April 26 and finals day

Our last meeting is 4/26 at 5PM in the Miller Center. Be sure to have your outline of your final paper on your blog. There is no class meeting on final's day May 3 and I will be in my office prepared to speak with class members who have questions beginning at 3:45PM until 6PM. Your final paper is due on May 2 at 3PM on your blog.
See you tomorrow

April 19, final topics and interview review

This is our second to last meeting. The final will be "virtual" with you final project due on the day of final on your blog by 9PM.
Today, students will introduce their final projects.
Then you have one hour to walk through the library and find books and articles about your final topic. Add those findings today under your outline post.

Next week is our last meeting, and we will wrap up, fill out evaluations, etc.

April 5 - the third interview is due

Today we are looking forward to regional and country reports by various groups, a review of the third interview using the same review document from round one and two, and posting winners and a link to the spreadsheet with all results, as before. That needs to be completed today.
Then it's time for the final project. Please post it by next Tuesday including an outline and literature you may want to use - and start working on it.
No class next Tuesday, April 12; I am in Mankato for an external review.
We will meet again on April 19 and I will ask each class members to speak about the final topic chosen. We will then try to optimize the final topics and their outlines, due on 4/19.
See you at 5PM today in MC.

Regional culture reports 3-29-11

Class members are expected to organize themselves into 5-6 regional groups in the second half of class time. Find classmates who interviewed students from the same or bordering countries or regions. Sit together and discuss what you found interesting and noteworthy about the culture you interviewed. Collect all of these observations by all group members into one presentation to class. You will present next week. Each group member will post the same group presentation on her or his blog.
• outline the main observations by theme
• create a visual map of ideas that serves as a blue print for presentation
• use media clips
• use text resources
• cite your sources
• tell who contributed which information to the presentation

Interview competion 2 (March 29, 2011)

Please read all posted second interviews. If one is missing, fill out a form with the name and zeros. You will receive evaluation forms today and you are expected to fill out one set of parameters for each class mate. Post the results in a shared document and also post your top three winners and link to their interviews.
The parameters are here for reference:
en191s18s11 Name:________________________________________________________
How is the preparation documented?    0..1..2..3
How good are the personal considerations regarding the interview process? 0..1..2
How comprehensive and informative is the country report?  0..1..2..3..4
How does the interview read? Interesting, good questions/answers?  0..1..2..3..4..5
How well is the complete interview presented on the blog? Clarity, errors, visual appearance all count. 0..1..2..3..4..5..6
total:______________________________________________________________

Score card - copy the spreadsheet to your own docs and fill in the results of all students and make a spreadsheet in your google account. Post (share) the document and link a new Post on your blog to the spreadsheet. Do not forget to post the three best scores, names, URLs of interviews of your personal "winners".

Remember the interview format:
Elements of each interview that must show up on your blog:
Title: My first interview
1. Describe your preparations. (1) Interview preparations.  (How did you approach people? When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview? Whom did you interview?)
2. Describe the interview. What did surprise you? How did the interview unfold? (2) Interview report
3. Report on country/region and culture: (3) Country Report
4. Transcribe the interview. (4) Interview transcription

March 22 more interviews in LH116

Today at noon, the second interview was due posted on your blogs. Please be sure to provide complete transcriptions of the interview, not a general description of what was said (unless it's the one interview permitted without transcription). Interviews without transcription cannot be graded A. B is the best possible grade.
Today I will see Chris, Hua, Beibei, Hui, Vidura, Ahmed, Kim, Asif, Ibrahim, Sam, Alexandra, Luke, and Thao. We will meet next week, 3/29 in the Miller Center again. The third interviews are due at noon on April 5, and we will rate them and determine a winner in that meeting.

Class does not meet in Miller Center today: You'll meet Roland in his office.

Hi all, please be sure to have posted interview two by next week Tuesday noon, the 22nd. Amanda, Yao, Ahmed, Josh, Sam,  and Margaret have not reviewed and posted reading results for interview 1. Two elements are needed in your post: a doc with a link that documents your evaluation of all interviews, and also a list of top three scores.
Reviewing other interviews is just as important for this class as conducting them.

I will see Natalie, Moizuddin, Kyle, Shan, Maggie, Yao, Mengfei, Amanda, Huiyu, Xiaping, Jordan, Nan will see me today in Lawrence Hall.

