Week Seven: Writing and Presentations

MONDAY: 11-13-06 (Meet in Computer Lab: Miramar-Phelps 1526)

  • Reading: Your research reading. Sample Researched Essay (from website).
  • Writing: Final draft of interview or survey.
  • Class Activities: First four to six presentations (extra credit for those who go first). Work with sample essay. Introduction to final essay.

I Sample Essay Work (40 min)

A. Group Reading.

B. Group Endnote and Grading.

C. Post to phpbb. Read folks comments, and comment on the comments.

C. Questions:

a. Where is the thesis? What is it?

b. How does the writer develop things? What sort of evidence is he using to make his

points?

  1. What impressed you about the piece?
  2. What did you have questions about?

II Multi-Genre Paper Work (20 min)

  1. Read
  2. After reading, make sure that you, in chat (Find Your Group—1-5), answer these questions in Moodle (
  3. How does this paper, in form, differ from the one you just read?
  4. What sort of audience does the writer seem to be writing for? How can you tell?
  5. Would you write a research paper like this? Why or why not?
  6. We’ll go over your responses face-to-face.

III Presentations (50 min)

Or

III Plagiarism vs. Citation (30 min)

  1. What is, in your mind, plagiarism, and how would you define it.
  2. Do in groups of three to four—come up with definition and post it to phpbb site:
  3. Go over their defs, and compare to UCSB website information about plagiarism.
  4. Plagiarism Issue:
  5. Do you know anyone who’s done it? What did they do? How did they feel about it? How did you feel about it? Key Question: Why is plagiarism, as we’ve defined it, a problem in a university setting?
  6. Read case study on plagiarism.
  7. Questions:
  8. What, specifically, in this case clearly marks it as plagiarism, using the UCSB definition?
  9. How could the student have avoided plagiarism?
  10. How could the teacher have helped the student avoid plagiarism?
  11. What’s the connection between paraphrasing, quoting, and plagiarism as your group sees it?
  12. Discuss responses.

WEDNESDAY: 11-15-06 (Meet in Computer Lab: Miramar-Phelps 1526)

  • Reading: Your research reading. Sample Researched Essay (from website).
  • Class Activities: Six presentations. Work with sample essay. Citation work. Drafting of essay. Sign up for conferences with Chris.

LESSON FOR WEDNESDAY: 11-15-06 (Meet in Computer Lab: Miramar-Phelps 1526)

  • Reading: Your research reading. Sample Researched Essay (from website).
  • Class Activities: Six presentations. Work with sample essay. Citation work. Drafting of essay. Sign up for conferences with Chris.

I Reading Yvonne’s Paper (30 min)

  1. Based on your reading of last night’s sample paper, respond to this prompt: compared to the paper(s) you read yesterday, how exactly is today’s sample paper different? Also, what does the author do well and need to work on a bit more?
  2. When you are done responding, take a look at what others have said and respond to at least one person with a question that will push their thinking about what they said.
  3. Go over the big things.
  4. Go over similarities and difference.
  5. Have the students grade the paper.
  6. Go over the result with them.

II Presentations (50 min or 60 min)

III Starting Your Draft (20-30 min)

  1. Introduce “Who” and “Why” from They Say, I Say
  2. Ask them to use one of the heuristics to create an opening thesis from your research question. (10 min)
  3. Next, see if you cannot write up an opening paragraph—basing it on what you just wrote. (10 min)
  4. Finally, plot out what you will do next. What sort of title will you have? What will you divide your piece up into?

Week Eight: Writing and Presentations

CONFERENCE WEEK

MONDAY: 11-20-06 (Meet in Computer Lab: Miramar-Phelps 1526)

  • Reading: Your research reading.
  • Writing: First Draft of Researched Essay (four pages, works cited, in-text citations, and plan for remaining writing).
  • Class Activities: Presentations. Peer review.

WEDNESDAY: 11-22-06

NO CLASS. YOU WILL HAVE MET WITH CHRIS FOR CONFERENCES PRIOR TO WEDNESDAY.