Office hours are 9:30 to 11:00 Monday, Wednesday and Friday in 325 Armitage.    Email: Ted Goertzel.

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Grades are available in WEBCT:  Grading Computation at end of this page.

Thursday, December 18, 9 to 12.  Final Exam.  The final exam will include a five-paragraph essay and some fill-in questions.
December 10   Remaining presentations:  Chris Heide, Anatoly Klieger, Abby Romberg, Jason Toombs, Michael Torrice.
December 8      Social Problems and Services:   Erin Jones, Beth Alchin, Pria Milledge, Chris Heide, Anatoly Klieger, Abby Romberg
December 5      Crime and Punishment.  Aaron Abbate, Megan Ducoff, Jason Herman, Kimberly Jones, Alexis Tumolo, Akilah Massey,
December 3     Science and Medicine.  Michael Torrice, Jason Toombs, Stacey Brokenbraugh, Candice Lucente, Jennifer Batavick
December 3   Presentations Begin.  We have 17 to do in four classes, so I will ask you to talk for a minimum of five and a maximum of ten minutes.  I have grouped the papers by topic.  Optional Assignment:  a revision of your PowerPoint may be submitted up till 9:30 a.m. today with no extensions.  Otherwise, you can use the Powerpoint submitted on November 26.  No additional points will be given for a revision, but your grade on the presentation may improve if you have a better powerpoint to use for it.  Evaluation Form for Presentations. 
December 1  -  We will meet in Armitage B1 for an experiential exercise, interactive group work.  Extra bonus credit for one assignment in addition to counting for one day's attendance. 
November 26   We will meet in BSB 117.  Assignment due at 1:00 p.m with no extensions:  A Powerpoint suitable for use with your presentation.  It should include five slides of bullet points (similar to your outline) and at least five slides with illustrations, charts, graphics or tables to illustrate your points.  This can be completed during class.  If you submit this assignment before class, you need not attend class today. 

