Day 14- Review Day, Avoiding Plagiarism Tutorial

Class Today:

Response to IEF

Writer's Help Presentations (10 minutes)

• Changyoon and Maggie will present

Review Commas (15 minutes)

• Work on the comma quiz sheet with a partner
• Answers

Plagiarism Tutorial (15 minutes)

Next Class: Paraphrasing

Homework:

1. Under the Plagiarism Prevention Tutorial, watch the following videos:
Introduction to Plagiarism, Why Cite?, and What to Cite
2. The final draft of your diagnostic revision is due February 23rd by midnight.

3. The diagnostic revision portfolio is also due February 23rd by midnight.

4. Keep working on Writer's Help exercises. The first 8 are due by March 20th.

Day 13: Peer Perception and Peer-review

Today You Will Learn How:

• Explain the difference between editing (i.e. finding mistakes and offering corrections) and peer perception 
• Select appropriate words to avoid offense when offering opinions, suggestions, and clarifications to peers 
• Provide feedback on their peer’s writing related to how they perceive the main ideas and structure of the paper. 
• Negotiate meaning of peer comments and possible revisions/adjustments through discussion

Class Today:
Writer's Help Presentation- Ruby will present on the structure of essays.

Commas-Open up the shared google document and finish up the comma activity. Then let's take the comma quiz.

Powerpoint- Let's view this powerpoint together. Focus on the distinction between editing and reviewing. 

Peer-review-

I will put you in groups to do a peer-review. Since there are 9 students in this class, one group will be 3 students. 

Next Class: Avoiding Plagiarism Part I.

Homework:
1. The diagnostic revision portfolio is due February 23rd by midnight.
2. The final draft draft of your diagnostic revision is due February 23rd by midnight. Late assignments will be accepted, but I will drop 25% everyday, including weekends. A day is a day.
3. If you haven't finished, remember the first 8 (including the one we did in class) Writer's Help exercises are due March 20th.

Day 12: Advanced Punctuation- The Comma

Today You Will Learn How To:

• Describe the most common use of commas (before coordinating conjunctions, to set off introductory clauses, to set off non-essential information clauses in the middle of a sentence, and to list items in a series) 
• Correctly eliminate and place commas within sentences featuring the aforementioned criteria. 
• Locate resources on the internet that will help clarify additional punctuation of semicolon, colon, and dash 
• Self-evaluate the use of commas in their writing and propose revisions based on new knowledge from lesson

Class Today:
Review: Review conclusion paragraph
Presentation- Shiyuan
Warm-Up-
Why are these funny? What would make them more appropriate?

Group Activity:
Look at the worksheet I give you and using the information create an information sheet for your classmates.

Group 1- Commas with coordinating conjunctions
Group 2- Commas with introductory elements
Group 3- Commas with elements in series
Group 4- Commas with non restrictive clauses

When you are finished, share your part in this shared google doc.

Quiz:
This is not for a grade. In the same groups, work on this comma quiz. We will discuss the answers shortly.


Homework:
1. Begin working on your diagnostic revision analysis portfolio. It is due by February 23rd by midnight.
2. The second draft of your diagnostic revision is due February 18th before class.  If you turn it in before 1:00 PM, I will print it out for you. We will use this draft for peer-review. Please read my feedback on your first draft before turning in the second draft. If no draft is brought to class tomorrow, your class participate grade will be deducted.

3. Keep working on Writer's Help exercises. The first 8 are due by March 20th. 
Here are some exercises to try (Be sure pop-ups are on):

1. Major uses of comma 1
2. Major uses of comma 2
3. All uses of the comma
4. The semicolon and the comma 1
5. The semicolon and the comma 2
6. The colon, the semicolon, and the comma

Next Class: Peer-Perception

Day 11: Academic Style

Today You Will Learn How To: 

• Explain critical differences in style between informal English and English for academic purposes 
• Increase their level of writing formality
• Self-evaluate presence/absence of appropriate academic tone in their writing and propose revisions based on new knowledge from lesson

Class Today:
Warm-up: First, let's watch this youtube video.  While watching, think about how he talks. Is it different from normal speech? How?
Next, with your row, discuss the following questions:

• How does Data (the robot) talk? How is it different from regular speech? Can you tell he is a robot by the way he talks?
• How is talking different than writing? 

