ENGL 102 Writing Rhetorically With Sources
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LEE TORDA 310 Tillinghast Hall Bridgewater State University 508.531.2436 ltorda@bridgew.edu www.leetorda.com Attend Zoom Class (when told to on the syllabus) by clicking on this link. |
All office hours for students will be held on Zoom until further notice.
Attend Any Zoom Office hours by clicking on this link. M&W 12:30-1:30 T 4:00-5:00 and by appointment Schedule a time to meet with me, during office hours or otherwise, by clicking on this link. |
Week One
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Wednesday 1.19.2022 (NOTE: ALL BSU CLASSES WILL MEET ONLINE FOR 19 & 21 JANUARY 2022) Attend Zoom Class: by clicking on this link. Friday 1.21.2022
(NOTE: ALL BSU CLASSES WILL MEET ONLINE FOR 19 & 21 JANUARY 2022) Attend Zoom Class: by clicking on this link. |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
Nothing. Just show up. Class will not meet as a group. Instead, consult the sign up for three minute conferences and check in with me one-on-one.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
Nothing. Just show up. DUE: your syllabus check in emailed to me. Post your one question to our ENGL 102 Class Discussion Board
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
Introduction to the class. How to read the syllabus. Sign up for your 3 minute conference HERE. During our one-on-one meeting you'll get the link to the assignment due on Monday during our first face-to-face class.
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Week Two
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 1.24.2022 (First face-to-face class, we meet in Library Room 214) Wednesday 1.26.2022
Friday 1.28.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due today. READ: “Why Go to College?” US News & World Reports June 17, 2019
By Emma Kerr https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/paying-for-college/articles/2019-06-17/is-college-worth-the-cost READ: These two short essays on writing about the ideas of others. Click on the titles (in blue) to access the reading: What is Motivating this Writing? and "The Art of Summarizing"
READ, ALSO: “College May Not Be Worth It Anymore” The New York Times available by clicking on this link. By Ellen Ruppel Shell May 16, 2018 |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE: first writing assignment (you'll get details during our one-on-one zoom meeting on Friday 21 January 2022. DUE: Bring notes on the short reading for today to class. We'll use these notes to practice writing Reading Journals in class. Notes will count for your first set of reading journals.
WRITE: Reading Journals on Rupel Shell article. Use what you learned from the What is motivating this Writer and The Art of Summarizing to write about her ideas. Click here to view a list of the reporting verbs from "The Art of Summarizing."
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
WORKSHOP: of first writing assignment. Bring your laptop to class to complete the assignment in class and turn it in to me via email. IN-CLASS: Working with reporting verbs.
Also, overview of Research Project for the semester. Please read the assignment materials on this website prior to coming to class. |
Week Three
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 1.31.2022 Class Canceled SNOW DAY Wednesday 2.2.2022
CLASS WILL BE ONLINE & ASYNCHRONOUS. YOU NEED TO COMPLETE THE WORK FOR THIS CLASS ON OUR CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD BY THE START OF FRIDAY'S IN-PERSON CLASS. Friday 2.4.2022
Class Canceled SNOW DAY |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due today. |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Writing Due today. . DUE: Reading Journal on TED Talk. Include quotes from your TED Talk and make use of the reporting verbs to make your point.
DUE: Reading Journal on your selected TED Talk. Try, as always, to include quotes and reporting verbs in your response.
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Career services career survey. Access the site by clicking on this link. You will have to set up an account to be able to do so. IN-CLASS: What are your "multipotentialite" super powers? What are you prepared to do about them?
IN-CLASS: Overview of Positioning Self As a Researcher Assignment. Work on "Positioning Yourself As a Researcher". What makes a for a good research topic? What's the difference between a topic and a thesis? What influences how we formulate and try to answer a question?
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Week Four
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 2.7.2022 Wednesday 2.9.2022
Friday 2.11.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due. No Reading Due.
No Reading Due.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Writing Due. We will work in class on Positioning Self as researcher. DUE IN CLASS: Bring your hard copy of Positioning yourself as a Researcher to class to for workshopping.
DUE: hard copy of Positioning yourself as a Researcher to turn in to me. REMEMBER: your workshop draft, your workshop worksheets and reflections to turn in to me.
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Working on Positioning yourself as a Researcher. Work on "Positioning Yourself As a Researcher". What makes a for a good research topic? What's the difference between a topic and a thesis? What influences how we formulate and try to answer a question? IN-CLASS: Reflecting on Positioning yourself as a Researcher.
