Monday, June 28, 2004
Missives from the sick teacher
Missives from your sick teacher
CW 10 Mhy.
Here is some stuff for you to read:
All the stories will be discussed online and in class, so feel free to comment about them in our egroups.
Eng 10 Mhx.
Our text for the week is Jessica Zafra’s “Dedma 101” and Diane Ackerman on the origins of kissing. Both are included in the reading set, which you may photocopy and read. You can find it with the Xerox girl at the 2nd floor of the Faculty Center, outside the dean’s office.
Now here’s the thing. Read both essays and try to discern how language is used in both of them. One essay attempts to appropriate the language of academia, while the other is the real deal, but still manages to entertain as well.
Look up the following terms:
Register
Jargon
Formal and informal language
Slang
Academic discourse
For good measure, try to find what the MLA style of documentation means, and how to do it.
We also missed a writing exercise on sensory description, but we’ll get back to that when we meet again on Thursday. Previously, you were asked to write about what it’s like to be in a crowd. Now let’s get back to basics. Look at that essay, and then break it down into several tables and key words. Six table headings, one for each of the senses. List down the descriptions (just key words mind you) under the appropriate columns. Just one page, bring it on Thursday.
That’s all folks.
CW 10 Mhy.
Here is some stuff for you to read:
(1) Robert Olen Butler on postcards and memory;Be warned that the last piece have caused people to throw up. So please don't eat and read, or you'll be sorry. Not for the faint hearted. Meanwhile, the first 2 articles will also be sent via email. A hardcopy of Guts will be available at the usual place starting Tuesday, if I'm well by then. If not, you may opt to download a copy. Just go to the "Files" section in our yahoo homepage.
(2) The Wall Street Journal on stories behind objects found in used books;
(3) Chuck Palahniuk's "Guts."
All the stories will be discussed online and in class, so feel free to comment about them in our egroups.
Eng 10 Mhx.
Our text for the week is Jessica Zafra’s “Dedma 101” and Diane Ackerman on the origins of kissing. Both are included in the reading set, which you may photocopy and read. You can find it with the Xerox girl at the 2nd floor of the Faculty Center, outside the dean’s office.
Now here’s the thing. Read both essays and try to discern how language is used in both of them. One essay attempts to appropriate the language of academia, while the other is the real deal, but still manages to entertain as well.
Look up the following terms:
Register
Jargon
Formal and informal language
Slang
Academic discourse
For good measure, try to find what the MLA style of documentation means, and how to do it.
We also missed a writing exercise on sensory description, but we’ll get back to that when we meet again on Thursday. Previously, you were asked to write about what it’s like to be in a crowd. Now let’s get back to basics. Look at that essay, and then break it down into several tables and key words. Six table headings, one for each of the senses. List down the descriptions (just key words mind you) under the appropriate columns. Just one page, bring it on Thursday.
That’s all folks.
Wednesday, June 23, 2004
The Library Vs. Google
Researching in your pajamas
Crossposting for those people who have still NOT accepted the invite to the mailing list: For starters, since we’ve taken up the library, the web, and where else you can get your sources and information, I’m posting an article from the New York Times. It’s now a google vs. the library sort of world, and it’s affecting not just English 10 research paper writing classes but scholarship in general as well. People prefer to type in keywords in Google rather than sit in the dusty stacks section and feel the paper between their hands. While google and the digital revolution is a good thing, I believe we’re missing a lot if we rely solely on research in our pajamas. While this is an attractive option, there are also some questions: What do you think of online research? Should this be the main source or information or should we ban them and all trudge to the library? Read and digest the article, then give us your two cents’ worth.
Btw, for the Eng 10 MTh people, I might not be back in time on Thursday. I have a funeral to attend in Batangas but I’ve worked out some activity for you just in case I get holed up in there. Please check your email again in case you’re assigned some take home work, or check the corkboard at FC 1080 for directives.
The same thing goes to the CW10 people. Keep you posted. Thanks.
