Hello all,
Welcome to the first Monday without class.
To finish the course, you need to complete your project three work with blogs, letters, and fables. Email me when you are finished.
You may drop off hard copies of the work with Laura at the Foundations office.
You will also need to complete your four annt. bibliographies.
Please email me those or drop of hard copies with Laura.
You have until Dec. 14 at 5pm to complete the work.
Take care, and keep in touch,
Kat
Monday, December 10, 2007
Thursday, December 6, 2007
For Friday...
Hello all,
For Friday, we will work on our fables. We will also take the evaluations for my performance.
I am also planning to have time to give you some information about continuing your journey as a writer.
At this point, you should be nearing completion on your project three. To complete the project, you need:
1. Make sure that you have created a blog, and that you have sent me the link to your blog.
2. Once, you have created your blog, you will need to post your project two essay.
3. You then need to look at one of your peer's postings (two draft) and post a comment. You can access a peer's blog by going to my blog thewritingjourney.blogspot.com .
4. You will then post your three organizations under your blog.
5. Then you will post your three letter drafts on your blog.
6. You will then look at a peer's drafts of the letters. You will post a comment about the letters on your peer's blog.
7. Finalize letters and mail/email them.
8. Post your draft of your fable, or post the idea/summation of your fable. The audience is for fifth to eighth graders. You can select one grade or complete the exercise for the range.
9. Participate in a timed-writing in class.
10. Post the timed-writing on your blog.
11. Finalize your fable. Turn in hard copy on Friday or turn in hard copy by Dec. 14 at 5 pm at the Foundations Office.
For the annotated bibliographies, you will need to complete and submit these via hard copy, email, or post on your blog. The four annotated bibliographies are:
1. Apothesis
2. Atonement with the Father
3. The Ultimate Boon
4. Refusal of the Return.
You can turn these in by Friday or you can submit them up to Dec. 14 at 5pm. Email them or drop them off at the Foundations Office.
If any of you are revising project one or two drafts for revised grades, you have until Dec. 14th to complete your revision. Please contact me if you are planning on doing this so that I can augment my grading schedule.
I believe that is it.
Take care, and see you on Friday,
Kat
For Friday, we will work on our fables. We will also take the evaluations for my performance.
I am also planning to have time to give you some information about continuing your journey as a writer.
At this point, you should be nearing completion on your project three. To complete the project, you need:
1. Make sure that you have created a blog, and that you have sent me the link to your blog.
2. Once, you have created your blog, you will need to post your project two essay.
3. You then need to look at one of your peer's postings (two draft) and post a comment. You can access a peer's blog by going to my blog thewritingjourney.blogspot.com .
4. You will then post your three organizations under your blog.
5. Then you will post your three letter drafts on your blog.
6. You will then look at a peer's drafts of the letters. You will post a comment about the letters on your peer's blog.
7. Finalize letters and mail/email them.
8. Post your draft of your fable, or post the idea/summation of your fable. The audience is for fifth to eighth graders. You can select one grade or complete the exercise for the range.
9. Participate in a timed-writing in class.
10. Post the timed-writing on your blog.
11. Finalize your fable. Turn in hard copy on Friday or turn in hard copy by Dec. 14 at 5 pm at the Foundations Office.
For the annotated bibliographies, you will need to complete and submit these via hard copy, email, or post on your blog. The four annotated bibliographies are:
1. Apothesis
2. Atonement with the Father
3. The Ultimate Boon
4. Refusal of the Return.
You can turn these in by Friday or you can submit them up to Dec. 14 at 5pm. Email them or drop them off at the Foundations Office.
If any of you are revising project one or two drafts for revised grades, you have until Dec. 14th to complete your revision. Please contact me if you are planning on doing this so that I can augment my grading schedule.
I believe that is it.
Take care, and see you on Friday,
Kat
Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Extra Credit Worksheet
Extra Credit
Look over the extra credit opportunities that you have completed during the semester. Select the seven that you feel represent you best. Complete the following handout to receive the plus/minus bump.
1. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
2. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
3. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
4. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
5. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
6. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
7. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
Look over the extra credit opportunities that you have completed during the semester. Select the seven that you feel represent you best. Complete the following handout to receive the plus/minus bump.
1. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
2. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
3. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
4. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
5. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
6. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
7. Extra credit opportunity:
Why did you complete this opportunity?
What did you learn from this opportunity?
Monday, December 3, 2007
Extra Credit
Hello,
1. For your first extra credit, you can complete a story corps posting/submission.
2. Locate a memoir. Read it.
3. Complete a symbolic reading of five-lines of song lyrics.
4. Watch three news broadcasts. As you watch, reflect on who the attended audience is. Reflect on how this affects the audience.
