MON MAY 4

Last class of the semester.  Only have 3 4-credit classes for next semester, public speaker “sold out” despite the fact there are approximately 50 sections… just my luck.  Charlie Hebdo to Portfolio.  Possible change to the portfolio contents.  6 Primary with 2 Secondary Pieces of Portfolio, total of 8.

 

WED APR 29

Hyperlink the support for the core values in the self reflective statement.  Last day of class is Monday, exams begin on Tuesday, Wednesday is our Portfolio/Grades conferences.  Don’t argue for a lower grade.  Housekeeping and the portfolio category entries.  Class Ends Early

 

MON APR 27

I’m fairly decent.  Center the title for the paper.  First Letter capitals in the title.  Bold.  Hyper link title in works cited.  Newspaper: “”, publication: italics.  After annotated bibliography, post reply for Boylan’s Folly.

 

WED APR 22

Robin Hood and Little John walking through the forest.  Think I fixed the keychain access popup for good.  Finished Course Eval.

 

MON APR 20

Portfolio: 3 argument pieces, final paper, annotated bibliography, and self-reflective statement.  About a week left for the final paper…  Titles for the argument pieces.  Final Paper Qs, written using 3 argument pieces?  Working on the 2 Assignments.  Didn’t get to   desperate house wives.

 

WED APR 15

The Hennessy Viper GT is the worlds fastest production car with a top speed of 270.49 mph.  Working on feedback for Hashmeesh, Skyblue, and Juggler.

 

MON APR 13

Video of the encounter.  They talk about how he has no insurance, makes a run for it when cop goes back to cruiser.  Camera footage cuts back in when man runs from cop after confrontation.  Cop shoots several times as man runs away.  Cop acted as judge jury and executioner because the threat concluded when he was running away from the cop.  Blacks are the highest percentage of unarmed police involved shootings but the race of the officers who are involved in the shootings is more equal.  Editorial board seemed to be more emotional and racially charged take on the the situation.  While Charles Blow’s articles seemed to be more unbiased and factual.

 

WED APR 8

ACLU, non violent crime, what crime did they commit?  Alluded to the idea that they didn’t commit a crime, however, they did.  So what crimes have they been convicted of?  Evaluating the student essay how to start arguments.  Eliminating if/then, eliminate the uncertainty, make an argument!  State what you believe to be the truth without introducing the idea that you may be wrong.  Eliminating if then, got to #6.

 

MON APR 6

Attended Class

 

WED APR 1

Professor replies.  Causation: Immediate(immediate reasons), Remote(seemingly old and unrelated), Precipitating(event that causes action), Contributing(One of several events).  Correlations need more explanation or support for it to be a cause.  Birth weight and parent’s IQ are causal.  “Copy to come”? Brief response to causal arguments.

 

MON MAR 30

Card puzzle(Only Card A), accidentally posted to card puzzle as well as agenda.  Secondary PTSD, for Mac McClellan, she suffers from it due to a shared experience about the Haitian earthquake.  70% accuracy for mammograms, kaiser’s is over 80%, as good as the technology could be.  Long long assignment of moral truthful and reasonableness of the cancer article.  The assignment was confusing though…

 

WED MAR 25

Rebutting an argument is more than just saying there isn’t enough evidence or saying the evidence isn’t valid.  The rebuttal comes from the specific problems you can identify with their argument(i.e. there was little evidence against the nuclear power being faulty as often as the author of the article alluded to.)  Commenting about using google scholar to find and article and rowan library to get it for free.  May or may not be helpful with my paper on happiness.  Never used google scholar before.  “Positive Reinforcement”, can be a negative thing.  Works Cited for rebuttal argument with parenthetical citations, choose a worthy opponent for the takedown.  Talk to Alex and/or Bobby about your topic.

 

MON MAR 23

Back from spring break, still getting used to light still being outside when we meet for class.  Surface tension of the water in the mesh allows the filter to act as a single “airtight” cup, allowing the air to become trapped.  Nuclear power rebuttal review.

