Counterintuitive Spring 2024

WED JAN 28

I do not like this new posting system/theme WordPress uses. But seeing as how I don’t know how to switch back to classic mode yet, I pretty much of to deal with it for now.

Remember to leave My Notes open during class. It indicates whether you are in class or not.

How to create a link within your post.

Highlight a word, then click insert link

Class is about revising your work. As much as you can. Remove yourself from your first draft as quickly as possible. Even if you’re first draft is already good. It helps you to create something better than that.

Assignment Deadlines

– Just do the work on time. It’s that easy. Don’t make it hard for no reason.

– Deadlines are fair. There are no excuses.

MON FEB 2

Today Professor Hodges opened by having one of his past students tell us about the writing lab and tutoring.

He later discussed the grading “code” system. As well as revising portfolio assignments, and requesting grades and feedback.

The mechanics tab is a helpful tool that teaches how to insert links, properly cite material, and edit posts.

The writing tab is a quick in depth “how to” when writing in the class. Useful tips and do’s and don’ts of writing.

– Identify and remove throat clearing

– Do not openly state opinion

– Provide background information when it is needed

– Do not speak in the second person

– Summarize work while still keeping important bits of information.

MON FEB 9

Take credit for all of your posts. To do this, enter your username into categories. Makes finding your previous posts much easier.

Professor David opened class today with conference schedule options. Must have at least three conferences. One before Spring Break, one after Spring Break, one for the end of the semester.

Began discussion about memories. The more we access a memory the stronger it becomes. More information soon forms.

Grammar Lesson

– Proper use of “their, they’re, there” and “it’s, its”.

– Remove gender pronouns as often as you can. Use “they, them, their”. Their is legal with a plural subject. “All writers want their work to be read”. Illegal with a singular subject

WED FEB 11

Remember something by not doing something. You may not remember key details, but you will definitely remember choosing not to do something.

“Top Down” chronology. Put the date at the top of your new notes for the day.

Makes it easier to organize and find notes.

Example of a proper visual rhetoric.

– Works better watching the video a few times with the volume off.

– There are signs in everything. Body language, background images, etc

White Paper discussion: Polio

Strengthen your thesis by researching topics that counter your topic/perspective. It will make you find new ways to counter them and learn more information on your own topic.

MON FEB 16

Chinese Censorship of the Internet

– China seems to be so proud of the censorship they created their anthem for it. The Mind and Spirit of Cyberspace Security. It actually has a fairly catchy melody, despite being fairly messed up.

Propublica

Remain as opinionated as possible.

Harvesting organs of Death Row inmates.

Death by removing organs.

A more humane death penalty? A painless alternative to lethal injection, hanging, and/or electrocution. Generates organs to those who need them.

MON FEB 23

Professor opened with a discussion about cheese. Cheese is pretty wonderful.

Body “yips”. When your body has a something like a jitter and it ruins your momentum.

Feedback/Grading

– Request feedback on assignments. When you receive feedback, reply and ask where you can make corrections, or argue. Everybody loves a nice argument. It’s something most people can learn from.

– Ask for grading on your assignment

White Paper discussion

– Come up with a practical hypothesis for your research topic.

– Develop a strong thesis statement. One that is both grabbing and factual

WED FEB 25

The definition of rape throughout the years. Sexist and treated women as if they did not matter.

Definition essay

– Wi-Fi

– Is using a neighbor’s unlocked internet connection without them knowing actually stealing?

– Is it possible to share an internet connection? Akin to asking a neighbor for sugar.

Definition is argument.

Citing Work

MON MAR 2

Pizza was ordered in class. It was radical

The assignment chart is a useful tool to figure out what assignments need to be completed, need feedback, or need replies.

Different types of claims

But first, pizza party.

Causal claim

Factual claim

Category claim

Quality claim

WED MAR 4

I believe the show professor is referring to is Gotham?

Discussion on claims and the Bosch v. Wec lawsuit

MON MAR 9

Professor For Life – If you want a paper torn apart (but in a constructive way!) Just shoot Professor Hodges a text or e-mail about your paper. Regardless of subject.

How to Open

Techniques to strengthen and grab readers to your introduction.

WED MAR 11

Proper understanding of subjects and verbs to add more “meat” to your arguments.

