January 31, 2011

Today in class we continued the metaphor presentations.

Dr. Phillips also began talking to us about the group projects in detail. She also mentioned if you are having difficulty looking for articles to check blogger for examples.

During the group projects the presenter and the reader will be assigned to do two different tasks:

Presenter- must pick 4 articles and let the class know when and what they need to read. Each person in the group needs to contribute to the leading discussion :

· Handouts àdiscussion questions or passages/excerpts you find important or interesting.

à Theory/research

àComparison with students

· Power point

· Additional/ related info

It just needs to be something concrete to expand on what we are reading.

Readers Role- MUST PRINT THE ARTICLES AND BRING THEM TO CLASS!! You also must write notes in the margin. (that is to help you with the verbal contribution in the discussion). The reader will also be creating a synthesis/ reader response/ chart, so you must read the articles.

Dr. Phillips will continue to discuss more about the projects so she said attendance to class on Wednesday and Friday is very important.

*Oh and for the groups who are not presenting you can still turn in articles for extra credit up until you present.*

No Class Today: Friday, January 28

Hi.

My sons are home sick today, so I will need to cancel class. See you Monday. We will talk about the posting of Group One's articles for the class to read on Monday.

Everyone else should find their article by Monday so that you can meet with your group on Monday in class and talk about what you found. If you are unsure of what to look for, I suggest you look at the sample articles I posted on the blog...

Have a good weekend. If you have any questions, let me know.

See you Monday.

Dr. Phillips

January 26, 2011

In the beginning of class Dr.Phillips discussed our first grade (which would be our metaphor presentations) on Blackboard. She basically went over on how to find out your grade by adding the points you have in total for each assignment and dividing it by the number of assignments.

She went over on what to look for in the articles related to our subject.
When choosing your article, think about:
1. Does or will this article expand people's knowledge over the subject?
2. Is there something useful that any writer can take out of the article you chose?
***VERY IMPORTANT*** when saving your article, you must save it as a pdf file!!!!
***ALSO VERY IMPORTANT***make sure Dr.Phillips has your article a week before your presentation to the class.

You MUST e-mail your article to her! Here all the following steps if you're still having trouble sending her a message:
1. Login with the Google account you created.
2. Go to "My Account"
3. Scroll down to “Documents”
4. Then go to “upload” then select file
5. Then click “start upload”
6. Then go back to Google docs and it should be there, if you can’t see it, then make sure you are on the section “owned by me”
7. Then you click “share” then “share settings” and change it to “anyone with a link”, then you scroll down and click “send copy to myself”
8. Then you click “Share”

**Overall today we just did our metaphor presentations, which we will continue on our next class meeting Friday, January 28th**

JANUARY/24/2011

Today´s class Most Important Subjects:
Everyone should have access to this blog, have made a gmail account and have received a Syllabus sent to your email account.
Dr. Phillips made groups today according to students interests about composition and Writing.
If you sent her the email with your favorite options for project 1, you´ll be on the 1st or 2nd option group you chose.
Once you know your group you´ll need start searching for a scholar academic article, depending on the subject your group is going to discuss. Also you need to know why did you select it? The intention it has, and the knowledge you are absorbing from it. The groups presentations will start on February 7.
You also need to introduce and share contact information with your group. (Each team will have a leader that will know all of the team´s contact information)
LEADING DISCUSSION´S GROUPS:
GROUP 1 - Student Voice
Deyla,
Janie,
Serenity,
Edna,
Ramiro.
GROUP 2 - Revision
Jennifer,
Omar,
Stephanie T.
Alysha,
Stephanie S.
GROUP3 - Plagiarism
Monica,
Kimmberly,
Gabriel,
Freddy.
GROUP4 - Citations
Lily,
Maria,
Rosalinda,
Melissa,
Alex.
GROUP5 - Peer Review/Feedback
Alicia,
Armando,
Jessica,
Nelly,
Alec.
GROUP6 - Rhetorical Reading
Yesenia,
Isai,
Ruben,
Melina,
Steven.

For this first project EVERYONE needs to submit an article in order to get individual points.
Each group will need 3 articles for the class discussion posted in the blog and shared in google docs.
The articles have to be posted one week before the class discussion.

GROUP 1 STARTS MONDAY FEB 7th (Check and correct syllabus).
This link will help you to get the articles: lib.utpa.edu/research/databases
The article needs to be FULL TEXT and PDF....

That´s it! Hope it´ll help you :)

January 21

Today, in class, we talked about how you should already have access to the class blog and have made your gmail account already. If you haven't done so, you should do that ASAP. Dr. Phillips also gave us her email and cell phone number just in case we ever have questions about our assignments.

(956) 342-6770
phillipssk@utpa.edu

In your gmail account, it should consist of:
first name, last name, course number, and class time or section number.

By Monday you should have already picked your top 3 mini topics so you can be placed in a group. BUT make sure to email your choices to Dr. Phillips BEFORE Monday. The topics are on the class blog so you can choose. If you wish to do a topic other than the ones that are listed, make sure that it is still writing related.

Also, we will begin metaphor presentations on Monday.

is anyone else having issues trying to get to the syllabus?? it sends me to an error page every time :/ if anyone can help me it would be great!

what we talked about in class Jan.19 2011

Hi guys,
Today in class we talked about numerous things. Dr. Phillips had us all give her our email so she can send us an invite to the class blog, which we should have all gotten already. In order to have a class blog you will need to create a Gmail Account. When signing up for your Gmail account, your email address should be able to identify you so Dr. Phillips knows who she’s getting it from.
Ex: (your name1302.945@gmail.com)

After you have done that you can go ahead and send her an email from there as a “test” since this is how we would be sending her our assignments. here are the steps to do that once you have logged in.

1. Click the documents on the top left hand corner
2. Click upload
3. Then select a file
4. Start upload
5. Then press, Go back to Google docs
6. Click on your document
7. Then press share
8. Then share settings
9. Then press change, and put send as link
10. Do anyone with a link, then save
11. Go to add people, and then send to Dr. Phillips email address (phillipssk@utpa.edu).

I might have gone through this a little fast and it may be confusing but if you have any question feel free to ask. We also talked about project one which we will start doing on Friday Jan.21 the project consist of the following since we will be doing it in groups
Project One (Metaphor Presentation)
• Writing Experiences
• Thought on Writing
• How they see themselves as writers.

This about sums it up, remember if you have any questions feel free to ask.