STUDENTS: Please do last week's homework if you did not do it yet... clustering, 50 words in the article that you chose. and make the ten sentences that I gave you... RJ 

STUDENTS: PLEASE COMPOSE A TEN (10) MINUTE TIMED WRITING ON THIS PHOTOGRAPH AND THE ONE DIRECTLY BELOW IT. I AM INTERESTED IN YOUR IMMEDIATE REACTIONS TO WHAT YOU SEE... (please remember the timed writing strategies that I taught you last week!)  

TIMED WRITING (MARCH 29, 2005)  

ANNOUNCING ... MAVIS!

Dear Students:

I want to show you a really cool weblog that was created by one of our students: MAVIS!

Please visit this website and, Mavis, how did you get those cool stars to rate things ... several students have asked me and I was just wondering if you could please share this insight with us.

Students, after you visit the website, please leave Mavis a comment to make her feel welcome to our cyber-community!

ALSO, please visit the http://awrd.ndhu.edu.tw and leave a comment or suggestion regarding the website. Have you found any cool links on-line? Have you found anything that would be of use to us as we continue to move this project forward? HELP! You are the gloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooory of Taiwan and I need your suggestions and comments and links and advice and secrets and cyber-sniper eagle eye of yours to help me locate some good websites regarding the teaching and learning of academic writing, especially for academic publishing and research ... in MANDARIN ...

Thanks!
RJ

March 22rd, 2005 Assignment

Hello Students:

We had a really exciting class this week, and I am thankful that we had such impressive attendance. During our discussion today, we discussed the importance of THEORY in conducting research and attempted to come up with good working definitions of this term. During our discussions, the following words came into play:

• cluster
• main idea
• ramifications
• idiolect
• derive
• suggests/states/maintains/ascertains/supports the notion that...

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HOMEWORK

1. Spend at least 30 minutes looking at sentences 1-6 on "BE YOUR OWN WOMAN"
2. Conduct an extensive CLUSTERING session with yourself and try to find out exactly, precisely, definitely what it is that you might be doing in the near future. As you cluster, take a break here and there and try to get a "metacognitive" view or picture of what you see going on before you as you work.
3. After you have completed your clustering, find an article that contains THEORETICAL aspects related to it. In other words, try to locate something that is similar to your interests and your academic direction.
4. CIRCLE all of the verbs in the text and make a list of 50 verbs and post them on the class blog as a comment and print them out on paper. We will be discussing this list of verbs in order of strength and certainty.
5. Enjoy your week...

GOOD LUCK! [click on the GREEN RJ email me if you need to, okay?] ~~~(RJ) ~~~~

Sophomore Composition SPRING 2005

Sophomore Composition SPRING 2005: "Sophomore Composition SPRING 2005 "

If you like the website you're looking at now, feast your eyes on this!
Next year's students, the sophomores are doing great this year!
RJ

PLEASE POST YOUR ASSIGNMENTS HERE!

STUDENTS: PLEASE POST YOUR ASSIGNMENTS HERE!

HEY GUYS! ALSO PLEASE BE SURE TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR VISITORS TO MAKE COMMENTS ON YOUR BLOGS BY GOING INTO THE COMMENTS SECTION IN THE SETTINGS TAB ABOVE. WE WILL BE COMMENTING ON EACH OTHER'S SITES AS THE SEMESTER GOES ON....

ALSO PLEASE CONTINUE TO FIND LINKS AND BE SURE TO TRY TO FIND SPECIFIC PAGES RATHER THAN GENERAL SITES AS YOU CONTINUE YOUR SEARCH FOR THE ULTIMATE L2 (second language) academic writing links that are the most interesting to you and your perceived needs ...

GOOD LUCK!
THANKS, RJ

ADD OIL GUYS!  

ASSIGNMENT FOR MARCH 15th

Dear Esteemed Students:

Your assignment for March 15th is to look over each and every one of your classmates' weblogs and spend enough time to get a good feeling for the websites that they listed.

Then, please leave a comment of " a page [or more... using transitions, examples, (who, where, what, why, when...) and sufficient detail in a depth that is consistent with the spirit of this course -- your comment will be graded]" regarding one particular website that you would like to look at as a class in more detail. Please complete this assignment by FRIDAY 11th.

ALSO, NEXT WEEK, MY MOTHER AND FATHER WILL BE VISITING THE CLASS TO DISCUSS ACADEMIC WRITING. My father has been a professor of law for 40 years so he can answer any questions you might have about writing. You will be required to ask at least two questions and the presentation will be video and audiotaped ... please come to class early and on time [8:15 at the latest!].

Thanks, Robert J.

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ... PLEASE EMAIL ME...

Always focus on your destination ... here, we are going to the top of Carp Mountain! 

Coherence is like a train that guides your entire paper through transitions and logical sequences... 

The path to ideal writing is full of many steps and ups and downs... be prepared ... 

Sometimes you must brainstorm to be able to see the ENTIRE PICTURE of what you are trying to write ... this is how I describe NDHU... 

The path to perfect writing is full of dangers! BEWARE! 

YOUR CLASSMATES' ADVANCED COMPOSITION WEBLOGS!

Dear Esteemed Students:

Please find the list below of hotlinks to our classmates' weblogs.
Be sure to check over each others' weblogs regularly, as I will ask you to continue to add a variety of links each week.

ALSO, please be sure to check with THIS, our CLASS BLOG, regularly as well, as it will contain, in RED-MARKED TEXT your reading and writing assignments. Often, you will be asked to please post copies of your homework and writings as comments to this blog as well.

MAVIS!

JANET
CHERYL
BEN
MIKA
BARRY
IBU
VINCENT
NORMAN
BRUCE
SHIRLEY

I am looking forward to a very rewarding and productive semester. Please inform me of any questions or comments you might have either by email, a call, a note, or via a friend or friend's friend, etc.! No really. Let's have a good semester to start the year of the CHICKEN off right!

ROBERT J.

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WELCOME TO THE NEW SPRING 2005 SEMESTER!

Dear Students:

I wish to welcome each and every one of you to an exciting new semester. This Spring we are going to be exploring a number of online resources that can help us with our overall writing skills.

Please be sure to continue checking out each others' weblogs so that we can work together as a team to "discover" the treasures of what it means to compose higher level academic writing.

Good luck!

Robert J.