Welcome!

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Welcome! This is class blog where you’ll be working with other CPN-101 students this semester to read, write and interact with course content.

Please take five minutes to familiarize yourself with the website.

We’ll spend time in class learning how to post reading responses, but much of the “navigational” knowledge you’ll learn on the blog will come through simple usage.

 

Monday May 1st

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Here are the links to the sites:
The login for the site is here:
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Logging in:

To begin contributing to your CPN course website login at:
http://webhost1.cortland.edu/wp-login.php

Your username is the same as your SUNY Cortland email address without the “@cortland.edu” portion
for example, if your Cortland email address is john.smith@cortland.edu, your username is john.smith

To create (reset) your password use the “Lost your password?” link on the login screen (link above). You will be prompted for your username. Once submitted you will receive an email in your SUNY Cortland inbox prompting you to reset your password.

Then you should be logged in.
WRITE THIS INFORMATION DOWN.
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Write summaries of your group’s work.  Email them to JD.
For Wednesday: have a digital copy of your Paper #3 available to post (flashdrive, laptop, Google Drive, etc.), along with your abstract from last Friday.

(4/21) Discussion- Summarizing

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Today’s music 

Today’s activity: Summarizing.

Paper #3

What does it mean to summarize something?

Summarizing key words:

  • Main idea
  • Argument
  • Miniaturizing
  • Selection/deletion- evaluation
  • Background
  • Paraphrase
  • Note taking

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Advertisement A

Advertisement B

Advertisement C

For each: What are the main arguments the ad attempts to convey?

How does the spoken dialogue convey these messages?

How do visual images convey these messages?

White a one-paragraph summary of  the advertisement’s content, message, and method.

 

Friday freewrite: What have I learned this semester?

Collect paper drafts

(4/18)- In-Class Essay Strategies

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Today’s tunes: Wun Two’s “Jungle.”

See: CPN-101 In-Class Essays Powerpoint

In-class essay strategies: The writing process.

Remember, you have 50 minutes to write this essay.

(1) Brainstorm ideas of topics to possibly write on and cover in your essay

(2) Outline/organize essay

(3) Essay expectations

(2) Time management

(5) Answer the question

Friday: First draft of Paper #3 is due on Friday.  Next Wednesday we’ll write this in-class essay.

(4/17)- Loose Ends

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Today’s music:

Paper #3

Today’s activity: Loose Ends. What have we struggled with this semester?

(1)  In-text citations.  They’re usually very simple, but can occasionally get complicated.

  • “Generally speaking, in-text citations should look like this” (Richter 10).
    • —-> Citations, in this case, take the form of parentheses with the writer’s last name and the page number the quotation/paraphrase appears on.
    • Cite the quotation “citations tend to be a little tricky for the inexperienced” when the author is Bill Smith and the quotation appears on p.59 of a book:

 

  • But as JD Richter has stated, in-text citations “can sometimes become complicated” (10).
    • —-> If you mention the writer’s name in the same sentence, it doesn’t need to appear within that citation’s parentheses, as shown above.  You only need the page number.
    • Cite this sentence, which appears on p.100 of Kleinmann’s book:
      • Kleinmann argues that citations “are a powerful tool for making meaning”  :

 

  • Spitz argues for the relevance of solar power to Alabama’s future when he states “solar power is the most important leap forward for Alabama’s near future” (qtd. in Jones 259).
    • —-> Citing an indirect source, such as a quotation brought into a scholarly journal article? In parentheses, use (qtd. in …. p.#) formula with wherever you found the cited quotation.
    • If you cite a quotation from Pamela Means that you found on p.80 of a book by Tracy Meadow?

(2) Identifying academic, scholarly sources vs. popular sources.

  • Author
  • Purpose
  • Audience
  • Citations
  • Appearance

 

(3) Block quotes:

For quotations longer than four lines in length, place them in their own paragraph and indent 1/2 an inch. Maintain double spacing, and in this case, parenthetical citations come after the quotation’s period.

See MLA page.

(4) What to do with graded papers.

 

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This week: Draft #1 of Paper #3 is due on Friday. I’ll have it back to you, with some comments and suggestions, on next Monday.

Paper #3- Sparking Change

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Capstone Paper Project #3 — Sparking Change — Richter, CPN-101 Spring 2017

We live in a constantly evolving world. With the persistent, multi-modal onslaught of new news, facts and information that is pumped at us every day, it’s difficult to keep track of it all. This oftentimes makes social change in our world seem impossible to achieve. The hardest part, sometimes, is simply figuring out where and how to get started.  Sometimes, all that’s needed is a spark.

What is the most important change for our society to strive toward? How might we begin to realize this necessary change? How might we spark others into action to solve this problem?

Your essay will tackle an individual topic, and should explore 2-3 “factors” that play a major role.

To find a topic that interests you and that you have a personal stake in, I suggest you scroll through a website such as Global Citizen or long-form investigative news magazines such as The Atlantic or Slate.  Like with Paper #2, I encourage you to explore and push boundaries on writing topics. What is most important to you? If you’re truly lost, I’ve compiled a list of possible topics that I’d be happy to share with you in office hours or online. Don’t choose a topic you’ve already written on for a previous paper.

You will compose in four parts:

  1. An outline in Google Docs that will include a paragraph summary of your paper idea, a thesis statement, and two possible scholarly sources.  This will be turned in on (4/17).
  2. A first draft that will be at least four pages in length, handed in on (4/21).
  3. A second draft, six pages in length, which will be handed in on (4/28) and will receive a letter grade counting as 30% of your final CPN-101 grade (see syllabus).
  4. A digital version of Paper #3 that will be posted onto a class-constructed and class-designed website.  Your essay will be posted alongside 2-3 other students’ essays as an individual tab on the website.  Each tab will have a thematic focus– ie. a student writing on solar power might group together with students writing on deforestation in the Amazon and on endangered species populations. Likewise, a student writing on mass incarceration might collaborate with a student writing on police shootings against persons of color. This version of your paper will incorporate multimedia elements— images, videos, sound files– and will be publicly available to anyone with an internet connection. More on this later. It’s a separate grade.  See syllabus. 

Your essay will obey the standard conventions of MLA formatting that we have been practicing all semester. It will be typed in Times New Roman font at 12pt size; double spaced; standard MLA heading; proper MLA Works Cited page and proper in-text citations; it will maintain a scholarly tone; the essay will showcase logical organization and unity; it will be six full pages.

–>Your paper will utilize at least 7 scholarly sources from academic journals and scholarly books. Regular websites are great, but won’t count toward this number. Research will be a heavy factor in your ultimate grade; I will not be giving you any breaks on this.