Next Week: Classes are Canceled, Group Meetings with Me

Hello Everyone,

We will have 1-2 member group meetings with me on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday of next week. A sign up sheet is listed on my door (FH 226). Make sure you follow the directions on the sign-up sheet. Please be patient during our meetings. I will make sure that everyone gets their fair shake during our meeting time, so come on time when we are supposed to meet and make sure your whole group is present when we start. I have made more times available on Monday and Friday, so please look over the sign-sheet.

For those of you who were absence, we went through the following questions:
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Core II: Peer Review for CORE 2 Paper

1. Personal Voice: Authentic and honest? Or sloppy and fluffy?

2. Personal Essay: Does the author offer their personal connection to the topic? Do we feel “safe” in their hands as they guide us from idea to idea?

3. Research Question: Focused, narrowed, specific? Does the question focus on just the website or the entire community?

4. Rhetorical Questions: Unless there’s a really good reason, your essay should have just a single question.

5. Titles
• Italicize titles of movies, television shows, newspapers, books, albums.
• Use quotation marks for articles, episodes, songs, short stories, poems.

6. Introductory Elements
• Does your sentence begin by introducing space (In the house, In the United States, Outside my bedroom window) or time (After I got home, By the time I’d finished my test, At midnight, In 2005), or by signaling a contrast (However, On the other hand) or a sequence (In addition, Also, First, Second)? If so, your sentence begins with a dependent clause, and you need to place a comma after those introductory elements.
• Before I came to class today, I stopped to buy a Diet Coke...
• In 1991, Pepsi-Cola introduced “Crystal Pepsi.”
• On the other hand, I could use some caffeine right now.

7. What's Next? Does the end result of your project give us a sense of where you want to go with this paper? Your objectives will be for the next part of the semester? Your ideas for secondary research?

8. Works Cited
• Throughout your paper, make sure you indicate quotes from your online community or from your interviews, and make sure you include quoted material in quotation marks. I’m not worrying about in-text citations this time; I’m worried that you’ve done quality research, and that—when you use it—you quote it.
• Make sure your Works Cited page is numbered and formatted correctly.
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You will need a partner for this assignment, so complete the following steps:

1. Post your name and your e-mail below (just post anonymous, if you can't sign in).
2. Exchange papers with someone in class, go over their paper and give them suggestions based on the questions above.
3. Sign up at my door with a meeting time for you and your partner(s). Please read the instructions on the door on how to sign up.
4. Meet with me during your appointed time.


If you do not make your meeting time, it will be considered TWO absences and that will be reflected on your overall grade for this paper as well as your partner's overall grade. I take my meeting times seriously: don't waste my time and I won't waste your time.