Written transcript available here for 1 month, or by contacting prof.  Some advice about College culture, how to send effective email, and explanation about coming assignment. 

Abstract: this nineteen minute lecture directed to Intro to Writing Students clarifies expectations about MLA format, filenames and grading and provides explanations for those that want them. Some advice is offered.

Link to transcript at ·   www.tinyurl.com/199f3st0 

Thoughts and advice on first week of classes.  Transcript here https://anchor.fm/g-dixon/episodes/Notes-to-Students-1-21-21-epb3ve

We kicked ass this semester!  My classes had a higher success rate than my usual face to face classes and we might have accomplished more in terms of using sources.  Check your School email for emergency messages from your instructors up until 5 pm Mon. 12/14/20.  You never know when it could save your hide. 

If you took 106 from me, sign up for my 121 class next semester.  My CRN for those classes are 10076, 10077 and 10078.  

And any students interested in a Podcasting club contact me.  I think I could find us some resources.  

Thanks for a great semester, and have a happy holiday season. 

Some advice and encouragement for the final week of the semester.  See also motivational words from the blog at https://rabbitandragogy.blogspot.com/2020/11/for-those-who-need-kick-start.html 

This is a first telling of a personal natural narrative.  I was compelled to tell this story because of a colleague who asked me to explain why I might care about Missing and Exploited Women and Children as part of the Indian Knowledge Western Education project.  The subject might have been indigenous, but this happened in the mid 90's in the Far East.  This story addresses prostitution and human trafficking, so Not Safe for Work. 

This week we talk with Samira Hussein, Professor of Business at JCCC and advisor to the Muslim Student Association. We discuss in no particular order her immigration from Pakistan, her earlier career as a psychologist, and her thoughts on the role, meaning, and importance of diversity in a college setting.  

Some explanation about expectations on final formal edited work, and an analogy to explain the Professors'  requirements, which some students sometimes think is arbitrary .  This probably floated to the top of my mind with the death this week of Eddie Van Halen - but it's a lesson I've talked about for years, and draws from the time I spent working as a roadie.   See Snopes https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/brown-out/ and google it for your self. 

A note of clarification on feedback (it doesn't work if you don't REVISE your paper after getting feedback.)  There is NO REASON to go to multiple sources for feedback if you don't make changes and adjustments each time you get feedback.  You dont have to take every comment or suggestion and act on it, but you have to make that choice before searching out new feedback. 

Library Research Basics tutorial deadline has been pushed back

AND check your LMS (Canvas) for updated rubrics!  expectations change between early drafts and the final draft.  New criteria has been added.  BTW: take the rubric with you when you get feedback. 

This is an engaging interview with the director of the Academic Resource Center (ARC)  and interim director of the Writing Center (WC)  Kaitlin Krumsick where we learn where the newly located student resource mega-center is located, what it provides, how services are changing, and how services are staying the same.  Students wanting to schedule an appointment can follow these instructions https://tinyurl.com/y4f82t86