05/04/2015

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• Attended to class
• Today we went over our portfolio add our original Definition Essay and the Rebuttal Argument or Casual Argument.

04/29/2015

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• We talk about the agenda and an appointment required for Wednesday May 6th.
• Professor Hodges demonstrated how is the reflective state will be done.
• Portfolio is due on Monday May 4th.

04/27/2015

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• Attended class
• Mister David went ove the agenda
• We went over the research papers one, illustrating the expected length  and citation form for the papers.
• We went over MLA and APA citation
• We learned and practiced quotations and citations
• We discussed how our Annotated Bibliography will be

04/22/2015

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Attended to class

teacher evaluation

get together with the class

04/20/2015

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• Make our +15 sources.
• Less than a week to finish our paper
• We reviewed the tittle and first sentence of a classmate
• we play a guessing game by changing the name of a movie, album or book, and expect for someone to guess it.
• We comment on causal or rebuttal argument from one of our classmates by answering questions about their material.

04/15/2015

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attended class

We peer reviewed at least two arguments from classmates.

04/13/2015

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For Sunday we need to do the rewrite of the rebuttal or casual essay.

A week from the upcoming sunday our

• Assertion
  • the wrong question
  • The falseness of something can invalidate a complete argument
• Trafic stop and shooting
  • A man was killed by an officer after he was running from the officer, who stop him.
  • We made a class discusion after we read articles about the crime.

04/08/2015

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We started discussing how hidden premises can benefit an weak argument.

04/06/2015

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Attended class

04/01/2015

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• We talked about the card exercise and talk the answer
• We talked about the intuitive predict
• Casual argument
  •  We should have a tittle
  • It is a paper attached to our research, but it also can be an independent paper.
• Cause and effect
  • Types of causations
  • Check that the our effects are happening because of the cause we think.
    • Example: A man that his parents divorced; now, he blames the three divorced he had to the divorce of his parents. Nevertheless, he doesn’t want to account the divorces to his affairs with hookers. (Precipitating)
• Contributing Cause
• Other Complications
  • Considering how many causes usually play to achieve any individual result.
  • Correlation as false causation
• We went through the topics we are writing about in the class. (Feedback)
• Other previous classes topics and ways they used
• We talk about other caused effect (s)

03/30/2015

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03/25/2015

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• About Rebuttal I remember the arguments that we should go against. For instance, we we are trying to argue an argument is preferable to go against the most stronger arguments.
• Research Tips

03/23/2015

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• Snow on Donna’s brithday
• Coffe Filter
  • The professor show the class how a coffe filter would let water go through it, but when we try to place the filter outside down the air will not go scape trough the holes and water does not go through the filter. I have never find out the mechanism of the coffe filters; however, I know that the purpose  my experience with expresso coffe makers,

03/11/2015

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• We rated professor Hodges in RateMyProfessor.
• We discussed passive and active tense.
  • Elephants are tortured – passive
  • Circus owners torture elephants- active
  • Elephants suffer from torture- active (better because we use the elefant as the subject and we want to make the subject what we want to focus one).
• We went over techniques to make our writing more powerful.
• We did an exercise picking the stronger sentence.

03/09/2015

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• We were introduced to the essay Professor for Life
• How to open
  • Start with the conclusion from the beginning of the essay
  • Have an strong opening sentence
  • Provide consequences
  • Does not have to be true
    • Persuasion
    • Truth
    • Clarity
    • Premises
• We went over examples of good opening paragraphs
• We did a strong opening paragraph.

03/04/2015

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• We need to ask for feedback in order to get our post read by the professor. Nevertheless, if we are going to ask for feedback, we need to have some progress.
• When we schedule a conference we need to specify the purpose of the conference.
• We are going to learn about claims.
  • All claims have to be true in order to be true, but if only one is false, it will facilitate to falsify all the other claims.

03/02/2015

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• Molecules, non organic molecules spin right and left equally, but organic molecules only spin left.
• We ordereed pizza.
• We need a conference if we have not meet with the professor.
• Assignment Chart of all students.
• No new assignments for this week.
• For Sunday we need to add five more sources in our proposals.
• We started with claims
• Wednesday fourth we will do exercises about claims.
• Assignment: Safer Saws
  • Claims
  • We discussed if is possible to sui a company if we got injured by one of their products, which we did not have to buy, but safety was promised.

