Week 4: rain garden continues! Paragraphs and counting out
Resources for giving/receiving feedback. Check out this Padlet set of readings.
We are going back to week 3 and retrieve some sentence stuff and paragraph stuff. I want you to see the counting out technique at the paragraph level and the document level. The magic number for the rain garden memo is two:
- Two related environmental problems: storm water events and pollution carried in that water.
- Rain gardens have form and function that address these two problems (form and function -- two!)
- Rain garden (RG) form 1 = above ground biotic plant material. RG form 2=below ground = layers of soil and media, in a depression.
- Two bits of evidence that reflect this pattern of two is that we can use the logos of numbers from Alan Davis/Low Impact Development Center about
- volume of water remediated?
- percentage/quantifier of sample pollution type remediated.
And, on Wednesday, we will talk about the classifying paragraph, which can be a "kitchen sink" paragraph abou some of the history+Maryland specific detail you want to include for the ACP.
Marybeth Shea
NEW item: dummy text using lorum ipsum (fake Latin to manage document before formatting/printing/publishing) to show you relative size of paragraphs PLUS cognitive wedge shape
For Wednesday! Yet posted on Tuesday night for those wanting to read ahead.
Think about counting out. Jennifer Lopez!
Science references popular culture. Including JLo!
COUNTING OUT in the memo (writing strategy that is cognitively helpful to readers)
- biotic and abiotic (count 2)
- above ground and below ground (count 2)
- physical infiltration/sponge/absorb and metabolism of plants (count 2) to remediate three classes of pollutants:
- hydrocarbons (oil, gasoline, and other carbon-based pollutants)
- heavy metals (lead, arsenic, mercury, cadmium)
- nutrients like nitrogen and phosphorus
In class we will talk about categories (part of counting, really, as well as dividing) being more important than absolute details. See the thee pollutant classes above. Also, we can describe plants in terms of categories, like native, drought/inundation adapted, etc.
Another source from R in 10AM section. Hint: we are going to need at least two quantifiers from Davis. Also, look at what the Low Impact Development Center says, too.
Marybeth Shea
Hi. Do not forget your Eli Review post due tonight. On Saturday, about noon, I will open up the review portion.
Today, you can chat with me between 9-950, 10-10:50, and 11-11:50. Here is the Google Meet link (hey, do you like this curated link? Could this be better?).
Now, a long lesson on the Oxford comma! Bottom line? USE IT.
To my parents, Ayn Rand and God.
To my parents, J.K. Rowling and God.
To my parents, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart.
OR
In a newspaper account of a documentary about Merle Haggard:
Among those interviewed were his two ex-wives, Kris Kristofferson and Robert Duvall.
These two preceding examples are from English professor Theresa Hayden. Here is another doosie that cries out for a serial or Oxford comma.
The Times once published an unintentionally humorous description of a Peter Ustinov documentary, noting that
"highlights of his global tour include encounters with Nelson Mandela, an 800-year-old demigod and a dildo collector."
Now, to be clear, the serial comma does not always solve ambiguity problems, consider all these combinations and punctuation variations:
They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid and a cook –
- They went to Oregon with Betty, who was a maid and a cook. (One person)
- They went to Oregon with Betty, both a maid and a cook. (One person)
- They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid and cook. (One person)
- They went to Oregon with Betty (a maid) and a cook. (Two people)
- They went to Oregon with Betty, a maid, and with a cook. (Two people)
- They went to Oregon with Betty – a maid – and a cook. (Two people)
- They went to Oregon with the maid Betty and a cook. (Two people)
- They went to Oregon with a cook and Betty, a maid. (Two people)
- They went to Oregon with Betty as well as a maid and a cook. (Three people)
- They went to Oregon with Betty and a maid and a cook. (Three people)
- They went to Oregon with Betty, one maid and a cook. (Three people)
- They went to Oregon with a maid, a cook, and Betty. (Three people)
We can also look at the grocery list problem:
buying bread, jam, coffee, cream, juice, eggs, and bacon. VS
eating toast and jam, coffee and cream, juice, and bacon and eggs
Finally, we have a theme song to remember this punctuation convention. Warning: F-bomb several times.
And, this from S.C.
http://www.cc.com/video-clips/fo5d9i/the-colbert-report-vampire-weekend
What do you think of this sloppy curation of a link?
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