Week 2: Tuesday, September 2nd Friday, September 5th
Week 2, August 30 -
September 3: Overview
Goals for this Week |
- Revisit
the concept of summarizing. Review the notion of objectivity
versus fairness.
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- Discuss revision and its importance as part
of the writing process.
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- Discuss
workshopping and workshop etiquette.
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- Discuss
the importance of purpose, audience and context for writing
summaries.
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- Assign
the articles by Krugman, Frank, Gordon and Zukin.
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- Discuss
effective use of paraphrasing and quoting. (See page 194 in
PHG.)
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- Introduce
the concept of responding. Describe the three types of response
used in this course: agree/disagree, analytic/evaluative, interpretive/reflective.
Encourage students to practice the response forms one at a time
and then to combine them for the final paper/letter to the editor.
You’ll find a discussion of these types of response in the teaching
guide on summarizing and responding at https://writing.colostate.edu/guides/teaching/summaryresponse/.
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- Introduce
the New York Times—its layout, features on certain days,
productive ways to read it, initial searches for topics/issues
of interest. Assignment of News Clip Journal— begin clipping
articles of interest on debatable issues—10 total by the end
of Portfolio 1. Make sure to record date and section/page. Paste
onto notebook paper, one per page, perhaps in the same 3-ring
binder you use for class notes and handouts. [Instructors:
Consider beginning each class period with a new person in
the room briefing the class on one of his or her articles.
Also consider keeping your own News Clip Journal so that
you can show examples of clippings to your class. Bring your
copy of the Times to class every day and encourage students
to do the same.]
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Activities for this
Week |
Detailed lesson
plans are available for the first four weeks of the course. Beginning
in the third week you will be encouraged to take over the writing
(or rewriting) of all introductions, conclusions, and transitions.
You will also notice more activity choices in the third, fourth
and fifth weeks. Beginning in the sixth week, you will be
expected to choose activities from a set of suggested activities
and/or develop your own activities that will help you and your students
achieve the course goals for a specific week. |