5. Submit your poem or your memoir to the Eckerd Review. Deadline Oct 31. www.eckerd.edu/eckerdreview.edu/
6. Locate two texts that investigate the same topic. One text must support and the other text must attack.
7. Find an organization that works with your topic for project two. Find an organization that attacks or is against your topic for project two.
8. Dress up for Halloween in a fashion that we have spoken about in class.
9. Locate a letter to the editor that addresses your project two topic.
10. Use recycled paper for a class assignment.
11. Send your blog to five of your friends (Project Three)
12. Commit a random act of kindness
13. Anytime that I forgot your name.
14. Extra credit given in class.
You only need to complete 7 of the 14 to receive the plus/minus bump. I will email the extra credit worksheet.
Take care,
Kat
1. For your first extra credit, you can complete a story corps posting/submission.
2. Locate a memoir. Read it.
3. Complete a symbolic reading of five-lines of song lyrics.
4. Watch three news broadcasts. As you watch, reflect on who the attended audience is. Reflect on how this affects the audience.
5. Submit your poem or your memoir to the Eckerd Review. Deadline Oct 31. www.eckerd.edu/eckerdreview.edu/
6. Locate two texts that investigate the same topic. One text must support and the other text must attack.
7. Find an organization that works with your topic for project two. Find an organization that attacks or is against your topic for project two.
8. Dress up for Halloween in a fashion that we have spoken about in class.
9. Locate a letter to the editor that addresses your project two topic.
10. Use recycled paper for a class assignment.
11. Send your blog to five of your friends (Project Three)
12. Commit a random act of kindness
13. Anytime that I forgot your name.
14. Extra credit given in class.
You only need to complete 7 of the 14 to receive the plus/minus bump. I will email the extra credit worksheet.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds (11:45-12:35)
Hello all,
For Weds., you need to mail or email your letters. You should also start to draft your project three fable. Post an explanation of your fable exercise on your blog.
You will also need to be prepared to take the in-class timed writing.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds., you need to mail or email your letters. You should also start to draft your project three fable. Post an explanation of your fable exercise on your blog.
You will also need to be prepared to take the in-class timed writing.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds. (10:45-11:35)
Hello all,
For Weds., you need to complete your draft of project three fable. Post an explanation of your fable exercise on your blog.
You will also need to be prepared to take the in-class timed writing.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds., you need to complete your draft of project three fable. Post an explanation of your fable exercise on your blog.
You will also need to be prepared to take the in-class timed writing.
Take care,
Kat
Sunday, December 2, 2007
For Monday (11:45-12:35)
Hello all,
For Monday, there will be no reading.
You need to conduct a peer review of your peer's letters. Post these on the blog.
In addition, you need to make sure that you are current on project Three work.
At this point, you should have:
1. Create a blog
2. Posted your Project Two paper on blog
3. Responded to one of your peer's postings.
4. Posted three organizations on your blog
5. Post drafts of three letters on blog
6. Peer-review posting of peer's text on blog.
7. Final drafts ready for email and/or mail letters to organizations.
Take care,
Kat
For Monday, there will be no reading.
You need to conduct a peer review of your peer's letters. Post these on the blog.
In addition, you need to make sure that you are current on project Three work.
At this point, you should have:
1. Create a blog
2. Posted your Project Two paper on blog
3. Responded to one of your peer's postings.
4. Posted three organizations on your blog
5. Post drafts of three letters on blog
6. Peer-review posting of peer's text on blog.
7. Final drafts ready for email and/or mail letters to organizations.
Take care,
Kat
For Monday (10:35-11:45)
Hello all,
For Monday, there will be no reading.
You need to post a draft of your fable for project three. Please post these on your blog.
In addition, you need to make sure that you are current on project Three work.
At this point, you should have:
1. Create a blog
2. Posted your Project Two paper on blog
3. Responded to one of your peer's postings.
4. Posted three organizations on your blog
5. Post drafts of three letters on blog
6. Peer-review posting of peer's text on blog.
7. Email and/or mail letters to organizations.
8. Draft of Fable on Blog.
Take care,
Kat
For Monday, there will be no reading.
You need to post a draft of your fable for project three. Please post these on your blog.
In addition, you need to make sure that you are current on project Three work.
At this point, you should have:
1. Create a blog
2. Posted your Project Two paper on blog
3. Responded to one of your peer's postings.
4. Posted three organizations on your blog
5. Post drafts of three letters on blog
6. Peer-review posting of peer's text on blog.
7. Email and/or mail letters to organizations.
8. Draft of Fable on Blog.
Take care,
Kat
Friday, November 30, 2007
For Friday (11:45 to 12:35)
Hello all,
Sorry for the late posting. For Friday, you need to have your three letter drafts posted.
