Why MLA formatting?

Today, our mission, if you choose to accept it, is to reacquaint/introduce everyone to MLA formatting, rewrite our memoirs again, and peer review! peer review! peer review!

But first, a word from our sponsor:





Group Project for Today:
Take this Excerpt from the Douglas Coupland's Life After God and format it correctly, using MLA. Use your book or other resources to help you in your goal. Make a list of your changes and be prepared to present it in front of the class.

Peer Review:
Why Should We Do It?

Grading Rubric for this Assignment

Peer Review Assignment:
1. Get into groups of 3 and read your papers out loud (go elsewhere if you need to go elsewhere).
2. As people are reading, the other group members should take notes and prepare comments to make about the paper.
3. Allow your listeners to look at your paper after you are finished reading.
4. After they give you comments, make note of the comments and draft a paragraph blogpost about the comments. Make sure everyone reads the draft before you post it.
5. Post to the blog before Friday of this week to receive credit for your post.
6. Print out the final draft of your blog-post.

Hints to help you with your paper:
0. Memoir Examples are in your book, on Chapters 6 and 7. Also, if you look at The Moth or This American Life for audio examples.
1. Rewrite your paper. Don't just make corrections from what your fellow students have said. Re-type your paper in a new document so you can have "fresh eyes" on your own paper.
2. Read your paper backwards. This helps to narrow in on your concepts and figure out how everything is linked together in your paragraphs. It also helps with finding the rhythm of your paper.
3. Before you come to class, go over the checklist: Writing is Rewriting

Things you need in your Manila Envelope: (in descending order)
- Your Name, Class, and Project Number on the front of the envelope
- Your Final Paper
- Your Rough Draft (with a print out of your blogpost)
- Your Quizzes and Homeworks (including your Mind Map)

For Next Class:
READ: The Project 2 Handout and print it out
POST: The Comments from your Peer Review (as mentioned above)
WRITE: The final draft of your paper
BRING: an idea of the object you want to "define" for your next paper as well as a blanket/mat for next Wednesday's class.

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All Media Are Extension's of Man's Faculty - Marshall McCluhan

Today we begin our class with Marshall McLuhan...

"Medium is the Message"




"A wheel is an extension of our feet..."


...and we end with stories about This American Life.

"Cameras"


"Faulty Memory"


(and possibly one more story from Pulp Fiction called "The Gold Watch")


But in the middle, we'll talk about the following...

Take out everything that isn't your Memoir

Writing is Re-writing

...and we'll practice writing description, dialogue, and getting to the point of your memoir.

How to Write a Description

Six-Word Memoirs

Overheard in New York

HOMEWORK
READ:
POST: Write a Six-Word Version of your Memoir as well as part of a conversation you might use in your memoir.
WRITE: A first draft of your memoir. Make sure it is complete and that it has a beginning, middle, and ending. It must be complete.
BRING TO CLASS: A draft of your memoir and laptop/paper/pencils/pens so that you can rewrite for a second draft of your paper.
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