Argument Abounds

 The syllabus has been revised ONE FINAL TIME: oral presentations have been removed from the final week; oral peer reviews will take the place of these presentations. This change will allow us enough time to clearly establish plans for final revision and to complete oral peer reviews on each paper without being rushed. Please check the syllabus page for clarification.

Most grades are now in for the semester. The only grades still remaining are the daily grades which will be earned for oral peer review days. ATTENDANCE, PREPARATION AND FULL PARTICIPATION ON THESE FOUR DAYS IS VITAL!!!! Accordingly, you will receive three grades on each of these days. Please be in class, be prepared, and be helpful to your peers.

WHAT YOU SHOLD DO NOW:

1. Review peer comments and instructor comments on your draft.
2. Compare these comments and your own observations with the things you learned in class on Wednesday and Friday about how to structure logical arguments.
3. Make changes to the structure and support of your argument as necessary based upon these observations.

WHAT WE WILL DO MONDAY 4/23:

1. Further discuss plans for revision: strategies-for-revision.ppt
2. Assign groups for Oral Peer Reviews: Oral Peer Review Groups
3. Complete another review of a sample student paper; this time we will be looking for more details: format, integrating sources, quotes, etc.
4. Monday night: you will change your draft based on things you learned in this session.

FOR WEDNESDAY 4/25 – WEDNESDAY 5/2:

1. Come to class prepared with a full-length draft that incorporates what you have learned in class this semester, the changes you have learned to make through our in-class peer review activities, and your own research.
2. We will begin the oral peer review process. In this process, groups of four students will take turns reading their drafts to one another, giving and receiving feedback, asking questions, etc. BRING FOUR COPIES OF YOUR DRAFT WHEN IT IS YOUR TURN TO READ!!
3. I will assign each student to a group of four; you can decide on your own who will read on which day.

FOR FRIDAY 5/4:

1. We will meet to turn in final papers.
2. We will complete course evaluations, if we have not done so before this time.
3. We will most likely only meet for a partial class period on this day. DON’T BE LATE, because you could find us gone! If I do not receive your final paper, you cannot pass the course.

strategies-for-revision.ppt

Oral Peer Review Groups

Here are the questions to help you really examine the Sample Researched Position Paper:

RPP Analysis Worksheet 

You do NOT need to answer EVERY single question in minute detail, but DO consider each question as you are reading. Allow your analysis of this sample paper to serve as a guide for you as you outline your own paper.

I realize that you have already read this sample paper and have answered the sample questions found in the textbook (for Reading Log 10). These are new questions, and they do not have the same focus as those in the textbook; however, if you feel that some of them are redundant, then focus your written responses on other parts of the questions.

The primary goal of this activity is to help you envision an approach that might work for your own paper. Please approach it with this goal in mind.

To bring on Monday:

1. Your written response to these analysis questions (I will collect these).
2. Your working outline, which should include a general idea of which sources apply to which parts of your paper.
3. The quotes you have selected as possible choices to use from each source. You should have a good idea of how these quotes will fit into the outline of your paper (i.e. which points the quotes support or refute, etc).

Here is the PowerPoint we will use in class on Monday (let’s hope the computer works!):

using-quotations.ppt

 Have a safe holiday!

 Don’t forget to bring a draft of the  

THESIS STATEMENT

you will be using for your final research paper. We will be workshopping these statements to make them stronger and more effective. 

We will use the following form for peer review of thesis statements.

We will also use this PowerPoint presentation: your-thesis-statement.ppt.

 Here is the PowerPoint we are using in class on Monday:

building-the-rogerian-paper.ppt .

Click here for the Peer Review Sheet we are using to work on our Rogerian Position Statements.

See you tomorrow!

Today in class, we discussed the difference between response and analysis as it pertains to the Claim Detection Assignment. Here is the PowerPoint example:

drafting-the-claim-detection-essay.ppt

Here is the PowerPoint we used today to discuss the Claim Detection Essay:

claim-detection-essay.ppt