Week 12 Homework

It's that time of the week again -- for me to give you homework!

First, let me just remind you that your Essay 4 first draft was due today, which means that your critique in response to someone else's Essay 4 first draft is due next week, on Wednesday, 4/8. If you find that you can't quite keep up with your assignments at this point in the semester, that's fine. Please let me know, and we can try to figure out how to help you catch up.

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Second, let me give you some reading homework to do:

-- Please read this article, "Martese Johnson's education happened on that sidewalk," by Washington Post writer Courtland Milloy:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/martese-johnsons-education-happened-on-that-sidewalk/2015/03/24/bf8d7196-d25b-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html.

-- And please also read this article, "College junior at 17 was once dubbed 'sweet, but not very smart,'" by Washington Post writer Petula Dvorak:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/college-junior-at-17-was-once-dubbed-sweet-but-not-very-smart/2015/03/26/b8ae7698-d307-11e4-a62f-ee745911a4ff_story.html?tid=pm_local_pop.

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And lastly, let me give you some writing homework to do (due Monday, 4/6):

-- Copy out one paragraph from your own Essay 4 first draft -- specifically, a paragraph in which you present or otherwise discuss an idea or statement or set of statements from one (or more) of your article -- and paste this paragraph in a separate Word document. In this new document, take this one paragraph and change it in such a way that you credit and/or cite your article and its author way too much. Then print out this over-credited/over-cited paragraph and bring it to class on Monday, 4/6. I'll collect it then. And, as usual, I will not accept late submissions.

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Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

I'll see you again soon.