Mon. May  4

• Reviewed portfolio content
• Added two essays

Wed. April 29

• Review agenda
• Grade conference
• Writing is a multistage process
• Group discussions
• Negative self-reflective statement
• Honest
• Visual rhetoric – delivery methods
• Name your post and the claim you make about goal 4
• Name one of assignments in each of the 5 goals
• Goal 1 Jusis
• Goal 2
• Open post in edit bottom of page  – open tags and categories add – type juggler click on that and update page.
• make sure portfolio is catergorized
• check portfolio

Mon. April 27

• My Researched Opinion Assignment
• Meet the specs that we do post
• Model research the right length
• Model post – strong offering makes nice use of quotation and citation
• Good looking works cited
• Cite material inside your argument
• Headline 2 size and style – use caps almost every word
• Refute go back and add the good-faith of prosecutors
• Long quote technique – highlight block quote
• Work cited – command v or copy past – click on open link new page
• Quoted in your paper must be cited on the bottom of the page – work cited needs to be linked

Wed. April 22

Mon. April 20

• Annotated
• Proposal +5 plus proposal +10
• Citied – have source – refers back to the citation
•  Portfolio – Visual rewrite, Definition, Causal or Rebuttal
• Research Paper

Wed.  April 15

• Refute eyewitness – anything surprising to eyewitness testimony
• Skyblue more persuasive line of essay
• Definitions as arguments the quoting of differences of what is happening or what is supposed to be happening.
• 2-3 if you cannot get all 3 done

Mon. April 13

• Review Assertion and Denial
• Class discussion Walter Scott shooting
• Lesson from exercise
• Value of writing a piece with no point of view

Wed. April 8

• Argument is weak leave out the weakest link
• How to start the first sentence  lecture
• Review Student Essays
• Elimination of If/Then

Mon. April 6

• Attended Class

Wed. April 1

• Reviewed card puzzle
• Examples do not prove a thesis
• Title essays that stand on their own, meant to be independent self arguments.
• Each own work cited and self contained arguments
• Causal – be careful when writing not to confuse
• Be aware of the underlying cause – example car rolling down hill wasn’t the breaks it was the “gravity”
• Never a single cause, never single affect
• People automatically make false memories or do they really help us
• Surpress memories of what we what to think of ourselves
• Look at others that may influence and conspire look at the prosecutor

Wed. March 25

• WordPress updates
• Record the most important idea you learned about Rebuttal in Monday’s class
• Strong piece of evidence makes for a good rebuttal
• West borough church example
• Rowan’s Campbell Library – sidebar on blog
• Do not point at sources
• Google Scholar hit a pay wall use Rowan Library
• Find sources that prove we haven’t done our job
• Find counter argument for the next paper
• Review lecture notes – child car seat example
• Citations are required

Mon. March 23

• Definition rewrite review
• Why the filter lets water go through traps air?  Has something to do with the filter being dry and putting pressure on the top of the filter.
• Rewrite Definition essay post rewrite of new essay
• New sources found make radical revisions to first draft A07 rewrite
• A06 draft upcoming A07 rewrite Update new post to A07 cut and past in A06
• Extra couple weeks stays  A07 better once or twice leaving behind unchanged A06
• Wednesday A07 rewrite
• A06 doesn’t change after Wednesday
• Remember post in A07
• Support your claims
• Write your own argument and understand sources
• Review Price too high article
• Strong piece of evidence to rebuttal, it’s simple
• Ag-gag stories
• Highly recommend video

Wed. March 11

• Rate my professor
• Every essay has a thesis
• Subject of the verb is the heart of the argument
• No weaker sentence then says something is, if it does something that will work
• Go active with your sentences
• Keeping your verbs active
• Elephants are tortured
• Circus owners torture Elephants
• Elephant is tortured – passive
• Change to Elephants suffer torture
• Value of passive when you don’t know the subject
• Choose active and avoid passive
• Wrong and bold is always better
• Name the subject as the most important actor of the sentence
• Your work is disappointing – your work disappoints me
• Subjects are it, there or that your reader doesn’t know what’s important
• Instead of making an argument, we argue
• Reduce “to be”
• End a sentence and begin the next sentence with the same phrase that’s a clue to combine the sentence.

Mon. March 9

• Open my notes
• Do your introduction last
• Start with your conclusion
• Get into the body in your argument
• When you are finished you can prove and have a dramatic intro
• The first sentence in the essay are the first chance to win
• Decent sentences are arguments
• Make a challenge to the reader
• It can be debated, demonstrated and a good example of itself
• None of your claims needs to be true
• Persuasive argument
• Need to write about people disagree
• Premise needs to be clearly stated
• Try to prove it’s truth, reasonable not impossible
• Appeal to their logic, emotions, don’t want readers to get defensive, do not lie, you want to be reasonable firm and sympathetic
• Not truly fair, you will make your reader defensive
• Truth is different from proof, all you really need to be is careful to maintain things that are possible.
• Lose the argument in the first sentence
• Review the in class lecture

Wed. March 4

• Who does Brett look like?
• Review Conference, Feedback, and Grade Procedures
• Je Suis should look the best of your ability
• Claims can be true or false, you can identify by asking those questions.
• Group decision identifying claims

Mon. March 2

• Ordered pizza
• Mid-term wake up call
• Sunday midnight 5 more sources
• Safer Saws in class tonight
• Prepared by being familiar with source material
• Study claims

