HW for Tues 1A class

first off, the paper is due Nov 14... with the draft day on the 7th....

if I havent seen your I Believes, pls send them to me by Wed nite....I will check em out and offer any advice...then you need to do 3 interviews  minimum by next week.... we will debrief in class...and see how your paper is shaping up....be ready to talk about potenital sections of your paper.....

HW for 102 class.. this involves you emailing me by Friday

Hey there, so we need to see if you have a good topic, with good "I believe" statements...


sooo,

pls choose your topic,  and then generate 7-10 I believe statements... send this to me by this Friday at the latest....I will look at them and then get back to you ASAP...you will then turn your I believes into questions, and interview 1-2 people over the weekend. ..be sure to take notes during the interviews of what they say to you...

we will debrief on Monday about how the interviews went....

ESSAY #3 for 102 and for 1A....Interview paper... LIFE IN THE CITY

LIFE IN THE CITY

For this 3rd paper, you will be doing an interview paper. This paper is really kind of a research paper, with the bulk of your support coming from interviews that you do.  In this paper you will be investigating a topic related to urban life and the neighborhoods of Hayward or the surrounding cities.   There are a number of steps that we will go through to do this paper:

1. You need to come up with a topic. You will want to be careful that the topic isnt too big. For example, you dont want to do a paper on “Poverty.” That is much too big. Instead, you will want to come up with a more manageable topic--for example, “What it is like for single moms to raise kids while having to work.”  “Homelessness” is way too big. Instead come up with a more manageable topic--for example you could explore the phenomenon of “Young people and Couch surfing.” The point here is that you need to find a topic that you can manage. At the same time, you need to ask yourself if you have access to the the interviewees. It wont work to do a paper on single moms if you dont KNOW any single moms to interview. Try to pick a topic that interests you, or that you have some beginning knowledge of. SO, one of the keys to this paper is finding a happy medium between picking a topic you have access to, while being sure you can manage it.

2. After you pick a good topic, you need to figure out what you THINK about this topic. To do that, you will be creating 7 to 10 “I believe” statements. I believe statements are really just your beginning opinions about the topics. I believe statements are not statements of fact… but of opinions that you want to test out when you do the interviews.

3. Then you turn the “I Believe” statements into questions that you will be asking the interviewees.

4. You will arrange and do 4-5 interviews.  We will be talking a lot about advice on how to do successful interviews. Interview 4-5 people who know things about your topic… we dont want just their uninformed opinions about the topic.

5. Once you have done the interviews, you will go through your answers and begin to come up with your concepts that will make up your paragraphs. Organize the paragraphs by concepts… paragraphs should not have ANY names in the 3-4-5 topic sentences. The people you interview will be brought into the paragraphs further down into the paras, as support. This is just like how you did your paras in your first two papers.

6. Now you will begin to write the essay.  Have the people talk back to each other in your paras… its ok if they disagree. If your paper is uncovering problems, you should try to integrate possible solutions into the paper as well. You should try to integrate quotes or concepts from the Hayward city documents you will have.

This is a research paper, so you should also integrate outside sources into the paper.  

Remember, NO NAMES in the para topic sentences. Also, it is OK if interviewees say things that you didnt see coming, or that you disagree with. That is what happens in a research paper.

The page minimum for this interview paper is 7, double spaced. This paper REQUIRES that you do NOT procrastinate. There is no way to do an interview research paper “at the last minute.” Why is this? So it is crucial that you stay on top of this process.

The Paper is due__________________    Draft day is _____________________

HW due for the Monday nite English 1A class--due on OCT 23

Hey there, so we have a couple things due next Monday....the first of course is the final version of paper #2...in hard copy...

the second HW is explained below:



Come to class on Monday the 23rd with 2 possible interview papers you might like to investigate....

the big topic is ....Living in an Urban Community...

what issues might you like to explore...
what solutions might you like to explore

try to be specific....don't make your topic too big... don't do Poverty in Hayward...for example... find a smaller topic...single moms raising kids while working

write up a para summary of what you want to explore for each paper topic...and bring to class on Wed...


link to the city of Hayward links....
https://hayward.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3084750&GUID=9F1F7633-072E-4D44-A161-E953CAD3542E&Options=&Search=


link to USA edu map...
http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/maps/education/#11.01/37.7446/-122.4625

HW due this Wed--Oct 18th-- for English 102 class

Come to class on Wed with 2 possible interview papers you might like to investigate....

the big topic is ....Living in an Urban Community...

what issues might you like to explore...
what solutions might you like to explore

try to be specific....don't make your topic too big... don't do Poverty in Hayward...for example... find a smaller topic...single moms raising kids while working

write up a para summary of what you want to explore for each paper topic...and bring to class on Wed...


link to the city of Hayward links....
https://hayward.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=3084750&GUID=9F1F7633-072E-4D44-A161-E953CAD3542E&Options=&Search=


link to USA edu map...
http://personal.tcu.edu/kylewalker/maps/education/#11.01/37.7446/-122.4625

Draft day on Wed, the 11th for 102 class

Hey there, we have a draft day on this Wed, the 11th. Pls bring 2 copies of your paper...

try to have 12  body paras, (all 4 questions, done with Rule of 3)

also, try to do the 3 para intro, that we talked about in class today....

HW for the Monday nite 1A class --we will be doing Draft night on Oct 9

Hey there,

Many of you have sent your 6 paras to me, and they are looking good...(if you havnet sent them,. you need to)

SO, what are going to do next week is do the Draft night...

Pls bring 12 paras.... do a rule of 3 for each of the 4 paras...

Pls bring 2 copies to class....

HW for 102 due on Oct 9 , Monday

Hey there, this week we have been working on the first 6 paras. You have been answering Q 1 and 2.

For the weekend,

1. If you haven't done the first 6 paras, or if I have given you revision advice, pls do it.
2. Please do Q3...do a rule of 3 on it....


so you will either be bringing 9 paras or 3 paras... on Monday......

thx !