Class, Thurs, 8/30

Live-Tweeting: #e110fall2018

Course

Schedule

• Xs to Drafts to Projects
• Writings due on Mondays at 10:00 am
• Tues, 11/06: Vote!

Grades

Questions

X1: First Impressions of Love Actually

Best Practices (Best Practices D1)

• In workshop groups: Your task is to highlight and consolidate the advice about teaching and learning writing that we came up with on Tuesday.  Begin by sorting the items listed in D1 into three meaningful groups. You do not have to include all the items, and you can merge similar ones if that seems useful. Come up with titles for each of your three new categories, and aim to list four or five items under each. (You can cut and paste from the document I’ve placed in your group folder.) Create a new document, titled Best Practices D2.docx, and post it to your Group folder.

Writing Geek

• Use one space after a period. See Farhad Manjoo, “Space Invaders” (Slate 2011).

To Do

1. Mon, 9/03, 10:00 am: View Love Actually. Write X1, and post it to your group folder on Google Drive.
2. Tues, 9/04, class: Read the X1s posted by the other members of your group sometime before class. Come to class with copies of their work—either on your laptop, or printed out. I will expect you to be able to refer to specific moments in each other’s X1s when you discuss them in class.

 

Class, Tues, 8/28

About E110 and This Section

Seminar Groups/TAs

The E [Main] Street Band

• Randall Coll, Groups 1 and 6
• Kathleen Lyons, Groups 2 and 7
• Danielle Haugk, Groups 3 and 8
• Jessica Thelen, Groups 4 and 9
• Daniel Whitley, Groups 5 and 10
• Jasmine Edwards, Undergraduate TA

Fastwrite

• Tell a story about a good experience you’ve had with writing in school—a moment when you learned something useful or felt successful or had some fun. Don’t simply offer the lesson or moral of your tale. Show what happened. Set the scene, describe the people involved, show how events unfolded. Try to tell your story in a way that lets your readers understand your point without needing you to explain it to them. I will ask you to read this piece aloud to introduce yourself to the other members of your seminar group.

Introductions

• Have each person in your person read their story to the group. But don’t talk about them right away. Instead listen quietly and take notes. See if you can identify some patterns or themes, some recurring experiences, in what the group has to say about learning how to write.

Best Practices for Teaching Academic Writing

• In seminar groups: Drawing on the notes that each of you has taken, put together a list of at least five best practices for teaching academic writing. Phrase the items on your list as complete sentences, and make them as interesting and non-obvious as you can. Appoint a secretary to type it up and email it to me. We’ll compare lists and ideas in class on  Thursday.

Practical Matters

Movies

• Make sure you have access to Love Actually and I Am Not Your Negro on Amazon Prime or Netflix. Alternatively, order DVD copies of both.

Connectivity

• Twitter: #e110fall2018, for live-tweeting class, and announcements
• WordPress
• Microsoft Word and Google Drive

Class Practices

• Food and drink
• Laptops and tablets
• Phones and social media
• Punctuality and deadlines

Writing Geek

Youse/yunz/y’all might want to think about this:

• Joe Pinsker, “The Problem With You Guys“, Atlantic (8/23/2018)

To Do

Please make sure that by our next class (Thurs, 8/30)  you have:

1. Obtained access to Love Actually and I Am Not Your Negro.
2. Created accounts on WordPress.com and Twitter. I
3. Downloaded Microsoft Office.
4. Read through the materials on this site. Jot down two or three questions, keyed to specific pages, that you’d like to ask about.