#1: Wednesday, 2/15
By the deadline, complete the following:
- Read the overview and memo.
- Read Chapter 1 in Trimble.
- Post in your blog the answers to these questions:
- Who is the audience for the report you will write?
- What facts do you know about the audience?
- How can apply what Trimble tells us about "veteran writers" to addressing the needs of this audience and accommodating the facts you know about them?
#2: Sunday, 2/19
By the deadline, complete the following:
- Read Covey (get it online or download it as a PDF)
- Post in your blog the answers to the questions below. Your answers
should include brief examples of each concept. Do
not use Covey’s
examples, and do not use quotations from the text. Your post
should address these five questions in your own words.
- What is Covey's main idea?
- What is paradigm?
- What is a paradigm shift in general and specifically in relation to Covey’s main idea?
- What is Character Ethic? How does it relate to Covey’s main idea?
- What is Personality Ethic? How does it relate to Covey’s main idea?
#3: Wednesday, 2/22
By the deadline, complete the following:
- Working with your peer group members, identify the best explanation of each of the four terms and the best example. Someone in the group needs to write a single blog post for your group that offers the best of your group's answers for the rest of the class to see.
- Post a plot summary of your film in your blog; use the title of the film as the title of your post. The summary should be one paragraph in length. For two examples of a plot summary, read these at IMDb.com. You should note that while these summaries are not bad, they aren't perfect either, and so they are offered as examples to check out, not models to copy. One of the goals here is to help you find others in the class who are working with the same film so that you can share ideas for the essay.
#4: Sunday, 2/26
By the deadline, complete the following:
- Draft the introductory section of the essay and body paragraph(s) on one of Covey's four concepts; the goal here is for you to write on one of the four concepts and get feedback before you draft the entire body (which will cover all four concepts) of the essay.
- Post your draft on your blog.
#5: Sunday, 3/5
By the deadline, you need to complete the following:
- Draft the remaining three concepts from Covey to finish the body section, and draft the conclusion as well. You should now have a complete draft of the essay.
- Post your draft in Comment in your peer response group.
- Email a copy of your draft to me:
- subject line: 102q covey draft
- file name: lastname covey draft
- include your name in the text of the file you send.
#6: Wednesday, 3/8
By the deadline, you need to complete the following:
- Respond to the drafts of your classmates in Comment, using the peer response questions (to be provided later) as a guide for your comments.
#7: Sunday, 3/12
By the deadline, you need to complete the following:
- Post the final version of your essay in Comment in the group "Covey Final for Grading."
- Email the final version to me:
- subject line: 102q covey final
- file name: lastname covey final
- include your name in the text of the file you send.