Schmoll's English 305 Fall 2014: WEEK TEN READING--IN THIS CASE, WEEK TEN WATCHING

BASICS OF THE COURSE EACH WEEK

These are time sensitive. You do not receive credit if you write them after the deadline each week. Furthermore, if you are in the habit of writing everything on Saturday you will not receive full credit. Why? There would be no time for others to interact with your writing. Write early; write often! Right? Right!

First, there's a blog entry (about 250 words) which will have you respond to a hopefully thought-provoking question. Each week, you must do the blog entry with enough time left in the week to be able to enter into dialogue online with your classmates. Write, reply, write more, reply more, and then write and reply more.

Second, there's a reading. There’s no blog entry associated with this. Just read.

Third, there's a written response to the reading. Your reading and writing on the blog must be completed by the SATURDAY (by midnight) of the week in which the reading falls. This entry should be a long paragraph. YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESPOND TO OTHER STUDENTS' PART THREE EACH WEEK.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

WEEK TEN READING--IN THIS CASE, WEEK TEN WATCHING

This week, watch this video lecture. It is short and sweet. Your writing this week will be to respond to any element of the video, so just watch with your mind open:

Malcolm Gladwell, Customer Success Tipping Point
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhpjTH_GItU

Enjoy,

dr. s

1 comment:

Amanda Moreno AlcalaNovember 20, 2014 at 4:17 PM
I really enjoyed watching this video lecture. I liked it because it was definitely related to our Tipping Point paper and it gave a couple more examples of tipping points. My favorite example was the one of Malcom McClain. It was very inspiring because most people do not think of truckers to necessarily be as successful as McClain was. Like many individuals who want to reinvent aspects of daily life he was highly doubted by others and his ideas were shot down one by one, but he prevailed and even today we are still shipping products over seas in the same way that McClain had envisioned. I like how the speaker mentioned that not only did McClain have to reinvent once concept to make this idea work, but he had to reinvent the truck to make better sized containers, the docks to have more resistant cranes constructed and ships to be resized so that the containers on the trucks would fit perfectly onto the ship. This example showed me that to make a change, sometimes more than just one aspect has to be rethought. I think that sense of change can relate back to the concept mentioned in our book that small things can have major changes. McClain just wanted to make shipping easier which in turn affected every single characteristic of over seas shipping.
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GRAMMAR SUPPORT

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Also, through this program you can send someone your essay and have it revised. It can be a great resource. Here is the contact info:

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You should also know which grammar issues I tend to focus on while grading:

1. COMMAS: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/5/15

Yes, comma rules are tough to fix, but if you go one by one, you can slowly overcome this tough issue and write more clearly!

2. INTRO COMMAS: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/exercises/3/5/53

Specifically, one comma rule you can learn this quarter is the comma with an introductory element.

3. SEMI-COLONS: I only care about these if you use them incorrectly. Here is a good exercise to help with that:

http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/exercises/semicolons_ex1.htm

4. COLON: Learn how to use it: http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/colons.htm

...and then do the exercise at the bottom of that page.

5. RUN-ONS: Finally, one common issue at the 305 level is the run-on sentence. Here is a way to understand it and fix it:

http://depts.dyc.edu/learningcenter/owl/run-ons.htm