Class #3 Assignments, Thursday, July 15, 2010.

1. Edit Essay #1. Do not forget to attach the original. For eacxh discipline asteriked...please provide the page number and a brief (1- 3 sentence) explanation of how ot fix it in your paper.

2. In Hacker, peruse Usage Guide p. 123 - 137

3. Journal #1: Remember the rules. Find an advertisement you particularly like. May be print or video. Evaluate it based on the criteria outlined on page 30 of the Clouse book. It doesn't matter if you answer just one or all five questions in the context of your one page.

ACCC Class #2, July 14, 2010

Welcome to your family! Hope you like them, because like your real family, you're stuck with them!

Read Lewis Beale's article handed to you in class today: What's Wrong with Writing? You will be quizzed on its contents.

ACC Class #1, July 12, 2010

READ: Patterns with a Purpose Chapter 1 due by class on Thursday

WRITE: 1. Post my blog in your favorites. If you can, it would be awesome of you to sign-up for a g-mail account and register with Blogspot...this way you can communicate with me through the comments section. If you do, leave a comment on this post.

2. Complete questionnaire on seperate piece of paper.

3. Choose one of the questions posed below. Write me one full page answer. Keep in mind that this is your “coming out party” as a writer for this course. Present your best work. Show me what you are capable of mechanically. Show me how creative you can be! And remember Costal’s Crazy Ceys #1. Should be typed with specifications reviewed in syllabus. Labeled as Formal Essay #1.

 Questions for Formal Essay #1:

A. Explain what you would like people to have learned from you.

B. Write a piece explaining some unrealistic expectations others (or you) have placed on you (or could have placed on you), OR explain how you have done the same to someone else.

C. Write about something you "know to be true," but do not face.

D. Explain the chararteristics you would most want to inherit from your parents, OR explain the characteristics you would least like to inherit from them.

E. In an ideal world, explain what you would most like to devote your life to doing.

I took it to the Streets

A few months ago, I was shocked and appalled by this newspaper column. This weekend, in homage to you guys writing your research papers, I wrote this response. Write well this weekend, my friends.

Worth Watching

The Falcon Film Files: Very Interesting...and shocking...worth a watch, especially in reference to our work with Spike Jonze

Wow.

How's This For Transcendentalism ?

The Bridge from this American Life. Please listen to the first two accounts (the guy from Chicago and the guy from China). And please consider how these men reflect and embody the tenets of Thoreau.