Crossposting for those people who have still NOT accepted the invite to the mailing list: For starters, since we’ve taken up the library, the web, and where else you can get your sources and information, I’m posting an article from the New York Times. It’s now a google vs. the library sort of world, and it’s affecting not just English 10 research paper writing classes but scholarship in general as well. People prefer to type in keywords in Google rather than sit in the dusty stacks section and feel the paper between their hands. While google and the digital revolution is a good thing, I believe we’re missing a lot if we rely solely on research in our pajamas. While this is an attractive option, there are also some questions: What do you think of online research? Should this be the main source or information or should we ban them and all trudge to the library? Read and digest the article, then give us your two cents’ worth.
Btw, for the Eng 10 MTh people, I might not be back in time on Thursday. I have a funeral to attend in Batangas but I’ve worked out some activity for you just in case I get holed up in there. Please check your email again in case you’re assigned some take home work, or check the corkboard at FC 1080 for directives.
The same thing goes to the CW10 people. Keep you posted. Thanks.
Monday, June 21, 2004
Announcements
Hello people.
Our class mailing lists are now up and running. You should have received email invites by now. If you haven't, then please let me know or look up the homepages of your respective classes.
Eng10 people: our mailing list is the combined forces of the MTh and TF classes, since it's largely the same content and discussion, I decided to just have one group for both.
Also, readings are available at the 2nd floor photocopier, outside the dean's office, faculty center. Homepage here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng10pips/
CW10 people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw10mhy/
Eng1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng1tfx/
If you can't find what you need there, go to the class blog:
http://missivesfromtheteacher.blogspot.com
I know I promised a shorter URL, but this will do for the moment.
Good day to everyone.
Hello people.
Our class mailing lists are now up and running. You should have received email invites by now. If you haven't, then please let me know or look up the homepages of your respective classes.
Eng10 people: our mailing list is the combined forces of the MTh and TF classes, since it's largely the same content and discussion, I decided to just have one group for both.
Also, readings are available at the 2nd floor photocopier, outside the dean's office, faculty center. Homepage here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng10pips/
CW10 people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw10mhy/
Eng1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng1tfx/
If you can't find what you need there, go to the class blog:
http://missivesfromtheteacher.blogspot.com
I know I promised a shorter URL, but this will do for the moment.
Good day to everyone.
Announcements
Hello people.
Our class mailing lists are now up and running. You should have received email invites by now. If you haven't, then please let me know or look up the homepages of your respective classes.
Eng10 people: our mailing list is the combined forces of the MTh and TF classes, since it's largely the same content and discussion, I decided to just have one group for both.
Also, readings are available at the 2nd floor photocopier, outside the dean's office, faculty center. Homepage here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng10pips/
CW10 people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw10mhy/
Eng1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng1tfx/
If you can't find what you need there, go to the class blog:
http://missivesfromtheteacher.blogspot.com
I know I promised a shorter URL, but this will do for the moment.
Good day to everyone.
Hello people.
Our class mailing lists are now up and running. You should have received email invites by now. If you haven't, then please let me know or look up the homepages of your respective classes.
Eng10 people: our mailing list is the combined forces of the MTh and TF classes, since it's largely the same content and discussion, I decided to just have one group for both.
Also, readings are available at the 2nd floor photocopier, outside the dean's office, faculty center. Homepage here: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng10pips/
CW10 people: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw10mhy/
Eng1: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eng1tfx/
If you can't find what you need there, go to the class blog:
http://missivesfromtheteacher.blogspot.com
I know I promised a shorter URL, but this will do for the moment.
Good day to everyone.
Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Papogi at the UP Film Institute
If you are in one of my Eng 10 classes, you are required to attend the screening of Butch Perez's Papogi, a documentary essay on the imaging of the Philippine Presidents. It's produced by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and narrated by film maker Jose Javier Reyes. The screening will be at the UP Film Center (or Institute, whatever) at 7pm, Friday, 19 June 2004. That'll be the companion piece to the essay we will take up next week. Also makes good practice in determining how ideas are arranged and presented. Hope to see you people there.
If you are in one of my Eng 10 classes, you are required to attend the screening of Butch Perez's Papogi, a documentary essay on the imaging of the Philippine Presidents. It's produced by the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and narrated by film maker Jose Javier Reyes. The screening will be at the UP Film Center (or Institute, whatever) at 7pm, Friday, 19 June 2004. That'll be the companion piece to the essay we will take up next week. Also makes good practice in determining how ideas are arranged and presented. Hope to see you people there.
