Blog Revision
Today’s class will be devoted to updating your blog, reviewing your classmates’ sites, and planning for the final reflection that you will compose in class on Wednesday. Devote the first half of class to updating your blog and reviewing your classmates’ sites. In the second half of the class, you will not be permitted to use your laptops, tablets, or phones. That time will be devoted to planning for your final reflection.
To update your blog, complete the check list below and make any necessary changes to your site.
- All three of my major essay assignments (my literacy narrative, my analysis, and my final essay and annotated bibliography) are published on my blog.
- My final essay and annotated bibliography assignment is the top post on my blog (followed by my analysis and my literacy narrative).
- All three of the blog posts for my major essay assignments include an image that documents part of my writing process away from the screen.
- All three of the blog posts for my major essay assignments include an embedded link to a relevant website.
- I have corrected any errors of spelling, punctuation, grammar, mechanics, and style in my blog posts.
After you have updated your blog, devote the remainder of the first half of class to reviewing your classmates’ sites. You are encouraged, but not required, to type brief comments and/or like your classmates’ posts.
Planning for Your Final Reflection
Review your class handouts and journal entries and determine what you consider your most significant work and the feature or features of the course that have benefited your development as a writer and a student. Features to consider include the following:
- Studying one of the texts examined in the second half of the semester, including “The Case for Writing Longhand,” The Competition, “Scrabble is a Lousy Game,” “Skim Reading is the New Normal,” and the sample final essay and annotated bibliography (“Scrabble as a Game Changer in the College Classroom”)
- Writing for an online audience beyond the classroom/creating and maintaining a WordPress blog
- Planning, drafting, and revising your final essay and annotated bibliography. Since you recently composed a reflection on this assignment, it should not be the main focus of your final reflection.
- Keeping a journal
- Collaborating with your classmates on in-class writing assignments
- Playing Scrabble/Collaborating with your teammates on Wordplay Day
- Writing longhand
- Limiting screen time
You may focus on two, three, or four features of the course (but no more than four).
After you determine what features of the course you will address, select a minimum of one relevant quotation to integrate into your reflection. The quotation you include may be one from Writing Analytically or a relevant quotation from one of the texts that we have studied in the second half of the semester. Introduce the quotation with a signal phrase, follow it with a parenthetical citation, and include a work cited entry at the end of your reflection.
Sample Works Cited Entries
Bahr, Sarah. “The Case for Writing Longhand.” The New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022. ProQuest, https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/case-writing-longhand/docview/2621453011/se-2.
Kay, Jonathan. “Scrabble is a Lousy Game.” The Wall Street Journal, 4 Oct. 2018. ProQuest, https://libproxy.highpoint.edu/login?url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/scrabble-is-lousy-game-why-would-anyone-play/docview/2116081665/se-2?accountid=11411.
Lucas, Jane. “Scrabble as a Game Changer in the College Classroom.” Jane Lucas, 9 Apr. 2024, https://janelucas.com/2024/04/09/eng-1103-model-final-essay-and-annotated-bibliography-scrabble/.
Rosenwasser, David and Jill Stephen. “Arriving at an Interpretive Conclusion: Making Choices.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. pp.111-12.
—. “Integrating Quotations into Your Paper.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. pp. 343-46.
—. “The Idea of the Paragraph.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. pp. 307-313.
—. “Two Methods for Conversing with Sources.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. p. 325.
—. “Ways to use a Source as a Point of Departure.” Writing Analytically, 9th edition. Wadsworth/Cengage, 2024. p. 326.
Wolf, Maryanne. “Skim Reading is the New Normal. The Effect on Society is Profound.” The Guardian, 25 Aug. 2018, https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/aug/25/skim-reading-new-normal-maryanne-wolf.
Next Up
In class on Wednesday, you will compose your final reflection for the course.
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