Powerpoint Activity:
Get out of your seats and go to the back of the room. I will show you this powerpoint and we will discuss rules for academic style!


Handout:
Use this handout on Academic Style to help you revise your diagnostic for the second draft.

Early Informal Feedback
Please fill out this anonymous google form to give me feedback on my teaching. I want to help you! I will leave the room while you answer the questions. Once you finish you may leave.

Class Materials:
Powerpoint
Academic Style Handout

Next Class: Advanced Punctuation: The Comma

Homework: 
1. Rewrite your draft to have formal style. Use the academic style handout to help you.
2. Begin working on your Diagnostic Revision Portfolio. Remember this is due
3. Keep working on Writer's Help exercise, the first group is due March 20th.
4. The second draft of your Diagnostic Revision is February 18th by Midnight. We will do a peer-review soon.

If you haven't done Writer's Help yet, here are some exercises to try (Be sure pop-ups are on):
1. Recognizing Wordiness 1
2. Recognizing Wordiness 2
3. Revising for Conciseness 1
4. Revising for Conciseness 2

Day 10- Introductions and Conclusions

Today You Will Learn:

• How to describe and identify the basic components of introductions (opener, background info and thesis) and conclusions (review of thesis and broader connections) 
• How to create a logical flow of information from broad to specific in an introduction and from specific to broad in a conclusion while integrating the aforementioned components 
• How to choose appropriate introductory and concluding techniques. 

Class Today:

• Let's watch this video and discuss in google docs how this video could be an effective introduction.
• Introductions powerpoint
• Introductions Activity: Answers
• Groups: 1- Maggie, Ruby, Shiyuan  2-Yutong, Changyoon, Yantong  3-Hao, Yichun, Kevin
• Conclusions powerpoint
• If time, start developing conclusion paragraph in class. 

Next Class: Review Introductions and Conclusions, Academic Style

Homework:
1. Modify the introduction and conclusion in your diagnostic based on what you learned today.
Please turn in this assignment by Friday at Midnight. Name the document NetIDIntroConclusion.doc.
If your name is not in the top of the document you will not receive credit!

2. Work on Writer's Help exercises, the assignment is due by March 20th.

3. The first draft of your essay (thesis statement and body paragraphs) is due by midnight today. Late assignments will receive zero credit.

Day 9- PIE Structure

Today You Will Learn:

• how to identify four essential parts to every body paragraph (P-I-E-C) 
• how to examine sample paragraphs to identify any missing parts 
• how to assess your own essays for their use of P-I-E structure and identify/revise weaknesses 

Class Today:

• Announcement: We struggled with coherence so I will give you a nifty handout to use as a reference. Here is the online link.
• Please put your name at the top of all documents. I will show you.
• Warm-up: In google docs share what you do when you struggle to write enough ideas in your paragraphs. 
• I will give you a handout. While you work on the handout, I will show you this powerpoint presentation. The answers are here. 
• With the rest of class time, please modify your body paragraphs to include PIE structure. I will walk around helping you. 

Next Class: Review PIE, Introductions & Conclusions

Homework:
1. Modify body paragraphs to include PIE structure. I should be able to see this in your first draft that you will turn in on the 11th.

2. Begin work on Writer's Help exercises. You need to turn in the checkpoint sheet by March 20th, but you may turn it in earlier!

3. Read the formatting guidelines on the course website here. Please integrate them into your second draft.

4. Read the rubric for the Writer's Help presentations, here.

Day 8: Coherence-Transitions and Other Cohesive Devices

Class Today:

• Announcement: You may turn in late reflection essay. However, other mini assignments will not be accepted late. For instance, if you did not get feedback about your thesis statement rewrite, I assume you did not turn it in.
• So there is no confusion, each assignment is due by midnight of the next class. 
• Transitions: Function & Grammar
• Coherence 2 Powerpoint
• More Cohesive Devices
• Share one of your body paragraphs in our shared google doc. Everyone should have their writing in a Box drive.

Next Class: PIE Structure

Class Materials:

• Transitions: Function & Grammar
• Answers
• More Cohesive Devices
• Answers

Homework:

1. Based on what we did in class today, finish rewriting the body paragraphs for better coherence. If you only wrote two body paragraphs, please write a total of three for this assignment. Save the document as NetIDCoherence.doc or .rtf in our shared box folder. Turn in on February 7th, Saturday by midnight

2. Begin work on Writer's Help exercises. You need to turn in the checkpoint sheet by March 20th, but you may turn it in earlier!