MON MAR 23

A “science experiment” in a Comp II class?

I think that the reason why the filter was able to capture air is because even though it has space to pour water out, it is also enclosed enough to keep pressure in.

MON MAR 30

Always look at the bigger picture, and think outside of the box. Take what you are being presented at face value, and logically respond to it from both sides.

It is true or false, reasonable or unreasonable, right or wrong.

Logic and ethics.

WED APR 1

Causal Arguments

We often make causal statements whether we notice it or not. It is a normal part of human communication as well as writing.

Immediate Cause

Remote Cause

Precipitating Cause

Contributing Cause

MON APR 6

Every written document can be an argument.

WED APR 8

MON APR 13

What’s Going On is an excellent song. Marvin Gaye is an excellent musician.

As is Sam Cooke.

Assertion and Denial

Assert is more or less a forceful claim

Denial is used to refute a claim but focusing on the technicalities of a subject.

WED APR 15

MON APR 20

Cite sources that are used within your paper. Articles read do not count.

WED APR 22

MON APR 27

WED APR 29

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.

MON MAY 4th

“May the fourth be with you,” Happy Star Wars day

WED APRIL 29 

Attended Class

MON APRIL 27

attended class

WED APRIL 22

Attended class

MON APRIL 20

Attended class

Quite excited about class outdoors wednesday

WED APRIL 15

Attended Class

MON APRIL 13

attended class

I seem to look at the clock at 705 every class… weird..

WED APRIL 8

Attended class

If your argument is weak, leave out the weak part to make it seem stronger

MON APRIL 6

Attended class

WED APRIL 1

This Charles guy is a lousy person.

Is Hodges a basketball fan? he seems to know his stuff..

When searching for causes, make sure to find the actual cause of something, and not correlation’s

MON MAR 30

I said all four cards needed to be flipped.  Only cards A and D needs to be flipped. Makes sense when I think of it.

Couldn’t fight off the nods, sorry..

50 claims might be a bit to many for this exercise… annoyingly long

WED FEB 25

Todays music choice was strange… Very “arabian nights”.

Use the opposing view of your topic and use it to strengthen the argument. Take what the people that support the view contrary to yours and point out what is wrong about it and why your side is right.

use Wikipedia sources to generate sources. Also use the rowan library sight.

MON MAR 23

welp, Spring break is over =/

Coffe Filter Riddle– Magic??? Sorcery?? NO!! it was the strength of surface tension of the water that held back even the strongest attempts by the weaker oxygen to break through the trap of the coffee filter.  BUT, the oxygen was able to out smart the water by drying the filter, thus eliminating the power of the surface tension. And yet again the city of metropolis is safe, thanks to the wits and smarts of oxygen.

American livestock raising is an UGLY business (learned about it in high school)… but an oh so delicious business…

MON MAR 9

I was in class today

When writing a paper, start with a conclusion, this will set the pace for the essay. Then go to the body, and aim to write the body with the set conclusion in mind. When all that is done, then write the open.

An argument cannot be won in the first sentence, but it can be lost.

WED MAR 4

Love me some southing piano.

Not much to take notes on today.. Mainly working on the assignment

MON MAR 2

Per my usual “Change of the month” habits, I typed out FEB in my date heading before realizing that is was now March.

Prof. David got pizza for the class.. Coolest professor ever?? Possibly.

Thanks again for the pizza, it hit the spot =)

WED FEB 25

For some reason my notes from last class, MON FEB 23 has magically disappeared, even though I was here, and did take notes…

Never start a essay with a definition, quickest way to lose someone’s attention.

Rape is surprisingly difficult to define

Is free Wi-fi REALLY free wi-fi??

WED FEB 18

For some reason, listening to the song “All Along the Watchtower” in the beginning of the class got The Rolling Stones “Give me Shelter” stuck in my head.. Dont know why

MON FEB 16

The Chinese are very proud of their censorship, so proud that it makes them want to sing.  And sing they do.

putting the word harvest with the word organs seems like a weird concept. All though I agree with the idea of doing this to death row inmates.

