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Today we will be focusing on peer responding to our Essay #4s draft #2 (E4-2).

If you miss class, you can view our E4-2 Draft Activities here. (All E4-2 work due by next class if you are absent.)

Homework for next class:
1) Complete all E4-2 Activities
2) Review our handout on Revising Prose: The Parmedic Method as well as these sites:
--To Be Verbs
--Revising vs. Editing
--Revise the first ten sentences on the back of the "Revising Prose" handout (to be turned in)
3) Work on Revising and Editing your E4 --due 5/1

Our Final Exam will be Wednesday May 6 from 11-1:30

Once you login, please get started right away with the activity listed below:

The Meaning of Jekyll and Hyde
Get out your "Coming to Terms" for the Saposnik article and the novel. Then go to the forum called "The Meanings of Jekyll and Hyde." Answer the prompt that you will find there.You will have roughly ten minutes to type something in. Then read the posts of you peers

What is an Annotated Bibliography
We will view this site about Annotated Bibliographies, talk about them, and see and example.

Finally, you will have time to begin researching to find articles that use the term "Jekyll and Hyde"
--HINT!
Use "phrase searching": that means putting your search terms inside quotation marks. You might expand your search to include "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

E.G. "Jekyll and Hyde" or "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

Homework:
1) Review this list of posts in "The Meanings of Jekyll and Hyde" forum and the article and come up with a clear description of what you think is the best (or the truest to the story) meaning of the term "Jekyll and Hyde." (i.e. the meaning of the story and the characters). Post this summary as a reply to your own post by class time on Friday.
2) For next Friday, create annotated bibliographic entries for TWO articles that you find (I urge you to do more). Please follow the instructions for annotated bibliographies I gave you in class on 4/15. These should be in electronic format.
3) Don't forget to start your "Research Log"--this log is an account of your activities working on this research project. Each time you work on it, make a short entry. Include what you did, but also include how it went, and particular problems you faced and how you dealt with them. Discuss also strategies you are using to engage in your research.

What is a strategy? A strategy is an approach you take (often consciously and for some purpose) to accomplish something. It is the way you decide to do something, but it is sort of like a tool.

Essay Draft 3-2 due today (draft #2 of Essay #3)
Please post your draft into the E3-2 Forum and begin peer response right away.

For those who are absent, here is the class activity sheet with instructions on what to do.

We will also take a moment to review the Answers to the second exercise on Sentence Combining

Homework for next class:
1) Complete our next Sentence Combining exercise. Can be handwritten. Written as a full paragraph. +2 extra-credit points offered for a second version of the paragraph.
2) Final Draft of Essay #3 due on Monday!!!!
We will be discussing documentation issues on Friday, so come to class with questions you may have.

As you arrive, you will NOT need to sign in to our online learning environment, but please turn in your research notebooks for me to check them.

We are going to talk a bit about handling research sources and two key issues:

1) Evaluating Sources--What criteria can you use to tell if a source is credible or not?
The Bedford Research Room

2) Plagiarism or Academic Dishonesty--How can I avoid mishandling sources?
Indiana Plagiarism Site
My Avoiding Plagiarism page

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I expect you to KNOW what plagiarism is and how to avoid it, including the four "DON'Ts" from my guide on plagiarism. In addition, I expect you to KNOW the five criteria to apply to evaluate a source.
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Homework:
1) Read this site from St. Martin's on Avoiding Plagiaism to reinforce what we have done today.
2) Complete the five sentences to combine by both coordination and subordination. More practice. Can be handwritten.
3) Draft 3-2 due next time. This draft should be almost completely developed--it should be like a dress rehearsal for the paper and involve actually using quotes. Don't stress having your grammar or documentation all perfect yet. Late drafts lose -10 points from final grade. Please bring both a print copy and an electronic copy (hopefully we will be in the computer classroom for peer response).
4) Heads up for what comes next. Final drafts of E3 due 4/6. We then will be writing a paper on The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde found in your text. Please begin reading it.
5) Friday we will have a test on avoiding plagiarism and evaluating sources, so please review and study the material we covered today.

We will start today looking at an example E2 About draft as well as a completed draft.

Example Draft E2About-2
Example Final Draft E2
(please note, these examples don't have information and support from research sources)

After that, we will shift to doing peer response on our first drafts of the About pieces.

What is due next time?

A "complete" draft. That means you have a second draft of both your "Retelling" piece AND your "About the Retelling" piece. That is, you'll have your next version of both of these pieces together. Bring the print versions of these pieces (we won't be in the computer classroom).

