My composition students are writing in their journals and I think it is important for them to see their instructor writing also. Instead od doing a jurnal, however, I am writing in here. It has been a pretty good day in that I got out of the funk I was in and got some work done that needed to get done. I always postpone school work, but today, I just sat down and did a bunch of it. Still have quite a bit to do, but that's normal. It doesn't in, especially since I teach English and composition at that.
I look forward to getting home tonight and relaxing. I might try to pound out a page of my screenplay. Who knows what I might do anyway?
I would like to try getting MAC to let me adopt the Longman Reader for both my composition I and Composition II classes. I'm not a big fan of the Writing Arguments book Mac prefers for Comp II. The Longman is a lot more practical. I always prefer practicality over philosophy. I want my kids to know how to write argumentation, and I don't care so much that they know all about classical rhetoric and argumentation. Toulmin's Scehmata is just a fancier way of labeling the parts of argumentation which most of us have always taught.
That's enough for now, though I do want to add that I have a lot of respect for philosophy and for Toulmin. I just want my students to do, not read about doing.
Later.
I look forward to getting home tonight and relaxing. I might try to pound out a page of my screenplay. Who knows what I might do anyway?
I would like to try getting MAC to let me adopt the Longman Reader for both my composition I and Composition II classes. I'm not a big fan of the Writing Arguments book Mac prefers for Comp II. The Longman is a lot more practical. I always prefer practicality over philosophy. I want my kids to know how to write argumentation, and I don't care so much that they know all about classical rhetoric and argumentation. Toulmin's Scehmata is just a fancier way of labeling the parts of argumentation which most of us have always taught.
That's enough for now, though I do want to add that I have a lot of respect for philosophy and for Toulmin. I just want my students to do, not read about doing.
Later.
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