WED Jan 28

• Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr
• Professor Hodges explained that it is important to take nots and that it is pointless to come to class and not engage.
• Use hyper links
• First drafts aren’t important because we will always revise

MON Feb 2

• Even if you missed an assignment you should still do it to be used in the portfolio
• The french traded in their money for the same amount in gold and kept it in Fort Knox
• French currency became more valuable than US currency
• Our money isn’t backed by gold anymore and now is only worth what others will give us for it
• this gold exchange with France help start off the great depression

WED Feb 4

• professor Hodges explained to us a little about his grading technique
• all of our revisions will be auto saved
• you can compare any two revisions
• during the first couple assignments professor hodges is more critical to allow us to understand that we shouldn’t just sit on our first draft.

WED Feb 11

We watched a video on strokes and the signs for them

• the video showed us the signs for a stroke. FAST
•  you want to have an idea that needs investigating
• it is better to go back and cut words out than to have to struggle adding words in
• as soon as you find a source open up a blank document and write about it, take notes before you forget

MON Feb 16

• Professor Hodges read and talked about some counterintuitive articles and topics
• State your views with respect of the others
• We learned how to analyze

WED Feb 18

• reviewed cause and effect
• just because something isn’t contagious doesn’t mean that it can’t affect others
• went through some examples of categorical and definition claims
• looked at examples of mechanical errors and how to fix and avoid them

MON Feb 23

• Professor Hodges explained to us how to get feedback and to engage in giving feedback back.
• professor hodges went over some white papers and explained to us what good point and bad points were
• we ended on the mechanical trouble assignment

WED Feb 25

• professor hodges showed us an example of a correct works cited page
• words can have multiple definitons and can be used in many different situations
• definitions can be used as an argument

MON Mar 2

• Richard said he was hungry so we ordered pizza
• Went over conferences
• no tuesday midnight deadline
• add 5 more sources to our proposals

MON Mar 9

• Professor Hodges offers a professor for life guarnteed
• do you conclusion first, then the body of the argument, then write the intro last
• put thought provoking quotes in introduction
• start with a finished product
• our claims don’t have to be true, we just need to persuade people to believe its true
• went over the marshmallow experiment

WED Mar 11

• .Professor Hodges told the class to give our honest rates about him on rate my professor
• sentences make little arguments
• a subject and a verb are the most important components of your argument

WED Mar 25

• professor hodges showed us how to see older posts
• I was not in class on monday so i cannot post about what i learned
• talk to someone about your topic
• keep your searching broad when looking for sources for your essay

MON Mar 30

• we did an assignment on reasonable and unreasonable situations

WED APR 1

• we are desperate to make things symmetrical
• revisited the card puzzle
• thesis don’t prove categorical claims
• majority for 46 was true/reasonable/good
• looked at causal arguments
• we make causation statements all the time
• there are different type of causation

MON APR 6

• Out due to illness

WED APR 8

• if you hide the premise you can win an argument if the arguments weak

MON APR 13

• We gave a way Sweeney Todd could have denied something.
• The man in the video did not have to be killed.
• Its claimed that black cops are just as often or just as likely to kill unarmed & black suspects

APR 15

• We took a look at three essays chosen by professor hodges
• everyone read and replied to two essays

APR 22

• Professor hodges brought the class sandwiches and cookies
• the class filled out the class evaluation

APR 27

• annotated bibs are due wednesday
• you are more likely to be right by capitalizing
• it doesn’t matter how many words if your paper is complete and well researched
• your paper can be 1500 words of bullshit!
• went over citations

APR 29

• grades conferences are next week
• copy & paste first sentences hodges provided then write 125 words
• name one of your assignments to each of the goals
• Hyperlink each assignment
• no rewriting, upload straight to portfolio, won’t be graded or looked at outside of the portfolio
• portfolio contains research paper, annotated bib, definition rewrite, casual argument  rebuttal argument rewrite, visual rhetoric rewrite and self-reflective statement
• deadline for portfolio is monday