Day 39-41 (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Monday, 28, 30 April & 2, 5 May 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. 1ST DRAFT DUE TODAY
2. Peer Review :) 

Homework: 

1. Send me your draft with revisions (e.g. second draft) the night before your conference by midnight (e.g. if you are meeting with me on Wednesday, please emailme the file name of your second draft in Google Drive or send me a Word document of it as an email attachment by Tuesday night at midnight). 
2. Look at a blank version this peer review document and ask yourself these questions (self-check).  Bring any questions you have to the conference.  
3. Bring in any questions about citation/plagiarism. 

Conference Schedule: 

Please come 5 - 10 minutes before your scheduled time.  

Any missed times will count as two absences. 

Wednesday: UGL Group Study Room 5

3:00 - 3:15 Jason

3:15 - 3:30 Hanfeng

3:30 - 3:45 Theory

3:45 - 4:00 Zach

Friday: UGL Group Study Room 5

3:00 - 3:15 Michael

3:15 - 3:30 Annie

3:30 - 3:45 Lili

3:45 - 4:00 Li

Monday: UGL Group Study Room 5

1:00 - 1:15 Christine 

1:15 - 1:30 Isabella

1:30 - 1:45 Knight

1:45 - 2:00 Sky

2:00 - 2:15 ---

2:15 - 2:30 Ann

2:30 - 2:45 Mark

2:45 - 3:00 Young

Day 38 (Friday, 25 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Comma Jokes (5-7 minutes)
2. Expert Groups: (30 minutes)
• Group 1 (Team Name: _________________ ) January, February, March
• Group 2 (Team Name: _________________ ) April, May, June
• Group 3 (Team Name: _________________ ) July, August, September
• Group 4 (Team Name: _________________ ) October, November, December
3. Comma Quiz (10 minutes)

Homework: 

• First draft of entire paper due 28 April (hard deadline)
• Soft Deadlines
• Have the intro and body by today
• Have the intro, body, and conclusion by Monday, 28 April 2014
• Don't forget about Writer's Help

Resource: IRP Rubric

Day 37 (Wednesday, 23 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Small group discussion: (10 - 15 minutes) 
• What language do you use talking to your friends/to your University professor/to your parents/to the head of your department? 
• Do you think that you use different words depending on who you are talking/writing to? Why? What is the reason?
• How do you manage to choose the correct, suitable words when you communicate in formal social context? What strategies do you apply?
• What is the difference between formal and informal language, how do you understand this difference yourself? Compare your understanding to the one of your partner.
• Your personal definition of formal and informal language.  
• Give examples of colloquial, informal words and of formal words which you would use in academic environment, for instance, defending your thesis. 
2. Video (5 minutes) 
3. Small group discussion: (10-15 minutes)
• FANBOYS?  What are these?  Where are they OK and where are they NOT OK? 
• Why should you NOT use phrases like, "I believe," "I think," and "In my opinion."  
• Elaborate on the use of contractions in formal writing. 
4. Self-Assess
5. REVISE! (remaining time)

Homework: 

• First draft of entire paper due 28 April (hard deadline)
• Soft Deadlines
• Have the intro and body by Friday
• Have the intro, body, and conclusion by Monday, 28 April 2014

Day 36 (Monday, 21 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Powerpoint Walkthrough
• Activity 1
• Activity 2
2. Rewrite the Thesis

Homework: 

• First draft of entire paper due 28 April (hard deadline)
• Soft Deadlines
• Have the intro and 1st solution written by today
• Have the intro and body by Friday
• Have the intro, body, and conclusion by Monday, 28 April 2014

Day 35 (Friday, 18 April 2014)

Schedule of Events:

1. Warm-Up: Ordering activity
2. Intro Analysis
• What are the parts of a research paper introduction
3. Brainstorm a hook

Homework: 

• First draft of entire paper due 28 April (hard deadline)
• Soft Deadlines
• Have the intro and 1st solution written by Monday
• Have the intro and body by Friday
• Have the intro, body, and conclusion by Monday, 28 April 2014

Day 34 (Wednesday, 16 April 2014)

Schedule of Events:

