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English Comp Week 11

English Comp Week 11. jorge gomez. Homepage Assignment (from Steve Varela). Also serves as a way to access all the work you have done this semester—all assignments will be linked

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English Comp Week 11

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  1. English Comp Week 11 jorgegomez

  2. Homepage Assignment (from Steve Varela) • Also serves as a way to access all the work you have done this semester—all assignments will be linked • Keep in mind that this is an academic, professional website. Think carefully about the rhetorical choices you make about the presentation of yourself and your subject of interest

  3. Assessment: The Content At minimum, the Homepage assignment should contain the following: • Homepage (Welcome page): includes topic discussion • Assignments (Analyses, Memo, etc.) (pasted) • Relevant visuals • About me • You may include other materials relevant to these projects, such as • links to other sites (as a ‘links’ gadget) • links to other blogs (known as a ‘blogroll’)

  4. Assessment: The Design • What typeface and colors will you use? Will you use graphics, pictures, and images? • In what order will you arrange your ideas? • How you will use logos, pathos, and ethos? • How you will produce and test the website and its navigation? • Where on your website will you post or make your assignments available?

  5. Why are we doing this? • The Homepage is designed to provide you a forum by which to showcase your accomplishments and breakthroughs throughout the semester so that you may understand how your connection to the community begins in the classroom.  • Also something you can use and develop as long as you are a UTEP student • Something for your resume!

  6. Chosen Site • We will be using Google Blogger: • www.blogger.com/ • You can login with your Gmail account (if you have one), or you can create an account with ANY email address.

  7. Webpages that Suck! • www.mrbottles.com • www.thomasedison.org • http://www.iccm-1.org/ Not from students (because students NEVER suck)—just from everywhere else on the internet!

  8. Samples from Students • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/r730/student1/Site/Welcome.html • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/R730/student12/jmchairez/Welcome.html • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/t730/student20

  9. Samples from Students • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/t730/student11/ • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/t730/student34 • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/t730/student9 • http://stvarela.iss.utep.edu/T730/student21/Site/Welcome_.html

  10. Due Tomorrow: • The link to your incomplete blog is due tomorrow, Fri., Nov. 5, by 10pm. • BUT, the Homepage will be graded LATE November, so, • Keep working on it

  11. (Informed) Opinion Piece • Due NEXT Friday, Nov. 12 • Start working on it over the weekend

  12. Op-Ed Piece Guidelines • 400-600 words, APA Style, Audience: Borderlanders • Introduce the problem (the context) • Be sure to DEFINE/EXPLAIN any jargon to audience • Propose a solution (a POLICY CHANGE) • Either at school, city, state or federal level (specify) • Try to forecast what your solution would cause • Use of ethos, pathos and logos • If you have PERSONAL EXPERIENCE with the issue, mention it to boost your ethos • Your sources come into play here • Sometimes, it is worth acknowledging OPPOSING VIEWS, PREVIOUS SOLUTIONS (to be fair, etc.)

  13. Op-Ed piece strategies • Use a creative/catchy headline (NYTimes op) • Use appropriate lexical (word) choices • E.g., to be fair, simply put, on the one hand/other hand, at the same time, though, while, according to, without, except, alternatively, since, not just, also, whereas, as a result, to begin with, rather, however, unless, nevertheless, notwithstanding • Generally, avoid saying “Never, always,” as these will affect your ethos if it is NOT true • In your conclusion • Use a ‘final push’ toward your policy/issue’s importance to answer, “Why should we care?”

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