WED APRIL 22nd

• attended class

MON APRIL 20th

• make our 15 sources and get everything to finish paper within this week
• punch that title exercise
• help that hurts exercise

WED APRIL 15th

• read and respond to the first and second argument
• attended class
• provided peer reviews

MON APRIL 13th

• assertion and denial
• if there is a simple mistake in the assertion denial can be easy, making the whole assertion wrong
• walter scott murder
• Shot in the back as he ran #3

WED APRIL 8th

• activity what is the premise missing
• must keep the readers interested with strong sentences
• mostly including strong pulling starting sentences
• eliminating if/them
• exercise

MON APRIL 6th

• attended class

WED APRIL 1st

• cause and effect
• differentiating between different causes
• LOOK and go over professors thesis recommendations, for myself and for other peoples recommendations with the same topic
• look at very bottom of todays assignment page for future recommendation on a109 argument due sunday
• causal exercise

MON MAR 30th

• going over secondary PTSD
• Mac McClelland talks about her book involving secondary PTSD
• mammogram percentage closer to 70%
• exercise
• went over the 50 answers
• a valuable excercise

WED MAR 25th

• win a rebuttal by offering evidence which proves the other person wrong along with their evidence
• type in scholar before google for advanced searching
• research to form a thesis, not to prove a thesis
• ‘positive reinforcement’ is actually negative
• rebuttal argument-research something that proves your hypothesis wrong

MON MAR 23rd

• the air is not escaping the coffee filter because more pressure must be put to make the air go through the filter
• update the definition essay by wednseday noon
• talking about nuclear power plants and the risk and reward of having them
• win a rebuttal by offering evidence which proves the other person wrongs along with their evidence

WED MAR 11

• elephants are tortured
• circus owners torture elephants
• Elephants suffer torture
• Thesis sentence is the long essays clearest declaration

MON MAR 9

• start by writing a conclusion then get into the body aiming toward your conclusion
• the body leads to the conclusion
• first sentence out of 7 was the best
• went over 4 parts of introduction paragraph

WED FEB 25

• talking about rape and different meanings
• how things can be perceived differently
• came up with a definition of rape
• examining ‘free internet’ definitions
• definition essays
• need a works cited
• going back over the ‘actual’ definition of rape

WED FEB 18

• Post Traumatic stress can be contagious
• although not instantaneous
•   many different ways to developing PTSD
• ‘secondhand’ PTSD
• there has been a considerable amount of time for Brannan to catch the symptoms
• use the right pronoun
• NEVER USE ‘YOU’
• or second person in general
• use WE on occasion if it fits
• pay attention to possessive apostrophes

WED FEB 11

• counterintuitive feed woman who did not want to be fed who has dementia
• the nursing home keeps feeding her although her wishes were to not be fed anymore once she becomes mentally disabled
• looked at a video involving strokes in depth and how to evaluate the video
• using sources helps show a lot of other people have the same opinion as you
• using sources helps support your argument or topic
• collect and read through all your sources
• as you write you think about your sources
• before monday drop reply to respond to white paper

MON FEB 9

• Professor likes the Foo Fighters
• use ‘their’ with a plural subject
• denzel washington is not an african-american but Charlize theron (white woman) is one
• rewrite assignment
• call it A04 rewrite

WED FEB 4

• examine grading posts provided by instruct, compare to own writing
• professor generously brought coffee to a select few in the class
• going over different topics
• search through different topics to see what interests me

WED JAN 28

Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr

remember to open ‘my notes’ every day of class as it is used for attendance purposes.

• highlight text and click on chain to add link to word
• ‘Stone Money’
• island of Yap
• yap were its residents
• limestone disks shaped into wheels were coins called ‘Fe”
• better the quality of the coin the more it was worth
• coin represented a sufficient amount of work which made the coin worth something
• germans came to yap and forced change
• Fe represents gold in our society
• money is seemingly based off of nothing
• markets decide an objects worth
• Brazil printed more money which in turn killed their economy
• unit of real value (URV) was created to help fix this problem
• 1 unit of real value= a set amount of money

MON FEB 2

• rowan.mywconline.com-writing help
• talk to professor before or after class to find out grading
• don’t say you, your, your etc (second person)
• get rid of pronouns in your writing
• throat clearing in writing is over preparing
• most important job of first sentence is to keep readers reading the next sentence and so on
• keep your writing focused on your reader that way they keep interested
• summarize only the part of the article that serves your purpose
• point of researching is to discover what in fact is true
• read to try to learn then use portions of article we have found to support conclusion that is being made
• browse ‘counterintuitive topics’ and shortly one will be selected to focus on for 10-12 weeks of the semester IMPORTANT 
• fill up your stories with ‘COWS’
• use ‘CHIPS’ to keep readers happy