We will do peer review today in class. I would recommend that you have you peers post a comment with your draft.
We will also discuss Kafka.
Take care,
Kat
Sorry for the late posting. For Friday, you need to have your three letter drafts posted.
We will do peer review today in class. I would recommend that you have you peers post a comment with your draft.
We will also discuss Kafka.
Take care,
Kat
For Friday (10:45-11:35)
Hello all,
Sorry for the late posting. For Friday, you need to have your three letters peer reviewed. I would recommend that you have you peers post a comment with your draft.
Today, we will refine the letters and mail/email the letters to the organizations.
We will also start investigating our audience for the fable (5th to 8th graders). We will start brainstorming about this step in the project.
Take care,
Kat
Sorry for the late posting. For Friday, you need to have your three letters peer reviewed. I would recommend that you have you peers post a comment with your draft.
Today, we will refine the letters and mail/email the letters to the organizations.
We will also start investigating our audience for the fable (5th to 8th graders). We will start brainstorming about this step in the project.
Take care,
Kat
Monday, November 26, 2007
For Weds (11:45-12:35)
Hello all,
You will need to read the next two sections of Campbell (The Ultimate Boon and the Refusal of the Return)
You will need to complete annt. Bibliographies on these readings.
You will also need to read Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
For Project Three, review the outline.
Then you will need to go to www.blogger.com. You will create your own blog. You need to send me your address via email or you can go to my blog http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/ and post your blog address under the area listed.
If you note, I have added everyone who has sent me their address to my side bar.
You need to access one of your peer’s blog and post a response to their blog.
You also need to locate three organizations that work with your issue. You will note that I have posted three that work with my ideas.
You need to post these organizations and list the real or electronic address for these organizations.
I have also posted/attached three sample letters and the letter guideline handout.
That is all.
Take care,
Kat
You will need to read the next two sections of Campbell (The Ultimate Boon and the Refusal of the Return)
You will need to complete annt. Bibliographies on these readings.
You will also need to read Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis.”
For Project Three, review the outline.
Then you will need to go to www.blogger.com. You will create your own blog. You need to send me your address via email or you can go to my blog http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/ and post your blog address under the area listed.
If you note, I have added everyone who has sent me their address to my side bar.
You need to access one of your peer’s blog and post a response to their blog.
You also need to locate three organizations that work with your issue. You will note that I have posted three that work with my ideas.
You need to post these organizations and list the real or electronic address for these organizations.
I have also posted/attached three sample letters and the letter guideline handout.
That is all.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds. (10:45-11:35)
Hello all,
For Weds., if you are in the 10:45-11:35 course, you will need to draft your three letters to your organizations. I am posting the handout which will help you. Plus, I am posting the sample letters for you. You will need to post your three letter drafts on your blog.
You need to send me your address via email or you can go to my blog http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/" href="http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/">http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/ and post your blog address under the area listed.
If you note, I have added everyone who has sent me their address to my side bar on my blog.
You need to access one of your peer’s blog and post a response to their blog postings.
You also need to locate three organizations that work with your issue. You will note that I have posted three that work with my ideas.
You need to post these organizations and list the real or electronic address for these organizations on your blog.
You also need to read Kafka's "The Metamorphisis" for Weds.
Take care,
Kat
For Weds., if you are in the 10:45-11:35 course, you will need to draft your three letters to your organizations. I am posting the handout which will help you. Plus, I am posting the sample letters for you. You will need to post your three letter drafts on your blog.
You need to send me your address via email or you can go to my blog http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/" href="http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/">http://thewritingjourney.blogspot.com/ and post your blog address under the area listed.
If you note, I have added everyone who has sent me their address to my side bar on my blog.
You need to access one of your peer’s blog and post a response to their blog postings.
You also need to locate three organizations that work with your issue. You will note that I have posted three that work with my ideas.
You need to post these organizations and list the real or electronic address for these organizations on your blog.
You also need to read Kafka's "The Metamorphisis" for Weds.