 

WED MAR 11

Spring Break approaches…(one class left this week).  Rate the professor.  Elephants are tortured.  Circus owners torture elephants.  Elephants suffer torture.  Passive and Active verbs.  Choose active, avoid passive.  Cream album.  A-W answered.  15 minutes left.  Leaving early. SPRING BREAK! (Don’t worry I’ll get some of the revisions that have been left done :D)

 

MON MAR 9

Did the professor use the remote to turn on the projector?  Start by writing a conclusion(set a goal), and aim for it.  If you don’t think you’ll make it, change the goal so that you can achieve it.  The truth doesn’t matter when it comes to the first sentences(or at least you don’t have to prove it.)  The pursuit of happiness is the greatest source of unhappiness in the general public.  Making the first paragraph with with 20 min left!

*Professor, I’m considering switching the focus of my happiness essay to encompass contentment rather than happiness.  Feelings of happiness seem more vague than being content with ones life/possessions/friends.

 

WED MAR 4

Who does Brett look like?  Reviewing the many possible claims in the courthouse news article.  Assigned to article to determine the claims that we will determine.  Government’s Claim about a Commission discussion’s effect on consumers or industry.  This assignment took up the rest of the class time.

 

MON MAR 2      (See Pizza Below)

Left and right handed molecules, organic (left-handed), inorganic (50/50).  Hair part can help socially.  Everyone is very surprised that we are currently ordering $30 worth of pizza :D.  New chart about missing assignments and whether or not we have posted comments or feedback with respect to our work.  Sawmakers should not be required to install saw stop.  If you cut your hand off with their saw, YOU CUT YOUR HAND OFF. If you buy a rapidly spinning sharp saw and don’t understand the risks, you really shouldn’t be buying a saw in the first place, know what you’re getting into.  (Pizza arrives at 7:30).  Wednesday, types of claims determined for the saw stop assignment.

 

WED FEB 25

Smooth Criminal Cover: Alien Ant Farm.  Define rape.  Can you really steal wifi(answer is yes!)?  Definition argument for the category/definition essay.  Did governor Whitman steal from government employees, yes, did she mean well, yes, but that’s besides the point.  Sources for the works cited can come from rowan library database (Prof Search, Ref Search).  I personally have yet to use any of the rowan library resources, or writing center resources.  Went over definition essay on whether or not gays are a protected class/ should be a protected class.  Recap with the Riddle of defining Rape. P.S. I didn’t look it up, that was all me.

 

MON FEB 23

Pen caps may be delivered and received as a projectile.  Engage the professor in comments section.  betterthanyou’s 4 words 4 assignment technique.  I look forward to some help with my hypothesis, it took me awhile to come up with one that I could put down on “paper”.  It is an abstract subject but I do enjoy the subject matter, and believe it is counter intuitive.  One aspect of a research paper, with many facets!  Rewrite/revise/answer comments!  Tricky mechanical editting.

 

WED FEB 18

Don’t forget to call at 7.  A lot of time will be spent on critical reading posts…

Definition Claim: define what a thing is

Categorical Claim: members or things that belong to a group

Causal Claim: Infer that something causes something else(PTSD develops following trauma)

Contagious is a loaded word.  Has a lot of baggage, makes it seem like the plague so people won’t want to help.  So the secondary PTSD isn’t really from the war, its from the traumatic actions Caleb.  [Thatdude, tagfcomp2, albert, mopar, cptpoostain…skyblue].  Last 15min on mechanical troubles.  “Which” always after a comma, while that is for continuing a thought.  He who, him whom 😀 (always wanted to know that!).  First plural, then posessive (other_).

 

MON FEB 16

Kronos Quartet.  China and the censorship choir.  Propublica is a news organization about the way news is delivered.  Work and Poetry, write some in your free time about valentine’s day.  Phillip Levine, Mother Jones(some counterintuitive articles; Citizen Troll, breaking Chinese gamers, etc.).  If we don’t feel that a topic is counter-intuitive enough, stick with it and check the angles.  Be certain in your topic, state as fact, but mean that “so you say”, confidence in your opinion/hypothesis.    Youtube channel GOOD.  Harvest of organs could be a viable exectution method, but then the surgeon’s become the executioners…

 

WED FEB 11

“blackthorn rose” was in the search bar at the beginning of class, the sound of piano and saxophone filled the room.  Begins with NPR broadcast(shots blog) about end of life decisions and when they should be made.  Prof. Hodges living will – Pull the Plug.  Never forget this moment with a quart of milk.  Class review of stroke awareness wedding.  Value or No Value in getting agreeing sources.  Challenge what you think you know, find people who disagree so you can get better ideas.  Think of it like a magnet: if 2 topics agree and confirm one another, theres only one way to go(2 magnets smack together).  However if there are two topics that disagree and don’t confirm one another, then the sky is the limit(They repel and there is an infinite amount of places that magnet can go and do next).  White Paper page; about polio and infectious diseases, why everyone will never get completely vaccinated. Round out the class with some more examples of class analysis of moving visuals.