Interview competition 1

Please read all posted interviews. If one is missing, fill out a form with the name and zeros. You will receive evaluation forms today and you are expected to fill out one set of parameters for each class mate.
The parameters are here for reference:
en191s18s11 Name:________________________________________________________
How is the preparation documented?    0..1..2..3
How good are the personal considerations regarding the interview process? 0..1..2
How comprehensive and informative is the country report?  0..1..2..3..4
How does the interview read? Interesting, good questions/answers?  0..1..2..3..4..5
How well is the complete interview presented on the blog? Clarity, errors, visual appearance all count. 0..1..2..3..4..5..6
total:______________________________________________________________

Score card - copy the spreadsheet to your own docs and fill in the results of all students and make a spreadsheet in your google account. Post (share) the document and link a new Post on your blog to the spreadsheet. 

Remember the interview format:
Elements of each interview that must show up on your blog:
Title: My first interview
1. Describe your preparations. (1) Interview preparations.  (How did you approach people? When, where, and how did you conduct and record the interview? Whom did you interview?)
2. Describe the interview. What did surprise you? How did the interview unfold? (2) Interview report
3. Report on country/region and culture: (3) Country Report
4. Transcribe the interview. (4) Interview transcription

interviews, final

Office hour sign-up sheet for en191s11    Meet me in LH 116   
        Student name- last name, first name
Available day and hour        write your name into the desired time slot, if available. Do not erase other students' names when entering your own, please.
3/15/2011    17:00:00    Stephanie Van Houtan
2    17:15:00    Natalie Severson
3    17:30:00    Moizuddin Hashmi
4    17:45:00    Kyle Louks
5    18:00:00    Shan Lu
6    18:15:00    Maggie Schwagel
7    18:30:00    Yao Hu
8    18:45:00    Mengfei Xu
9    19:00:00    Amanda Hayes
10    19:15:00    Huiyu He
11    19:30:00    Thao thi vo
12    19:45:00    xiaoping Zhao
13    20:00:00    Meyer, Jordan
14    20:15:00    Yingying Nan
       
       
3/22/2011       
15    17:00:00    Chris Klaphake
16    17:15:00    HUA YUNFEI
17    17:30:00    Beibei Wei
18    17:45:00    Hui Zhang
19    18:00:00    Vidura Wickramasinghe
20    18:15:00    Ahmed Iqbal
21    18:30:00    Kim Siemsen :P
22    18:45:00    Ahmed Iqbal
23    19:00:00    Asif Hussain
24    19:15:00    ibrahim alsgoor
25    19:30:00    Sam Mingo
26    19:45:00    Alexandra Holker :(
27    20:00:00    Luke Walcheski :P
28    20:15:00   
       

Meeting dates, meetings with the professor, etc.

On March 1, 2011, noon, all students will have completed the first interview, posted it on their blog, and come to class prepared to decribe the process, review all interviews according to parameters we will establish, and determine the best three interviews. Students will post the first, second, and third interview winners in a separate post labeled "Interview 1 winners"  and supply the winner's name and also a link to that interview.  Example:
First place: Student name, link to interview
Second place: Student name, link to interview
Third place: Student name, link to interview

On March 8, 2011, we have spring break. After spring break we will use two meeting days on 3/15 and 3/22 to meet with me in LH 116, my office. Use the Office hour sign-up sheet for en191s11 to select a time slot.

Being in the library, we might as well use it

1. Work in the existing groups. Each member create a post "Library Research Assistance" for theor own part of the task and all other group elements prepared today. By the end of today, we want to have facilitated research of any topics enabling you to better research about countries and cultures of your interviewees, including reporting of the process and interview content. Remember to cite your sources!

Objective: Select examples from the web-resources found and relate how they can be used and what they can deliver. In case of "Citation Styles" you may want to pick two and introduce them explaining their purpose, and where they are required and expected.

2. Open to the Research Assistance in the Library menu

Group 1 prepares for presentation "Research Basics"

Group 2 prepares for presentation "Subject Guides"

Group 3 prepares for presentation "Course Guides"

Group 4 prepares for presentation "RefWorks" (must create a new id to use)

Group 5 prepares for presentation "Citation Styles"

Group 6 prepares for presentation "Reference Sources"

Each member of the group needs to study and prepare one aspect of the topic. Assign who will do what. Post the information on each others blogs: each member will link to each post from other group members that pertain to this task. That means that we could access any member's blog and find there all group elements in the new student post "Library Research Assistance- group #____; topic: ___" .
Start: 17:30
Finish 19:30, then review presentation by all groups

PS You may wonder why we would include "Course Guides" here. The list of courses taught may link to our topic, though, as in the example of CMST 212, where the syllabus offers access to topics and resources not only in interpersonal communication, but also intercultural communication. A topic that might interest you... so check all other courses and see what might connect to Global Communications. I would not suggest looking in Electrical Engineering or Biology. But Mass Communications, Speech, Sociology, Foreign Languages, English, and many others, may contain useful information.  