WED FEB 11

I have never not poured a quart of milk over my head

we went through a very in-depth look at a PSA for stroke awareness, which was very useful for our moving visual essays.

it can be useful to use a source that goes against our beliefs because you can use it to strengthen our argument.

Mon Feb 9

Did not see Professor David being a System of a down fan…

Always take credit for the work we do!

The university of Vancouver have eliminated gender biased pronouns, like him and her.

Use His or her to get rid of the use of the word their to describe one person.

WED FEB 4

we were given examples of what writing looks like at each grade level.

professor Dave got coffee for students, cool dude

introduce a summery with the statement “it seems counterintuitive…” to introduce a counterintuitive idea.

Wed Jan 28

Remember to open My Notes everyday in class.. It will be used as attendance When you finish writing you first draft, you must immediately get rid of the 2-3 best sentences in that draft, because they are the ones restricting you’re best writing.. Remember, the first draft is always ALWAYS pure crap. Yap is an island of Micronesia, near Germany, where the people of Yap lived. their money was giant circular stones, about the size of a man, that were called fay.  The people of Yap had to travel many miles and had to do a lot of work to get these giant stones. The large amount of work it took to obtain these fay is what gave it their value.  The value of the fay were based on the size cut and “shinyness” of the fay. The germans instructed the people of Yap to improve the streets or Yap.  After years of doing nothing, The germans came up with an idea to paint big X’s on the Yap’s fay. this made the people of Yap feel poor, and fixed the streets.  After this was done, the germans erased the X’s and the Yaps felt wealthy again.

Mon Feb 2.

We started the day with the Foo Fighters, great start.

try to avoid the use of the word “you” and other forms of the word, your you’re etc.

throat clearing:  the perceived need to prepare readers for the point that is about to be made.

never use ‘I believe’ or state that something is you opinion, its obvious that an essays is the opinion iof those who wrote it.

there is no need to summaries an entire work or chapter in ones own work, just use the part that makes sense to the point we are trying to make

Monday May 4

Here

Monday April 27

here

• Take out all by and its from essay
• Highlight quote hit quote button in menu bar and it will block quote for you
• Hyperlink urls in works cited to the title
• Fix FAQ quote
• elephants take a bow quotes
• Ringling Bros. website

Wednesday April 22

• Attended class

Monday April 20

• 2nd visual rewrite, definition rewrite, rebuttal rewrite, annotated bib, self reflective
• Attended class

Wednesday April 15

• Reading other’s work

Wednesday April 8

• Eliminating unnecessary if/then
• Say what you have to say and get to the point

Monday April 6

Attended class

Wednesday April 1

• Look at causation basics
  • immediate cause
  • Remote cause
  • Precipitating cause
  • Contributing cause
    • Don’t use correlations, find causes

Monday March 3o

• 1. False/Reasonable/Wrong
• 2. False/Reasonable/ Right
• 3. False/ Reasonable/ Wrong
• 4. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 5. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 6. False/Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 7. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 8. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 9. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 10. False/ Reasonable/ Right
• 11. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 12. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 13. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 14. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 15. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 16. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 17. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 18. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 19. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 20. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 21. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 22. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 23. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 24. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 25. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 26. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 27. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 28. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 29. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 30. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 31. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 32. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 33. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 34. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 35. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 36. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 37. False/ Unreasonable/Wrong
• 38. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 39. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 40. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 41. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 42. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 43. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 44. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 45. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 46. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 47. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 48. True/ Reasonable/ Right
• 49. False/ Unreasonable/ Wrong
• 50. True/ Reasonable/ Right

Wednesday March 25

• Important about Rebuttal: not to say that the arguer has an invalid point but to use specific facts to refute their argument
• http://scholar.google.com
• Research to form a thesis, not to prove it
• Research and read widely

Monday March 23

• Why does the filter that lets water through trap air?
  • the water fills the holes in the filter and doesn’t allow air out
  • update new post in A07 and cut and paste that into A06 so they are the same
  • Wednesday by noon!
  • not enough to say they have a lousy argument, use your cards and use specific facts

Wednesday March 11

• Elephants are tortured.
• Circus owners torture elephants.
• Elephants suffer torture.
• Always go active rather than passive
• Passive hides the subject
• Active is subject, verb, object
• I still don’t understand the difference
• A2, B2, C1, D2, E2, F1, G2, H2, I1, J1, K1, L2, M1, N2, O1, P1, Q1, R2, S2, T2, U1, V2, W2

