Blog #1

Please post an image of your annotated text into your blog. While you should photograph every page of your annotation, you need only post 2-3 pages into your blog. Please make sure that you save these images, as you may choose to showcase your annotations in your final Portfolio.   2.  After you have read and marked … [Read more…]

Establish your Blog Assignment

*2 Due: Next class Worth: 5 homework points Points-Appearance *2 Points-About Me Page *3 Points-First Blog Post *1 Point – Post link on time Your blog will provide you with the hands-on opportunity to explore multimodal composition. Here, you can integrate image, sound, video, and links into your written text. I encourage you to take … [Read more…]

Some Thoughts on Active Reading

  Just as there are many types of text, there are many ways to read. Often something as simple as a publication’s format can provide a context that instructs a reader on the best approach. While we could read Entertainment Weekly in a chaotic waiting room, we would most likely prefer a quieter spot for … [Read more…]

Blog #16

Post a picture of your Favorite Strategies Sheet and write a 200-300 word framing statement discussing your favorite revision strategies. Have you found any of these strategies useful outside of ENG 110? If so, elaborate. If not, how do you plan to use the skills you have learned in this class on future papers outside … [Read more…]

Blog #15

Revision Plan Assignment I would like you to take some minutes and reflect on your peer review experience. Return to your peer’s notes. Flip through your own. Now is the time to develop a strategy. Your strategy is the plan of action you will take to achieve your overall aim (Dictionary.com). Your strategy should include: Your goal (or … [Read more…]

Blog #14

PART 1: Begin to brainstorm how you plan to incorporate other media into your final essay. Include links and/or descriptions of media that you hope to use in your final essay and describe how these choices will work with your alphabetic text to better communicate your overall idea. Finally, attempt to label each source and … [Read more…]

Blog #13

(200-300 words) Explore Armstrong’s statement, “To regard beauty as a luxury adornment or a social signifier was to miss the true potential of the experience.” Expand on this comment. How do you view beauty? How do you feel that society views beauty? Choose at least one other quote from Armstrong’s essay to integrate into your … [Read more…]

Blog #12

(200-300 words) Choose 1-2 presentations that you especially enjoyed and explain what you appreciated about them. Did a presentation lend you a fresh perspective? Challenge your thinking? Inspire you? Please spend at least a couple sentences discussing your peer’s primary mode of communication and how this choice influenced the project’s overall effectiveness. Make sure to … [Read more…]

Blog #11

Read Chapter 8 from They Say/I Say “Connecting the Parts” (pg 105-120) Complete exercise number 2 (at the end of the chapter). Post a screenshot or photo of your results on your blog and respond to each question.

Blog #10

Part 1) Identify and summarize Jonah Lehrer’s main argument and free write for at least five minutes in response. Part 2) Glossing the text remains an important part of your student reading experience. Please take time to understand all words or references you don’t recognize, but I would like you to look up and explain … [Read more…]