annotation #2 extension & plan for Tuesday, 9/14
2010
I want to make sure that each of you gets feedback on your first research annotation before you turn in your second, so I am extending the deadline until the end of the day Wednesday, September 15. I am in charge of Writing Center orientation for new writing consultants, which was this weekend, and it took all my time Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, so I wasn’t able to send each of you your feedback via email as I had hoped.
I am reading through the annotations now, and for the most part they are quite good, but everyone has room for some improvement. I will give you individualized feedback in class tomorrow, but for now here are some general patterns I am seeing:
- forgetting to provide information about the author
- spending the bulk of the annotation on summary and short-changing the evaluation portion of the annotation
- a lack of proofreading—typos and misspellings on a website or blog scream careless amateur
- no use of categories or tags
Finally, remember to bring your Non-Designer’s book to class along with the handout that I gave you Thursday from the book Everything’s an Argument. Here is the plan for tomorrow:
- read and comment on a classmate’s individual blog (10 minutes)
- open-book quiz on the Non-Designer’s Type Book (10 minutes)
- visual poetry activity (30 minutes)
- lesson on a rhetorical approach to composing and how you can use it in composing your assignments for this class with special emphasis on the copyright paper and your blogs. (20 minutes)
- wrap-up and questions (5 minutes)