Monday March 9

• Do intro last, conclusion early
• Sentences must make arguments, arguments must be persuasive
• Be reasonable, firm, and sympathetic
• Do not want to make the reader defensive
• loose argument if we do not have anything to argue about

Wednesday March 4

• Safer saws assignment, find different claims, explain them and dispute them
• Table Saw Injury Lawyer
•  claims make my head hurt

Monday March 2

• bought us dominos, one plain, one pepperoni, one sausage
• Safe saw discussion, saw stops before cutting skin

Wednesday Feb. 25

• Don’t open up a definition essay with an actual definition
• want to get reader’s interested
• want to define through different key words in essay
• need two sources, link sources through hyperlink in title
• EasyBib, Citation Machine
• a definition essay argues for a specific quality of the definition?

Monday Feb. 23

• Sources can be added or taken out of white paper
• Hypothesis: double check and make sure it is actually a hypothesis
• check plural agreement
• argue something specific and complex
• narrow topics that can be broadened by looking at different angles

Wednesday Feb. 18

• Definition: making a definition claim
• Categorical: naming of several examples of PTSD symptoms
• Causal: PTSD follows trauma is casual claim
• Categorical/ causal: Is PTSD contagious is a categorical question
  • Is PTSD contagious like the flu, or rubbed off on someone
  • trigger events cause reliving of trauma
  • Does family history cause some to get PTSD and not others?
  • He- who, Him- Whom

Monday Feb. 1

• small ass[gnment due tuesday m[dn[ght, read art[cle and do ass[gnment [n less than an hour- [s PTSD contagious
• [ don’t know why my “eye” key won’t work, [ts annoy[ng
• p[ck up on all the deta[ls [n each word of the “cla[ms”
• example: let’s harvest organs from death row [nmates

Wednesday Feb. 11

• Put “feedback please” n comment section
• look at white paper details about the writing process
• open sources and immediately free write about topic while still reading it
• take notes
• Reply to white paper post with feedback , critique and questions encouraged by next class

MON. FEB. 9

• Avoid gender and go with plurals, All writers want their work to be read
• Teacher conferences for grades, 24 hours advance notice
• Rewrite of Visual rhetoric, A02, create new blog- A04, by noon of wednesday
• describe images, colors, how the scenes change, individuals – well enough that someone else can imagine what it looks like
• Sunday at midnight “Pitch” persuade topic

WED FEB. 4

• Summaries should not be repetitive or too lengthy
• have reasonable claims
• Make changes- possible regrade
• Give feedback on feedback
• Purposeful Summaries
  • taking best most appropriate concepts from original authors work, while shaping them to your own needs
  • right summary that serves your purpose
  • does not need to include everything that is in the article, only what’s useful to you
  • look at example counterintuitive summaries

WED JAN. 28 Professor Hodges opened the class with WAR by Edwin Starr

• Remember to open my notes everyday of class, it’s how he takes attendance!
• word press saves all old drafts, highlights the changes
• Don’t use first draft, use ideas NOT sentences
• Stone Money
  • Island in micronesia named YAP ; money: FEI
  • was a colony of Germany
  • Fei, were huge limestone discs
  • the better it was prepared the more it was worth
  • had more of a mental satisfaction of having the fei, rather than physical proof of the fei

Monday Feb. 2

• NO second person! Use the term WE instead of YOU
• See mechanics tab to include hyperlinks in blog posts
• Get rid of pronouns
• Throat clearing: process of over preparing readers for what you are about to say
• no I believe or in my opinion!
• that reminds them that it is the guess of one individual
• back up reasoning with background when needed
  • Summarizing assignments
  • summarize only the part of the article that relates to your work
  • research to find clarity on topic 
  • helps eliminate fluff, and read better
  • Pick counterintuitive topic that will be interesting to research the rest of the semester
  • Cows and Chips
  • include abstract comments with some physical tangible evidence
  • check out examples of animated language to engage reader in your writing

Wednesday, January 28th 2015

• Remember to always open my note in class.
• The first draft should be ripped in pieces to proceed on onto the following drafts.
• German put crosses on the yap stones “money” to oblige the to construct boulevard in their country.
• 1920-1930s USA converting french dollars into gold brought down the value of US dollar in gold.