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Week Five
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 2.14.2022 Wednesday 2.16.2022
Friday 2.18.2022
CLASS WILL BE ONLINE TODAY. Attend Zoom Class by clicking on this link. |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
READ: This article from the The New Yorker magazine: "Student Debt is Transforming the American Family" 
No Reading Due.
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No Writing Due.
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Reflecting second assignment, Locating & Evaluating Sources Part I through the argument of "Student Debt". Trying to Understand the Role of Research. IN-CLASS: IN-CLASS: Continued Work on "Student Debt" In-class exercise on comparing kinds of sources.
IN-CLASS: Finishing up work on comparing kinds of sources. Getting ready for our library visit. Thinking about what kinds of sources you should be looking for.
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Week Six
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 2.21.2022 All Classes Canceled in observance of President's Day Wednesday 2.23.2022
Friday 2.25.2022
Class Canceled due to yet another Snow Day. Read below for details on how you can keep up with the work of the class |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Class LIBRARY RESEARCH DAY. Meet in the library resource room located on the first floor (as you enter the main entrance of the library, the circulation desk is to your right and the reference desk is to your left. Go past them and turn left just before you reach the stairs. The library resource room is located all the way against the back wall. There will be a sign helping to direct you to the location.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Class No Writing Due.
DUE: Have one of your articles read for today's class. Be ready to fill out your annotated bibliography worksheets
See the CLASS DISCUSSION BOARD for how to post this work since we will not meet in class due to Snow Day. |
WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
No Class IN-CLASS: Learning how to use data bases Part I.
IN-CLASS: Working on how to quote effectively, but, more importantly, why one would quote.
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Hi Everyone--
I love a snow day more than probably even you do, but this is our third one and it is seriously reeking havoc on our ability to get stuff done.
I am not requiring anyone to do anything, but, four things:
I love a snow day more than probably even you do, but this is our third one and it is seriously reeking havoc on our ability to get stuff done.
I am not requiring anyone to do anything, but, four things:
- I'll be online tomorrow from 11:15 to 12:05 in case anyone wants to talk to me about their topic or their research. We can even research your topic together.
- I've created an optional discussion board post. You are not required to post, a snow day cancelation is still a cancelation, but I want to try to get you to keep up with the work that is due in a week. You can click on this link to our class discussion board to read about the assignment. it's an extra credit post that will earn you one free absence or one free reading journal--and a good number of you could use either or both at this point.
- Look for an email from me with the cover letter to your Positioning Yourself as a Researcher paper. I would have passed them all back tomorrow. You'll get the actual physical copy back when next I see you, but the cover letter should give you some information that will help you with locating and evaluating sources.
- Finally, I am still collecting the reading journal that was due in class on Friday, February 18th. Some folks gave it to me on Wednesday. Don't freak out if you didn't. give it to me on Monday (hopefully we'll see each other then). Don't need to email it to me either. And, while I'm at it, if you have any reading journals that you have not yet passed in in hard copy, BRING THEM TO CLASS ON MONDAY. I'LL COLLECT THEM AND YOU'LL GET CREDIT FOR THEM. This is the last chance to do this.
Week Seven
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 2.28.2022 Wednesday 3.2.2022
Friday 3.4.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due Today (except the reading you have to do of your own articles). No Reading Due
No Reading Due Today
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE: All of your annotated Bibliography Worksheets. DUE: Draft of annotated bibliography literature review for workshopping in class.
DUE AT TIME OF CONFERENCE (NOTE: YOUR CONFERENCE TIME MIGHT BE ON TUESDAY): at the time of your conference, your draft of your reflection on your annotated bibliography work DUE: In class, your Research Notebook at midterm. You will have time in class to write the midterm reflection.
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN CLASS: Turning your annotated Bibs into a literature review. Thinking about how your research has affected your ideas about your topic/thesis. Signup for your midterm research notebook conference here (note link won't be live until 2.28.2022). IN OUR CLASS: Bring your computer. You'll have time in class to work on your reflection, on
CONFERENCE: expect to talk about your work so far in the class, how your research project is taking shape so far. IN-CLASS: Time to work on assembling your midterm research notebook and writing the midterm reflection.
