Today Prof. Joyce distributed our first assignment - the News Analysis and a 10 page handout called "Thinking and Writing - A Critical Connection".
She also passed out the blog sign-up sheet. Everyone signed up for a day to contribute to the blog. Prof. Joyce will bring the sign-up sheet every day in case students need to switch dates.
After everything was passed out Prof. Joyce talked to us about the requirements and expectations for the New Analysis assignment. Google news will be a valuable research resource for this paper.
Next we were given a writing prompt: What is the best or most convincing argument you have made recently and how did you support your argument? For 10 minutes each student wrote his or her response to the prompt and then Professor Joyce asked for volunteers to share what they wrote. By sharing, we were able to identify several kinds of argument.
Our homework for the night is:
1. Read Chapter 1 in EA
2. Read p 52-53 in JAC
3. Read p 14-20 in EW
4. Read the handout
5. Short Write A: answer questions 1-3 on page 10 of the handout.
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