Day 17

1. Attendance
2. Thoughts on reflection drafts

• Save your document in the right format. .rtf should work.
• You do not need to compliment me to get a good grade. Honest and polite opinions are completely ok.
• Do not just describe what happened, also tell me interpret and discuss the current outcome.
• Write a paragraph!
• Writing overall is much better than in previous paragraphs. 

 3. Analyzing persuasive strategies

• Discuss this article.
• What is the rhetorical context? What is the rhetorical situation? What persuasive rhetorical devices are used?

4. Logical Fallacies 

First, let's do an activity.

Then, let's look at this logical fallacies powerpoint. Fill out the handout I will give you meanwhile. 

Next Class:
Logical Fallacies, Writing Persuasive Strategies

Homework: 

•  Start working on writing your rhetorical analysis now. Use what we learned today to help you. Your first draft of the Rhetorical Analysis essay will be due November 8th at 9AM. Please analyze the essay we read in class today or this essay you will read for the next class.
• Read this essay for next class. Look for the rhetorical context and ethos, pathos, and logos.
• Read this handout on logical fallacies from the University of North Carolina
• Your paragraph portfolio is due Thursday ,October 23rd at 9AM. 
• Use this template and then turn in the assignment to compass 2g. I will discuss it in class.
• The rubric with guidelines is here.
• Everyday the portfolio is late, your grade drops 25%. 

Day 16

1. Attendance
2. Thoughts on paragraphs.

• Four separate paragraphs. One for each topic: compare/contrast, cause/effect, process, and reflection.
• Be careful with commas and run on sentences.
• Remember format.
• Be careful with word choice.
• Look at the rubric to give you help. 

3. Review Rhetorical Situations and Persuasive Strategies
Let's take this fun quiz. Not for a grade. 

4. How to do a Rhetorical Analysis Paper

• First, let's go through this powerpoint. Why is analysis important?
• Next lets go through your homework you did last class. 
  
• If you forgot (tsk,tsk) here is this sheet and this chart 
• Finally,use these guiding questions to write a more detailed analysis on the board.

Next Class: Identifying logical fallacies and evaluating persuasive strategies.

Homework:

• Your paragraph portfolio is due Thursday,October 25th at 9AM. 
• The rubric with guidelines is here. 
• Your reflection paragraph is due Friday, October 18th at 9AM. You may also send it to me earlier through e-mail. 
• Start working on writing your rhetorical analysis now. Use what we learned today to help you. Your first draft of the Rhetorical Analysis essay will be due November 8th at 9AM. 
• For next Tuesday read this article and then fill out this chart. Write a short analysis on the article using these questions.
• Don't worry about being perfect in your writing. The purpose is to get you thinking

• Writer's Help exercises- should be done by next Tuesday. These are to help you with your writing, as I do not have time to teach you grammar.
• Recognizing wordiness 1
• Revising for Conciseness 

Day 15

1. Attendance

2. Housekeeping

• Workload is going to increase. Be careful managing your time!
• Free grammar tutoring!!!!!

3. Rhetorical devices- Understanding Rhetorical Situations

Rhetorical Thinking important for your writing/reading/listening/critical thinking in English and your native language. This is one of the most important skills I learned in undergraduate school! 
For this unit we will prepare a 3-4 page essay analyzing rhetorical situations. This will help prepare you for ESL 112.

Warm up: First, lets look at these three different forms of communication by me.
One, two, three

• How are these different?
• List as many forms of communication you can. List in groups on the board.
• The type of communication we do in class depends on the Rhetorical Situation
• Let's look at this powerpoint
• Now pick three kinds of rhetorics you wrote on the board and analyze them with this worksheet.
• Finally,write two to three compare/contrast sentences comparing the kinds of rhetoric we did in class.

4. Persuasive Strategies

Now, we are going to discuss persuasive strategies. Let's look at advertising as an example.

• Ethical appeal (ethos)
• Emotional appeal (pathos)
• Logical appeal (logos)  

Look at the this Analysis of Rhetorical Situations handout. 
Now analyze the rhetorical appeals in this different handout in groups of three.

Next Class:

Homework:

Article and printout I handed out in class- Due Thursday, October 17th in class.

Reflection paragraph draft - Due Friday October 18th at 9AM. Turn it into the paragraph portfolio>reflection folder

Paragraph portfolio- Due Thursday, October 24th by 9AM. Remember this is worth 20% of your grade.

Writer's Help Exercises:

Major Uses of the Comma 1

Major Uses of the Comma 2

Day 14

1. Attendance

Maeby: Do you guys know where I can get one of those gold necklaces with a “T” on it?

Michael: That’s a cross.

Maeby: Across from where?

 Moral of the story? Be careful with word choice!!

2. How to double space and indent
3. Don't abuse spellcheck.
4. Portfolio Paragraph rubric

• I made a mistake. Each paragraph is worth 5%. 

