Think about your reaction to Baker’s (from “The Art of Eating Spaghetti”) discovery that he could tell a story. Have you had a similar moment in your life when you found your calling?
In Part 2, you are beginning your Assignment 1 essay. You are writing to tell your story: select and post your topic for a personal experience paper about an experience that had a positive impact on your life. Your topic should be expressed in one sentence. Below your single sentence summary of your paper, share a few points that you will highlight in the essay assignment.
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Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts aredue by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
For your responses, read your classmate’s one-sentence topic and ask a question that you would like to know. For example, if a classmate writes, “The experience that had the most positive impact on my life was joining the Marines,” then you might ask, “What was your family’s reaction when you went into the service?”
Your responsibility is to come back to the Forum and answer questions posed to you, as well.
wek 2
Read “Once More to the Lake” by E. B. White, pp. 97-100, and “Androgynous Man” by Noel Perrin, pp. 243-244. Select one of the pieces to write about.
Both of these stories involve trips or vacations , time spent away from the author’s everyday environment. Both deal with memory and growing up.
Take a look at how the author uses sentences to give details of the vacation or the trip. Are the sentences long, short, poetic, matter of fact?
Then write about whether you think the author is successful in creating an interesting or moving piece about memory. What makes the writing successful for you?
Select a favorite sentence from the piece and include it as a quotation with MLA citation, like this:
“I read all the interesting articles in a couple of magazines I had, and then I went back and read all the dull stuff” (Perrin 243).
Try to select a sentence that no one else has selected yet. Why is it a favorite for you? What was your reaction when you read it, and how did the author evoke that reaction?
Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts aredue by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 2 b
After you have read the APUS plagiarism policy, viewed the library welcome slide show, and taken the tutorial, think of a topic that you would like to write about for Essay 2, which is your first sourced essay in the class where you will need cited references.
Remember, Essay 1 is a personal narrative, and you do not need references for that essay; you are the reference! Pick a topic that you would like to know more about, such as how to go about doing something or something that interests you.
Use the example in the Lesson as a guide, and then try to answer these questions:
Why did you pick this topic?
What do I already know about it?
What is my goal in acquiring new information through my research?
What information will I want to share with my reader?
After you post your topic and answer these questions, read your classmates’ posts and respond to them with your questions about their topic. This will help them to find new research directions as they begin to look for information in the online databases next week.
Make your initial posts to Forums A and B by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
weeek 3
Thesis Statements
Post your thesis statement for Essay 2 here as a one- sentence thesis statement. Please bold it and identify it , so that we can all tell what it is.
Make sure you are writing one sentence only, and that you are not using a question. For example, “Should children wear uniforms in public schools?” is not a thesis sentence. To be a thesis sentence, the sentence must take a stand and be a declarative sentence.
After you post your thesis statement, discuss how you arrived at that one sentence. What process of thought led to that sentence? Did you conduct research on your topic before coming up with your thesis statement? Have you taken a stand in your thesis statement? Do you think that when you do more research on your topic, your stand might change? Did you start with one thesis and evolve into another?
(It is expected, in academic writing, that you may need to change your thesis statement as you work on your essay. You may believe one thing, only to find through research that your initial beliefs must be adjusted. Or, you may have to change your topic somewhat due to available research.)
After you have discussed your thesis statement, discuss how you will outline Essay 2. Provide at least three supporting ideas or directions, and show how they will support your thesis. Why did you select the three ideas you selected, and how do they develop your essay? How will you find research to support your three ideas? Remember, in the Essay 2 assignment, all of your research must be from one of these three online databases in the APUS online library—EBSCO, ProQuest, and LexisNexis. No open web sources are allowed for this assignment.
After you have made your initial post, Part 1 and Part 2, respond to at least two classmates with ideas for how their thesis statement might be refocused, improved, or clarified. Remember, be constructive, and feel free to ask questions about directions for more research, like, “Did you consider whether uniforms lead to better scholastic performance—will you back that up with statistics?”
Make your initial posts to the Forum by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 4
In Week 2’s Forum 2B, you chose a topic for Essay #2, Writing to Inform. As you know, you will need to find and use cited references for this essay. In Week 3’s forum, you created a one-sentence thesis statement to use with this essay.
It is now time to work on your First Draft of the essay! When you write in a college class, the most effective way to create a formal essay isn’t to sit down on the computer and type until you get exhausted. Effective writers will create a draft, and then revise that First Draft more than once until they have a final copy to submit for grading.
Please note that your work on this forum should not be a “rough” draft: your First Draft should show signs of organization and your thinking.
For Week 4’s Forum, please complete the following in your post:
Write your topic, from Week 2.
Write your thesis statement that you used in Week 3.