Monday, February 2nd 2015

• Feedback or Comment please.
• You is not acceptable in writing, don’t instruct the audience.
• Never say I believe or in my opinion in an essay.
• When summarizing, tell the story in the writing not about the author.
• HW is summarizing the counterintuitive Olympics, Topics, Organ donor section

Monday, February 9th 2015

• Only use “their” if the reference is to a plural subject, If it’s singular pronouns are conflicted with gender choice.
• Every idea should be a good one for a writer.
• Charlies Theron and Denzel Washington.
• A week to find 5 sources to dedicate your semester essays on.

Wednesday. February 11th 2015

• Shocked blog NPR all timers.
• Find controversial topics that can raise new understandings.
• Finding people with the same opinion helps strengthen your point.
• Instead of reading and collecting sources, try to put it on paper while your reading. Make notes on what you think most interesting.

Monday, February 16th 2015

• Propaganda doesn’t land itself to beautiful music.
• Eating in a plate that matches the color of dish will make an individual eat more than an individual that eats in a plate with a contrast color.
• Mass collaboration can solve many conflicts.
• Converting thesis to hypothesis

Wednesday, February 18th 2015

• PTSD is contagious, behavioral contamination
• Again the “U” is banned in the class
• PTSD can be transferred to an individual with an emotional attachment toward the PTSD patient.

Monday, February 23rd 2015

• Conjecture about the result is the best way to use a hypothesis.
• Don’t look at a topic by sides because there can be many.
• Don’t think as a “yes” or “no” side.
• Search one reason and explore it through multiple angles.

Wednesday, February 23rd 2015

• What is rape
• Billions of dollars stolen from the pension fund and was put back because it was the past.
• 6 sources for the works cited.

Monday, March 2nd 2015

• I was present when we had pizza.
• (Chirality) Molecules can be right or left handed in non organic elements.
• All molecules in organic elements are left handed.
• No Tuesday midnight assignment, class time will be completing the claims.
• Can you sue saw makers despite the repetition of ads talking about its danger?
• Causal claim, Categorical or other claims.

Wednesday, March 4th 2015

• Table Saw Injury Lawyer “claims”

Monday, March 9th 2015

• Class work

Wednesday, March 11th 2015

• Elephants are tortured.
• Circus owners torture elephants.
• Elephants suffer torture.

Monday, March 23rd 2015

• This is only a guess but I think since the water itself is being attracted down, the air only can easily makes it way down the bowl.
• Short essays will be rewritten twice.
• By Wednesday update the definitional essay A07 and copy paste A07 into A06.
• To refute someone after providing multiple evidence, as for his/her evidence. Also providing a strong evidence can refute the argument.

Wednesday. March 25th 2015

• How to access information on Rowan Campbell library ebooks and articles.
• Finding sources on Google Scholar.
• Search broadly and read widely.
• Training, positive and negative reinforcement.
• Rebuttal Argument due on Sunday at midnight.

Monday, March 30th 2015

• Nothing is really simple
• Respond to the premises

Wednesday, April 1st 2015

• Exercise due after class.

Monday, April 6th 2015

• Attended Class.

Monday, April 13th 2015 

• Assertion and Denial.
• The shooting of the 52 years old Walter Scott.

Wednesday, April 15th 2015

• Comment or Rebuttal and Definition.

.Monday. April 20th 2015

• We will have proposal plus 10.
• Portfolio content Visual Rewrite, Definition Rewrite, Causal Rewrite, Annotated bibliography, Self reflected statement short paper, and the research paper.

Wednesday, April 22nd 2015

• Course Evaluation
• Picnic

Monday, April 27th 2015

• Overview of the Research position paper

Wednesday, April 29th 2015

• Self Reflective Statement
• Portfolio assignment

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).

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

May 4 – Monday

Je Suis Charlie

Building Portfolios

April 29 – Wednesday

My notes did not save

April 27 – Monday

No filler or repetition

Use Blockquote for Italicized quotes

Earth Day – Wednesday

Did the Course Evaluation on Banner

April 8 – Wednesday

If you’re argument is weak you can leave out a weak premises and hope no one notices, but very easy to refute if someone notices.