5. Process Article- "How Does a Camera Work?"

• Outline first part together
• Outline in groups
• Discuss answers
• Discuss paragraph one and two in smaller groups. Put your thoughts on primary wall. 
• How is this different from cause/effect and compare/contrast paragraphs?

6. APA reference page

• APA Reference Sheet
• Try this activity here
• Bib Me!!

7. Reflection 

• Write for 5 minutes with what you think about this quote and picture. This is called free writing.
• We are at mid-term now! Let's take some time to reflect on the semester. 
• Next remember reflective writing consists of:
• Description
• Interpretation
• Outcome
• Critique a reflective paragraph I wrote. Yes, I made mistakes :) Where are the big three?
• I reflected on my travels. Now, I want you to reflect on your writing so far this semester. Look at the reflective questions here.DO NOT try to answer all the questions.
• What signal words would you use? See signal words here. Apply them.
• Save your paragraphs, you will turn these into me next Friday.

Next Class:
Reflection paragraphs, Understanding rhetorical situations

Homework:
Process paragraph is due next Tuesday. Put them in the folder I will show you in class.
Start writing your reflection paragraph. Use what you wrote in class as a start. A draft will be due Friday October 18th. 
Suggested Reading: Writing a Reflective Essay, Rhetorical Functions in writing: Reflection

Day 13

1. Attendance

2. Cause/Effect short review
3. How to indent and double space.

4. Let's take a fun APA survey

• Not for a grade.

5. Process Paragraph

• We have learned Compare/Contrast and Cause/Effect. Now we will learn Process.
• First, let's read this sample paragraph.
• Next, let's watch this youtube video. While watching, think about how you would explain the process in your own words.
• Vocabulary for this video
• Nouns: domino, car, ball, string, club, lever, cone, mouse trap
• Verbs: hit, pull down, release, slide down, follow, go down/up, knock over, send, throw
• In groups, write part of what happened in the video with this handout.
• Hint: Make a list!
• When finished, put your thoughts in this document. 
• Write steps of a process on the board. You can write about whatever you want.

Next Class:

APA references, Reflection Paragraph

Homework: 

• Read this sample process article. Think about how it shows a process.There may be a quiz :P
• Start working on your process paragraph. It is due Tuesday, October 15th. 
• Suggested reading: Writing a Process Paragraph

Day 12

1. Attendance
2. Speaking up in class.
3. Introducing primary wall!
4. Cause/Effect Part II

• Remember the article? Let's talk about it. 
• Go to primary wall. Please write a cause and effect sentence using cause and effect structure words. Use the article you were assigned to read last class as inspiration. (2 minutes maximum)
• Discuss answers.
• Make cause/effect of the article with markers on the board. You may get help from your neighbor, but don't use a dictionary.
• Discuss answers

5. APA in-text citations

• Paraphrasing time! Paraphrase this article. First you will quote, then paraphrase. Remember to use synonyms to help you. 
• What is the difference between paraphrasing, summarizing, and quotations?
• Get into groups of three and write answers on this primary wall.
• Discuss answers. 
• There are many styles of citation, MLA, Chicago, Turbian. We will use APA. 
• There are also two types of citation. Let's look at this handout and figure out both.
• In-text
• References
• Now, apply what you learned! Interview your neighbor about "What do you love about the University of Illinois?" After the interview, write a sentence with a signal phrase and proper citation. 

Next Class: Process Paragraph

Homework:
Writer's Help Exercise: Integrating sources in APA papers.

Suggested Reading: Writer's Help, Citing APA articles Purdue/OWL, Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing

Cause/Effect Paragraph draft is due next Tuesday on October 8th. Remember to put in the Paragraphs Patterns> Cause/Effect folder on dropbox. Name it netidCauseEffect.rtf or.doc.

Day 11

1. Attendance
2. Announcements

• Discuss Papers
• Grades, grade discussion manners.
• Draft of Compare/Contrast paragraph due today. Did you write a paragraph?

3. Cause/Effect 
-Watch this youtube video. What was the cause and effect? Discuss it with your neighbor.
-Sometimes cause and effect are more complicated, but still important to understand.
-Watch this video. Can you think of the cause and effect? What about contributing factors? ---Discuss it with your neighbor. Fill out the contributing factors sheet with your neighbor.
-Now, lets each make a star chart with the cause and effect of Facebook. I will give you a copy of the star chart now.
-Let's practice making cause/effect sentences with this chart
-Now using what you learned, write a paragraph with cause and effect. Tell me what happened in the youtube video using cause and effect signal words from the chart.

Next Class: Cause/Effect, APA In-text citations

Homework: 
A draft of Cause-effect is due a week from today on Tuesday, October 8th.
Please name it netidCauseEffect and put it in the cause/effect folder in the paragraph portfolio folder on dropbox. This draft must be a paragraph.

Didn't read the article last class? Read it for class next time. Click here.

Writer's Help Exercise: Idioms

Suggested Reading: Writer's Help on Cause/Effect