November 1, 5 p.m.:  Assignment: Second Draft of 5 paragraph essay, with thesis statements bolded and points numbered (see example).
October 31:  Meet in BSB 117 - Work on library research for references to back up and illustrate your presentations.
October 29:  Some great speeches.  These can be found on the  History Channel
October 27.  Speech Writing.  Excerpt from Peggy Noonan's On Speaking Well will be distributed in class. 
October 25 5 p.m.    Assignment:  Five Paragraph Essay due.    Another site on the five paragraph essay.   This should make the same points as in your Generic Powerpoint, but written in the form of a five paragraph essay.  Follow the online guide exactly in structuring the essay.   Samples are available online:  Sample A.   Sample B.   Follow all the guidelines to effective writing  as outlined in Part 7 of the Penguin Handbook.  The essay should be 500 words in length.  Submit it in Word if you use it, or a compatible word processing format or html or rtf formats.  I will return the file in Word with corrections marked.
October 24 - Quiz on Writing With Style (open book) 11:05-12:10. The quiz will include sentences to be rewritten, similar to those done in class on October 20 and the examples in Section Seven of the Penguin Handbook.  I will be available in BSB 117 and I recommend you take the quiz there.  However, since it is open book, you can take it elsewhere if you wish.  It must be started by 11:30 a.m. and completed within 30 minutes.  If you have trouble during the hour and are not in BSB 117 you can send me an email or try calling my cell phone 609 744-7475.  However, I may not be able resolve a remote problem.
October 22 -  Organizing five paragraph essays.  Chapter Four in the Penguin Handbook.
October 20  Writing with power - Penguin Handbook chapter 26.  Writing concisely with emphasis - Penguin Handbook chapters 27 and 28.
October 17 - Midterm Exam - to be taken on WEBCT, meet in 117 BSB.  Essay feedback.
October 15  Read introductory paragraph for five paragraph essay.  Review for Midterm.  Midterm will focus on Parts 1 and 4 of the Penguin Handbook and the Notes on McLuhan. 
October 13  Presentation of Generic PowerPoints to the class
October 10 Meet in BSB 117 "Generic" Powerpoint due:  Use the "generic" outline on the AutoContent Wizard of Powerpoint to outline your topic.  Submit the assignment to WEBCT in powerpoint  (*.ppt) format. 
October 8  Video - The Global Brain.  Reading:  Chapter 8 of The Global Brain Awakens. 
October 6:  Theories of Marshall McLuhan.  Reading Assignment:  Understanding McLuhan.  Notes on McLuhan. 
October 3:  Bibliography Assignment due, 5 p.m.  Meet in BSB117, finish bibliographies and begin work with Power Point.
October 1:  More on PowerPoint.  (see class notes for examples) 
September 29:  Bibliographic Styles:  MLA, APA and ASA.  Critical reading, chapter 6 in the Handbook.  Outlining.   Feedback on writing.  PowerPoint Logic.    Powerpointless. 
September 26:  Assignment: "Choosing a Topic" to be submitted to WEBCT by 10:00 a.m. Using the Library and other Online Sources.  Meet in BSB 117 for library work.
September 24  Finding and Evaluating Sources, Chapters 17 and 18 in the Penguin Handbook
September 22:  Planning Your Research, Chapter 16 in the Penguin Handbook. 
September 19:  Virtual Class:  Complete an Online Quiz in Webct. The Quiz covers Parts 1 and 4 of the Penguin Handbook, and is open book.  You may take it up to three times, and the highest grade counts.  Take it the first time on Thursday or Friday, and it will be available for retakes until 5 p.m. on Sunday.  There is also a Sample Quiz you can take any time to get familiar with the Quiz interface.  Note:  if the quiz doesn't grade properly, you can click on "completed" then click on the number of the attempt, and it will regrade.
Extra Credit Option:  free bus to New Brunswick to hear President McKormick's speech, leaves 11:30 from police station.  Email lkenneal@camden.rutgers.edu if you want a reservation.
 September 17- Positive Focus and Active Listening: an  in-class exercise.
September 15 - Viewing of clips from Semi-Tough and The Breakfast Club.  Discussion of interpersonal communication and group dynamics.  Reading:   Basic Overview of Stages of Group Development and the section on interpersonal communication from the Encarta Online Encyclopedia.
September 12 - Assignment Due:  Printout of personal home page.  If you come to class, hand it in at the end of class.  If you miss class, send me an email by 5 p.m. with the WEB  address (url) of your home page.  Send the email to goertzel@camden.rutgers.edu.  It must be a working URL, I must be able to open your WEB page with it.  Meet in the Computer Lab, BSB 117. to publish a first version of personal home pages on clam.  To publish on clam, we will open Mozila at Rutgers (the same as Netscape 7.0) We then open the html file we have prepared in the Composer and follow the Instructions for Publishing  a WEB page on  Netscape 7.0.  To publish on Yahoo, go to Yahoo Geocities and follow their instructions.  The problem with Yahoo is they annoy you with popups and they put advertising on your site.  NOTE:  Class today is optional - if you prefer to publish your home page yourself from home, or to publish it somewhere other than Yahoo, you need not attend.  You should, however, have a personal home page posted by the end of the class hour.  If you come to class, we will get this assignment done.  Instructions for publishing home pages are available online.
September 10 - Discussion of Part 4 of the Penguin Handbook:  "Writing for the WEB".  Personal home pages done by students last semester.  As a "writing intensive" course, perhaps we can do better.  We will discuss publishing WEB sites on clam.
September 8 - Assignment Due:  Bring a printout of your personalized My Yahoo Start Page to class.  Discussion of Part One of the Penguin Handbook.  Please bring the Handbook to class.
September 5 - Meet in the Computer Lab, BSB 117, to work on setting up "My Yahoo" personalized start pages.  These should include links to the weather in places important to you, news items of interest to you, movie theaters you attend, sports scores you follow, your favorite columnists or cartoonists, tv listings and/or other information useful to you that is available through Yahoo.
 September 3 - first class, discussion of the syllabus.  Discussion of the SigningUp assignment, due on September 12.