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Week Eight
No Classes Spring Break
No Classes Spring Break
Week Nine
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 3.14.2022 Wednesday 3.16.2022
Friday 3.18.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due Today |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
Now Writing Due Today. |
WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Overview of Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II assignment. Also, Sign up for midterm grade conferences by clicking on this link. IN-CLASS: Practicing Collaborative Listening. Thinking about who would make a good interview for your Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II.
IN-CLASS: What do we learn in this interview and how do we learn it?
Also, coming up with your questions for your interview subjects for Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II. |
Week Ten
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 3.21.2022 Wednesday 3.23.2022
Friday 3.25.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due Today.
READ: These two chapters on differentiating between what you learned from your interviewees and what think (click on the blue link to access each article): Three ways to Respond and Distinguishing What you Say From What They Say.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE IN CLASS: Your interview questions and who you will be interviewing (biographical information). BRING TWO COPIES DUE IN-CLASS: Reading Journal on the two chapters from TSIS. At least one of your three interview summaries. See Locating and Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II BRING TWO COPIES
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Workshopping your interview questions. IN-CLASS: What is the difference between summary and analysis in this interview?
IN-CLASS: Working on analyzing your materials--the difference between summary and analysis, thinking/writing about how this interview is affecting your thesis/research.
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Week Eleven
For those folks not in class on Monday, I’m updating the syllabus to reflect the fact that so few folks had any interviews done as of Monday’s class (some did, but not many). I don’t want for folks to fall behind with this work, which, I know, is hard. It is real labor to locate interviews and to conduct interviews. I am not changing the requirements of the assignment, but I’m extending the deadlines for the project. In class on Monday, I had all students who had not yet located or conducted interviews to set up times/dates to make this happen. If you have not yet determined who you are going to interview, get that done. And if you have interviewees who are flaking on you, then find alternates now. People not coming through for you will not be an excuse for not turning in this work.
Remember that all of the details for what to do for this project are located online on our class website on the Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II page.
Most of all, don’t skip class. When you skip class you miss important information and actual, like, lessons, that are meant to help you complete this project.
See you all Wednesday.
Remember that all of the details for what to do for this project are located online on our class website on the Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II page.
- FOR WEDNESDAY: Come to class with at least one, but preferably ALL of your summaries of your interviews. On Wednesday, we will work on analyzing, different from summarizing, your interviews. This should help you write your analysis. That is why it is best if you have all of your interviews or at least two to compare. Bring your laptop and be prepared to share your summaries with your research partners. I will be checking to see if you have your summaries with you to give you credit for the work (remember that for this assignment showing up with the work when it is due is part of how you earn at least the B grade).
- FOR FRIDAY: Come to class with a draft of your analysis. We will do a workshop in class to make sure it is in good shape. At this point, if you don’t have all of your interviews completed, it will be hard for you to do the workshop. I will be checking to see if you have your summaries with you to give you credit for the work (remember that for this assignment showing up with the work when it is due is part of how you earn at least the B grade).
- DUE BY FRIDAY: Since midterm, you’ve had four reading journals due. Check the syllabus for details of what was due when. If you have yet to turn in these reading journals, you have until Friday to get them to me. If you don’t turn them in by Friday, you forfeit the right to revise them if they are not “acceptable” reading journals by the terms of the assignment.
- NOT DUE ON FRIDAY: You do not have to do the reading and reading journal listed on the syllabus for Friday 1 April 2022. That is not an April Fools joke. We will be having the workshop for the analysis for the Locating and Evaluating Part II that day. I will move that reading to a later date.
- DUE ON MONDAY: The complete Locating & Evaluating Sources Part II assignment. This includes all drafts from all workshops plus revisions and any reflection work I ask you to do in-class.
Most of all, don’t skip class. When you skip class you miss important information and actual, like, lessons, that are meant to help you complete this project.
See you all Wednesday.
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 3.28.2022 Wednesday 3.30.2022
Friday 4.1.2022
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No Reading Due Today
READ: No Reading Due (see note above under the heading "week eleven) for explanation.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE IN CLASS: All Three of your Interview Summaries and rough draft of your analysis for workshopping. See Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II assignment for details. DUE IN CLASS: At least one, but ideally ALL of your interview summaries for Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II.
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IN-CLASS: Workshop with summaries--turning summaries into analysis .
