Wednesday, Nov. 12: Workshop with Results

On Monday, Nov. 10th, was the last day that our audiences could take our surveys.

Today, Wednesday, Nov. 12th, we are going to work those results into our graphs and papers. Make sure you have your 3 previously created graphs accessible (in your email to yourself, to me, or on a flash drive; otherwise, you have to create new ones!).


1. Workshop - What you need to bring on Nov. 12th:
a) your 3 graphs in electronic format
b) your Word document with the whole paper (all components you have) in electronic format
c) printed out comments from me on your components, if you haven't corrected them yet


Topics for Workshop:

1) IF YOU HAVE LESS THAN 10 ANSWERS TO YOUR SURVEY, some peers and I will take your survey for you, to bring your answers up to 10 (minimum)!!!

2) Exchange your "invented" numbers in the xls tables of your 3 graphs for the "real" numbers. Check if the new graphs are displayed correctly. Copy and paste them into your Word document.

3) Change / rewrite your 5-7 statements that you've written for each graph -- their content will be different now that you got the "real" results. Remember that the quality of those written statements is equally important if not MORE important than your graphs!!!

4) Read the comments I gave you on your essay components (Lit Review, Annotated Bib, Abstracts, etc.) of which I will pass back the rest today. Change them accordingly. Get rid of possible spelling mistakes, and if you got the comment "elevate your readability," combine your sentences to make them longer, vary your verbs, and use "academic language" to improve your overall writing style.

5) Compose your Introduction.

6) Compose your Conclusion. If you want, include the "Limitations."

7) Finish up the Abstract (put in concrete % numbers of your findings), and complete the "Participants" and "Methods" sections.

8) Put everything in the right format (single-spaced). If you're not sure, check the three sample research papers from last semester you have already read last month.

WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER WORKSHOP THIS FRIDAY, to finish up our papers. If you can foresee that you will not finish up on Friday in class, do some of the work at home before Friday!

On Monday, Nov. 17th, is our PEER EDITING SESSION. If you're not here, you won't get the participation points. (You still have to contact a peer by email to obtain his/her evaluation, or I won't collect and grade your research essay).

That means, your ESSAYS NEED TO BE COMPLETELY FINISHED on Monday, Nov. 17th, at class time. You don't need to print them out; have them ready in electronic format (as a Word document; no other attachments accepted!). EMAIL THEM TO ME BY MONDAY AT CLASS TIME.

Instructions for Peer Edit Session:

1) Use the following Peer Edit Sheet (Rubistar rubric), copy and paste it into a Word document, and save it to your desktop, and highlight the fields with the points you want to give on it in color. Assign an overall grade to the student, judging by what you think is most important in a Research Essay from all the components of the rubric. NOTE: You can also type into my rubric, once you've pasted it into Word. That means, you can include your own personal comments (in a different color, please!).

2) Email this sheet to the author of the essay AND to me as cc., so you can get your points. You need to finish peer-editing ONE paper in class on Nov. 17th (because many people cannot open docx files from home).

3) We are doing "online editing," which means that you are going to employ the "comment function" on the top of your menu list to insert your comments.

Highlight the word that's wrong / the place where a word or punctuation sign is missing, click on "comment," and type in your suggestions. Save your document!!! If you don't save it, you will lose all your entries. When you're done, email it back to the author and me, TOGETHER with the Peer Edit Sheet (rubric). Correct all spelling, grammar, punctuation, format, and content mistakes you can find!



If you want to edit TWO instead of ONE papers, because you need to make up for one missed day, ask in class who wants/needs a second peer-edit, and have this student email his/her paper to you. If there's no volunteer, I'll assign you one. When you email the Peer Edit Sheet back to that student, and in copy to me, indicate for which missed day you are making up, so I can put an "excused" on my attendance sheet accordingly!

You will exchange your finished research essays with the following partner (I will distribute the essays you emailed to me to peers who missed that class, or peers whose partner didn't show up):

Group 1: Ken Stoner + Laura Treat

Group 2: Alexandra Rude + Jennifer Gulley

Group 3: Jacob Talbert + Sarah Klingler

Group 4: Donald Dinkins + Raquel Maxey

Group 5: Emily Muren + Ashley Epps

Group 6: Sharon Espina + Leah West

Group 7: Heather Mormino + Sharita Haralson

Group 8: Melisa Ogle + Brian Harris

Group 9: Marissa Freese + Maddison Green




HOMEWORK for Wednesday, Nov. 19th, when the PEER-EDITED FINAL PAPERS are DUE:


Submit a FOLDER with the following components:

1. Your completed and corrected RESEARCH ESSAY

2. Staple or attach to it with a paper clip the Report Sheet from www.surveymonkey.com as a pdf file

3. The printed Peer Edit Sheet, and the printed peer-edited essay with your peer's electronic comments. If you have received more than one, submit them all. I'm going to check whether you made the suggestions changes suggested by your peers. Your peers will get credit (or extra credit, where it applies) depending how detailed/well done their proofreading was.

4. Your printed-out three sources (stapled). Make sure they are RESEARCH essays from JSTOR, ERIC, or Google Scholar, not simple webpages. Make sure they printed off correctly; I need to be able to see the page numbers, to proofread your quotations.

5. A written paragraph on a separate sheet of paper in which you tell me whether the peer-editing session has helped you, whether you think I should drop the peer-editing workshop for next year's classes, or whether you would prefer a Writing Center session to an in-class peer editing session, and WHY.

6. The Cover Sheet where you check-mark that everything was submitted, and on which I will write your grade. Print it out from here, and check-mark everything you submitted.


EXTENSION ONLY for people who have their paper corrected in the Writing Center:
You can submit your complete folder on Friday, Nov. 21st (the last day of class before the Thanksgiving vacations). You need to have had a session with a Writing Center tutor about your whole essay, and this tutor needs to have written a conference summary to me by Friday, Nov. 21st. You need to tell this to your tutor; he/she won't do it by himself/herself. I will put your conference summary in your folder. You can make up for your missed homework points in all components this way. I won't grade your folder if you don't have a conference summary, because that would be a late assignment.

NO LATE PAPERS accepted.

Apart from the FOLDER: Also email your research paper to me (without attachments). Those which are A+ or A might be used for next year as good examples. I will ask your written consent before employing any of your material. Your support will be greatly appreciated by my future ENGL300 classes!!! Remember, you also got samples for everything we did from my previous classes...