- This is my first Blogger contribution since my high school "computer applications" Blog of aught-8.
- Now, instead of a spry young prom queen, I blog as a junior in college in a class of primarily freshman; the downright grandmother of English 101.
- On to some particulars of this class. My teacher, the Lady Gaga fan who enjoys sending her children off to school, has set her office hours as Monday and Thursday, 2:00 till 3:30 in the CAC 115. She will have us write 2 essays. Earning extra credit will be easy, as 2% of our grade is based on filling out the teacher evaluation at the end of the course. Attending class faithfully, blogging my little heart out, and facilitating a discussion in class (creatively, with games or youtube clips) will all influence my grade in Desi's class. If I hate the grade I got on an essay, I should consider said failure of an essay as a work in progress, and (within two weeks) rework it.
- Speaking of essays, I shouldn't "double dip" or "take an essay that I wrote for someone else and turn that essay in to Desi as if I wrote it just for her" because that's happened to her before and it made her sad. My in-class essays can be considered drafts for future essays. English 101 espouses Pepperdine's Spiritual Mission through it's "no double dipping" policy which expects integrity from it's students.
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- My final English 101 Portfolio simulates and will closely mirror my Junior Writing Portfolio which I have to complete this semester.
- Required textbooks are as follows: Ramage, John D., John C. Bean, and June Johnson. Writing Arguments: A Rhetoric with Readings. 8th Edition
Graff, Gerald, Cathy Birkenstein, Russel Durst. They Say/I Say: the Moves that Matter in Academic Writing, With Readings
2 large exam booklets for in-class essays
