through every pair of sentences and leave the original with the error as is, but correct the second version to illustrate how you would fix that error. When you finish, go through your corrections with an instructor on duty, discussing any of the corrections you made that didn’t fix the mistake or introduced new errors. / An instructor signature is preferred.
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WRC Instructor or WRC Tutor signature
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Date
Do Sat or Sun before the TP is due or 24 hours after your last lab visit / Go into WebAdvisor and look up your lab attendance for WRC-LAB.
Print out and attach the sheet showing your lab hours attendance to date.
If there is an hour missing that you know you attended, attach a written explanation of why your hour may be missing or what you did to log in so I can talk the Instructional Support Specialist about your missing hour.