Week 9! (8 was spring break): coffee cup nearly done; one article close review up next
Morning, returning Terps.
You have an Eli Review Reviewing Task due this evening. Help each other out! ASAP.
Let's gather up resources to chat about today and Wednesday. You have seen these before in this journal and as reposts in Eli Review Writing Task/Reviewing Tast prompts.
- Lime-green flow chart
- coffee cup round-up document (focused on free phrases, sentences, perhaps a bit of a paragraph or two; AKA mentoring text to propel writing forward).
- Here is a dummy text exhibit in Google docs using lorum ipsum about the coffee cup memo pattern.
NEW: Here are questions from last year in an interactive google doc.
Today, I will reflect on several topics/conundrums about wrapping this assignment up. We can also ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS, too.
Mb topics:
- PARA 2 local and global problem description (stasis two of definition WITH the logos of numbers.
- PARA 1 (reveals frame, sets up for the punt paragraph of PARA 4 (a node paragraph)
- PARA 5 category of problem approach: life cycle analysis/cradle-to-grave (stasis two of definition; EPA is the accepted authority here, though the ethos is rapidly being diminished just now)
- PARA 7 restates your recommendation in PARA 1; then acknowledges the reasonableness of the other frame
Options (PARAS 7 and 8):
- offer a combined solution
- caution graciously about the limits of this framing and -- indeed -- the question
- suggest that the team research more carefully what others (including, perhaps the EU and the Netherlands) are doing.
- Offer to track the emerging health problems with microplastics, with focus on local watershed
- Note the incommensurability problem here
Now a few words about Assignment 3 and what sort of technical article you need from your field. Select an article to review I noted this in the syllabus. Details: Find a research results article published in a peer reviewed journal. You will read, analyze, and review this piece in the manner of a journal club. We imagine that at Leaf it to Us, we share knowledge with each other across our disciplines every Friday. We share an in-depth write up of the article after we present. We can assume that all will read/skim the article. However, the heavy intellectual lifting is on the presenter. Hints on how/where to find an article:
- are you reading an article for a class now? Select that and you learn for both classes (efficiency),
- did you read last semester for a class? Select one of those articles (cognitive),
- are you deeply interested in a topic and want to explore (interestingness).
Please have an article in mind by Friday.
Marybeth Shea
Wednesday, all day. Half way through the week. We will continue to chat about the documents/content posted for Monday. Two small items here:
- You do NOT need to address specifically some of the nuanced aspects of this problematic context. You can simply follow the simplicity (relative!) of the lime-green flow chart. I give the others options because bright minds naturally linger on these other aspects. What I offer -- to those who want this -- ways to quickly and respectfully address them.
- two-prong solution (lift up cause of reusuables
- comment on how both problems require attention, simultaneously
- characterize the human but false "move" to figure out the worse problem (mention incommensurability, if you like)
- offer to lead a team to think more deeply on this work
- writing craft reminder: I do not want you to use empty subjects, namely there is/there are and it is/was
- related: do not use it in this document at all
- We will chat about the uselessness of it in so many exacting contexts (all of professional communication)
Marybeth Shea
AM POSTING ON THURSDAY!
Happy Friday. You have an Eli Review WRITING TASK due this evening. Be on time; this is your LAST chance to enter a place to give and recieve feedback.
I will open a Parking Lot in Eli Review, as a WRITING TASK, to submit your Assignment 2 for a grade. You have a week to turn in.
Drop by between
- 9-9:50 OR
- 11-11:50
To chat.
Resources for you as we wrap up the Coffee Cup Memo aka Assignment 2.
- Lime-green flow chart;
- coffee cup round-up document (focused on free phrases, sentences, perhaps a bit of a paragraph or two; AKA mentoring text to propel writing forward);
- Here is a dummy text exhibit in Google docs using lorum ipsum about the coffee cup memo pattern;
- questions from last year in an interactive google doc; and
- Checklist for Assignment 2, the coffee cup memo.
- NEW: 8 minute voice over/video walking you through items 1-5, which I discussed with you on Monday and Wednesday. This synthesis video covers that material for you in a new modality. Hope this helps you (I used Screencastify).
See you Friday, should you wish to visit me. Let me know if this new option of synthesis video helps you.