02/25/2015

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• We started talking about the mechanical exercise done last class.
• What is rape?
• What is death?
  •  the definition of rape and death have changed through time.
  • there is a degree for categorize.
• We when through the definition of rape during time.
• We made a comment of what rape is for us.
• We read a definition essay.
• For homework we have a to make a definition essay and have at least two sources.

02/23/2015

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• We started the class with a reminder about “My Notes” because there is always a student who forgets to post during class under this categorie.
• Ask for feedback under the comment section below our posts, not in the post.
• We should reply to the feedback given by the professor.
  • We get an email when a comment is made to our posts.

02/18/2015

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• We started the class talking about the critical readings.
• We haven’t get a lot taught, but we are learning by fixing our work.
• Categorical and casual claims
  • Categorical claim- definition of what you think, but not behave.
  • Casual claim- something that causes something.
  • We saw some of the claims done by students in the class.
• Mechanical Troubles:
  • That/Which, no comma for that and comma when using which.
  • Who/Whom; who for pronouns like he, she, we and they and whom when him, her, them.
  • second pronoun.
  • Needless it.
  • Unclear antecedent.
  • An extra that.

02/16/2015

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• We started with a video about the Chinese pride about internet security.
• the professor introduced Propublica to the class.
• The professor read a poem from the simple truth.
• Magazine articles:
  • We talked about foster care, how some children go from bad parents to worst foster families by the government decision.
  • We talked about food, an article from a magazine the professor read, which explains that we can lose weight by eating less with tricks that will make us not finish our food or take less food on the plate.
  • We talk about homeless individuals in Utah, for instance, the homeless with few months out in the streets have the opportunity o getting a job and eventually go back to their life. In addition, the homeless who have longer than a year are provided with a place to stay, and as a result in Utah, the homeless seem to move forward even when they are provided with a place.
• “Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Mates”

02/11/2015

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• We were introduced to a counterintuitive topic.
• We talk about terrorism, which is the the acts that makes everyone in a population fear for their life.
• We did and Moving image exercise in the class.
• White Paper for the portfolio:
  • Thesis- is better to be counter and point and be able to bring solutions with our own ideas instead of using someone else’s concepts.
  • We do not think watching something until we have to tell.
  • Collect a source and start writing when ideas start coming.
  • Look beyond the topic.
• Read white paper and give feedback.

02/09/2015

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• The class started by talking of how we can take credit for our work.
• We talk about conference, which at least are we should attend to three.
• We had a grammar lesson.
  • We should stick to plurals
  • We should not use a gender, but throw random genders.
  • We are only allow are to use plurals.
  • We do not need pronouns.
• We talk of how to revise our material for the Charlie Brown assignment.
• Black people are not African-American, African that live in America are African-Americans.
• Discussion about counterintuitive summaries:
  • Start with a theory/hypothesis.
  • The thesis will be constructed after a lot of reading.
• We should take advantage of the 25%  of the non portfolio assignments.
• Homework: provide at least five sources for our counterintuitive topics.

02/04/2015

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• We started taking about the topic that each one of else will have to pick for the class.
• We will make two annotated with at least five sources each.
• For homework we will have to make three summaries out of the counterintuitive topics posted on the blog.
• The professor taught how to edit and fix “My Notes.” In addition, he showed how to categorize our post with our user names.
• Our grade is posted on the comments of the professor as a code.
• We learn from the good things that other classmates are doing.
• We talked about the summaries for homework; how the stories are counterintuitive and that we should take only what we think is important.

02/02/2015

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• The class started with the visit of a tutor named Jaqueline from the writing center. Jaqueline showed the class how to make an appointment in the writer center and how to make an account in order to do so.
• The professor explained how he will give us feedback; locally and globally.
• The professor talked of the tools we can use in our writing process. For instance, the use of we and not you in order to provide the readers with a connection with the writer.
• New topics were added to the blog. We will have to pick the topics we want to write for the rest of the semester.

1/28/2015

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