ENGL102 Writing Rhetorically with Sources
ASSIGNMENT: CLASS PROFILE PAGE ENTRY
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FOR MONDAY'S CLASS: Class Profile Page Self-Introduction Entry
This is your first assignment for our class. It counts as one bonus reading journal (more info on actual reading journals can be found on this website by clicking here). What I mean by that is that you can use this as a free reading journal to make up for a regular reading journal assignment that appears on the syllabus that you miss for whatever reason. You will have a few opportunities to earn free reading journals this semester. This is one of them.
I would like to put together a class profile page. I've done it in the past and it's been great, but last semester many students did not do the assignment and so it was impossible to put a page for an entire class together. I'm telling you this because the success of this assignment requires that ALL students in the class participate.
For Monday's class, please come to class with:
1. Your laptop (so get yours charged up now Billy).
2. A HARD COPY--printed out, double-spaced of a 250 word introduction of yourself to the class. Write in first person ("I" and not "he or she or they").
3. BE READY to share your introduction with another person in the class for feedback. We will have a mini-workshop in class as a way to introduce you to the workshopping process in the class.
4. IN-CLASS: in addition to doing a peer workshop, you will have a small research assignment in connection to your introduction that we will do right in class. It's very tiny. No panicking (Lily).
5. BE READY after the workshop, to revise, right then and there, in-class, your 250 word introduction.
6. BY THE END OF CLASS: You will email me your revised 250 word introduction that includes the research work you did in class.
7.BE ABLE TO ATTACH TO YOUR EMAIL: a photograph of you that you want to represent you on our class website. You don't have to use a picture of yourself if you aren't comfortable with that. You can include a meme or .GIF that I can use instead--though, of course, I hope it's a picture of you instead.
Wondering how to write an introduction? Here are some samples.
If you want to read some samples, check out this web page (NOTE: These were written in third person. You can write yours in first person):
www.leetorda.com/class-profile-engl-513-comp-tp.html
You can see the introduction I wrote for myself on that page (scroll all the way to the bottom).
Here is another example of an introduction that I wrote for a class I taught over Winter Break. This is in first person, which is the tense I'm asking you to write in):
This is your first assignment for our class. It counts as one bonus reading journal (more info on actual reading journals can be found on this website by clicking here). What I mean by that is that you can use this as a free reading journal to make up for a regular reading journal assignment that appears on the syllabus that you miss for whatever reason. You will have a few opportunities to earn free reading journals this semester. This is one of them.
I would like to put together a class profile page. I've done it in the past and it's been great, but last semester many students did not do the assignment and so it was impossible to put a page for an entire class together. I'm telling you this because the success of this assignment requires that ALL students in the class participate.
For Monday's class, please come to class with:
1. Your laptop (so get yours charged up now Billy).
2. A HARD COPY--printed out, double-spaced of a 250 word introduction of yourself to the class. Write in first person ("I" and not "he or she or they").
3. BE READY to share your introduction with another person in the class for feedback. We will have a mini-workshop in class as a way to introduce you to the workshopping process in the class.
4. IN-CLASS: in addition to doing a peer workshop, you will have a small research assignment in connection to your introduction that we will do right in class. It's very tiny. No panicking (Lily).
5. BE READY after the workshop, to revise, right then and there, in-class, your 250 word introduction.
6. BY THE END OF CLASS: You will email me your revised 250 word introduction that includes the research work you did in class.
7.BE ABLE TO ATTACH TO YOUR EMAIL: a photograph of you that you want to represent you on our class website. You don't have to use a picture of yourself if you aren't comfortable with that. You can include a meme or .GIF that I can use instead--though, of course, I hope it's a picture of you instead.
Wondering how to write an introduction? Here are some samples.
If you want to read some samples, check out this web page (NOTE: These were written in third person. You can write yours in first person):
www.leetorda.com/class-profile-engl-513-comp-tp.html
You can see the introduction I wrote for myself on that page (scroll all the way to the bottom).
Here is another example of an introduction that I wrote for a class I taught over Winter Break. This is in first person, which is the tense I'm asking you to write in):
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My name is Lee Torda, and I am an Associate Professor of English at Bridgewater State University where I also coordinate the first year writing program. This year is my 21st year teaching at Bridgewater. As a teacher of writing, I want to create writing classrooms that are fair and useful to students, a place where they can find their voice and learn to be brave, fearless writers. I really love my job and feel lucky to do it. When I’m not teaching, I live in New Bedford Massachusetts in a big, old house with my husband and our three very old cats. I like to run and hike and walk by the ocean–which is only a mile from my house–and, of course I also like to read. My favorite books include To the Lighthouse, Invisible Man, and Beloved. But really I have too many favorites to list. I’m originally from Cleveland, OH from a a very big, Italian family. My sister, who I am very close to, still lives there, and I visit as often as I can to see her and my two great, funny ridiculous nephews (which has not been possible during Covid). I feel very lucky to live the life I have, and I look forward to each new class as an opportunity to learn with and from my students.
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