Remember this link http://counterintuitive2015.com/2015/04/08/how-to-start-2/

April 1 – Wednesday

Causation Statements – what caused something to happen

Different types of causes – Immediate, Remote, Precipitating, and contributing.

Precipitating – layers – underlying causes

False Causation – some causal, some correlations

Provide more information for essay

You have time to catch up so do it Kyle.

Causal Chain – X causes Y, which causes Z.

March 23 – Monday

The air cannot escape because of the surface tension of the water.

Spotting arguments and spotting flaws and looking at information.

How do you refute? You find the other persons evidence. You could give as much evidence as you want and it might not be enough.

March 11 – Wednesday

Weak (passive) – Elephants are tortured.

Stronger (active) – The circus owners torture elephants.

Strongest (Active) – Elephants suffer torture.

Verb makes a claim, instead of says write refutes.

Active does something

Passive is being done too.

March 9 – Monday

Professor for Life

Do your introduction last, and do your conclusion early.

When you’re finished you go back to introduction and make the boldest and most thought provoking claims in your introduction.

Make a thought provoking argument for the first sentence.

You can lose the argument in the first sentence.

March 4 – Wednesday

My guess was wrong. I thought of Gotham but I didn’t want to guess it out loud.

Come to meeting with an agenda.

One small claim is untrue, then the whole claim can be said to be untrue.

March 2 – Monday

*Remember to change hair part*

Professor Hodges orders us pizza.

Make a conference appointment.

Review new counterintuitive topics

If you cant find claims, you’re not looking hard enough.

The pizza was palatable and I wish I did not go to Chick-Fil-a before class.

February 25 – Wednesday

Definition Essays – Takes the definition and can define through moral value, law, and define every single thing that the word defined word could mean.  Think about loopholes.

A definition can be an argument.  Define from new perspective.

Never actually told definition.  The definition is the argument that establishes terms  under which the rest of proof will be conducted.

2 sources on work cited page

February 16th – Monday

Think of new ways to approach topics other then collecting and relating.

Need to be certain your position is correct.

Be as opinionated as you can be.

February 9th – Monday

Schedule an appointment for grade conference.

Make a singular gender choice or make everything plural.

February 4th – Wednesday

Remember to put all the posts under Author to take credit for it.

Went over grading. “A ‘C’ is a ‘D’ and a ‘D’ is an ‘F'”

You can look at an earlier save if you go to edit and click on an earlier save.

Always leave feedback on the feedback.

Serve a purpose with your summary- draw any conclusion you would like – use the material to create and conclusion you would like.

Start with “It seems counterintuitive that…” and make that your thesis.

February 2nd

Professor opened with Maps by The Front Bottoms

I did not hit update on the notes I don’t know why but thats why they are not here.

WED JAN 28 Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr. Open your notes and write something important that shows you participated in class if you are here. You can attach a link by highlighting a word and hitting the chain things. As long as you put something reasonable in by the deadline you can always edit it before the grade. Your first draft is always crap, no matter how great you think it is, even if it is great, its still crap. Yap was an island in Micronesia- in Pacific owned by Germany. 1904- Anthropologist wrote a book about the people of Yap and their Stone Money – HUGE LIMESTONE DISKS Nearest Limestone is 400 miles away. Shaped and brought Limestone on canoes. Stone Money – Fay Anyone could hold their fay but if its theirs than thats all their riches. Man made best Fay ever-lost it but people told story about how great this Fay was and therefore was the richest man on the island. Germans wanted paths built so they were up to code with them. Germans impoverished their fay until they repaved the road. France wanted gold from US but did not want trouble and expense so US set it aside for France. INFLATION

Monday April 20

• Coming up with good titles

Monday April 13

• Article 1 for Walter Scott shooting

Monday April 6

• Attended Class
• Nancy Pelosi is the minority leader of the United States House of Representatives, and a year after Hurricane Sandy she made a speech addressing the fact that Congress has to take care of the damage done by this storm. She says how the federal government has a responsibility and owes these people, yet so many of those who suffered have not gotten back into their homes. Pelosi understands the government and what should be happening in order to help the homes that were destroyed and all the lives that were lost.