Now, please post at least 250 words about your topic that you expect to use in your essay. This is your First Draft, and it should have some organization and some thought behind it.
Include one reference in proper MLA format that you have found from the APUS Library to support your topic.
When you reply to your classmates, is there anything missing? What more is needed? Do you have questions about the topic that your classmate can address for Week 5’s Peer Review?
Make your initial post by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 250 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources. Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
Post your next draft of Essay #2, due at the end of this week. Then, respond in detail to the drafts of at least 2 other classmates, using the Writer’s Checklist for evaluating as your guide:
Which sentence states the main idea (thesis) of the essay? Please explain how it is or is not clear. Where is it placed, and is its placement appropriate?
What additional details could be included to help you better understand the essay? What is missing or unclear?
Are the details covered in a logical sequence? Which ones, if any, seem out of place?
What part of the essay is most memorable? Why?
How do the transitions, such as “furthermore,” “for example,” and “next,” used to help the ideas in the paper flow logically? If they do not, or are missing, which ones would be useful or need to be changed?
How does the author provide the reader with a sense of completion at the end? If completion is missing, what suggestions do you have?
What kind of grammatical errors, if any, are evident in the essay?
What final suggestions do you have for the author?
Please use the questions above and answer each question for the drafts that you evaluate. This way, the writer will have thorough and helpful feedback for revision of the draft.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday. Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words.
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.
Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further.
To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.
Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.
Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words, and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday.
week 6
Choose a topic for Essay 3, Writing to show Cause and Effect. For your topic, you do not need to decide on a thesis statement yet, but you do need to consider a topic where you can show cause and effect. Your topic can be chosen from your major academic field or from your work life.For more ideas, take a look at the assignment for Essay 3 (due Sunday of Week 8.)
Then, respond in substantive detail to the initial posts of at least 2 other classmates.
It would be very helpful if you could post research ideas for Essay 3. Example—Siobhan writes that she wants to explore causes of ADD in children, and Li responds that she might want to try looking in the online library databases for the PSYC articles databases, and Juan notes that when he did a paper for this last semester, he found a great article, and here is the Works Cited citation, so that Siobhan can find the article.
Note that as you respond to other posters, you may want to be doing a little research on the library databases, which go far beyond the two or three that we have been using for the course and include things like the PSYC articles database and the Jane’s Military publications databases.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words .
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
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Earlier this term, in Week 4, you completed a First Draft for Essay #2, where you took your topic and expanded on it to create a larger piece of writing. In our Week 7 Forum, you will do this again for Essay #3.
In Week 6’s Forum, you chose a topic for Essay #3, Writing to Show Cause and Effect. As with Essay #2, you will need to find and use cited references for this essay.
It is again time to work on your First Draft of the essay! Remember that while the draft here doesn’t need to be perfect, it should not be a “rough” draft: there should be evidence of your thinking and organization here.
For Week 7’s Forum, please complete the following in your post:
Write your topic, from Week 6.
Now, please post at least 250 words about your topic that you expect to use in your essay. Once again, this is your First Draft, and it should have some organization and some thought behind it.
Include one reference in proper MLA format that you have found from the APUS Library to support your topic.
When you reply to your classmates, is there anything missing? What more is needed? Do you have questions about the topic that your classmate can address for Week 8’s Peer Review?
Make your initial posts to the Forum by 11:55pm ET, Wednesday . Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .
week 8
Post your next draft of Essay #3 here and then respond to the posts of at least 2 other classmates with peer review. Here is what you will need to strive for in your peer review this week:
Do you see a clear relationship in the essay between cause and effect?
How persuasive is the author, and why?
Are there any places where you would consider revising words for clarity?
Consider issues of wordiness, jargon, biased language, mixed construction, and faulty parallelism. You do not need to proofread your classmates’ essays, but if you can find something in this category, it will be helpful feedback for the writer.
Authors, as you read your peer reviews this week, remember that the feedback may be correct or incorrect. Reviewers, keep your emphasis on constructive feedback only, and remember that you are only giving suggestions and not correcting another writer.
Make your initial posts to the Forum by11:55pm ET, Wednesday .Initial posts should be at least 200- 300 words
Students are expected to post on three separate days each week for full credit. During the week, read the messages posted by your instructor and classmates and join the discussion. Your instructor may ask questions, provide explanations, and include links to other resources.Please respond to at least 2 classmates, and in your response posts, try to bring together pieces of the discussion and take those ideas further. To earn a higher grade on each week’s discussion, students are expected to post more frequently. Posting three times in a week will earn a grade of a C. Four posts of high quality according to the rubric will earn a B, and five high quality posts according to the rubric earn an A.Remember, the Forums are our place for classroom discussion.Your response posts need to be at least 50-100 words , and all posts are due by 11:55pm, ET, Sunday .