Day 42: Oral Presentations (cont.)

Today we will listen to the presentation of the following students:

9:05-9:12  Luxi
9:13-9:20  Xiao
9:21-9:28  Yiqi
9:29-9:36  Jignu
9:37-9:44  Xu

Day 41: Oral Presentations (cont.)

Today we will continue with the presentation of IRP reserach:
9:05-9:12   Yitao
9:13-9:20   Bofan (Changed requested by Xiao)
9:21-9:28   Hejun
9:29-9:36   Shilin
9:37-9:44   Judy

Day 40: Oral Presentations on the IRP

Today we will listen to our first five presenters:
9:05-9:12 Ryan
9:13-9:20 Xin
9:21-9:28 Bryan
9:29-9:36 Xueyi
9:37-9:44 Kedao

Please, do not be late because we need to start as soon as possible.

Day 38 and 39: Individual Conferences

Objective: To have an individual meeting so students can ask questions related to their individual IRP drafts or about other aspects of the course.

I will be conducting this meetings on Thursday, April 19, Friday 20, Monday 23, and Tuesday 24.
Please come to the day and time scheduled for you (Check the Individual Conference Sheet I sent you as an attachment yesterday).

We will meet as a class again until next Wednesday, April 25, when we will listen to the first five oral presentations.

Day 37: Preparing Oral Presentations

Objectives
* To identify what elements make an oral presentation successful.

Please present your Peer Review sheets.
Quick review of what we have been doing, where we are and what is coming.

I. Don't forget that your IRP's second draft is due Friday, April 20th.
A. When revising your first draft don't forget to check if you have
1. followed the assignment instructions
2. followed your outline
3. used at least three sources
4. written your in-text citations correctly following the APA format
5. written a Reference page
6. complete conclusions

II. On April 19th, 20th, 23rd and 24th I will having individual conferences with all of you. Please select a day, a time, and prepare for the conference.

III. On Wednesday, April 25th, Friday April 27, and Monday, April 30th, we will have the oral presentations of Individual Research Papers. Prepare carefully, it is 10% of your grade.

IV. Preparing your Oral Presentations

What is important about an oral presentation? Discuss and write down your ideas.

Rubric: These are points in which your presentations will be evaluated.

Death by PowerPoint

Presentation Skills

V. Write a brief outline of you presentation (you can use your IRP outline as a reference). Talk to a partner about your plans for your oral presentation.

Decide when you will be presenting. First, I will take volunteers, then the next positions will be filled out through a raffle.

Assignments:
1. Work on your Individual Conference Sheet.
2. Bring Peer Review Sheet to present to me on the day of your individual conference.
3. Friday, April 20th, midnight: Upload IRP's second draft.
4. Oral presentations will start on Wednesday, April 25.
5. Reflective Essay is due the last day of classes.
6. Individual Research paper is due last day of classes (upload and hard copy)

Day 36: REVISING

Today you will stop being writers and become readers. You will read what one of your peers' first draft and comment on his/her writing.

What are some goals of peer reviewing:

1. To see how others are writing

2. To help students think critically about their own work and others'

3. Identify a gap between writer and reader (is everything clear? Did the message get sent?)

4. To gain strategies for interactions with others and texts

5. To practice revision strategies

Peer Review Training

What to say when you give feedback

Exchange papers with someone you feel comfortable with and proceed to read their IRP. Read it once before you make any comments.


Homework:
It is time to write your IRP second draft. This draft should be as complete as possible. Please, go over the revising done by your peer and make changes accordingly. This second draft should contain a title page, a reference page, correct in-text citations, should be written in Times New Roman, 12 font, double space. It should be no less than six pages.
Dateline for the presentation of 2nd draft is Friday, April 20, 12:00 midnight. I will go over your drafts on the weekend and give you some feedback.

Final draft will be presented on last day of classes, Wednesday, May 2, 9:00 AM. Upload on Dropbox. This final draft must be complete and exhibit revision based on feedback given by peers and instructor.

Day 35: Drafting the GRP: Using PIE to Build Up Body Paragraphs (cont.)

Objectives: Students will be able to
a. Write three important points for the GRP.
c. Identify the elements in a PIE structure.
b. Use PIE structure to develop body paragraphs.