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Week Twelve
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 4.4.2022 Wednesday 4.6.2022
Friday 4.8.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
READ: This crazy and terrifying article about Small Pox "Demon in the Freezer" available by clicking on this link. No Reading Due Today
No Reading Due Today.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE IN-CLASS: Reading Journal on "Demon in the Freezer." DUE ALSO: Completed Locating and Evaluating Sources Part II include ALL of. your drafts from workshops as well as revisions. No Writing Due Today. NOTE: Be sure to bring in your entire Research Notebook, with your annotated bibs and analysis form Locating and Evaluating Part I, your interview material from Locating and Evaluating Part II, and Positioning Yourself. . .
No Writing Due Today. NOTE: Be sure to bring in your entire Research Notebook, with your annotated bibs and analysis form Locating and Evaluating Part I, your interview material from Locating and Evaluating Part II, and Positioning Yourself. . .
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Looking at how this writer assembled his argument (interviews, sources, his own ideas--the analysis part). Overview of Final Research Report. IN-CLASS: Working with your material. Figuring out what you actually want to say and the order you want to say it in.
IN-CLASS: Continued work on figuring out what you actually want to say and the order you want to say it in.
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Week Thirteen
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 4.11.2022 Wednesday 4.13.2022
Friday 4.15.2022
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due Today. . No Reading Due Today.
READ: This short chapter on why it's important to make sure you are writing about something people care about, available by clicking on this link.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Writing Due Today No Writing Due Today
DUE: Reading Journal on Why It Matters. LAST READING JOURNAL!
NOTE: Be sure to bring in your entire Research Notebook, with your annotated bibs and analysis form Locating and Evaluating Part I, your interview material from Locating and Evaluating Part II, and Positioning Yourself. |
WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Why do we include the ideas of others in our work in the first place? Part I IN-CLASS: Why do we include the ideas of others in our work in the first place? Part II (the nitty-gritty details of citation practices)
IN-CLASS: Bring your laptops. You should leave the class with an introduction, a conclusion, a rock solid thesis, and a strong outline (or something like it) of what you will write in each paragraph in between. I'm totally serious.
SIGN UP for draft conferences by clicking on this link (note: will not be live until 4.15.2022) |
Week Fourteen
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 4.18.2022 Class does not meet. Patriot's Day. All BSU classes are canceled today. Wednesday 4.20.2022
Friday 4.22.2022
Class will not meet. Online Zoom Conferences. Connect to your Conference by clicking on this link. (it's the same one we've used all semester and is on every page of this website and on the google doc sign up). |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Class No Reading Due in Class.
Class does not meet. Come to your conference.
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Class DUE: DRAFT of Final Research Report due for workshopping.
Class does not meet. Come to your conference.
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
No Class SIGN UP for draft conferences by clicking on this link (note: will not be live until 4.15.2022) IN-CLASS: Workshopping your final report.
Also, discussion of Final Report Presentation and Your Final Report/Research Notebook. Class does not meet. Come to your conference.
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Week Fifteen
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 4.25 2022 Wednesday 4.27.2022
Friday 4.29.2022
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No Reading Due
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WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
No Writing Due DUE: Draft of your Script to turn in to me for approval. BRING TWO COPIES TO CLASS
No Writing Due in Class
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WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Working on turning your Final Research Report into Your Final Research Presentation. Overview of what a Pecha Kucha is. IN-CLASS: Workshopping your script. Thinking about organization (introduction, conclusion). Working on locating images and putting them into Powerpoint.
IN-CLASS: Continued work on locating images and putting them into Powerpoint. Practice recording. Trouble-shooting. Also, in class, how did creating the presentation make you think about how to revise your Final Research Report?
Also, course evaluations. |
Week Sixteen
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WHEN IT'S DUE
Monday 5.2.2022 Last day of classes at BSU for spring semester. |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO READ, WATCH OR LISTEN TO
No Reading Due Today |
WHAT YOU HAVE TO WRITE
DUE: Your Final Research Notebook and your Final Research Report. You will have time in class to write your final reflection. Email it to me when you are done. |
WHAT WE'LL DO IN CLASS
IN-CLASS: Time in class to write your final research reflection letter. Also, time permitting, last minute questions, trouble-shooting for Final Research Presentations. Sign up here for your presentation slot during the final exam. Note: link won't be live until 5.2.2022. |
FINAL EXAM
Our Final exam is Friday, 6 May 2022 from 11:00-1:00. Expect to attend for the full two hours.