3. The first draft of your diagnostic revision is due Monday, February 11th by midnight. This draft only needs your thesis statement and three body paragraphs.

4. Some of you never submitted your reflection short essays. You may turn it into Compass with a reduction for being late.

Day 7- Coherence: Introduction & Transitions

Class Today:

• Finish Persuasive Devices handout (15-20 minutes)
• Do Coherence Warm Up in pairs. What is wrong with each paragraph? (10 minutes)
• Coherence Powerpoint (10 minutes
• In the same pairs, categorize these transitions. 
• Transitions & Grammar Activity

Next Class: Continue Coherence

Class Materials:

• Coherence Warm Up
• Answers
• Transition Categories
• Answers
• Transitions & Grammar
• Answers

Homework:
  
1.  Based on what we did in class today, begin rewriting the body paragraphs for better coherence. If you only wrote two body paragraphs, please write a total of three for this assignment.
Save the document as NetIDCoherence.doc or .rtf in our shared box folder.  

2.  Begin work on Writer's Help exercises. You need to turn in the checkpoint sheet by March 20th, but you may turn it in earlier!

3.  The first draft of your diagnostic revision is due Monday, February 9th by midnight. This draft only needs your thesis statement and three body paragraphs. Please turn in the assignment to Compass 2g and save the document as 115_Diagnostic_Revision_NetID_1.doc

Day 6: Review Thesis Statements and Strengthening Arguments

What you will learn:

• How to generate different kinds of evidence/persuasive strategies to support an argument (e.g. statistics, anecdotes, answering the opposition, citing authorities, appealing to emotion) and analyze their varying strengths and appropriateness for academic writing 
• How to strengthen the arguments in their writing by incorporating at least three different types of aforementioned evidence 

Class Today:
1. Introduction to Diagnostic Analysis and Portfolio
2. More on Writer's Help
3. Review Thesis Statements

• Copy and paste your thesis statement in a word document.
• Switch seats- is the thesis statement: specific, debatable, and a good preview?

4. Strengthening Arguments

• Powerpoint
• Class Activity

Class Materials:

• Strengthening Arguments Powerpoint
• Class Activity (Possible Answers)
• Writer's Help Checkpoint Sheet

Next Class: Review Strengthening Arguments and Coherence

Homework:
1. Write a reflection discussing your writing experiences. The guidelines are here. Save the file as NetIDReflection.doc and submit your response to Compass. This is due by Wednesday, February 4th by Midnight. Please keep in mind that this assignment is worth 2.5% of your grade.

2. Rewrite the thesis statement from your diagnostic. Save the rewritten thesis statement as NetIDThesisRewrite in your box folder. I will give you feedback and upload it to box by Friday.

3. Read the rubrics for our major class assignments on the far right side of the course website.

4. The first draft of your diagnostic rewrite is due February 9th. This rewrite only requires a thesis statement and a rewrite of the three body paragraphs. Please upload the assignment to compass and save it as 115_Diagnostic_Revision_NetID_1.doc. For instance, mine would be 115_Diagnostic_Revision_Kbecker4_1.

5.  Pick a Writer's Help topic to present in this spreadsheet. Choose by Wednesday.

6.  Begin work on Writer's Help exercises. You need to turn in the checkpoint sheet by March 20th, but you may turn it in earlier!

Day 5: Thesis Statements and Writer's Help

Today You Will Learn:
1. Identify the Purpose of Thesis Statements
2. Predict the content of a paper based on the thesis statement

Class Today:
1. Last class, answers.
2. Introduction to Writer's Help

• Go to the Writer's Help website
• Let's search for 'Thesis statements'
• Table of Contents vs. Index
• Do an exercise on Thesis Statements in class
• Scorecard

3. Thesis Statements

• I will give you this handout. With a partner answer the questions.
• With the same partner, work on this second handout
• (If time) In this shared google document, share your opinion about Ipads and other electronic devices.

Materials:
Thesis Statements Handout 1  

• Answers

Thesis Statements Handout 2

• Answers

Next Class: Review Thesis Statements, Strengthening Arguments

Homework:
1. Make sure you have created a Box folder called ESL115C1netId and shared it with me!
2. Pick a Writer's Help topic to present in this spreadsheet. Choose by Monday.

