If you look at the course schedule in the back of our syllabus, you'll notice that you have a reading assignment to complete for next week. Some of the material for this reading assignment is in our textbook, They Say / I Say, by Gerald Graff and Cathy Birkenstein. Remember: I'm perfectly fine with you getting any edition of this book. In fact, I want to make this reading assignment a challenge to you. The challenge is this: Find the reading material on your own, and find it soon. If it's not obvious how to do that, try to be inventive. Find and read these short pieces before our class meeting next week. By the time we meet, I'll assume that you will have read these pieces next week, and I'll assign homework based on that assumption.
Of course, there's one piece that I promised to provide online, the article by W. Andrew Ewell, "We Must Stop Praying to Our iPhones: Dissent and Critical Thinking in the Internet Era," and here it is:
http://www.salon.com/2014/10/11/we_must_stop_praying_to_our_iphones_dissent_and_critical_thinking_in_the_internet_era/.
Also, remember that your first draft of Essay 1 is due on Wednesday next week. All you need to do is write one draft of this essay, print it out, staple it, and have it ready to show me. I'll simply check you off for doing your first draft. Then, in class, you'll hand it to someone else to write a critique for. Of course, if you can't finish your first draft, I encourage you to print out and bring whatever you have. But I'd prefer something finished -- even if it's bad. A bad first draft is worth just as much as a good one. As for critiques, we'll be sure to talk more about those next week.
And don't forget your very first homework assignment, which was assigned a few days ago: Send me an email!
Finally, let me remind you that next Monday, 1/19/2015, is Martin Luther King Day. We won't be meeting on this day.
See you again on Wednesday, 1/21/2015. I look forward to seeing your Essay 1 first drafts.
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