English 1301
Angelina College
YOU and some old guy
Week of 25-29 September 2017
1. Monday and Tuesday – let’s finish the previous project and turn it in, and work with rough drafts of your descriptive essays. I will be pleased to read your drafts and make suggestions, but I am not going to proof your paper.
Demonstrate initiative – while the old instructor is working with another student that is your time to review your own work and that of others, not idle. A successful college student, like a successful worker, does not need constant supervision. Passivity is your enemy.
2. Wednesday and Thursday – let’s work with rough drafts. If you bring to class a finished rough draft (it must be typed, but it shouldn’t be pretty, and it should suffer the scars of your handwritten corrections), that’s a 100 in the grade book for you.
3. A quiz might suddenly appear, like a summer thunderstorm.
4. The final draft of your descriptive essay is due NLT roll call on Wednesday / Thursday of next week. I will be pleased to accept it earlier.
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Week of 18-22 September 2017
1. This week there will be a quiz. The answers won't be difficult for you, but remembering to write in complete sentences will. Sentence fragments, sentences beginning with unreferenced pronouns, and sentences with end stops (meaning a period) will be marked as wrong. This is a writing class, remember, not a multiple-guess class.
We tend to speak and write in fragments, but for professional writing tightly-structured and complete sentences are essential. Pp. 191- 248 and 277 - 358 will help you review this fifth-grade concept.
2. Trees gave their lives for the handouts. Read them. Keep them.
3. Pp. 5 - 92 review writing concepts you learned in K-12.
4. Pp. 93 - 190 continue these concepts and carry them forward in professional writing.
5. Develop a professional approach to study. If you have your own room and a study table you are blessed; if you have to share space, well, study will be a challenge.
Schedule study time for each day of the week, perhaps in fifteen-minute blocks. If you establish a program for yourself and stick to it, most of your family and friends will respect that.
The MePhone is useful for accessing information, but a curse when you must process that information and make some sense of it. The gadget is often a temptation to distraction, and you must resist it with strength and determination.
6. 21 September is the autumn equinox, about which many scientific observations and much poetry have been written.
We tend to speak and write in fragments, but for professional writing tightly-structured and complete sentences are essential. Pp. 191- 248 and 277 - 358 will help you review this fifth-grade concept.
2. Trees gave their lives for the handouts. Read them. Keep them.
3. Pp. 5 - 92 review writing concepts you learned in K-12.
4. Pp. 93 - 190 continue these concepts and carry them forward in professional writing.
5. Develop a professional approach to study. If you have your own room and a study table you are blessed; if you have to share space, well, study will be a challenge.
Schedule study time for each day of the week, perhaps in fifteen-minute blocks. If you establish a program for yourself and stick to it, most of your family and friends will respect that.
The MePhone is useful for accessing information, but a curse when you must process that information and make some sense of it. The gadget is often a temptation to distraction, and you must resist it with strength and determination.
6. 21 September is the autumn equinox, about which many scientific observations and much poetry have been written.
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