 

MON FEB 9

Professor Opens with Devil’s Haircut by Beck and Everlong by the Foo Fighters.  New default for categories(Hey I forgot to categorize!).  Three mandatory conferences, now in Bozorth 134.  Meetings are before and after class 2x a week.  Good memories are lies!  In Vancouver schools people are referenced exclusively by neutral pronouns, or use plural pronouns.  Sticking with singular forces gender, go with plurals to eliminate gender, or…kill the pronouns(useless), or use first person plural(we, our).  Keep ’em straight!  Charlie Hebdo, don’t refer to oneself(my, i, me).  A04 is the rewrite opportunity for A02. Try making a list of 10 vague statements, progressively getting more vague, no specifics whatsoever :D.  A05 is a proposal for the summaries, again, don’t be vague!!!

 

WED FEB 4

Professor opens up with some smooth blues.  Counterintuitive topics will require a 10-15 source annotated bib, choose the topic well (1 week). Summarize 3 topics by sunday midnight.  Pure and Polished crap…  Eliminate redundant and irrelevant pieces of writing!    Now try the revision test, the rest of this paragraph will be in  a separate version.  Richest man alive: caveman who first discovered diamonds.  Most useless things are the most valuable…GOLD!  START ALL SUMMARIES LIKE SO:

“Is seems counterintuitive that…”; Pick a purpose and extract the relevant information that fits your purpose.  Photographers can be light shed on tragedy or vultures taking advantage of the situation.

 

MON FEB 2

Professor Hodges opened with Maps by The Front Bottoms.  Rowan.mywconline.com courtesy of Jacqueline from the writing center.  Uncategorized posts are quickly disappearing, yay!  “Feedback_Please” (no underscore) is the magic word.  3D6? Monday Wednesday before after class for conferences.  Local and Global comments are the two different errors/comments.  Mechanics and Writing have appeared!  Old mode easier for adding categories, I agree, older software seems to be getting better and better than the new stuff(Windows XP > Windows 8).  NO SECOND PERSON!(You, your, yours)  Don’t lecture or sermonize, treat them like 3rd person adults.  Shoot pronouns on site!  Throat Clearing: the process by which you prepare the reader for what happens next.  Keep the people reading down the line; 1st to 2nd to 3rd…, don’t give away the ending!  Hook reader-then facts, create the need to know.  Use strong convictions and claims to pass your opinions on to your readers.  Provide information to prove a theory, after the theory has been presented! Doesn’t have to be chronological.  Unecessary to summarize an entire work for support, use only what is needed for support.  Don’t go looking for your truth, research to find the truth, use an open mind when handling your evidence for support.  Strain for the best parts, filet mignon rather than the whole cow.  Check out the counter intuitive topics, select one as the focus of our narrow topics, has to be counterintuitive topic.  Choose wisely.  Use physical tangible objects to portray your writing into the readers mind.  4 5s = $20, government involvement in value.

 

WED JAN 28

Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr.  Remember to open MY NOTES in order to receive credit for being in class…Went over linking URLs, see above “WAR”, use for citing sources.Mechanics Tab: Coming SoonBest Sentences in first draft are doomed to oblivion(aka trashcan).  They hold back the good wok you are trying to achieve.  We have issues with posting assignments on time…  😦    The Yap live on yap with fei in their pockets, very, very, large pockets (limestone, non indigenous to Yap, 400 miles to get their coins): Similar to France asking for the backing of gold from US Treasury (Fort Knox). $20 worth of potato chips :D.  Brasilia is where the world cup was held this past June.  Economics lesson on inflation (last 15 minutes).