Lecture 18: Public Discussions Part II

Today the remaining groups shall present their topics and debate for the class.

Your public discussion analysis assignment is added to the blog for you to peruse. Please hand it in on Tuesday before we begin our library session. Remember to come straight to the library for our research session which will help with the research assignment due on the 1st of December. We will be meeting in the Instruction Lab (it is room 347).



Note: Your thesis statement is due on Thursday by 11:00am (as a comment on next Thursday's blog post). Remember, this is the thesis statement based on your public discussion topic. You will have the class period as a research session to work on your thesis statements. This work can be done in the library.

Lecture 17: Public Discussions Part I

Today half of the class will present their topics and debate for the class.

The class and I shall assess each group based on five criteria as noted last class and here in this rubric.

Thank you to groups 2 and 5 who set great examples of how an argument is set up and developed. Good rebuttals too.

Groups 1, 3 and 4 be ready for Thursday.

Lecture 16: Midterm - Focus on Summaries

MIDTERM today. As you know we`ll be focussing on summary writing for the midterm.

Also, in preparation of next week's public discussions, see below for the rubric which the class (and I) shall use to assess each group.

Lecture 13: Student Pronoun Presentations

Everyone who presented on Tuesday did an excellent job. Each group not only clearly explained information, but incorporated questions and quizzes to faciliate understanding. Kudos to Brandy, Andrea and Maikki who created a fun game. A special thank you to David for his musical interludes during "English Feud."

Thanks too to the class for participating in each presentation and noticing groups' typographical errors (those abhorrent apostrophes!).