I write to discover what I know.
—Flannery O’Connor
Welcome to your New Class
- Text your Professor at (856) 979-6653
- Text your Full Name
- Text C2 SP21
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- Email your Professor at myfavoriteprofessor@davidhodges.com
- Tell him how much you are already enjoying class, or how little you are enjoying class.
- Sign your real human name.
- Create and share the username you’ll use for the Class Blog.
- It can be anything you like and does not have to be unique.
- Recent choices include: ShaquilleOatmeal, IDrinkTheMostTea, Lazyboy.
- IT MUST PROTECT YOUR IDENTITY!
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- It can be anything you like and does not have to be unique.
- Take a Survey. COMP2 PREVIEW SURVEY at SurveyMonkey.
. - Lecture/Demo:
- Quick Review of Course Blog, “Counterintuitivity“
- Includes a Preview of a Research Proposal Argument
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- Complete the Attendance Assignment at Canvas.
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- Read and understand the Take Home Assignment on Canvas.
- “Why Does the Universe Exist?”
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- “Why Does the Universe Exist?”
- LECTURE/DEMO (if time permits):
- Quick Review Blog assignment: “My Hypothesis.”
Went through a step by step process of posting on the blog. Used our Universe assignment as an example
Different amounts of writing require different forms of writing. For example, a 100 word response allows little to no room for fluff and the words written must count
We did a riddle to remind us that words that we use all day everyday might require further investigation
Went through an example of a research paper on My White Paper
Question- suppose you had a piece of paper where you could fold many times. The physical limit is 8 times before you can’t fold it anymore. But suppose you can fold it as much as you can. The first fold is 2, then 4, etc… how many times would you have to fold the piece of paper before it could reach the moon. It’s about a million miles
Answer-48
We will take a survey about My White Paper technique
It’s a bucket where you dump your research
Copy bibliographic info and put it in the white paper
Once you read and investigate, you can begin prewriting and summarizing
The better you do summarizing, the more you’ve started writing your paper
Process of synthesizing material and communicating it is summarizing
Always a work in progress. A document that gets bigger throughout the semester and is graded on periodically
Always go in planning on a rewrite to get the piece better and better
Grade suffers if you don’t keep up with the progress and continue to rewrite to make your work better
This is a thinking, rewriting, and revising class. A work in progress
Write to find out what we believe
We do not have a thought in our heads
When thoughts turn into language that’s where you find out what you believe
Thinking gets you nowhere. Talking makes some sense because you’re making some sort of language
Thinking doesn’t occur during reading, it occurs during writing
When you engage in sources that’s when you begin with your hypothesis
Share what you find surprising, it’ll probably be surprising to somebody else too
10,000-20,000 words gathered by the time you’re done-a good white paper
Next step is removing all of the excess information to make a coherent and condensed paper
It’s in the details where you should think outside of the box
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