3/4: Welcome to ENG101!

This blog is our assignment space. If you have questions, my contact information is on the syllabus as well as under the section titled "About" on this blog.

Class

1. Fill: Information Form.

2. 2 minute-interview. Ask your partner the following questions and jot the answers down on a piece of paper so you can introduce the person to the rest of the class later

• What is your name? What is the name you want to be called in class? What is your preferred pronoun? 
• Tell me a bit about yourself and your plans at LaGuardia

3. Thinking about your writing

• Who are you as a writer?
• Who do you want to be as a writer? 

4. Review of Basic Writing Skills and Roles of The Writer
5. The Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwich Challenge
6. Join: Google Drive/Google Group

• Create your Google account HERE, if needed.
• Create a Google Drive Folder and add it to our Shared Class Folder by following the instructions on the whiteboard

For next class
 1. Read

• Syllabus
• Online Writing =21st Century Writing 
• Not a Kid Anymore, or How Learning Happens in College

And make a comment or ask a question in THIS FORM.

2. Describe an apple. Bring the apple and your description of it to class

3/1: Welcome to ENA101!

Class

We get better at writing the same way we get better at anything else: by doing it.  

You will practice writing by engaging with different types of writing, after which you will reflect on your experience so you can understand what you have learned and apply it to the next experience of writing. This is how you can move from a familiar type of writing to an unfamiliar type of writing--by understanding the similarities and identifying the differences and adjusting accordingly. 

Eventually, your writing experiences accrue and you will be ready to tackle any writing task, no matter how unfamiliar. 

          --adapted from John Warner, The Writer's Practice

1. Introduction to the writer's practice
2. How Do I....?
3. 2 minute-interview. Ask your partner the following questions and jot the answers down on a piece of paper so you can introduce the person to the rest of the class later

• What is your name? What is the name you want to be called in class? What is your preferred pronoun? 
• Tell me a bit about yourself and your plans at LaGuardia
• What is the procedure or activity you are an expert in?

4. Syllabus/Schedule review
5.The 7Ws and beginning reading practice with the HARDEST reading in the whole semester! (you can do this!!) Rosenzweig's "Wizards, Bureaucrats, Warriors, and Hackers"