191s18: August 2010

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Homework for September 2, 2010

Review the entire web-site LEO.
Finish your Story-in-a-box and post it on your blog by Tuesday 5pm.
Read at least three other stories from your class mates. Click their name and access their blog through the central web-page 191s18.
Be prepared to propose a topic for grammar review from LEO. Pick something that you find needed or interesting for you.
Write the Story in a box and post it on your blog.

The 191 course objectives

The course objectives

Reading, writing, and critical reasoning based on different text types and situations related to Global Cultures & Communications. We will explore the creative as well as analytical side of writing, discourse, and structure together. You will write short and longer papers and learn to edit your writing, improve your arguments, and become more effective communicators using blogs. All the while you will learn about other countries and cultures and explore the otherness of non-US speech, text, discourse and argument.

Student Name

Al Rashed, Mohammed H

Crawford, Christopher T

West, Rashad J

Yann, Ashley S

Songnaba, Vanessa Pengdwende

Lin, Guanfeng

Final...

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December 16, 2010 final from 5-8PM New location: my office LH 116 (our room is booked by a different class and our time slot would be 6:30-9PM; so I suggest we keep our regular time slot and make my office the meeting place. Students are free to show up or not to discuss their class work. The final is optional for students because all of your work is available on-line at all times.
I suggest you use the time-slot of the final to discuss any open questions you have regarding our class.

English 191 section 18

Thursdays MC 206

17:00-20:20

Dr. Roland Specht-Jarvis, LH 116

All your blogs and entries are due at noon of the day we meet: Thursday (unless otherwise indicated).

Challenges and benefits1 2 .

Interviews:

Preparations and considerations

Sample interview 1

Sample interview 2

Final paper on Malaysia

Sample prep report

Phases of an interview

Elements of each interview that must show up on your blog:

1. Describe the preparations.
How did you approach people?
When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview?
Whom did you interview?

2. Describe the interview. What did surprise you?

3. Report on country/region and culture.

4. Transcribe the interview.

At least two interviews need to be transcribed. That allows for one report without the transcription. Still, we need to know the preparations, approach, interview process, etc. of that interview (1-3 above). Please be sure to choose interviewees from one country or region.

Class edited version of interview questions

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Resources

Recommended book:

The Bedford Handbook, 7th ed, Diana Hacker, Bedford/St. Martin, Boston, New York 2009

General considerations: Please be sure to

...always write a thematic statement before you start on a writing project. (This paper is about...)
...always cross-reference information or web-data. Have at least three different sources for whatever you want to use.
...always cite your sources. You find it on the web, you cite it. Citations from the web are easy: url plus date visited

If you use text verbatim, put it in quotes and cite the source. Paraphrasing does not allow using source text unchanged. It means you report on what you read. You need to cite what/whom you are paraphrasing, of course.

Hacker on-line exercises

if the page does not load, go to http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/bedhandbook7enew/and click Free and Open Web Site "go to site", then Grammar exercises and results, then hit the cancel button and you are there.

The Write Place at SCSU

U of Ottawa Writing Centre

191s18

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Homework for September 2, 2010

The 191 course objectives

class list

Global Cultures & Communications Syllabus