Costal Rhet & Comp Canceled Monday, March 21st

Bad stomach bug hit me hard...no class tonight. We'll pick up with post-break activities come Wednesday.

Class #11: ASSIGNMENT: Informal Esay #4: Sex Crimes Lit Analysis

Notes from class: 

PROMPT: How does each short story exhibit the nature of "power" or "authority" as it pertains to sexual crime? What does that reveal about the connections between authority and victimization? In your paper, you should cite both stories and at one other source.

THESIS: Both Katherine Heiney and Nicole Acheampong reveal the role power plays in their portrayals of sexual assault. It is all too common today, that sexual victims fall prey to those with explicit or implicit authority or power over them.

STRATEGY:
1. write a divisive opening paragraph (P1)
2. Provide evidence of thesis from the short stories. Be sure to cite your evidence and connect it back to the thesis (P2 - P4)
3. Provide evidence from one or two sources you find on your own. Be sure to cite your evidence and connect it back to the thesis (P3 - P7)

Essay should be approximately four to eight paragraphs long.

PLEASE BE SURE TO HAVE A DRAFT OF THIS ASSIGNMENT IN CLASS MONDAY, so we can work with the drafts. 

Class #9: Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Another resource from ABC News could be found here. 

Formal Writing #3: You will write from one side of the "bikini barista" controversy. You can choose one of the following assignments based on your perspective.

#1. You are co-owner of a "bikini barista" spot. Business is good. Real good. In fact, you would like to open two more locations throughout the county. Considering the controversy and resistance from the current town council, you don't foresee getting the business permits considering the number of citizens complaining at municipal meetings. You are charged with writing a letter than someone will read aloud at an upcoming town council meeting. The expectation is that angry members of the town will be present.

#2. Read #1. You are a member of the town chamber of commerce. You own a small convenience store in town. You are also a parent and tax-paying town citizen. You agree that the "bikini barista" shop is an eye sore and blight on the town. A group of concerned business owners and citizens has asked you to write a short piece for the local paper condemning the shop.

Paper will be at least two pages. You must directly cite one piece of evidence from the two video pieces. Plus use them and any subsequent source you use in a works cited page. Try to find another viable source for your paper. The videos are cited in APA format below:

Karlinsky, N. (2014, May 7). Sex Sells...Coffee? ABC News. Retrieved from          
     abcnews.go.com/business.

Zagat. (2016, January 14). Bikini Baristas: Coffee and Controversy in Washington State. [video file].
     Retrieved from youtube.com/watch?V=OlyFh97z

***Please also provide FINAL COPY of Formal Writing #1. 

Class #8: Intro Writing & Reading for Writing Workshop

Class Schedule:

1. Recap Wednesday lecture.
2. New notes on how to deal with cumbersome, long or otherwise difficult text.
3. Difficult text group activity.
4. Introduction round table discussion.
5. Homework Reading synthesis.

ASSIGNMENT: Read and annotate this short story by Nicole Acheampong: Heels. 

Class #6: READING QUIZ, Or…What happens when we don't have discussions

1. Will Cyclops find love? Why or Why not? Explain it to me in a way that proves you read the short story by Ramona Ausubel. Do it in no fewer than five sentences.

2. In a strong, well-developed paragraph, use one of our three examples of "alternative rhetoric" Use the graphic novel excerpt, Serial or the Cage the Elephant video to explain how the tenets of rhetorical device are used in an alternative medium.

IN-CLASS: 

1. Quiz
2. Narrative Discussion & Read
3. Reading Lecture (using Peter Murphy article)

Class #6: QUIZ: Wednesday, February 10, 2016

CW READING QUIZ #2: When Mortimer Adler describes "owning a book," what does he mean? What purpose does it speak to? Write at least five sentences evincing the "message" of his article. 

Class #4: ASSIGNMENTS, Wednesday, February 3, 2016

READ: And by read...I mean read & annotate, of course...