Monday MARCH 30

• Mac McClelland is diagnosed with PTSD
• Card game- Card A and Card D need to be flipped over.

Wednesday MARCH 25

• Important about rebuttals: not effective to ask the author for more evidence
• Use Google scholar instead of regular Google
• A lot of useful information out there, just have to find it and utilize it
• Don’t use easy rebuttals

Monday MARCH 23

• I have NO idea why the coffee filter traps air since it has holes in it water should go through it.
• Do assignment in A07 and then copy it into A06 so they are the same.
• Use the links for our rebuttal next week.

Monday MARCH 9

• Start with conclusion, introduction last
• Strong opening

Wednesday MARCH 4

• Who does Brett look like
• Group work- safe saws

Monday MARCH 2

• Order[ng p[zza.

Wednesday FEB 25

Monday FEB 23

• Edited people’s white papers
• Mechanical exercises

Wednesday FEB 18

• Is PTSD ‘contagious’?
• Contagious may not be the right word, but possibly the best word for the situation/article
• Grammar lessons

Monday FEB 16

• Harvest Organs of death row inmates

Wednesday FEB 11

• If you want feedback, comment feedback please in the comment/reply area
• Watched stroke awareness video
• White paper model
• Watched father involvement video

Monday FEB 9

• Met in room 134
• Take credit for work, categorize in username
• Teacher conferences, schedule 24 hours in advance
• Riddle: Charlize Theron is an African American
• Need to pick a counterintuitive topic within the next week
• Visual rewrite due by noon Wednesday

Wednesday FEB 4

• Went over grade levels
• Browse topics/write summaries for Monday
• Give feedback on his feedback
• Went over examples of summaries

Monday FEB 2

• Tutor talked to us in the beginning of class.
• Choose a counterintuitive topic. (browse topics) *will be using this topic for the next few weeks*

Wednesday JAN 28

Professor Hodges opened with WAR by Edwin Starr. Remember to open ‘my notes’ every day in class to indicate we were here because this is how he takes attendance. Stone money- Micronesia

MAY 4 2015

Portfolio check

Last class 😦

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APRIL 27 2015

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – The Rascal King

• Super Nostalgia- featured in childhood game ‘Rogue Trip’

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APRIL 22 2015

John Barleycorn Picnic? Picnic. The Rolling Stones

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APRIL 20 2015

The White Stripes Exercises One and Two

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APRIL 15 2015

Jay Hawkins – Put A Spell on You

Outside today? Exercises 1 and 3…

Unreliable Witnesses and Quoting a Dictionary

No outside 😦

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APRIL 13 2015

Speakers don’t work

Change is Gonna Come

Assertion and Denial

• Can neither confirm nor deny.
• Not telling truth nor lying.
• Can deny all accusations given just one is falsely accused.

The Walter Scott Case

• The shots didn’t have to be lethal, nor eight shots.
• Always other options.
• Scott tried making a violent escape, putting not only the officer but the community at risk.

/////////// APRIL 8 2015 Fiona Apple workshop stuff. eliminate if/thens ////////// APRIL 6 2015 Attended Class ////////// APRIL 1 2015 Lobi something something Add titles to essays Causal Arguments-

See A09

Focus more causal, what causes the collaboration. Oppressed slaves, driven/paid/competitive cosmonauts, compensated translators. *frightened? //////// MARCH 30 2015

• PTSD again
• Rough sex is a cure for PTSD?
• Violence towards women is leading cause of PTSD

‘Advertising Failure’ Evaluation due Tues Night ////////// MARCH 25 2015 -get to classic editing mode by WP Admin by homepage. Rebuttal – Being able to back an argument with solid, provable evidence. Evidence that is logical and follows reasoning. Power plants that failed in Fukishima were built on a fault line and right on the ocean, whereas power plants elsewhere may be, and are, more strategically planned for. So the argument that power plants are bad, because Fukushima’s plant was bad, is invalid and not a solid rebuttal. ////////// MARCH 23 2015 Pixies – Greens and Blues Fruit-loop baths Snow-Birth-Day Coffee Filter-

The coffee filter was wet when put under the water, which leads me to believe the preexisting water caused a barrier between the mesh and air outside, trapping the air under the mesh as a bowl would.

