Of the twenty-two students in my afternoon FYC class, only two came with the completed homework today: a ten-item annotated bibliography. They'd had a week to do it.
Some said they didn't understand what "annotated" meant (okay, didn't hear me talk about it in class, didn't read their textbook). One said she didn't know what "item" meant (okay, I should have said "ten-source bibliography" I guess). Four hadn't been in class a week ago to get the assignment (indeed, have missed the last two weeks and so were woefully behind in our whole research process toward the researched essay).
As a result, I had to completely revamp what I wanted to do in class. We did *look* at this rubric for evaluating sources, but we couldn't *do* it or *use* it with our own sources because folks hadn't prepared.
How are they going to do their essays in the next two weeks? The past two weeks were supposed to be about finding and reading sources.
Evacuation roots
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2 comments:
Thanks for the source.
I'm concerned about mine not being able to post a preliminary (full sentences) outline.
Next week -- the conferences for the annotated bibliography.
whew. I do have optional conferences M-W and then the required ones on TH-FR, so at least the motivated will come see me (maybe) before the annotated bibliography is actually due. we'll see.
Yesterday I had to tell two students (again) that they couldn't write their 10-15 page papers on abortion because we'd discussed it in class. The assignment specifically states they can write on any topic we have not discussed --- and, they were in class for the discussions. At least they took it well. Their paper is due before Thanksgiving....
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