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Blog Question #6

Debbie Gascoyne — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:44:38 +0000

Have someone, preferably a classmate read your paper and give you some feedback. In your blog, write a detailed report on what your editor told you needed changing, and what you intend to do about it.
In the “Sharing Your Work” page in the course contents there are some suggestions for ways that you can do online file-sharing with a classmate, but you may also use someone from school. You may also take your paper to the English Help Center or the Writing Center, as long as you are scrupulous about reporting what they told you needed work.

NOTE: if you have trouble finding a peer editor, you may simply report the findings of your own revision process. The idea is that you should revise carefully, and learn to be aware of habits in your own writing that you need to revise for.

Blog Question #5

Debbie Gascoyne — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:42:24 +0000

This is your chance to experiment a little. Using the material that you have from your research, write a 250 or so word paragraph. Choose a method of development that you will NOT be using in your essay, or that you have not thought of as the primary method for your essay. For example, if your essay is about the economic impact of the new Pacific Sports Institute on Camosun College, and you plan to do a cause/effect analysis, write a description of how it will look when it is built, or a section of a process essay on the building, or a narrative of a “day in the life” of a student there. Get the idea? Perhaps this exercise will give you some ideas or new insights about different and interesting ways to develop your essay!
By the way, don’t forget to cite – even if it’s just one citation at the end of your paragraph and a note afterward with the bibliographic details.

Service Announcement for Camosun Students

Debbie Gascoyne — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:27:08 +0000

Although some of the Camosun college servers are down, you can still access your online courses by typing in the URL’s directly.

English 150, 160 and 286 are available on the D2L site

Camosun WebCt courses can be accessed at the WebCt site

Blog Question #4

Debbie Gascoyne — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 21:09:13 +0000

*REQUIRED*

Note: this question, like last unit’s, is mandatory, and must be completed before you can proceed with your essay draft.

From your reading, decide for yourself what Style of Documentation (MLA or APA) is most appropriate for your topic or your course of studies. In your blog, tell us which Style you will be using and why (you need to do this for week 8′s discussion question as well). Then, outline the most important elements of how to cite IN TEXT (parenthetical) citations. Be sure to answer the following questions:

How do you do it?

What information needs to be included?

How do you punctuate it (where do you place the sentence punctuation such as periods, commas etc around the parenthetical citation)?

What do you do if you don’t know the author’s name? What do you do if you don’t have page numbers?

What information do you need for online citations (in text) and where can you find it?

You’ll find lots of information in the Penguin Handbook and in the sites linked from the “overview” page in Course Content.

Blog Question 3

Debbie Gascoyne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:16:00 +0000

Note: this question is mandatory, and must be completed before you can proceed with the assignment for Unit Four.

By now, you should have a good sense of what your research essay is going to be about. I want you in this entry to describe briefly the research you have done so far (this may include work you did for Assignment 2, if applicable), and how you are narrowing your topic. I want you to include at least one working thesis: the question you are asking about your topic. This MUST be in the form of a question. Then briefly suggest where and how you are going to look to find the answer to this question, and what general organizational/developmental strategy (cause and effect, compare and contrast, process) you will use.

Blog Question 2

Debbie Gascoyne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:09:45 +0000

Has anyone ever told you that you should never use the Swiffer WetJet if you have pets? How would you know if this was true or not? Find out! Even if you already know the answer, do the research to prove it. Your blog response should detail the path you take to find out the truth, which website gives you the most reliable and believable information, and what makes you trust it. Do the C.A.R.S test on the site you want to trust and see if it confirms your findings.

Blog Question 1

Debbie Gascoyne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:07:42 +0000

(this is for Part One of your Blog Assignment). What strategies have you used in the past to help you to get ideas? What works and what doesn’t? Might one strategy work for one kind of writing and another for another? Have you discovered any new strategies in the readings and explorations for this unit?

Blog Assignment

Debbie Gascoyne — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:06:28 +0000

Remember that the blog assignment for each unit has three parts. You can do them all as one entry, or separately. Probably the most efficient way is to do the blog question and the first response to reading first, then do the response to someone else’s blog the following week. Here are the three requirements:

1. Answer the blog question in your own blog.

2. There are two readings for each unit. Let’s call them reading A and reading B. You write a response to reading A in your own blog.

3. You find someone who has written about reading B in their blog. You read what they have written. In YOUR blog, you write something that tells me that you have read their blog AND reading B – so you respond to what they have said and to what you think about reading B as well.

Please post part 3 in YOUR blog; otherwise you won’t get credit for it. I can’t keep track of comments in other places. Feel free, however to post a brief comment in the other blog, just to be friendly.

Welcome!

Debbie Gascoyne — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 19:24:31 +0000

Welcome to the Course Blog for English 150. There’s not much here just yet, but this is where you’ll find the blog posting questions for each unit. Look here, as well, for useful or fun links and other announcements for the course.