Agenda for Monday, 2/11
-Attendance
-Questions
-Discuss Graff chapter on quoting and terms I want you to especially remember (framing, introducing, explaining)
-Discuss Nussbaum, especially noting her observations of the contradiction and contrast in the world of blogs. The contradictory nature of blogging and social computing is important to us as readers, bloggers, and researchers.
-Discuss paragraph structure–topic sentences, that a paragraph should be as long as it needs to be to develop the idea presented in a topic sentence, that paragraphs should have unity and focus (each paragraph about one idea and only about that idea) and that there are methods of development such as examples, narration, analogy. See page 24 in the Hacker for a good discussion of paragraph structure.
-Handed out HW 10 and HW 11 sheet, which you can get on the “Documents for ITW 101″ page.
After break, students dispersed to computers on campus to complete a paragraph and format exercise on our online forum and network, Keene-Ning. The exercise asked students to write a well-composed paragraph describing something fun or cool to do on the computer, provide a link to a website, and correctly spell and format the title of the website (websites go in italics, web pages go in quotes, and it’s important to name the site or page as its creators do). Keene-Ning will be
used for some other homework assignments as well.
On Wednesday, Assistant Professor Deng Pan, who is our library liaison for A Blog of One’s Own, will visit our class for the first of three information literacy sessions. Next week we’ll be visiting the library for the main session.
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