Reading and Due Dates

Please read in the textbook, pages 182 through 185, about Executive Summaries.

The Executive Summaries are due November 12th.

Blog Entry: Write about the feedback you received concerning your Process Papers. Discuss the input you got from the other students, whose feedback was most helpful, and why.

Reminder: The finished and bound Formal Report is due November 19th and it's time to start thinking about the content of your presentations: what you will cover and how you will present it. You'll be able to use any of the multi-media equipment in the classroom. Presentations will occur on the last two weeks of the semester.

In-Class Assignment

The following sentences will be used in-class on Monday the 27th. Instructions for what to do to them will come during class.

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I have sought it, next, because it relieves loneliness – that terrible loneliness in which one shivering consciousness looks over the rim of the world into the cold unfathomable lifeless abyss.

Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

Echoes of cries of pain reverberate in my heart.

This is what I sought, and though it might seem too good for human life, this is what – at last – I have found.

I have wished to know why the stars shine.

With equal passion I have sought knowledge.

Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.

These passions, like great winds, have blown me hither and thither, in a wayward course, over a deep ocean of anguish, reaching to the very verge of despair.

I have sought love, first, because it brings ecstasy – ecstasy so great that I would often have sacrificed all the rest of life for a few hours of this joy.

And I have tried to apprehend the Pythagorean power by which number holds sway above the flux.

A little of this, but not much, I have achieved.

This has been my life, I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the chance were offered me.

I have wished to understand the hearts of men.

But always pity brought me back to earth.

I long to alleviate the evil, but I cannot, and I too suffer.

I have sought it, finally, because in the union of love I have seen, in a mystic miniature, the prefiguring vision of the heaven that saints and poets have imagined.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and the unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Blog Entry

Write about the process of writing these instructions. What was easy in the process? What was challenging? Talk about the contributions of your tablemates. How did you decide what exact style of sandwich to make?

Remember, Rough Drafts for the Process Paper are due in one week (October 29).

And remember this, as well:
Last week's blog entry was on what works to persuade people. Think back to the Crocodile Creek story and consider how your group came to a consensus. How were people convinced and persuaded to the same agreement?

Homework

Blog Entry: What is the worst thing invented by people?

For Wednesday, Oct. 15: Rough Drafts are due for the Expanded Definitions.
Bring a set of instructions to class and be prepared to discuss it.
Read: pages 261 - 266

For Monday, Oct. 20: This will be a Workshop Day. Don't miss this day or else.

For Wednesday, Oct. 22: Final Drafts of the Expanded Definition are due.

That's all for now.

Except that: If you're looking for something weird and possibly fun to do for Halloween, check out this website. Especially if you're a fan of the movie, "The Shining."

Bibliographies

For a guideline on formatting the entries on your bibliographies, please refer to the example on page 52 of your textbook.

The basic order of information is:

Name: Last name first
Date of publication
Title
Edition
City of publication
Publisher
Number of pages

Monday's Class Announcement

Be sure to be in class this coming Monday, October 6th. Nicole Campbell, from the campus library, will be in class to show you the ends and outs of navigating through the databases and research tools that are available to you. This will be extremely helpful to you when it comes to finishing your bibliographies for the Formal Reports.

Blog Entry

The blog assignment today is to describe eating a lemon, not the process, but the sensual experience. I want you to use as many of the 5 senses (sight, taste, smell, hearing, and touch) as possible in describing it. If so inclined, include any emotional aspects, analogy, metaphor, and compare/contrast. Make it real.