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Author: Eric Drown
Homework due Sun. Sept. 8 at 11:59 pm
PRO TIP: There are 3 tasks this weekend. Space out your work. Task 1 – Engage “The Art of Quoting” – About 40 minutes Take the pre-test for “The Art of Quoting” before reading the chapter. Read and annotate “The Art of Quoting” in They Say/I Say. Study for “The Art of Quoting” post-test. Please paraphrase all answers to the questions by putting your Read More …
Study Techniques
Most new college students use inefficient and ineffective study techniques to learn new information or skills and may be unaware of more effective study strategies. Worse, they frequently overestimate the effectiveness of the study strategies they use and underestimate the time and effort it takes to learn something with the result that they often underlearn Read More …
Reading & Writing Techniques in Everyday Language
Working With Other People’s Words Yield the floor/call up [signal changes in speakers] Take a picture [summarize] Sample [quote] Put another way [paraphrase] Riff on [elaborate] Paint a picture [describe] Frame (verb) [contextualize] Shine a spotlight [draw attention to/bring to the foreground] Put under a microscope [analyze into components] Fill the gaps [infer] Connect the Read More …
Homework due Thursday Sept. 5 at 11:59 pm
PRO TIP: SPREAD OUT YOUR WORK To get the most out of these assignments, engage the Ungar piece on Wednesday, then study for the post test and do the writing assignment on Thursday. If you scored less than 12 of 16 on the “Art of Summary” quiz, you need to study and retake it before Read More …
Aug. 31/Sept. 3 homework
Task 1 – About 45 minutesDue before Sat. Aug. 31 at 2 pm Learning targets: active and critical reading, pre-reading, annotation, paraphrase, studying PRO TIP: Do this activity before working on the paper described below. I’ll be expecting you to apply what you learn from this chapter to your paper. Preview the questions on the Read More …
What is College For?
Ronald Barnett, The Idea of Higher Education (1991, 155-6): “A genuine higher learning is subversive in the sense of subverting the student’s taken-for-granted world, including the world of endeavor, scholarship, calculation or creativity, into which he or she has been initiated. A genuine higher education is unsettling; it is not meant to be a cosy Read More …
Two homework tasks due Aug. 29 at 11:59 PM
Leftover activity from first class. If you haven’t already, please send me an email that fits the description in the link. Task 1 – About 80 minutes Learning targets: active and critical reading, pre-reading, annotation, studying PRO TIP: Read all instructions completely. Print the transcript to Carol Dweck’s “The Power of Believing You Can Improve.” Read More …
Send Me an Email
Write an email in which you describe what you think it will be like taking College Reading and Writing I this fall. What are you looking forward to in this course? What are you nervous or concerned about? What do you think the keys to your success will be? What do you want me to Read More …
