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CM 220 College Composition II UNIT 9 Seminar

CM 220 College Composition II UNIT 9 Seminar. Professor O’Connor-Colvin General Education, Composition Kaplan University. Let’s Get Started!. Tonight’s Agenda Last Seminar announcement Unit 9 Preview: Final Portfolio Requirements Revision and Editing Tips. Announcement:.

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CM 220 College Composition II UNIT 9 Seminar

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  1. CM 220College Composition IIUNIT 9 Seminar Professor O’Connor-Colvin General Education, Composition Kaplan University

  2. Let’s Get Started! Tonight’s Agenda • Last Seminar announcement • Unit 9 Preview: Final Portfolio Requirements • Revision and Editing Tips

  3. Announcement: Tonight is your last required seminar. Unit 10 does not include a seminar. There is no graded work for Unit 10. Unit 10 does feature an optional discussion board that provides you with the opportunity to reflect on this term. This is a space where you can share your Final Projects as well if you like.

  4. ACTIVITIES Preview Unit 9

  5. UNIT 9 Learning Activities • Reading: The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing, ch. 17; Review the website for Food, Inc; Review a selected chapter related to a common writing error in William Strunk, Jr.’s Elements of Style, available at Bartleby.com • Invention Lab (40 points): • Describe a common editing concern you have (passive voice, apostrophes, commas, fragments) and how the chapter you selected from Bartleby.com helped clarify any questions you had.   • Discuss any other challenges you face as you revise & edit your draft this week & prepare the multi-modal component of your final project. • Respond to two classmates. Note resources that might help your classmate address the challenges mentioned in the post and mention any questions you still have about your classmate’s big idea. • Seminar: optional Q&A session about final project (automatic 10 points)

  6. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (240 points)DUE May 1 Required components of your PORTFOLIO • Final Essay—5-7 page revision of paper (blueprint for progress) drafted in unit 6 • 5 required sources (2 books/articles from Kaplan Library) • Revised Letter to the Editor (Unit 5 discussion board) • Revised big idea Presentation (Unit 7 discussion board) • Responses to reflection questions

  7. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Final Essay Guidelines • 5-7 page persuasive essay • 1 inch margins, double-spaced, 12 pt font • PAGE REQUIREMENT DOES NOT INCLUDE TITLE & REFERENCES PAGES! • APA guidelines are required • Title Page • Header with title and page number • In-text parenthetical citations • References Page citations • ALL SOURCES must be documented. Your final paper must be original work written for this class: you must be the author (turning in a paper written by someone else is plagiarism & will not be tolerated) and you must not have turned in your final paper for a grade in another class.

  8. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Final Essay Guidelines • Your thesis must: • Make argument stating the change in America that you think should happen • Offer specific key points to show why you think this change should occur • Not be a question (instead a declarative sentence(s)) • Your “big idea” must be a solution to a problem in your community, a new product or software, improving an existing product or concept, or possibly starting a movement or business. It is an argument for change. This must be an idea that requires a persuasive discussion in order to be accepted by your audience. • Each point must be supported with scholarly research • 5 required sources (2 books/articles from Kaplan Library)

  9. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Letter to Editor Guidelines • Revise Letter to Editor created in the Unit 5 Discussion Lab • Message should pitch your idea to the specific audience selected for the formal message • Take into account questions raised by your instructor and classmates as you revise the message. How can you make it more compelling for your audience?

  10. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Presentation Guidelines • The audience for this presentation of your ideas is WIDER than the audience of your actual paper. • How will this affect the presentation of information? • Remember to take into account the suggestions you received in unit 7. • Have at least 5 specific facts/ideas supported with evidence. • Be sure to cite sources. You can have those listed on your main References page.

  11. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Reflection Piece Guidelines You will also write a reflection piece that answers the following questions in paragraph form: • What did you learn about yourself as a writer? As a thinker? • What did you learn about the process of writing? • What skills did you develop that might help you in the future? • What did you take from the larger conversation with others? • How did your feedback from peers and your instructor affect the revision of your blueprint, letter to the editor, and presentation?

  12. Final Project Reminders • The 5-7 length is just for the essay; this does not include the title and references page, letter to editor, presentation, or reflection questions. • The letter to the editor will be approximately ½ to 1 page, as will the responses to the reflection questions. • Put all components in one Word document unless you need to post a separate file for the presentation (such as a Power Point). If you have an external link, include that in the Word document. See the sample posted in the unit 9 folder of Doc Sharing. • Review the grading rubric and assignment instructions carefully!

