Week 2 Homework

Did you get last week's reading assignment done? Well, if you didn't, then make sure you do it as soon as possible -- because your written homework, due Monday, 1/26, is straight out of the introduction of They Say / I Say. And here is that assignment:

-- Do exercises 1 and 2 on pages 14 and 15 of They Say / I Say. (Notice: These page numbers might not be the same for other editions. But these exercises are easy to find. They're the last two exercises at the end of the introduction of any edition of this book.)

I'm still not sure how I'll give credit to this homework assignment. Maybe I'll collect the sheet of paper that you did your homework on, or maybe I'll just go around the class and check off that you did your homework. Either way, you'll need to have your homework written out or typed up and printed out, ready for me to see in class.

The rest of your homework that's due next week is basically right there, in the course schedule (remember? -- that thing at the end of our syllabus?).

The next part of your homework, of course, is more reading:

-- Do the new reading assignment, which is basically to continue reading in They Say / I Say, but also to read one of the essays that appears in the back of any edition of this book, the essay titled, "Don't Blame the Eater," by David Zinczenko. (And if you still don't have a copy of They Say / I Say, then I'm trusting you to use your creativity and judgment to find a way to do the assigned reading anyway. It's not all that hard to figure it out.)

And the other last of your homework is to continue work related to Essay 1:

-- Write a critique in response to another classmate's first draft of Essay 1. The basic idea is that you're giving your own constructive feedback on another student's writing in the form of an intelligent, but casual, short essay. Now, these critiques are due on Wednesday, 1/28, so just in case you've run into some trouble getting your Essay 1 first draft done, or whatever the issue might be, then you should definitely talk to me about possibly getting until Monday, 1/26, to figure out a way to fix the trouble.

And if you're not sure about how to organize your critique, either because you couldn't make it to class today or maybe because you lost the handout that I gave out in class today, here's a link to an electronic copy of this handout:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B59oU02C12STalkwWEdSQUhVeGs/view?usp=sharing.