The coming weeks ... deadlines and to-dos

Students finished grammar presentations and we spent time on citations, in-text citations, works cited pages, and the requirement to cite your sources to avoid plagiarism. Students provided excellent examples for both.
The mock interviews prepared you to go and find your own interviewees and start interviewing. The first completed interviews are due on March 1, 2011 at noon and will be evaluated by the class that evening. Again, there is a competition for the best interview.
Next week we will address issues that may arise from interviewing, recording, transcribing and reporting of the dialogues. The reason for three interviews from the same country or region is the ability to cross-reference information. You may re-use the same country report, unless new perspectives have become evident in the interview. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the four elements of each interview: country report, preparation's report, transcript, and interview report. These four elements need to be posted together.
BTW only 19 students attended class. Please read the syllabus in the right margin of this blog and consider the 5% drop in grade you will see unless I have agreed to your absence, and we have discussed make-up or catch-up activities. An email to me informing me of your absence is too forward at best and offensive at worst.
For the next weeks, our time in class will be split between short excursions into different writing topics, review of existing interviews, refinement of the standards, and smaller papers on special topics. You will have two weeks for each interview to be completed and posted.
Interview 1 completion date March 1, 2011
Interview 2 completion date March 22, 2011
Interview 3 completions date April 5
We will then have the meetings on April 12, 19, 26 to work on your final project. The final project could be an additional interview, a comparison and contrast of the three you already performed, or a review of interviews by your peers in class. But I am also open to other topics, as long as they relate to Global Communication. The final project needs to be posted on the day of final, May 3, 2011, and show evidence that you
• know to research a topic and quote sources
• structure your topic well
• utilize the newly won knowledge from interviews and preparations
• understand global communications, cultures, and dialogue from different perspectives.
Final papers need to be at least 2000 words long, show books, articles, and web-resources on the works-cited page, and demonstrate simple in-text citation techniques. You may pick the standard (APA, MLA, etc.) but you must adhere to it. Questions? Please ask next Tuesday.

Homework for next Tuesday, Feb 15, 2011

1. Create a post with your own seven questions as well as seven of the core questions
Core Questions
1. Do you think it will be easy to find a job after college?
2. What was the hardest thing about transitioning to the U.S.? (Culture shock)
3. Why did you decide to come to SCSU instead of studying or working in your own country?
4. What is your opinion of the American diet? Kill it.  Delicious greasy pizza.
5. How does the  climate in your home country compare to here?
6. What are some cultural differences between your country and here?
7 Who takes care of the finances in your family?
8 At what age do men and women spend private time and at what age do they consider marriage?
9. What are your personal experiences with racism since coming to the US?
10. What were your preconceptions about the US before coming here and how have they changed?

2. Create a set of objectives for your interview process. What do you want to achieve, learn, encounter?
Create a post with the label "Interview objectives for _____ (your name)"

Objectives and questions for the interviews

When writing your questions, please be sure
• not to lead (manipulating the questions; "And how do you like it here in the great US of A", or "You must certainly think..."
• to allow the interviewee to ask questions of you
• to wind down the conversation slowly (you could ask whether your interviewee would like to add thoughts and ideas that you did not ask for, you could invite them to ask you questions, etc.)
• to thank your interviewee for the time and effort invested on your behalf


Each interview will have four components:

1. A country report (1-2 pages) about the country or region that your interviewee calls home

2. A process description: How did you prepare, conduct, record and transcribe the interview?

3. A transcript of the interview (you may adjust words and sentences, make mild editing choices where sentences are incomplete on the tape, etc)

4. A personal review what you thought about that interview, what was new and exciting, or what disappointed you. Here you compare what happened to your objectives, and draw conclusions.


Q&A with respect to interviews:
How many interviews with international students do I have to conduct and record?  
Answer: 3
Do I have to transcribe all three?  
Answer: You may deselect the weakest one and only transcribe the two best interviews.
What do I post if I de-selct one interview?  
Answer: You post the country report, the description of the preparation process, your objectives, and the explanation why you chose not to transcribe this interview. Then you post all of that minus the transcript.
 