READ article, "How to Mark a Book" by Mortimer Adler

WRITE: 

Writing a Personal Narrative

A narrative is a story. In writing a narrative essay, you share with the reader some personal experience of your own in order to make a point or convey a larger message. A great narrative, for example might be how your grandfather influenced your desire to become an orthodontist, or perhaps you’ll relate the story of the time you didn’t make the cut for the basketball team. Whatever the story, a good narrative relays a higher purpose or meaning.

Narrative effect is the main point of your story—the moral, the message, the insight you offer. Without a specific narrative effect, your essay is merely a series of unconnected events. If you are unsure what your main point is, you might ask yourself, “Why am I telling this story? Why should someone else be interested in reading about my experience?” In addition, you must decide whether to reveal your point explicitly (stated directly) or implicitly (suggested but not stated).

Formal Essay #2: The Descriptive Narrative: Your narrative will be a story that evinces LOVE...not necessarily the LOVE of a human being. It could be the love of an item (your favorite chair) or an activity (knitting, spelunking, 40 man squash tournaments, full-contact origami). The catch is that the narrative must provide its description through the telling of a specific story. So you can't simply DESCRIBE your chair, you must tell me the story of how you got it, or a time when it provided you solace. You can't tell me about your boyfriend, you have to tell me about a particular memorable date. 

The narrative MUST tell a story, and the story must illustrate the love you feel for the thing. 

You may NOT write about: your family, a sport you played in high school or Disney World! Sorry, just plain tired of reading those.  

Two pages double spaced, default or 1" margins. DRAFT ONE, DUE MONDAY. February 8th. 

Class #4: February 3, 2016: ASSIGNMENTS: Informal Writing #1

Informal #1: Examine the "alternative" forms of narrative presented in class today. You can read "Fun Home" by Allison Bechdel. Or, you can listen to episode one of Serial right here.

Please read/listen to both pieces. 

After experiences both pieces, please respond in writing to one of them. Your Informal #1 writing piece (a page and a half typed) will discuss each in terms of the "narrative." By that, I mean how do they succeed in telling the story. Your analysis can be as easy as answering:

1. What do you like about the piece?
2. What intrigued you? Why?

You can also use the writing assignment to make sense of the piece. What does it mean? Why do the very different stories explored here NEED to be told?

Also, rewrite Informal #1 based on today's assignment.

Mr. Costal vs. The Accuplacer Computer

Mr. Costal's MUST DO for Writeplacer: 

1. TIME: it's on your side. Edit. Edit. Edit. 

And if you don't believe that makes a difference...what if the computer is designed to consider the time it takes you to complete the essay into your final score?

2. STRUCTURE: At least four paragraphs, each one MUST have at least five sentences. 

DO NOT CLICK SUBMIT UNDER 500 words. 

Except intro, keep intro short. 

Use a quotation instead of rhetorical question?

Play the TWO QUOTATIONS game. 

3. THESIS: Use this: 

While _______ (other side of argument), _______________ (your side of argument)

EX: While luck is nice, my family's background and American history has taught me that true financial and emotional success can only come from hard work. 

Let's try this theory out. 

4. USE SIGNALS: "First" to open second paragraph. 

"Next" to open third paragraph

Write at least one sentence that does this:  "People spend a lot of time and money trying to build luck; however they would be better served by organizing a strategy for working toward their desires." 

5. USE THE ADJECTIVE CHEAT. 

What do I do....cause I forgot as soon as I left B101

1. Send informals (#1 - #7) TO JCOSTAL@GEHRHSD.NET in ONE document BY Dec14th 11:59pm MINUS FREE ONE = SIX

2. Place my final paper in my e-portfolio at stockton.digication.com (I will place it in the "tab thing" called Communication - Writing Skills)

3. IN the e-portfolio, I will check other tab things to make sure I did what was due waaaaaaaaay before right now. I should write a reflection in the Teamwork Collaboration tab thing. And, I should write about myself in the Welcome page. Costal said it should be approx 350 words. Questions for this are on the November 30th blog post.

4. Happy Holidays to me!

5. Build a snowman.

6. Kiss my parents or guardians.

7. Write nice things about Costal on secret Stockton Crushes Twitter feed.