Blog 13

Gee Chapter 3

Terms that were confusing

"Real Indians"
Was Gee simply stating that its just an insider term and unless we are in that Discourse we can't understand it?



Tools that would be beneficial in putting together a research paper

• Understanding the social language                                    These can be practiced through interviews
• Conversations

Gee Chapter 4

Terms that needed clarifying

Tools that would be beneficial in putting together a research paper

WORK IN PROGRESS

Blog 12

The data sheet I would like to work with is the Shaggy Dog stories. Since I found them to be humorous and enjoyable I figured I would be able to analysis these. I came up with two research questions.

1.) Does the punch-line in these stories effect the story as a whole?
2.) What type of audience is needed to understand these stories?
outside experience/knowledge to understand the joke
different types of jokes
analyze the punch-line
look at workshop sheet
short anaylis project workshop

Blog 11

1. Familiarize yourself with your topic:

http://casebuilder.rhet.ualr.edu/wcrp/publications/wcj/wcj22.2/WCJ22.2_Petric.pdf

As your writing develops does your attitude change?
Does the class your taking affect your outlook on that topic?


2. Identify a research question:
How senior's writing practices/attitudes have changed over the course of their four years at Kean University?
How do attitudes of students change when they are taking a class they are unfamiliar with?
Do students attitudes change when they are writing for the teacher and not themselves?



3. Decide what you need to know in order to answer your research question:
Interview Seniors who are currently in an English class




4. Formulate a research plan that includes:
-hope to discover whether or not student attitudes change

Post 9

Kevin, Corrine, Valerie

Sample 1: 
Our theory was that comments needed to be more direct and specific otherwise the comments would confuse the students.

Sample 3: When looking at Sample 3 some of the comments point out strong points. This allows the student to explore ways to edit. These comments were mostly direct with the expectation of a few comments that left room for interpretation.

Sample 4: Need to Read

Sample 5:
This essay was mostly focused on the grammar aspect of comments. Rather than giving ways to improve the essay and give direct comments, the teacher just corrects all the errors. When looking at the first two paragraphs the teacher is just focusing on the grammar and making the changes for the students. However, besides making corrections the teacher also makes very indirect comments such as, "too much repetition, get to your point" & "repetition".  Within our first theory this would work because the comments are to indirect and the student might be confused on how short it is.


Sample 6: 
When reviewing Sample 6 It was noted that the comments given weren't direct. The person who has edited this piece of writing had simply made the proper corrections leaving very little room for the student to improve their writing. However, the comments made were positive but in the long run it doesn't help the students because it's not direct. For example, within the first sentence the editor/teacher makes two corrections. Instead of instructing the writer to go back and fix some mistakes the corrections are already made for them. The second to last paragraph also shows more corrections and rephrasing done by the professor. This doesn't give the student direct comments or allow them to fix them. Instead the student is just getting the answer and being praised. So as for our original theory with the first sample it works as far as indirect comments go but they don't confuse the reader. We can go on further to say that by not giving direct comments the reader doesn't know what they need to fix/change within their writing.


WORK IN PROGRESS

Blog 8

In order to further the idea on my topic I want to focus on students who dorm compared to students who don't.I think it's extremely important to see how these studying habits are changing, especially for teachers. Teachers need to meet the needs of their students and in order to do so it might be beneficial to know their studying habits and where they prefer to study. Also if students become aware of where they get the most work accomplished, who studies with them, etc. will be able to help them possibly get better grades or try to find a studying place/style that works for them.