Wed. Feb 25

• Revisit Monday’s Punctuation
• Interest your readers in the story
• Successful methods
• The fact that the term rape is a flexible term
• Cheater examples
• Many definitions of rape
• Definition essay is an argument – snow blower example vs free
• Nail down your terms as best as you can
• Works Cited – Rowan library database
• OWL guide at Purdue
• Pension fund essay – But the Pension Fund Was Just Sitting There
• Reviewed definitions of rape

Mon. Feb 23

• I failed to update my notes from class last evening.
• Reviewed White Paper assignment – I’m upset that I lost my notes from the examples you gave in class they were very helpful.
• It’s a frustrating assignment as well as intriguing.
• Mechanical errors
• Rewrite one assignment before class on Wednesday

Wed. Feb. 18

Housekeeping items – appreciate assignments done on time
Critical reading worth sharing
Definition – sentence that makes a proposition
Categorical claim examples
Direction – Definition and Categorical claim read over notes posted on the blog
Not acceptable to say “in a way” say exactly what you mean
Make thesis reasonable and prove it – example thatdude
Secondhand PTSD – phrase suggesting that Katie caught PTSD like a secondhand smoker
Alberts claim – close attention to numbers and makes a category claim extremely
Substitute pronouns which he or she He -who Him – whom
2nd person – do not use you
Favorite pronoun – “we” – When a girl suffers…..
White paper of an enlargement of a proposal plus five sources

Mon. Feb. 16

Chinese video linked in the shared panel- Internet privacy issues
Poem by Phillip Levine passed away – read a poem The Simple Truth
Mother Jones – article about Foster Parents, How to eat junk food, homeless in Utah counterintuitive article
Feedback, I need to schedule an appointment
Converting topics into hypothesis – ask yourself fresh innovative question – unless you have a fresh approach synthesize into your own.
Analysis of critical reading and look for definition claims.
Talk the class through a sample
Is PTSD contagious even though it’s not what you think
Let’s Harvest the Organs of Death Row Inmates – Let’s – permission Harvest means-collecting

Wed. Feb. 11

If you have Dementia, Can You Hasten Death As You Wished? NPR story discussion
Again, take credit for all your work
Reviewed Video
White Paper – a brief in advance piece of your best sources and the materials you plan to use
Think something is true and everyone else thinks is true as well
Find a controversial topic and find others that feel the same – validates you hypotesis
Think about going with sources that do not believe in what you are writing
Add something uniquely yours – be the first that explains why
Why are cats called cats
Stop looking for sources that you believe in
Opportunity to rethink – it’s a bad idea to form and idea before you start
We don’t think when we start communicating to others thats when we are thinking
While we are reading we are not thinking, we resist and don’t want to be convinced
Learning is adopting
When you try to tell someone
Single source immediately go to paper – start talking – free write – collect your sources
Reply to White Paper assignment

Mon. Feb. 9

Take credit for your work review-used bglunk as a demo
Schedule a professor conference in order to get your grade
Required to meet before Spring after Spring and during the last week
Asked for feedback on our experiences with the assignments
Articles on memory that are counterintuitive
Tiny grammar lessons-some trouble with their – why do we not want to use their, why-not to specify a gender
Gender is not binary we fall somewhere on the spectrum
Use their with plurals only, drop in a random gender often
Stay with a singular force you to make a gender choice
Sticking with plurals
Get ride of the pronouns
Look at the examples
Charlie Brown paragraph samples
Riddle – African-American the obvious would be Denzel Washington however society delegates African
Counterintuitive Summaries – what did we find interesting
Topic willing to devote few weeks of work look at how the mind works,memory, dreams
Take advantage of rewrites
Assignments – deep and narrow argument

Wed. Feb. 4

Housekeeping rules
Grading – went over samples of D to A work.  Examples that were used will be very helpful editing my current post.
Purposeful Summaries assignment
Begin all summaries with – It seems counterintuitive that….. sample of having three parents.  You don’t have to be accurate, just focus on small part of the original material and use only was useful.
Review Bonus Source
Is this photo ethical – warning picture may be offensive – does the photo service enough of a purpose.
Reviewed Video
White Paper – a brief in advance of your best sources and the materials you plan to use a
Read the white paper and give some feedback

Mon. Feb 2:

Remove uncategorized post
Need to request conference before class or after class and review grades
Important to do a rewrite to make improvements we can learn from other students posts
Edit post and send comment to David – Feedback Please and Grade
Moving Image reply some were lacking responsiveness due to not analyzing the visual
Speed up feedback process and ask a specific question
Adopted difference process used to go paragraph by paragraph
Mechanics and writing additions on the tool bar
Advice – get ride of pronouns
Clearing your throat – most important part of the first sentence is to get them to read the second sentence.
Never say, “I believe” or in “my opinion”
Preview Purposeful Summaries – summarize only the part of the article that serves your purpose. Find an echo of your own idea. Choosing to relay small part of authors work.
Reason we research to find out what exactly is the case.
Select Counterintuitive topic diving deep into research that you find interesting – engage in conversation of one or two.
What is counterintuitive, be prepared to discuss in class on Wed.
Cows and Chips – hire as many cows as you can and snacks to keep your readers grounded. Invest in abstract concepts
Review all assignments and remove second person

Wed Jan 28

• War by Edwin Starr
• Went over how to insert hyperlinks
• How to add categories
• Visual demonstration on how we should take the best sentences from our first assignment Je Suis Charlie and ripe them up, forget them.  Interesting, I’m sure I will get sick in 13 weeks when I read my first draft.
• Reviewed assignment structure.
• Background on stone money
• Discussed the currency of money in the US and it’s worth.