Class today: December 15, 2014

How to prepare and deliver a presentation... (Learn it. Live it)

Sample presentations... the good.. the bad... the ugly

What not to do.. what to do..presentation video

Spot the errors... presentation video

Presentation Schedule

12/16           12/17                  12/18                   12/19
Hollie             Gabe                Sydney                Jackson
Andy              Lindsay            Nolan                  John
Whisper          Amanda           Ryan                   Martae
Kaitlin            Carly                Elizabeth            Brielle
Alex                Kodi                Brooklyn            Tara
Drake               Garrett            Bailey B.             Sarah
Justin               Alexis              Sydney              Mackenzie
Andy               Amber              Bailey F.           Karla
Kylie               Matt                  Reagan              Alexie
                       Meggan            Kathryn             Ally
                                                 Hailey               Chris
                                                 Bailey R.           Kyra
                                                 Evan
                                                 Josie
                                                 Wyatt
                                                 Tynesha

4th Hour will go on Wednesday and Friday.

Some finals humor

Remember.... and in Chicago

Now... if you are wanting to understand Chicago... here you go ;)

The Untouchables- The Chicago Way

Footnotes, Note cards, Abstracts, and Chicago.... Oh, my!

Footnotes:

What are footnotes?
- brief explanation of what footnotes are designed to do.

Why do we footnote? What is footnoted?
- explanation and instruction

Note cards:
How to do note cards
- rationale and example

Chicago style:
Difference between MLA and Chicago
Chart between the major citation styles
- Explanation between the two styles of citations

Sample Chicago Paper:
Chicago Style Paper Sample
- Review this THOROUGHLY before your typed draft. This will cover exactly how to do a cover page, footnotes, bibliography

Abstracts:
- See links posted in previous entry and links on side of page.

Final Paper turn in information

1. December 19th- Final drafts are due by 7:00 AM to TWO places.
            Turnitin.com:  Submit your paper to turnitin.com
            Google DRIVE: I have sent a folder share to your school email. You will need to save your
           ENTIRE paper to this folder (title page, paper, bibliography). This ALSO needs to be done
           BY 7:00 AM on Friday.

2. Bring your: outline, hand written draft, note cards, typed, edited draft to my room (ALREADY COLLATED) and turn in BY 7:35 AM on FRIDAY (12/19)

3. Your abstracts are due to GOOGLE DRIVE folder on December 16th BY 7:35 AM.

4. Presentations will take place on TUESDAY (December 16th) for 2nd and 3rd hours and WEDNESDAY (December 17th) for 4th hour AND the arranged FINAL time.

2nd hour- Wednesday (12/17)
3rd hour- Thursday (12/18)
4th hour-  Friday (12/19)

Presentation Instructions (Final Exam)

Presentation requirements: (SEE SCORING GUIDE)

1. Maximum 5 minutes in length. I will cut you off at 5... or before if you are brutalizing the audience. 

2. A digital, visual aide.  PowerPoint is fine. However, you will need to review the essay, "Death by PowerPoint" before you present. 

http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/images/Death-by-powerpoint.pdf

PowerPoint structure-

http://www.bates.edu/ils/2011/how-do-i/software/powerpoint-presentation-tips/

Presentation tips-

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~library/biomed/guides/powerpoint.html?mswitch-redir=classic

http://www.cob.sjsu.edu/splane_m/presentationtips.htm

3. You will need an appropriate handout: 

-One page in length.

- Thesis is clearly stated

http://www.speaking-tips.com/Articles/Creating-Quality-Handouts.aspx

Pretty good template... but evaluate your paper/presentation's purpose.. not everything has to be covered.

http://true-progress.com/make-a-handout-like-edward-tufte-965.htm

ABSTRACTS:

Abstract templates are located on right side of the web page.
Here is another option...
http://uss.tufts.edu/arc/HOW%20TO%20WRITE%20AN%20ABSTRACT%20for%20Tufts%20Symp.pdf

Class: Monday, December 8th and FINAL Paper DUE DATES

1. By Monday, you should have gone through Steps 1-4 of Writing with your final paper. Make sure that your CLAIM is solid, arguable, and is offering a solution or recommendation. Remember, your topic is to be developed from one of the "spheres" you associate. What is a problem facing this group? What is your solution for this problem?

2. You want to have an outline done by Tuesday.

Two weeks left. Push hard!

