Homework for Thursday 11/20

1. Return to the Sommers/Saltz article, "The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshmen Year." For blog #17, write five (5) True/False or multiple choice questions that could (and may) be used for a quiz on the article. Additionally, please:

• Make sure that each of your five questions comes from a separate section of the article. (I count 8 "sections" if you include the introductory section).
  
• Make sure you supply the correct answer to each question. So, your questions might look like this (please do NOT use this question):

In their article, "The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshmen Year," Linda Sommers and Laura Saltz argue that students who make the greatest gains in college:

a. accept their role as novices
b. see in writing a larger purpose than fulfilling an assignment
c. seek out the help of professors during office hours
d. are those who come into college as already strong writers
e. Both A and B

(Correct Answer: E)

2. For Blog #18, please write a draft of the first paragraph of your proposal for Writing Project #2. Please bring a hard-copy of this paragraph to class to share with your peers. At some point in this paragraph, you should include the following sentence (fill in the blanks with the appropriate information from your argument):

In this essay, I will argue that in order to address the problem of _________________ we need to _______________ .