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The Essays for Nov. 15th

Here are the essays for critique next Thursday:

(Apologies for their lateness. I didn’t receive one of them by this morning — it had to be re-sent to me in .doc format instead of .hwp format, and I spent the day at the most recent MEMESAK conference.)

Your Writing Homework

I was asked to post about your current homework, to make sure everyone knows what you have to do and for when. Your latest homework is the following:

  1. A revision of your Writing-Development Plan (the midterm essay) — which was revised according to the notes I made, along with your own careful reading of your work, and consideration of our recent discussions about structure. Consider our discussion from today (Thursday, Nov 8th) and write a conclusion for your essay. This revision is due on November 13th.
  2. A description of a person discussing three very different aspects. You should consider our discussion of how to arrange and establish flow for body paragraphs when you prepare this. This assignment does not require an introduction or conclusion, but if you want to write one, it’s good practice. It will be due on November 20th.
  3. The CUF article assignment. If you don’t have a copy, go and find a current issue of the Catholic University Forum magazine, which is available at many spots around campus. Choose one major article from it. Summarize the article — that is, summarize all the major points or arguments of the article, along with a few important details — and then choose a section of the article and paraphrase it. (That is, rewrite it in your own words.) This assignment is due November 22nd. (Yes, that is an extension, as this assignment was originally due November 20th.)

There is more to come, so please try to stay on top of this homework. Remember: it’s a good idea to “finish” a writing assignment at least a few days, or a week, before it is due. This lets you put it aside for a while, so that you can see it more clearly for editing and proofreading, before you hand it in.

And by the way, don’t forget your blogging homework! I’m sure you can afford some time to make a few posts and/or comments each week, and  you can write about whatever you want.

The Second Essay!

Here it is! The student emailed it to me this evening, with apologies about the delay.

The second essay…

(Note: Yes, there are serious formatting problems with the essay. We’ll talk about that in class. The printed version didn’t look like this, but it turned out this way on my computer, for specific reasons. This problem is easy to solve! We’ll talk about it in class.)

Workshop Essay

So far I only have received one essay for Thursday’s Workshop. Here it is. Please check back later, maybe the other one will arrive. (I haven’t received it as of 3am on Wednesday morning.)

First Workshop Piece for Nov. 1st

Read and Critique

Here is the first piece of writing for our class critique. (One more piece of writing will be added, so please check back soon!)

Our critique session will be moved to Tuesday, October 16th because of the Presentation Contest Discussion which will be held during our class on October 11th. So please have your editing and critique ideas ready for October 16th.

Homework Update:

You currently have two pieces of homework due:

Website working…

I’ve heard from some students that this website was not loading over the weekend. I didn’t notice, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t working. Maybe something happened in Hong Kong? The last time I had problems, it was because an underwater cable line was cut in Hong Kong. (That’s where the server for this site is located.)

Anyway, the site seems to be up again now, and working fine. Cross your fingers!

Welcome to Intermediate English Composition!

Welcome to the Fall semester 2007. I am teaching only one section of this course, in the afternoon.

Right now there’s not much for me to say, except that you will be filling out this form and giving it to me. I’ll be giving you a copy in class, so don’t worry about printing it, but it’s always handy to have a spare.

Also, here’s a copy of the syllabus I wrote up for this class. It looks a lot nicer than the one the secretaries printed up, but I’m not going to waste paper giving you copies of this. You can print it yourself if you like, however.

The classblog will be online next week, and I’ll walk you through registering. I’ll also be collecting your email addresses for a class mailing list soon. All of that and more is coming soon.