ENGL101 Writing Rhetorically IN-CLASS WRITING
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Managing In-Class Writing in our online class (because we do a lot of it)
Nearly every class, I will ask you to do some in-class writing. Typically this is writing that I hope will help you to write your formal papers or otherwise help you to get work done in our class: start a paper, understand a reading, ask a question, generally check in with me on how you are doing in class. It’s also a way for me to gauge if you are paying attention to our class, doing the work, and, at the most basic level, attending class. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s important that you do it: you’ll write for 5 to 7 minutes at most on most class days.
It’s also practice. Writing is a big part of what you’ll do in college, and like running sprints for a marathon or throwing a baseball about a million times to get your pitch right, you need to develop some writing muscle memory. In-class writing will help you with that.
In a face-to-face class, I would totally do this the old-fashioned way and have you write it on a piece of paper and turn it in to me. Obviously that won’t work now. Thus, follow the directions below to set up your googl.doc in-class writing page. I’ll have access to it and provide feedback and comments to help you—let me repeat, just to help you. It’s a do it or not do it thing; it’s not a get a grade on it thing.
Day-to-Day how to post to your in-class writing google.doc
Nearly every class, I will ask you to do some in-class writing. Typically this is writing that I hope will help you to write your formal papers or otherwise help you to get work done in our class: start a paper, understand a reading, ask a question, generally check in with me on how you are doing in class. It’s also a way for me to gauge if you are paying attention to our class, doing the work, and, at the most basic level, attending class. It’s not a huge deal, but it’s important that you do it: you’ll write for 5 to 7 minutes at most on most class days.
It’s also practice. Writing is a big part of what you’ll do in college, and like running sprints for a marathon or throwing a baseball about a million times to get your pitch right, you need to develop some writing muscle memory. In-class writing will help you with that.
In a face-to-face class, I would totally do this the old-fashioned way and have you write it on a piece of paper and turn it in to me. Obviously that won’t work now. Thus, follow the directions below to set up your googl.doc in-class writing page. I’ll have access to it and provide feedback and comments to help you—let me repeat, just to help you. It’s a do it or not do it thing; it’s not a get a grade on it thing.
- Click here to access the TEMPLATE google.doc for in-class writing. DON’T WRITE ANYTHING ON IT.
- Go to the “file” tab in the upper left of the tool bar and select “make a copy” from the drop down menu. A dialogue box will appear and prompt you to title your copy. Title your new .doc YOUR NAME.IN-CLASS WRITING.doc. So, for instance, my in-class writing would be called “LEE TORDA.IN-CLASS WRITING.doc”.
- Once you’ve titled and saved your google.doc, click on the “share” icon in the top right corner of the page. In the dialogue box that pops up, write both of these emails on the line that says “add people and groups”: ltorda@bridgew.edu AND lee.torda@gmail.com.
- To the right of the “add people and groups” you’ll see a drop down menu. It might say “view.” Make sure that you select “editor” so that I have access to the document.
- Once you’ve typed in the email addresses and selected the “editor” role, click “send”.
Day-to-Day how to post to your in-class writing google.doc
- Always post AT THE TOP of this google.doc, directly below these instructions.
- Type in the date for our class because this serves as one of the ways I take attendance.
- Highlight the date and convert, click on the “normal text” drop down menu and select “heading 2”.
- Start a new line of text, return to the drop down menu and select “normal text” again.