Final Classes: Family Meeting Schedule

For Wednesday, December 7 in USC 245

4:30pm Pookie Pairs

4:45pm Costal Coasters

5pm SeaMonks

5:30pm Tongue Twisters

5:45pm Costal Writing

6pm Honeybuns

The final informal writing (no research required) 

IW #8: Reflect back on the whole of this semester. Decide what significant things you have learned (not just in my class, but please include my class in some capacity). Reflect on how you've changed and grown. In the spring, what will you change? What will you retain?

Final paper and informal writing portfolios shared with me on Google (joseph.costal@stockton.edu)\
Everything due Monday, December 12th @ 11:59pm.

FINAL CLASSES: Wednesday, December 7, 2016

The Costal Final Paper Test: 

Portfolio & Final Paper MUST BE SHARED & Properly labeled TO joseph.costal@stockton.edu by 11:59pm, Monday, December 12th.

Answer the following with the preface: Does your final paper: 

1. ...have approx seven pages of body work (Not including formatting pages)? If not, how can you add length without adding fluff?

2. ...have proper formatting (12-point, double-spaced, one-inch margins, Hacker approved APA-style?)

3. ...have an interesting, original, and relevant title?

4. ...have an effective, divisive attention-grabbing introduction that provides necessary background
information and establishes the controversy surrounding the issue? Does it accomplish this through the use of personal anecdote? Is the introduction adequate in length (no more than 1 page)?

5. ...have a specific and explicit/implicit thesis statement that evinces the main issue and the writer’s position? Is it argumentative? Does it contain a subordinate clause to drive complexity?

6. ...have logical development? Does each paragraph flow into the next, using the thesis as a road map to "fulfill the reader's anticipation?"

7. ...have sufficient supporting evidence? Does the paper employ strong ethos such as facts, statistics, examples, and expert opinions?  Is this support connected to the thesis in a meaningful way? In other words, is it  relevant, accurate, and representative?

Reminder: Costal Class is canceled today, November 30, 2016.

Class #21: Monday& Wednesday, November 30, 2016: The Final Paper Prompt

Final Essay #6: 

Gender/Sex Issues. We have experienced & read a variety of gender issues (from sex to inequality) this semester.  We read several articles on redefining sexual predation in our own communities. We read one devastating piece of fiction about violence toward women. We read about a woman who gets her family killed through her own visions of matriarchy. We heard celebrity women join forces to defend women in media. We have viewed a call to arms against objectification. We have read fiction that tackles marriage, online dating, abortion and statutory rape. Most prominently, we have read about revolutionary legislation on college campuses to curb victimization of women. We have seen this legislation wind its way to the Garden State.

I have shared my belief that yours is a generation experiencing some degradation in terms of gender or sexual roles. Women are overly valued aesthetically but undervalued as leaders, professionals and artists. Women are succeeding ten times more than men in academia, but they still play second-fiddle to men in the world's most powerful professional positions.

CLASS #21: Monday & Wednesday, November 30, 2016: FAMILY CONFERENCE REQUIREMENTS

PHASE ONE OF FINAL PAPER DUE @ Family Conference, Wednesday, December 7, 2016

(final paper and portfolio due at 11:59pm, Monday, December 12th) 

Come to class next week with the following prepared:

Conference Assignment: Please have the following information ready for submission during our conferences. All components must be typed and professionally presented:

1. Working Outline
2. Working Thesis
3. Annotated Bibliography 

1. The working outline is a very important first step that serves as a guide for your entire paper. Follow any form you feel most comfortable with (See Hacker for a variety of outlining methods if confused). The outline should give me an idea of how you plan your paper…point by point at least…example by example if you wish. There should be a bullet-ed component for each paragraph. Keep in mind that this is the mode by which you will also present your research. Remember that good development "systematically fulfills the reader's expectation."

Class #20: Monday, November 21, 2016

In-Class:

Robert Hayden "Those Winter Sundays"

Class #20: Something to ponder as you write Skube paper & Assignments

The entire multibillion-dollar, 2,000-campus American college system—with its armies of salaried professors, administrators, librarians, bursars, secretaries, admissions officers, alumni liaisons, development-office workers, coaches, groundskeepers, janitors, maintenance workers, psychologists, nurses, trainers, technology-support staffers, residence-life personnel, cafeteria workers, diversity-compliance officers, the whole shebang—depends overwhelmingly for its very existence on one resource: an ever-renewing supply of fee-paying undergraduates. It could never attract hundreds of thousands of them each year—many of them woefully unprepared for the experience, a staggering number (some 40 percent) destined never to get a degree, more than 60 percent of them saddled with student loans that they very well may carry with them to their deathbeds—if the experience were not accurately marketed as a blast. They show up on campus lugging enormous Bed Bath & Beyond bags crammed with “essentials,” and with new laptop computers, on which they will surf Facebook and Tumblr while some coot down at the lectern bangs on about Maslow’s hierarchy and tries to make his PowerPoint slides appear right side up. Many of these consumer goods have been purchased with money from the very student loans that will haunt them for so long, but no matter: it’s college; any cost can be justified. The kids arrive eager to hurl themselves upon the pasta bars and the climbing walls, to splash into the 12-person Jacuzzis and lounge around the outdoor fire pits, all of which have been constructed in a blatant effort to woo them away from competitors. They swipe prepaid cards in dormitory vending machines to acquire whatever tanning wipes or earbuds or condoms or lube or energy drinks the occasion seems to require. And every moment of the experience is sweetened by the general understanding that with each kegger and rager, each lazy afternoon spent snoozing on the quad (a forgotten highlighter slowly drying out on the open pages of Introduction to Economics, a Coke Zero sweating beside it), they are actively engaged in the most significant act of self-improvement available to an American young person: college!

Class #19: Family Writing Project Continues

Costal's IDEA form. 

The link to the Google Doc for our project here.

Don't forget, no class next Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Informal Writing #8: Another NY Times debate. I am interested in your approach for this. After reading the arguments presented, choose a side to defend. Write a thesis. Defend it using evidence from the article and at least one piece of evidence from another source.

I am interested in ways your approach to this has changed, so be ready to discuss that Monday (or at least be asked repeatedly and ignore me).

Family Essay due complete on Monday. 

First draft of Formal #5 due tonight. 

Class #18: Monday, November 14, 2016: ASSIGNMENT: Skube Persuasion Letter ROUGH DRAFT

For Wednesday, come to class with a digital rough draft of this paper (at least two pages and at least two sources). 

DO: 

Read Michael Skube article...grab it here!

Formal Writing Essay #5: PERSUASION LETTER: Michael Skube provides his e-mail on the bottom of his scathing rebuke of today's college student. Write a letter to him either agreeing or disagreeing with his thesis.

Either way, make sure you back up your claim with specific evidence from not only his text, but also at least two other sources. At least one source must be ACADEMIC, PEER REVIEWED.

Here are some additional sources. The first from Philadelphia magazine about Temple University's admission requirements. 

The other from the Philadelphia Inquirer is a bit closer to home.

Use any of these sources that interest you, but you must find at least two additional sources on your own (at least one must be