I'm still in the process of calculating grades. The numbers you see on Turnitin are not final, but there is no way for me to hide them while in progress. Please realize that they are subject to change, still.
When they are in their final form, I will say so right here. Meanwhile, no need to inquire...
Saturday, December 17, 2011
Monday, December 5, 2011
Final Announcements
We have moved the due date for the Essay 3 to December 15 at 5pm. This is an absolute deadline, and papers submitted after 5pm cannot receive credit (and in fact will never even be seen). They must be submitted to turnitin. If you have trouble with turnitin, you will need to send the text of your essay to me in an email message (not an attachment) to show that it is done...and then deal with the turnitin issue later.
Dec 12 is an optional class meeting for those who want me to review a draft or work-in-progress of Essay 3. Use the link on the right side of the class home page http://english39jung.blogspot.com to put your name down in a time slot. Conferences will be approximately 15 minutes, longer if possible.
The blog post for next week is also optional, meaning that it will improve your participation score if you do it and not affect it at all if you don't. It involves going to tvtropes.org, a website I mentioned on the first day of class, and exploring the site. Then write a post of about 200 words identifying some of the tropes that you feel apply to Changeling and explaining in detail how the details of the movie stick to or vary the trope. Tvtropes may seem incomprehensible at first, but I believe that if you browse around for a while, you will pick up what it is about. Browse a little longer and you'll find tropes that correspond to Changeling.
I keep a Facebook page for Former Students of Dr Jeff Jung. I will send an email out to whatever email you used for turnitin.com with the link to my page for those who want to keep in contact. I post my mini-reviews of movies, and sometimes books, to my page so that you will never have to be deprived of access to good taste for too long. The page is also a great way for me to find out what happens to all of you later on down the line, and for you to help determine the viewing and reading habits of future college students.
One last announcement is a compliment that I had been meaning to pass along, but forgot. During our "The Devil Wears Prada" discussion, you may recall we had a class observer. We do that at El Camino from time to time to verify that none of the faculty members have gone stark raving mad in the last few years and now constitute a real and present danger to the community. Our observer later told me that he was extremely impressed with the quality of the comments and discussion that he observed and that it seemed more like a UCLA seminar. He mentioned the confidence, clarity, and articulacy of the students who contributed, and the subtlety of their remarks. Most of all, he was struck by how participants were genuinely responding to one another. In fact, you all were particularly "on" that evening (good thing he wasn't there on Macbeth night). So, since the praise should be heard by those who earned it, here it is (was).
I found a good number of our discussions to be very interesting and would like to thank all those who made it that way. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Dec 12 is an optional class meeting for those who want me to review a draft or work-in-progress of Essay 3. Use the link on the right side of the class home page http://english39jung.blogspot.com to put your name down in a time slot. Conferences will be approximately 15 minutes, longer if possible.
The blog post for next week is also optional, meaning that it will improve your participation score if you do it and not affect it at all if you don't. It involves going to tvtropes.org, a website I mentioned on the first day of class, and exploring the site. Then write a post of about 200 words identifying some of the tropes that you feel apply to Changeling and explaining in detail how the details of the movie stick to or vary the trope. Tvtropes may seem incomprehensible at first, but I believe that if you browse around for a while, you will pick up what it is about. Browse a little longer and you'll find tropes that correspond to Changeling.
I keep a Facebook page for Former Students of Dr Jeff Jung. I will send an email out to whatever email you used for turnitin.com with the link to my page for those who want to keep in contact. I post my mini-reviews of movies, and sometimes books, to my page so that you will never have to be deprived of access to good taste for too long. The page is also a great way for me to find out what happens to all of you later on down the line, and for you to help determine the viewing and reading habits of future college students.
One last announcement is a compliment that I had been meaning to pass along, but forgot. During our "The Devil Wears Prada" discussion, you may recall we had a class observer. We do that at El Camino from time to time to verify that none of the faculty members have gone stark raving mad in the last few years and now constitute a real and present danger to the community. Our observer later told me that he was extremely impressed with the quality of the comments and discussion that he observed and that it seemed more like a UCLA seminar. He mentioned the confidence, clarity, and articulacy of the students who contributed, and the subtlety of their remarks. Most of all, he was struck by how participants were genuinely responding to one another. In fact, you all were particularly "on" that evening (good thing he wasn't there on Macbeth night). So, since the praise should be heard by those who earned it, here it is (was).
I found a good number of our discussions to be very interesting and would like to thank all those who made it that way. So long, and thanks for all the fish.
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