Take care,
Kat
Project Three Overview
CO 122: Analytic and Persuasive Writing
Professor Kathleen Robinson
Project Three
Kathleen Robinson
Project description
Project Three concentrates on continuing to examine the student’s location in the larger cultural community. However, the focus of project three is on engaging in a dialogue with the communities and on creating a change in the communities and cultures that the student is involved with during his/her academic career. The project requires research, writing, revising, and editing skills. The focus of the text will be on locating on an identifiable concern from your memoir (project one) and from your project two text. The project requires that you create a blog that outlines and discusses your project. The project requires that you engage the community in a dialogue through three letters to organizations that work with the community in regards to your issue. These organizations can either support or oppose your community and culture and your chosen theme. In addition to the three letters, you will also construct a short fable with an identifiable theme and/or ethos. This fable will then be distributed to the appropriate audience. Following the completion of the letters and the fable, you will then construct a short analytical essay which addresses your experience with this course. This text will follow the standard rhetorical pattern of introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, and conclusion.
Some examples for this project would be:
1) Using your theme from your project two, write three letters to three organizations that work with your issue.
Sample-
Theme-Immigration regulations in the United States
Letters-United States Bureau of Immigration
Local Congressman
President
Fable-A little bunny is ostracized from his group because he doesn’t have the proper traveling papers.
Audience-Local group that works with illegal immigrants
Sample-
Theme-First Generation College Students who lack support
Letters-Student Government
Dean
Writing Center
Fable-A rough and unpolished rock hangs out with gemstones in a jewelry store. She is overlooked by many patrons because she is rough, but with the proper assistance, she is turned into the most precious of stones.
Audience-Students in the tutoring center.
Project Requirements
The project will require the student to complete the planning exercise, create an annotated bibliography of at least 5 sources (1 book, 2 articles, 1 web-based, and 1 wild card), create a working outline, create a draft, create three letters and mail them to the proper individuals, create and participate in a peer review session, create an s/v/o and a does/says, create a fable, distribute fable to appropriate audience, create a draft of explanation for instructor revision, and create a final polished draft. In addition, the project will require that you detail and track all project progress on a blog.
Blogsite
www.blogger.com/start
Professor Kathleen Robinson
Project Three
Kathleen Robinson
Project description
Project Three concentrates on continuing to examine the student’s location in the larger cultural community. However, the focus of project three is on engaging in a dialogue with the communities and on creating a change in the communities and cultures that the student is involved with during his/her academic career. The project requires research, writing, revising, and editing skills. The focus of the text will be on locating on an identifiable concern from your memoir (project one) and from your project two text. The project requires that you create a blog that outlines and discusses your project. The project requires that you engage the community in a dialogue through three letters to organizations that work with the community in regards to your issue. These organizations can either support or oppose your community and culture and your chosen theme. In addition to the three letters, you will also construct a short fable with an identifiable theme and/or ethos. This fable will then be distributed to the appropriate audience. Following the completion of the letters and the fable, you will then construct a short analytical essay which addresses your experience with this course. This text will follow the standard rhetorical pattern of introduction, statement of facts, division, proof, refutation, and conclusion.
Some examples for this project would be:
1) Using your theme from your project two, write three letters to three organizations that work with your issue.
Sample-
Theme-Immigration regulations in the United States
Letters-United States Bureau of Immigration
Local Congressman
President
Fable-A little bunny is ostracized from his group because he doesn’t have the proper traveling papers.
Audience-Local group that works with illegal immigrants
Sample-
Theme-First Generation College Students who lack support
Letters-Student Government
Dean
Writing Center
Fable-A rough and unpolished rock hangs out with gemstones in a jewelry store. She is overlooked by many patrons because she is rough, but with the proper assistance, she is turned into the most precious of stones.
Audience-Students in the tutoring center.
Project Requirements
The project will require the student to complete the planning exercise, create an annotated bibliography of at least 5 sources (1 book, 2 articles, 1 web-based, and 1 wild card), create a working outline, create a draft, create three letters and mail them to the proper individuals, create and participate in a peer review session, create an s/v/o and a does/says, create a fable, distribute fable to appropriate audience, create a draft of explanation for instructor revision, and create a final polished draft. In addition, the project will require that you detail and track all project progress on a blog.
Blogsite
www.blogger.com/start
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Address for Eckerd
Hello everyone,
Here is my Blog.
Can you please post your blog address here, so that I can add it to the list for responses?
Take care, and have a great Thanksgiving.
Kat
Here is my Blog.
Can you please post your blog address here, so that I can add it to the list for responses?
Take care, and have a great Thanksgiving.
Kat
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Welcome to the Journey
As a writing instructor and mentor at a private college, a research one university, and an online university, I experience many disparate journeys; however, I have found that all students and learners show a common desire, the desire to create and engage knowledge.
Although these students and learners' ultimate goals may be extremely different, each of these individuals desire the opportunity to create a writing space of their own. This blog provides a space for those writers.
Although these students and learners' ultimate goals may be extremely different, each of these individuals desire the opportunity to create a writing space of their own. This blog provides a space for those writers.
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