English 1006
Prompt #36
19 November 2013
Not in class today
No meeting today
As I said in the email, I woke up this morning with no voice
at all (or, rather a voice like a crow with a bone in its throat).
So meeting for oral discussion doesn't seem to make much sense.
What I had planned to do during class time was to consider the
questions people asked about the OWL site, and then select some of
the postings on the "Information
about Poe and "The Tell-Tale Heart"" forum (using as a guide
the postings titled "Looking for sources") and see what problems
would come up in trying to include them in a list of references
following MLA format. As I looked through the forum, however, I
noticed that a substantial number of the postings that were
apparently intended to be responses to the "Looking for sources"
assignment actually were not titled correctly, and thus can only
be found by paging through every posting. I would like to be sure
that all the postings that actually tried to identify sources were
useful for this process, so here's one thing to do during class
time today:
Go through your postings to the forum and, if they aren't
correctly titled, copy your text into a new posting in reply to
your mistitled one, make sure it's titled "Looking for sources,"
and post it. (If you haven't done this assignment so far, you can
do it now.)
Also during class time, read through the
questions people asked about the OWL page. I've sorted them into
categories as best I could and posted them, along with some
answers and comments, on an OWL Questions
page; I'd expected to spend some time in class today
discussing the questions in preparation for asking people to
format some citations (that's what the assignment for Thursday
will be.)
After 4:00, and before 1:00 Thursday, select two items
from the "Information
about Poe and "The Tell-Tale Heart"" forum that you
think provide sufficient information to be listed in the reference
list of a paper that followed MLA format, and post both, in one
posting, to the "Formatting
citations" forum. All you need to post are the citations
themselves; you don't need explanatory text. If you want to add a
question or comment, though, feel free. [Further clarification of
this assignment is here.]
Working with the "funny" material
The responses to the assignment to specify assumptions and
expectations inherent in the examples of items that people found
funny didn't produce as much useful thought as I had hoped, though
there is some material there to work with. Probably the main
reason is that almost every example people provided was visual
humour -- which works in the same was as verbal humour, but which,
I think, is harder to reflect on.
Housekeeping again
There have been a couple of further responses to the feedback
survey. You will probably find them worth a look.
I've met with a number of people to discuss ways to write better
learning reflections. Not as many people as I'd hoped took
advantage of this; I'm still open to receiving an email and
setting up an appointment (see the "Evaluation" section of Prompt #33) . As I've done so I
realized that not everybody understood that this exercise will
be repeated at the end of the fall term, and will be used to
generate a midterm mark (and will be the way, in April, a final
mark for the course is generated). The reason for the first
runthrough was to help people be better able to write a
convincing learning reflection.
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