Welcome class!
Each week, one student will be asked to write about the course content on the class blog. This way, we can work together to remember the most important lessons. You may also want to share helpful links, such as Grammar Girl, or really nice writing you have seen. I encourage you to share tips and notes that will help each other. Be creative.
Professor Eisman
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I walked to Mary Graydon Center for my first class, Writing for Mass Communication, 20 minutes early. I did not arrive so early. The whole class seemed to be walking around on the third floor looking for the classroom. We eventually found MGC 331.
ReplyDeleteThe class started off by everyone telling interesting stories about themselves to help Professor Eisman and ourselves get to know each other. Prof. Eisman then passed out some sheets on different writing formats and a handout about a fictional NASA news report. The NASA handout was an in-class project for which we were to "interview" a student who supposedly won a NASA contest at a mock press conference. (As a side note, Jess Delahanty played the student, and I must say that her composure scared the crap out of me and made me feel very out of my league in my first Honors class.) We were then to write up a news piece about the fictional event and e-mail it to Prof. Eisman the next day by 5 p.m. for a grade that did not count. Before the class ended, we had a "diagnostic" grammar quiz and drew numbers for the order student bloggers (as one can gather, I picked number 1).
Along with the NASA assignment, we also had two other written assignments due for Wednesday and Thursday. Great first impression of the Honors program: classes for which I have assignments due for every day of the week.
Good thing that NASA project and the "diagnostic" quiz did not count toward our grade. No one even got into the 90s on the NASA project, and minus 24 points on a grammar quiz is not a score reflective of three years of SAT writing prep. Fortunately, we all went over our grammar/writing mistakes as a class, so NO MAN WILL BE LEFT BEHIND (I think). All in all, I think this will be a difficult class, but also a fun and interactive one. And of course, I should have something to take away from it.
As the first blogger, I hope I did this right...
sounds like a good recap to me! And I also hope no man will be left behind in the writing for comm trenches...
ReplyDeletealso this is a great grammar book, we had to read sections in high school and it really helped me.
ReplyDeletehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3252902.stm