1. Where are we going? (Classroom Meeting ~ 15 minutes)
1. What's the purpose of this class and assignment?  
2. What do you think the purpose of college is? 
3. How will this assignment help you fulfill the goals of meeting the purpose of college? 
4. What do you think the next steps are? 
5. How do these next steps relate to the rest of college and real life? 
2. Outline 
3. PIE - Outline (10-15 minutes) 
4. Paragraph Drafting (Remainder of class time)
• Don't forget: 
• To synthesize your sources
• To not quote bomb! 
• Appropriate in-text citation

Homework:

• By midnight, please write a 400-500 word reflective essay answering the question(s): 
• How have you become a better researcher through the Unit 2 and Unit 3 assignments? 
• What has surprised you most about doing research? 
• How will you use your sources to analyze the solutions in your final paper? 
• What do you think the biggest challenge was for you in Unit 2 and Unit 3? 
• What do you think will be the biggest challenge in writing the final paper?
• Have a rough version of the PIE - Outline finished by Friday. 

Day 33 (Monday, 14 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

• On quoting
• PowerPoint
• Worksheet

• Useful resource:
• Reporting Verbs PDF

Homework: 

• For Wednesday, please write a 400-500 word reflective essay answering the question(s): 
• How have you become a better researcher through the Unit 2 and Unit 3 assignments? 
• What has surprised you most about doing research? 
• How will you use your sources to analyze the solutions in your final paper? 
• What do you think the biggest challenge was for you in Unit 2 and Unit 3? 
• What do you think will be the biggest challenge in writing the final paper?

Day 32 (Friday, 11 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Warm-up: (5 minutes)
• Right Side
• Left Side
2. Quoting/Paraphrasing/Summarizing and their in-text citations (5-10 minutes)
• Activity (15 minutes)
3. Annotated Bibliography Workshop (15 minutes)

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due tonight by Midnight in the SafeAssign Dropbox
• Here's the grading rubric for you to check your paper against
• Please name the file: 
• "112I_Annotated Bibliography_NetID"

• For Wednesday, please write a 400-500 word reflective essay answering the question(s): 
• How have you become a better researcher through the Unit 2 and Unit 3 assignments? 
• What has surprised you most about doing research?  
• How will you use your sources to analyze the solutions in your final paper? 
• What do you think the biggest challenge was for you in Unit 2 and Unit 3?  
• What do you think will be the biggest challenge in writing the final paper? 

Day 31 (Wednesday, 9 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Fairytale Matrix (5 minutes)
2. Writing a paragraph (15 minutes) 
3. Peer Review (10 minutes)
• Straw Draw!
4. Annotated Bibliography Workshop (20 minutes) 

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due Friday, 11 April 2014

Day 30 (Monday, 7 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Can you change your outline, topic, or critique of the solutions that you gave on your pre-research portfolio?  
2. Unit 4 - The final paper

Synthesizing Sources

1. PowerPoint
• Three fairy tales
2. Handout
3. Matrix

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography due FRIDAY 
• Don't forget Writer's Help :) 

Day 29 (Friday, 4 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Review and Mini-Lecture (10 minutes)
• PowerPoint
2. How to use the Summarizing Worksheet. (10 minutes) 
• Things to remember: 
• Copying and pasting from the abstract for your summary is plagiarism.  It is very easy to catch.  Please don't do it! 
3. Conciseness (25 minutes)
• What is conciseness? What is our class definition of conciseness? 
• Where does conciseness fit into the writing process? 
• How often do you do THIS step in writing?
• Writing Concisely Activity
• Part 2
4. Peer Review (likely extended into optional homework)

Homework: 

• Annotated Bibliography Due Friday, 11 April, by MIDNIGHT to SafeAssign on Compass2G.
• Recommended: 
• Recognizing wordiness 1
• Recognizing wordiness 2
• Revising for conciseness 1
• Revising for conciseness 2
• Combining choppy sentences 1

Day 28 (Wednesday, 2 April 2014)

Schedule of Events: 

1. Summarize one of your sources (15 - 20 minutes)
• Use this article if you cannot access yours. 
2. Did your summary answer these questions? (5 minutes)
3. Group review (10 minutes) 
4. Summarizing Academic Sources Lecture (10 minutes)
• PowerPoint
5. How to summarize worksheet (15 - 20 minutes)

Homework:

• As you can see, there is more in this class than we can fit.  Step 5 on the "Schedule of Events" will almost surely be homework
• Recommended: 
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 1
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 2
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 3
• Avoiding Plagiarism in APA Papers 4
• Recognizing Common Knowledge in APA papers