Monster Notes for Monday, August 30-Friday, September 3

WIKI NOTES GUIDELINES

This assignment creates a collective resource for the class; in adding your notes to the wiki, you will be helping to create an archive of materials that you and your peers can reference as they write their essays and work on their final exams. This does not, however, mean that you should rely on the wiki as a replacement for your own class notes, as the wiki essays represent partial summaries of what goes on in the classroom.

Each student will sign up for a specific day on which they will be responsible for taking notes in class and collating them in the form of an essay. Thus, you will be expected to take notes for one class period and compose a short essay of 250-500 words (approximately one-half to one-full double-spaced page) in which you summarize class activities and highlight the main points of the discussion. Finally, you will need to post this essay on the course wiki, so that it may be available to your peers. Keep in mind that on those days that we do group work, you are only expected to report on the discussion of your group rather than on that of the whole class. At the same time, if other groups have time to present on their conversations in class, you will be expected to summarize these presentations in your essay. Please look at the sample notes on Blackboard to get a sense of my expectations for the assignment.

Your deadline for posting to the wiki and turning in a hard copy to me will be by the beginning of the second class period after your assigned day. So if you are assigned to take notes on Wednesday, September 1, your notes should be handed in to me and online by 9 a.m. on Friday, September 3. I will return the hard copy of your notes to you with appropriate comments and feedback. Being absent on your designated day or missing this deadline will earn you a late penalty; there also will be a penalty for work falling outside the parameters of the word-count requirements.