4. Week 8 Overview
A. Overview
1. Completion
2. Websites
3. Schedule
2. Websites
Log on to the internet and open 3 tabs:
1.
http://www.nauen0600.wordpress.com
2.
Access D2L at www.online.national.edu
3.
Access MFL at
http://foundations.mathxl.com/home_foundati
ons.htm.
7. Week 8 Lecture
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
About Week 8:
Essay Composition and Revision
3. Coursework
Learning Plan 8 covers essay composition-writing
and rewriting sentences and/or paragraph
reorganization to facilitate easy understanding.
Learning Plan 9 introduces editing methods.
There are 190 points available in these two
learning plans.
11. Week 8 Lecture
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
C. Peer Review
3. Coursework
Pair up with a partner.
Open your Comparison Essays from the desktop
of your computer.
Switch seats.
Complete the Peer Review that appears at the
end of your partner’s essay.
12. Week 8 Lecture
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
C. Peer Review
Note the following on your partner’s Word document:
What is the topic of your partner’s essay?
How does the introduction capture the readers’ attention
and build up to the thesis statement?
Highlight the last sentence in the introduction.
Highlight the re-stated thesis in the conclusion.
Is there an opinion or argument? Is this opinion debatable?
Why do you think so?
Highlight three (3) transitions that are used. Are they used
effectively?
Does the last sentence of the conclusion appropriately end
the essay? If not, how could it be revised?
14. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
Disc. 8: Revising (D2L).
In D2L, go to “Course Materials” and select "Discussions".
Click on “Discussion 8”.
Attach your Comparison Essay Outline that you just
reviewed with your partner in class. The essay should
have a complete Introduction and Conclusion
paragraphs and each of the body paragraphs should
have complete topic sentences.
Reply: Post a summary of your evaluation of your
partner’s essay. For example, can you identify the
thesis statement? Do all of the topic sentences relate
back to the thesis statement? Is there one thing the
writer could change to make his or her introduction
more interesting to a reader?
15. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
LP8.2 Assignment: Rough Draft (D2L).
1. Overview
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
Your Comparison Essay now has
a complete introduction and conclusion.
Now, you will use your outline to develop the bod
y paragraphs to finish a rough draft of
your essay.
16. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
LP8.2 Assignment: Rough Draft (D2L).
Directions:
1.
Open your Comparison Essay Outline file.
2.
Make revisions and edits as noted by your instructor and
student partner.
3.
Convert the Body of your Outline into paragraphs with 36 sentences (including topic and conclusion sentences). Add
transitions.
4.
Review for revision and editing elements.
5.
Save as “Reviewed Comparison Essay” on the desktop.
6.
Upload file to D2L: Dropbox-8.2 Assignment.
17. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
LP9.2 Assignment: Editing (D2L).
1. Overview
Directions:
2. Lecture
1.
3. Coursework
Upload your “Reviewed Comparison Essay” to D2L:
Dropbox-9.2 Assignment.
19. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
1. Overview
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
LP8.1 Assignment: Audience, Purpose & Academic Voice (D2L Quiz)
Question 1 (5 points). Which writing is better? Which sentence did you choose?
Explain why you think it is better.
A. The car screeched to a stop and a bunch of raggedy clowns tumbled out.
B. The automobile came to a sudden standstill and four men dressed in mismatched
clothing and shoes which were far too big climbed ungracefully from its doors.
Question 2 (5 points). Which writing is better? Which sentence did you choose and
why? Explain why you think it is better.
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, using the nom de plume Mark Twain, was a great
American writer and humorist whose work, though written at the turn of the last
century, is still among the best of all American literature.
B. Mark Twain, whose real name was Samuel Langhorne Clemens, wrote Tom
Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn more than 100 years ago. Both
novels are still in print.
Question 3 (5 points). Which writing is better? Which sentence did you choose and
why? Explain why you think it is better.
A. For twenty four years Abigail waited for her ship to come in.
B. Through the decades, Abigail contemplated the many scenarios of sudden and
uncompromised wealth but did not reflect particularly on the disadvantages of
acquiring it.
20. Week 8: Coursework
B. Week 8
1. Overview
LP9.1 Assignment: Analysis (Quiz)
2. Lecture
3. Coursework
Download the form for the Quiz at http://tinyurl.com/EN0600LP9-1 .
In D2L, go to “Assessments” and select "Quizzes".
Select “9.1 Assignment: Analysis”.
Start the Quiz.
Read the essay “What is Intelligence Anyway?” on pages 352 in Mosaics.
Answer the following questions:
1.
2.
3.
4.
What is the main idea or the author’s claim in this essay?
What would Asimov’s audience say education and intelligence have
in common?
What would Asimov say is his actual definition of intelligence?
What are inferences that you would make about Asimov’s
examples?