Paper due dates:
12/8- Thesis due beginning of class
12/9- Full outline due at the beginning of class
12/10- Research and go through research (note cards)
12/15- Handwritten rough draft due at the beginning of class
12/16- Abstract due
12/17-19 Presentations
12/19- BY 7:00 AM... paper due to turnitin.com and Google Drive.
            BY 7:35 AM... supporting material due to Schulenberg

Class today... 12/4/14

I am at a funeral today. The following should be very clear as to what you need to do.

Music is fine... Just stay off your phone.

We will be working more with identifying passive construction and then assessing its impact. After analyzing the writing and its construction, you will work on editing to active construction or evaluating if it is better left in passive construction.

I've starred what you need to turn in.

1. Check your ability to identify passive or active form:
Passive or Active?
Review and do exercises.

2. Identify, assess, revise...

3. Please read through this page and do exercises 1-4 that are embedded within the page.
When you are done, complete the post test- Turn this in when you are done.*****
Passive v. Active Voice Instruction and Exercises

4. Review this page and do the exercises embedded within the page.
Passive Construction 

Turn in*****

5. When you are done, please write a paragraph (new normal), which would resemble a "letter to Santa". No letter form.. content the same. Focus specifically on writing on active voice. After you are done with your writing sample, circle the active verbs in each sentence. Turn this in by the end of the hour.*****

Before you finalize your paper-

We need to do a quick review of ACTIVE v. PASSIVE voice..
Passive voice- UNC

Identifying and fixing passive voice when needed

Now... if on Google Drive, click on the following link and copy and paste document into box to check reading level:
Readability Level

This site is pretty great. It will help you understand your reading level and also identify some problem sentences in your writing. They MAY or MAY not be passive voice problems.. You will still need to examine your writing.

Rough estimate on the Flesch Reading Ease score-  Don't go crazy with this information.. just use it to give you a head's up.
A score of about 65 correlates with the 8th to 9th grade level, and a score of about 55 indicates a 10th to 12th grade level. Scores between 0 and 30 represent college graduate readability
The Flesch Reading Ease score is interpreted as follows:

Flesch Reading Ease Score	Readability Level	Education Level	Percentage Adults (Optimistic)
0 - 29	Very difficult	College Graduates	5%
30 - 49	Difficult	College	30%
50 - 59	Fairly difficult	Senior High School, A-level	50%
60 - 69	Plain English	13 to 15 year-olds	80%
70 - 79	Fairly easy	12 year-olds	90%

Once you have reviewed these links, open your paper in whatever word processing tool you used (Google Drive or Windows Word). In Drive, click on "edit" and then "find and replace". In the box for "find", start looking for the following words to help identify passive voice...
Is              Was
Am           Be
Are        Were
Be          Being
Have      Has
Had.......  (these are your famous "be verbs")
By

Do the following tests. ..... and then make adjustments to your sentences to switch to active voice.
Once you are done... check your readability level again.

Zombie Test: Could one insert the phrase "by zombies" after the verb? If so, would the sentence still make grammatical sense? If so, you might have passive voice. For instance, "the dog was fed" (by zombies).

Agency Test: In the case of action verbs, identify the subject and the main verb(s) in the clause. Does the subject sit passively while some outside agent does the action to it? If so, it's passive voice.

Argumentative paper information

1. Your paper is due by 11:59 PM on Tuesday, December 2nd.
2. Please submit the body of your paper to turnitin.com. You do not need to submit your works cited page. If you need the class information, etc. it is located under October 13th blog post.
3. You will need to bring a hard copy of JUST your works cited page TO CLASS with you on December 3rd/4th. Have it printed off before you come to class.

Today's class: December 1st

1. Your Casablanca inspired argument paper should be drafted ready to finalize by this point. Keep in mind it is due by 11:59 PM  on Tuesday submitted to Turnitin.com.
2. Now it is time to hone your proofreading skills. A paper should never make it into the hands of your teacher/professor without thorough proofing by you. Here is a good site that will aid you in developing these skills:
 Proofreading and Editing- UNC

Go through your paper an look solely at punctuation-
Punctuation refresher:
Punctuation links: UMN

Go through your paper and look solely at citation-
OWL Purdue- MLA

Go through your paper an look solely at argument-  identify Toulmin's method

Read through this site and take notes on instructions and tips. As you finish your papers, put these into work for you.