Synthesizing, categorizing, eliminating

Source for collecting categories and core questions
Group 1 speaker: categories and core questions
Group 2 speaker: categories and core questions
Group 3 speaker: categories and core questions
Group 4 speaker: categories and core questions
Group 5 speaker: categories and core questions
Group 6 speaker: categories and core questions

The outline: blueprint to success

You saw in class which qualities are needed in an outline that will guide your writing and argument well. While some students suggested that an outline has to be "short", we saw that short outlines did not provide enough guidance for the writing process. So while it is true that and outline must not have any superfluous elements, it has to be thorough and well thought out. The last outline we saw seemed to do that.
For this week, you have to think of 20 questions you want to ask an international student. This is the brain storming phase, and we will have to sort and group the themes and ideas. Put on your thinking cap which categories the questions belong into (e.g. family, country, politics, school, dating, whatever).
Be prepared to step forward and present your grammar topic on Tuesday.

Reviewing sample solutions

1. From a Chinese perspective 501
2. From an international perspective 511
3. US perspective 625
4. In class review: one student's opener

The effects of Global communication

"The effects of global communication

    There is a word which often emerges frequently in recent years. This word is global communication. Are you sure that you know the meaning of this word? Global Communication is the ability to clearly exchange and express understanding through listening, speaking, reading or writing. Global communication plays an important role in contemporary social. In the past ten years, it changed the conditions of society and promoted the development of world. At the same time, globalization brought some negative effects in various aspects of our life."sl

to do:

Class discussion of the opener. (Problems: redundant wording, logic, plagiarism)Then...

Work in groups. Review these three examples. Review the outlines. Create an improved group outline. Post it on each group members blog. Report about your improvements. Individually, create a second draft of the topic and post it.
Homework for next week: Make a list of 20 questions you would like to ask any international student in an interview. Post your list.
PS If you did not post outline and essay by noon today, this blog entry will be graded as missing (f). Next week, I will be meeting with students in class to look over their blogs and indicate the current grade trend.
REDONE OUTLINES BY GROUPS:
Group 1
Group 2
Group 3
Group 4
Group 5
Group 6

Reviewing outlines- How would you describe these three class examples?

global communication outline

introduction:
define global communication
why global communication is important
where global commucation plays a important role
thesis: global communication had become a vast part of human life and make human life much more easier as the life 10 or 20 years ago.
body:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of global communication
How global communication is beneficial for mankind
When global communication became a major part of human life.

conclusion
In conclusion, global communication is very important for people around the world in many ways. It’s related to many things, such as, work. Communication is such an important part of life and with the evolving technology; it’ll help improve people with their important needs.

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Outline


"What is global communication and how has it promoted the globalization witnessed in the past ten years?"
Terrible outline on how global communication has affected some stuff. I have no introduction or thesis statement and I am not interested in making either of them before I begin to actually write. I’m also not going to write something about every single possible subject because there are just too many. But the internet is central to global communication, so basically everything I’m going to talk about will deal with that.
I. Cultural changes
1. Knowledge
2. Language
3. Hobbies/friends/food (needs a good name)
II. Other changes (this and all below it need better names. Or none. It’s just an outline, after all.)
1. Buying/selling/outsourcing
2. I want to talk about WikiLeaks somehow.
I'm sure this outline won't make any sense once I've actually written it. But it's something.


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Outline Ideas for introduction:
Global communication is the ability to provide and access information across cultures through speaking, listening, or reading and writing.
http://www.ehow.com/facts_7601794_definition-global-communication.html#ixzz1C6IoakenAccording to Jon Endean, “A decade into the Millenia, globalization has become the theme of our world”
Ideas for body:

*http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_has_the_growth_of_global_communication_system_promoted_globalisation*http://www.ricestandard.org/reflecting-on-a-decade-of-globalization/
(A) Growth of global communication:
- (1) Internet growth making communication easier, (Skype)
- (2) Cell phones/ WiFi/ Satellites
- (3) Postal services
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(B) How it has promoted globalization:
- (1) Big businesses love the idea of workers over seas working for cheap (sadly). This sets up business’ in other countries
- (2) (Skype, cell phones and faster postal services), Faster communication with people


all over the world

- (3) Examples for countries:

- U.S. relations with China; improved in the areas of trade and cultural understanding
- The death of Pope John Paul II (2005), 4 million people attended his funeral
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Ideas for conclusion:
Getting to this!