Day 4- Audience & Purpose

Today you will learn:

The difference and relationship between audience and purpose

Identify explicit and implicit audience and purpose markers in written discourse (e.g. content, vocabulary, and structure) and how these collectively impact tone. 

Class Today:

1. Course Policy Quiz! I will give you a paper handout. 
2. In this google doc, briefly write what you think the audience and purpose was in the article given on Monday. How and why do you know? (3 minutes) 
3. You will get a situation card. It will have a purpose and an audience. With a partner, think of a way (written or spoken) to persuade your audience. (15 minutes)
4. In same groups, discuss possible answers for the Audiences & Purposes Chart. (15 minutes)
5. Now, read the passages and do the Audiences & Purposes Analysis (15 minutes)

Materials:

• Audience & Purposes Chart
• Possible Answers
• Audience & Purpose Analysis
• Possible Answers

Next Class: Writer's Help and Thesis Statements

Homework:

For Friday-
1. Read these academic paragraphs and be prepared to discuss the questions at the end.

If you haven't already...

1.Please purchase Writer's Help. We will use the online book in our next class. Instructions on how to purchase the book are here.

2. Please fill out the Contact Information Form

3. Create a folder in Box called ESL115NetID.

Day 3- Cross Cultural Communication

Today You Will Learn:
-How culture and writing style can be influenced by language

Class Today:
-Quiz on syllabus and course policies (5 minutes) If you added the course late, you will not take the quiz, but you MUST pick a time to take the make up diagnostic, here.
-Announcements: Diagnostic Analysis Portfolio, Diagnostic Revision assignments, Box (5 minutes)
-Warm-Up Discussion (on powerpoint) (15 minutes)
-Powerpoint: Communication and Writing Styles Around the World (10 minutes)
-Next, I will give you a card. With a different partner, read the card. Then compare the writer's culture with your own. (15 minutes)


Next Class: Audience & Purpose, Reflection, Writer's Help

Homework:
1. Write a reflection discussing your writing experiences. The guidelines are here. Save the file as and submit your response to Compass. This is due by Monday, February 2nd by Midnight.

2. Purchase Writer's Help, Instructions on how to purchase the textbook are here. The textbook is completely online and can be purchased either at the bookstore or via the internet.

3. Create a folder in Box entitled ESL115NetID and share it with me.

4. Read Alibaba's Founder by Issie Lapowsky and be prepared to answer the discussion questions.

5. Read How to Write an Academic E-mail. Be sure to send me an e-mail as stated in the document. This is also part of your participation grade.

Day 2- In Class Diagnostic

Class Today:
In-Class Diagnostic
Today is the In Class diagnostic.
No: Phone, internet, or talking.  Please only use a blank word document. Save the file as
NetIdInClassDiagnostic.doc and upload to our compass website in the folder titled Unit 1: Diagnostic Analysis> In-Class Diagnostic

Next Class: The communication model and cross-cultural communication

Course Materials:
1.  Copy of Lost in Translation

Homework:
Please do by class on Monday-

1. Read Lost in Translation by Boroditsky. I will give you a copy in class. Be prepared to discuss the article.
2. Study the course handout and class introduction prezi we did in class on Wednesday. There will be a quiz on Monday. This quiz is part of your participation grade.
3. Read How to Write an Academic E-mail. Be sure to send me an e-mail as stated in the document. This is also part of your participation grade.

If you added this class late please do the following:
1.) Purchase Writer's Help. Remember, Writer's Help exercises are worth 5% of your overall grade.
2.) Fill out the Contact Information Form.

Day 1- Introduction the course and each other

Class Today:
1.) Introduction to the Class

• Course Introduction Prezi
• Course Policies Handout

2.) Introduction to Course Materials

• Blogspot
• Compass
• Google docs
• Writer's Help
• Box
• E-mail

2.) Introduction to Each Other

• I will put you in groups of 2-3 to people. You will interview and then introduce the person you interviewed to the class. 

Course Materials:
1.) Course Introduction Prezi
2.) Course Policies Handout

Next Class: In-class Diagnostic

Homework:
Please do by class on Friday.
1.) Purchase Writer's Help. This document gives you information on how to purchase the book. Remember, Writer's Help exercises are worth 5% of your overall grade.
2.) Fill out the Contact Information Form.