I. Review: We have been working on developing the first draft of the GRP. We already have an introduction and now we are trying to develop the body paragraphs. In order to do so, we are using PIE structure.
PIE = POINT
ILLUSTRATION
EXPLANATION

The POINT is an important statement about the topic.
The ILLUSTRATION is a quote, paraphrase, or summary from a source used to back up, support, explain, exemplify the point.
The EXPLANATION is a comment to extend what has been said in order to establish its relevance in the discussion.

This is the example I created for you during last class.

Added to the introduction we wrote together, we are beginning to write the first draft for the GRP.

Continue developing your outline in this way.

II. At the same time you work on your first draft, try to build your REFERENCE PAGE. This will save you a great deal of work at the end.

III. Today we will continue working on the structure of the body paragraphs for the GRP.

A. Individually, go over the sources for the GRP. Think about points that can be included in the first draft. Write them down on the sheet provided.

B. Please, go to your respective corners and get together with your group peers.

1. Rethink the points you produced last class.

2. Share the points you just wrote about.

3. Discuss as a group and come up with three points.

4. Once you have a minimum of three points, fill up the sheet provided.

5. Select one of your points. Look for information in the sources to support, exemplify, illustrate, explain in more detail, etc., these point. Write an APA citation of the material. Enter this information on the sheet provided. Discuss possible ways you would explain this to your reader.

Assignment
Apply these notions we have been working on to develop your IRP first draft. Dateline: Monday, April 16, 9:00 AM. Upload it to Dropbox (IRP_first draft). In addition, bring a hard copy to class.

Day 34: Drafting the GRP (4): Using PIE to Write Body Paragraphs

MAIN POINTS AND PIE STRUCTURE

Today we will continue working on the points we will develop in the GRP.


I. What are the main points we want to discuss in our paper? Let's discuss some examples.
(10 min)
Outline
Using PIE to build up your body paragraphs.

II. In three groups the class will try to come up with the main points of the paper:
(25 min)
a. Make sure you have the sources at hand.

b. Name two writers. These students will record the discussion.

c. Discuss and decide what are the points you will be presenting. (You can use the outline or come up with other points that are not there.)

d. Post these points in the Class Google document

e. Find information in the sources that will help you support each point. Underline, highlight, make annotations on the margins, etc.

f. Provide an explanation of the point.

Group A: EXAMINATION OF THE PROBLEM (Mingzhu, Yiki, Shilin, Hejun, Mengxi)

Group B: EXAMINATION OF THE ORGANIZATION (Xu, Xueyi, Luxi, Ryan, Xianghu,)

Group C. EXAMINATION OF THE SOLUTION (Xiao, Yitao, Bofan, Kedao, Xi, Jingnu)


III. Check the use of sources in the introduction. (10 min)
Begin a REFERENCE PAGE for your IRP. Open a folder in Dropbox entitled

IRP_Reference Page

Homework:
Start writing the body paragraphs of the IRP. Go over the sections of your IRP and decide on the points you want to discuss. Find support for these points in the sources you have. Look for more sources (remember you need a minimum of five).

Remember to keep a Reference Page. Every time you use a source in your text, make sure you write on your Reference Page.

Next Friday, we will be discussing CONCLUSIONS. If you have questions about your IRP first draft please bring them on Friday. I will try to have some sort of workshop to discuss potential problems with the first draft.

Day 33: Drafting the GRP (3): Writing Body Paragraphs/Establishing the Points and Using PIE

Objectives
* Finish the introduction for the GRP.
* Start working on the points that the GRP will address.


I. These are your initial ideas for the introduction of the GRP. (10 min)

II. Presentation of the first draft for the GRP introduction.

III. Now we need to start working on the body. Check the GRP outline and tell me what is next. Le's work for a little while on developing the points for the evaluation of HCEF's solution.

Homework
Check your IRP introduction, using the notions we have discussed today.
Start brainstorming and working on the points your IRP will develop. Check your sources for points you want to make.

Day 32: Drafting the GRP (2)/Writing the Thesis Statement

Today we will finish writing the introduction to the Guided Research Paper.


Get in groups of two and open a Word document to write a first draft for the GRP introduction.
Write your names on the document.