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Reconsidering the outline:


Steps: You have a topic. Dissect it:

What is global communication -

using technology, different technology from letters and telegraph messages; contrast and compare old and new technologies

using new relations and a "smaller" world- news travel faster than ever before. people and markets react to natural or political changes, desasters, modifications more quickly

-what is the consequence when every country/company knows what every other country/company is doing?

-Reaction time is reduced and media outlets depend on civic reporting (phone videos, bystander reports, etc.)

- media are changing and normal people get more involved and knowledgeable

-on a personal level, people see and interact withothers (skype, yahoo, messenger, twitter, etc) locally and internationally at the same speed and bandwidth

etc.

promotion of globalization
what is globalization and where is it happening


Even the Romans thought globally and travelled throughout Europe. The Vikings visited America, and trade ships sailed the oceans 300 years ago. What *is* new then? Since the 60ies flight has been the fastest way to get around the globe. Flying speeds have likely maxed out. Improvement in travel time now depend on efficient airport processes and logistics. Explain logistics. Explain globally applied logistics originating from a few logistical companies and software developers


in the past ten years

what happened before that? Why only looking at ten years. Anything special about that?


beginning of a new millennium, communication platforms are improving, video conferencing has reached any desk.

Problems: knowing languages and interpreting foreign languages

Jan 25 The sequence of presentations

  
Source document: No longer shared

 Thematic Group 1 - Topics: How to organize a paper

• Hashmi, Moizuddin - I have difficulty in organizing my writing
• Hu, Yao - I'd like some tips for developing my ideas
• Wei, Beibei - All of my sentences sound the same. It would be helpful if I knew more about how phrases function so that I could vary my sentence structure.
• Walcheski, Lukus - My writing is wordy
• Xu, Mengfei-I would like some help with my introduction
• Zhang, Hui - I’d like some help with my conclusions

Thematic Group 2 - Topics: How to improve my grammar

• Holker, Alexandra M - I'm confused by semicolons and colons
• Klaphake, Christopher L - I don't know where commas go
• Louks, Kyle - Certain words are confusing: a lot, few and less, who and whom
• Nan, YingYing- I want to improve my vocabulary

Thematic Group 3 - Topics: How to write different types of papers

• Severson, Natalie M - I need help writing a thesis statement
• Vo, Thao - Descriptive Essays
• He, Huiyu - I need to more information about writing narrative essay

• Lu, Shan -  I want to know how to write an abstract.
• Siemsen, Kim-Mareike - I need more information about writing to get a job - cover letters

Thematic Group 4 - Topics: Documentation and Quotes

• Wickramasinghe, Vidura - I need to know what plagiarism is and how I can avoid it.
• Hussain, Asif 1    I need help with citations and documentation

• Zhao, Xiaoping - I want some help on online sources
• Mingo, Sam - I need more information about writing an annotated bibliography.

      
Thematic Group 5 - Topics: Researching Papers

• Schwagel, Margaret - I need more information about writing to get a job - researching companies
• Hayes, Amanda M - Researching my own interests and talents
• Hua, YunFei - My native language is not English

.other topics-
Van Houtan, Stephanie- How to catch errors in my paper.
Iqbal, Ahmed - My native language is not English(ESL)
Jordan Meyer- Issue managing my time when it comes to writing a paper..

Jan 25 Grammar topics presented by students

List of student presentations


1. Study your topic and create a flow chart about what you want to show and say
2. Create a post with bullets and/or text for the 3-5 minute class presentation
3. Come prepared to address the class

In-class preparatory work:
Organizing the topics, making groupings
Work in your group. The group could decide to make only one shared document, or individual ones for each student in the group. 
Shared class document. Go there and copy and paste its content into your own spreadsheet in Google docs. Work only in your own document in your own google docs environment. When you are finished organizing the topics, and making groupings, go back into the shared class document. Slowly and patently enter your topics and groupings into the shared document, if the field is empty or if your topic or grouping is different from what you see (having been entered by a class mate). Many of us will be trying this at the same time.  Be patent and type very, very slowly. I want to achieve a document that shows how different students may have categorized and grouped the same topics differently. Or not.

LEO topics for Jan 25

Peruse the LEO web-site and pick a topic that interests you. Write that topic into the LEO topic list.

Please come forward and enter your topic behind your name. Have the originating url ready to hot-link your choice to the LEO site.
Samples from the LEO page:
(begin quote)

I'm having problems getting started.

• I'm not sure how to write the kind of paper my teacher assigned.
• I'd like to see some guidelines on time management and steps for writing a paper.
• I'm overwhelmed and don't know where to begin working on my paper.
• I need some new strategies for generating ideas.
• I would like strategies for starting particular types of papers.
• How do I get started writing a book or film review?