These are still drafts, so don't fret about them being perfect, but consider that they should be good "dress rehearsal" level versions. You should have your content complete. The final draft for the entire project is due Wed. 3/4, so the more you can get done and ready for Monday the better. Remember, you need textual support from BOTH your research articles as well as from Hamlet in your discussion.
**MODIFIED SOURCE REQUIREMENT
--You must incorporate research-based support/information from three sources (at least two from JSTOR articles)

The first twenty-five minutes of class will be taken up having you write your Writer's Review for draft 1. You will read the reviews of your peers and reply to three.

The second half of class is an open work time to do more research on your "insight." I will show you some other databases and help you search as well. YOU CAN PRINT ONE ARTICLE (as long as it doesn't exceed 20 pages).

Homework for next time:
1) Draft #1 of your "About Piece." This draft needs to be in electronic format for posting in class for peer response in the computer classroom. If you don't have MSWord, please save your essay in Rich Text Format. See me for help.

Log in to our online learning environment, The Write Place, and go to the Forum called “Retelling Piece Proposals.”

Please post your proposal in there (if you don’t have the electronic version, type it in quickly perhaps in abbreviated form). Please clearly describe:

• Your “interest”—the question, problem, curiousity, gap you are focusing on
• Your “insight”—your insight or interpretation into that “interest”
• Your “retelling”—describe the creative, imaginative “retelling” you will produce that will communicate your insight about that subject of interest. (Perhaps you have a couple of things you are thinking of doing)

DON’T TAKE TOO LONG GETTING THESE PROPOSALS TYPED IN (5-10 minutes)

Once you post your proposal, please read the proposals of your peers. Do a quick reply to at least five people’s proposals. You can do two more for extra-credit.

Complete this activity by 30 minutes after the hour.

During the last 20 minutes, you will explore in the database JSTOR to find some articles related to your interest and insight. (Remember, your eventual “About the Retelling Piece” must include citations from at least two of these kinds of articles from JSTOR (or possibly Literature Online).)

Homework for next class 2/16

1. Review our new Essay Assignment and think about it
2. Begin re-reading the play
3. Read Harris' Rewriting Introduction and Chapter 1 ("Coming to Terms")
4. Write a "Coming to Terms" of Harris' Chapt. 1
   (This should be 1-2 pages and can be handwritten)
   

Homework for next class:

Read the rest of Hamlet.
Reading Response:
Look at the lines in Act I, scene 4 lines 23-38 starting at “So oft it chances in particular men…
Write a paraphrase of these lines. Some consider these lines a rephrasing of the Greek tragedy’s notion of “tragic flaw” or “hamartia.” Do a bit of investigation into what these terms mean. Does Hamlet have a tragic flaw, and what do you think it is?

1-2 pages (can be handwritten)

THE basis for your ability to write is an understanding of this play. It is a hard read. Just because it is hard does not mean for you to give up—push through, problem-solve, look words up, reread passages, see the play on video or hear it on audio. Outline what happens. Do what it takes to gain a good understanding of this play.

Welcome to the computer classroom

Today we will do a bit of orientation:
--Computer Classroom Policies
--Guide for Peer Response

Then we will do peer response following the Essay 1-2 Activity Sheet. You will need to accomplish two peer responses before the end of class.

Homework for Wed 2/6:  Complete peer response. Do the Writer's Review. Work on your essay. Review in your handbook the conventions regarding punctuation (read/skim through the punctuation section). Look again at the essay requirements carefully.
Final draft of Essay #1 2/8: 

Welcome back to English 1302

Today we will be working with your draft #1s of our first Essay following the guide for our activities I hand out in class.

Homework for next class:
1) Read section I. and II. in "Writing in College" by Joseph William
http://writing-program.uchicago.edu/resources/collegewriting/index.htm
Also, read Characteristics of a Critical Essay http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/lirvin/wguides/critical.htm and follow all relevant links.
2) Return to The Write Place and see if you can log in from home our outside of class.
3) Review again the logical skeleton's of your peers and do some rethinking and reviewing of your own draft. (IF you did not complete your Writer's Review, then do it as homework before you dig into filling out your outline.
4) Spend time reviewing and rethinking the play. Go back to the text!
5) Write up a new and filled out version of your Outline (see Development Outline guide). This should include references to specific textual support you will use in your paper. This outline should be in outline form and should be written out (handwritten or typed)

***Don't forget to include one Concession/Refutation paragraph. See this guide for doing Point/Counterpoint
http://www.accd.edu/sac/english/lirvin/wguides/argue.htm
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E1-draft 2 will be due Monday 2/2
Final draft E1-3 will be due 2/6 (not 2/4)