The introduction should contain:

a) a hook (a general statement about the topic, a surprising fact or statistic, a quote, an anecdote, a question related to the topic, etc. In a few words, a statement that grabs the reader's attention.)

b) background information (Check the articles read and the organization website and decide which information you would include in the introduction. Remember one of the functions of the introduction is precisely "to introduce" the reader to the topic, to what aspects of the topic the paper will be dealing with, etc. You also need to present the organization you are investigating and briefly tell the reader what they are doing to solve the problem.
Keep in mind this is an introduction, don't give all the information at once; just introduce it.

c) thesis statement (tell the reader what the paper is about, what are you going to do with the topic, how you are conducting this analysis.) Write this in 2-3 sentences.
This thesis statement is tentative; it may change or vary as you write the body of the paper.

Send your document to my email address as an attachment: torresx2@illinois.edu

ASSIGNMENT
Write the introduction for your IRP. Dateline: Monday, April 9, 12:00 midnight.
I will be answering questions regarding your introduction in class on Monday, April 9; so, make sure you write it before class if you want some feedback on it. I will not give feedback on line, please do not send me introductions via email.

Day 31: Drafting the GRP (1)

Objectives:
Students will be able to:
a. examine and reflect on the sections of their GRP outline.
b. briefly write down five sections/ideas to include in their IRP outline.
c. recall and understand the parts of an introduction.
d. write an introduction for the GRP.

I. GRP OUTLINE: Taking into consideration the outlines you produced last class, and the sources we have on the topic, I have written a working outline that we could use to start the drafting of the GRP. Take a few minutes to go over the sections listed. Go over the articles and the HCEF website and see how we can use that information to develop these sections. (5 min)

II. Take a few minutes to think about the topic and purpose of your Individual Research Paper. List ideas you are including in your IRP. (10 min)

III. WRITING THE INTRODUCTION FOR THE GRP (5 min)

• Check Day 7 and what we learned about introductions then.

• Think about the parts of an effective introduction:

a) The hook/attention grabber to introduce the topic (general statement, question, quotation, anecdote, surprising statement, historical review, famous person, etc.)

Almost every time you turn on the television you will find a number of shows which are extremely violent.

Are you bothered by the excessive violence on prime time television?

A recent article in Time Magazine states that the viewing of extremely violent television shows is the number one cause of violence in our inner cities.

b) Provide the context/background information on the topic (brief statements). This part of the introduction gives the reader an initial idea of what the topic is.

c) Present the thesis statement. Tell the reader what the research paper will do and how this will be done.

III. PRACTICE (15 min)
Get in groups of two and open a Word document to write a first draft for the GRP introduction.
Write your names on the document.
Send your document to my email address as an attachment: torresx2@illinois.edu

HOMEWORK

These are your assignments:

1. IRP OUTLINE is due on Friday, April 6 at 12:00 midnight. Please open a folder and label it: IRP_Tentative Outline. Upload your outline on this folder.

2. INTRODUCTION FOR THE IRP is due on Monday, April 9. Please open a folder on Dropbox and label it IRP_Introduction. Upload your introduction on this folder.

3. Start writing your IRP first draft following your outline. Next week we will be working in developing body and conclusions. This first draft will be presented in class on Monday, April 16.

4. Choose one of your classmates to be your peer reviser. This person will read your written work and give you their opinion as a reader. You will be asked to listen to this revising carefully and try to improve your paper based on comments made.

Day 30: Writing an Outline

Today we will write a TENTATIVE outline for our Guided Research Paper.

a) Take a few minutes to remember what you did when you wrote the outline for your revised diagnostic paper a few weeks ago. (3 minutes)

b) What is an outline? What is the purpose of writing an outline during the pre-writing stage?
What sections does the outline contain? Are there subsections to these big sections? What sub-sections should we include in our GRP outline? (5 min)

c) Individually, go over the materials and sources you have gathered for the GRP. Try to write a tentative outline that follows the purpose of the assignment and the findings of the research you carried out. (5 min)

d) Forms groups of 4 and go to the corners of the classroom. Each student presents his outline to the rest of the group. The group writes a tentative outline to be presented and explained to the rest of the class by all members of the group. (15 min)

e) The class will vote for the two best outlines. (5 min)

HOMEWORK:
Think about a TENTATIVE outline for your Individual Research Paper. Think about your research, what ideas you think fit to be included in your research paper. Write this down.