---

I have difficulty organizing my writing.

• I'd like some tips about organizing my thoughts before I start writing.
• My teacher wants a five-paragraph essay.

---

I'd like some tips for developing my ideas.

• I'd like to work on sensory details.

---

I have problems with particular parts of a paper -- introductions, thesis statements, conclusions.

• I'd like some help with introductions.
• I'd like some help with thesis statements.
• I'd like some help with conclusions. (end quote)

There are many other topics to choose from. Take a few minutes to review them. Once you have determined your topic, talk to your class mates and see who else has that topic. Only one topic per person, please. So you must find an agreement and possibly choose a different or sub-topic.

Criteria used to evaluate stories

1. How to best evaluate a piece of writing? Work in groups of six and find five parameters you propose to use when evaluating the Story-in-a-box. The most important parameter gets five points, the next, somewhat less parameter gets four points, and so on.
2. Student list and shared document for class use
3. After we have settled and posted the five criteria to use, read all stories and rate them on a sheet of paper. Then determine your three top stories and create a new post on your blog. Paste the names and urls of your top stories:

1. (best) name, url
2. (2nd best) name, url
3. (third best) name, url
Then go to the shared winner's document and enter a one (1) behind the name of your best, a (2) behind the second and a (3) behind *your* third winner. 
Roland's list
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Criterion 1
Criterion 2
Criterion 3
Criterion 4
Criterion 5

The class determined the following criteria and point values. You can assign up to 15 points to any story now. While reading, be sure to keep a written personal list of all student names and the points you gave them.
Five Final Criteria
1. 5 points- 12 Objects are found creatively in the story
2. 4 points - Story holds interest
3. 3 points - Story flows well
4. 2 points - To the point, not too wordy
5. 1 point - Grammar/Spelling

Examples:
1. The story makes sense. The story progresses logically. The ending fits the introduction and title.
2. Strange new ideas, words, phrases, cultural phenomena
3. To the point, not wordy, great diction (choice of words for the job) etc.
Student group parameters:
(five parameters from each group)
Group 1

1 Grammar/spelling        5 points

2 Story plot            4 points

3 Sentence fluency        3 points

4 Creativity             2 points

5 Fulfills requirements        1 points

Group 2
1 All 12 objects are in the story    5 Points

2 Story holds interest        4 Points

3Sentences flow well together    3 Points

4 To the point, not too wordy    2 Points

5 Grammar/Spelling            1 Point

Group 3

1 Story has to flow.

2 Has to include the twelve items.

3 Grammar errors

4. Keeps readers interest

5.The content of the story needs to be related to the topic.

Group 4

1. 12 items included

2. Flows nicely, (good length of sentences)

3. Proper grammar

4. No plot holes, (no contradictions, story stays on subject)

5. Good introduction and conclusion

Group 5

1. The story is easy to read and doesn’t confuse the reader.

2. Ideas are well organized.

3. The writer uniquely uses all twelve objects.

4. The writer uses a variety of words and is not repetitive.

5. The story has an interesting introduction and ending.

Group 6

1. You find the story interesting and easy to read.

2. The story has a good plot and all 12 items connect well.

3. All 12 items connect well

4. Few grammar errors   

5. Good word choices

Five Final Criteria
1. 12 Objects are found creatively in the story
2. Story holds interest
3. Story flows well
4. To the point, not too wordy
5. Grammar/Spelling

Homework for Jan 18, due at 12 noon

Review the entire web-site LEO.
Finish your first draft of Story-in-a-box and post it on your blog; revise and improve on your first version and post the second version in a post by noon Tuesday, Jan 18, 1011.
Next week in class:
Develop parameters to evaluate stories with. Create 5 parameters that all will use when reading all those Stories-in-a-Box from classmates.
Rateat three stories from your class mates. Post your results. Click their name and access their blog through the central web-page 191s11.
Be prepared to propose a topic for grammar review from LEO. Pick something that you find needed or interesting for you.

Course objectives for en191section18 spring 2011

The course objectives

Reading, writing, and critical reasoning based on different text types and situations related to Global Cultures & Communications. We will explore the creative as well as analytical side of writing, discourse, and structure together. You will write short and longer papers and learn to edit your writing, improve your arguments, and become more effective communicators using blogs. All the while you will learn about other countries and cultures and explore the otherness of non-US speech, text, discourse and argument.