  13. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Rubric(240 points:150 for essay, 50 for presentation, 20 for letter, & 20 for reflection question responses)

  14. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Rubric

  15. FINAL PROJECT/PORTFOLIO (DUE May 1): Submission Guidelines Submit the following two elements to the dropbox: • Written Elements: put all components of final project portfolio into ONE Word document. Paste Formal Message and Reflection Piece after the References Page on your Final Essay. • Final Essay: Title Page, 5-7 pages of text (intro, body, & conclusion paragraphs), References Page • Formal Message (sells big idea to a specific formal audience in letter form) • Reflection Piece (answers five required questions in paragraph form) • Presentation: can either be attached as a separate file in the Dropbox , or you can include a link to an external web site in the reflection section of your written document. Please also paste your URL in comment box in the dropbox.

  16. Final Project/Portfolio Tip:Use Project Examples as Model! DocSharing Contains: • Example presentations in Unit 7 DocSharing materials • Example Final Portfolio textual requirement (Final Essay, Revised Letter to Editor, and Reflection Paragraphs) in Unit 9 DocSharing materials • Course Webliography includes link to Gallery of 22 Sample Projects at https://sites.google.com/site/cm220galleryofbigideas/

  17. Editing Sentences Seven Steps for Revision

  18. Effective revision involves two steps: Step One: Global Revisions- Address issues of coherence and organization • Revise thesis and topic sentences to make more specific • Omit any information not explicitly supporting thesis and topic sentence. • Revise or rearrange body paragraphs to make logic of discussion more explicit • Revise and add supporting sentences to better support topic sentences • Revise or add concluding sentences in body paragraphs to create transition between paragraphs Step Two: Local Revision- Sentence level revision • Edit and proofread for grammar errors, weaknesses in style, and conciseness in language.

  19. Revision Strategy: Post-Draft Outline The post-draft outline is an extremely helpful Global Revision strategy. The usefulness of this technique is the reason we do this in our peer review workshops. As review, to create a post-draft outline, you: • 1. Complete a full draft of your essay (introduction paragraph, body paragraphs, conclusion paragraph) • 2. Get a blank piece of paper or new document available. • 3. Read each your introduction paragraph and then turn the paper over or close the screen so you can’t see it. • 4. Write a one sentence summary of the main point of your introduction paragraph. Number this sentence #1. • 5. Repeat Steps #3 & #4 for each body paragraph and the conclusion paragraph. You will have the same number of sentences in your post-draft outline list as you do paragraphs in your essay. Once you have your Post-Draft Outline Complete, use this outline to help you revise by asking yourself: • Is the organization effective? • Does the progression of sentences in my post-draft outline make sense? • Do I repeat any points? • Is the same information/point in any of my post-draft outline sentences? • Does my introduction or conclusion still need work? • Do my summary sentences for these paragraphs offer more than just my main point? • Do I still need to make any additional points to support my thesis? • Does each thesis key point appear in at least one of the summary sentences for my body paragraphs? Do these summary sentences offer a more detailed point about each thesis key point?

  20. Seven Steps to Local Revision(The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing, pp. 196-204) 1. Choose verbs carefully--they convey the action in your paper and should be vivid and compelling. Highlight being verbs (am, is, are, was, be, etc.). Try to eliminate as many as possible since they are considered "weak" verbs. Highlight "to have" verbs (has, have, had). Again, try to remove those. Try to choose active, vigorous verbs whenever possible.

  21. Seven Steps to Local Revision(The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing, pp. 196-204) 2. Take out unnecessary prepositions. 3. Make sure sentence lengths vary. You don't want too many very long or very short sentences. 4. Make sure all pronouns (it, they, everyone, etc.) have a clear reference.

  22. Seven Steps to Local Revision(The Kaplan Guide to Successful Writing, pp. 196-204) 5. Try to limit the use of pronouns who,which, and that. 6. Limit the use of "qualifier" words like really, every, very. 7. Take out cliches (children are our future, etc.)

  23. Editing Practice Creating clear and concise writing takes practice. • Here is a link to an interactive quiz that allows you to practice eliminating wordiness: • http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/quizzes/nova/nova8.htm

  24. That’s all I have for you tonight! Thank you for your attention! ANYQUESTIONS??? Reminder: • There is NO seminar in unit 10, but we will have a final chance to share projects and discuss the Big Ideas you have all proposed this term!

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