///////////// MARCH 11 2015 Elephants are tortured. Circus owners torture elephants. Elephants suffer torture. ////////////// MARCH 9 2015 considering conference paper change, had a rough time finding more sources. professor for life How to begin an essay:

write backwards. start with conclusion, write the intro towards the end

////////////// MARCH 4 2015 crazy piano music missed meeting – scheduled for the wrong Wednesday. some current tv drama -claims workshop ///////////// MARCH 2 2015 molecules have right-or-left handedness.

half spin left and half spin right.

life has chosen left-handed molecules, or vice-versa. All organic molecules spin left.

Hair-parting: Jimmy Carter. Make conference Cut’s self with miter saw, wins suit against table saws Types of Claims /////////// FEB 25 2015 -sum 41 and alien ant farm -definitions

• don’t write “according to”
• boring

MLA works-cited /////////// FEB 23 2015 -jazz music -magic words /////////// FEB 18 2015 -chronic nose-bleeding -types of claims -My feature in “Worth Sharing” scared me. You made me think I actually wrote a paragraph-sized sentence. -mechanical troubles //////////// FEB 16 2015 started class off with some string-quartet covers Chinese censorship choir -The Mind and Spirit of Cyberspace Security Mike Judge – ‘Silicon Valley’ topics —> hypothesis -ME! – Harvesting organs //////////// FEB 11 2015 right to die? 40 year old, 91 now, Margaret Bentley requests under mentally-disabling circumstances wishes to cease being fed and cared for, she’d rather die than live disabled. Nursing home refuses to honor wishes as when they feed her, she still opens her mouth. Stroke video White Paper – notes

-finding supporting opinions to strengthen argument

-finding agreeing and supportive sources is intuitive, need to be counterintuitive

–After reading sources, write about sources. don’t “think or organize”

-read white paper, leave feedback

Do 5 sources, due Sun ///////////////// FEB 9 2015 Mr. David has a good taste in music (Toxicity) 3 conferences, once before break, once after, once for final portfolio. plural- they’re/their/them. singular- his/ her/ jher Denzel was born in New York. //////////////// FEB 4 2015 3 Topic Summaries- Sun Night -predictions grab bag //////////////// WED JAN 28 Remember to open My Notes at the start of every class for attendance and to take notes. Look out for “mechanics page” Links in Posts -Copy -Post Link Button -Enter Link and details Post A02 Stone Money- Island in Micronesia Yap, currency is Fei. ~20 years in the 1900’s Yap was a colony of Germany. ~1904, anthropologist visited Yap, “The Island of Stone Money”. The Fei of Yap were large, huge limestone disks. ~5ft. Bigger, shinier, smoother Fei is more valuable. NO LIMESTONE ON YAP. 400 miles in canoe, to island with limestone, carve it there, bring it back. Huge expenditure of work, gave it its value. The Fei were presented in front of homes/huts. No one needed to move Fei, just changed possession. Wealthy Yap in 1904 sent others to limestone and carved an enormous Fei, which sank during a storm. “wow you should have seen this”. No proof needed, people of Yap honored the story. To this day, three generations later, the guy’s descendant is still wealthiest. The germans who owned the island wore shoes and used carts. The Yap were barefoot and walked on coral paths. “Confiscated” the Fei by painting them. The Yap, fixed roads, then Germans removed the black marks. FORT KNOX. Gold no one has ever seen. Brazil, ~1950. President wanted to build a new capital. Not enough money. Printed a lot of money (cruzeros). Lasted about 40yrs. Inflation was 80%/month. Four economists “tricked” 150 million Brazilians. URV (unit of real value). new currency. 1 URV = 80 Brazilian Currency. Inflation lowered. Changed currency to Reals (Re-ales). ////////////////////////// ////////////////////////// MON FEB 2 Guest Speaker for writing center rowan.mywconline.com “feedback please” “grade please” Don’t speak in the second person. No You, Your, Yours Throat clearing- over preparing, too much intro provide background exactly when it is needed Browse counterintuitive topics list ///////////// Cows and Chips physical objects to tie ideas and concepts ////////////