ENG 227 - extra credit opportunity

1. Go to twitter and create an account.
2. Once you’ve created your account, email me your twitter name and I will “follow” you (don’t worry, I won’t stalk you—“following” is twitterese for “I will read your twitter posts”).
3. After I start following you (you will be notified by email by twitter), you can post poems of up to 140 characters, and I will automatically get them.
   

You will earn 5 extra credit points for each twitter poem you post, up to 25 points total.

ENG 121 - Imitation Exercise

The Imitation Exercise is due at the beginning of class on Monday, April 21. Here’s what you need to do:

1. After you read chapter 7 in Acts of Revision, find a paragraph of about 150-300 words by any writer that you like. The paragraph can be fiction or non-fiction, from the Internet or a book or a newspaper or a magazine, whatever.
2. Then write an imitation of it. Your imitation should have the same general sentence structure, percentage of Latinate words, and tone.
3. Bring the original paragraph to class on Monday and post your imitation to your blog.

ENG 121 - handouts for last third

• Portfolio 3 assignment
• Editing & Packaging worksheet
• Rewriting for Style worksheet
• slideshow on paragraphs
• slideshow on Latinate and Germanic diction

ENG 121 - Germanic and Latinate Diction

Here's the Germanic/Latinate diction slideshow from today's class.

ENG 121 - Audio Essays, Spring 2008

• Alan.mp3
• Amber.mp3
• Caleb.mp3
• Cherise
• Chris
• Josh.m4a
• Kaycee.mp3
• Klint.mp3
• Kristin
• Kristi.m4a
• LaJay
• Laura.mp3
• Robin
• Roy.mp3
• Tiago
• Tim.mp3

ENG 121 - Editing & Packaging Worksheet

Here it is.

ENG 121 - grammar videos to view by April 23

Please view the videos on MyCompLab between now and April 23. There are quite a few and you will get the most out of them if you watch a few at a time rather than trying to do one long marathon session.

1. Go to the MyCompLab Beta site.
   
2. Click on the Resources tab at the top.
   
3. Click on the Grammar tab in the middle.
   
4. You’ll see a list that looks like this:
   
   
   • Sentence Grammar
   
   
   • Punctuation and Mechanics
   
   
   • Usage and Style

5. Each list item can be clicked to reveal another list. Each of the items on these new lists can be clicked to reveal three tabs, one of which is Multimedia.
6. View the multimedia elements for each item on the lists.

ENG 227 - local poetry readings

Here's a listing of local poetry readings during the first part of April. Remember, you need to attend and write a response to THREE poetry readings or events during the semester.

ENG 121 - to join MyCompLab Beta Testing

1. Go to the MyCompLab Beta site.
2. Log in using the username and password that were emailed to you.
3. Click on the “Join a Course” button.
4. Search for our course by looking for my last name.

ENG 227 - Sestina formulas

• Here's the "sestina creator."
• Here's Daniel Ari's brilliant sestina on using Excel to create a sestina.

ENG 122 - audio essays and slide shows

If you are interested in creating an audio essay from your own perspective or the perspective of someone else, listen to some audio essays on the This American Life Website and/or the This I Believe Website first to get ideas. Be sure that your endnote explains why you decided to speak from your own or someone else's perspective.

If you decide to record on your own, you may find Audacity, a free sound editing software product, helpful.

The story I played in class about the Woolworth's lunch counter sit in is here.

Here's the link to the free download of Photo Story 3.

ENG 122 - Writing Group Report

Here is the Writing Group Report. Be sure to begin the form when the group first gathers and finish it at the end of class. Then, email it to Liz.