Daily Assignment

Monday, April 20


We will meet in room MB-11  at 1:00 p.m.  

This is week 13 of the semester.  I should have received your weekly e-mail update for week 12 by today.

Complete and submit the following writing today:

1.  Your revised essay 3.  

Upload your essay to the Pluto server by ftp before class time (9:00 a.m.). See the FTP Instructions for how to do this.  Review the format and requirements for working drafts  if you need to.

2.  Your self-evaluation for essay 3.  Submit this on-line by the end of the day today.

3.  Submit your third essay to Safe Assign no later than the end of the day today.

4.  Peer reviews of two essays, as assigned in the Peer Review List for Essay 3.

Complete the following reading by Wednesday:

1.  Claudia Wallis, "The Multitasking Generation," Time, March 27, 2006, pp. 48-55.  You can get a copy of this article through Ebscohost Academic Search Premier, one of the library's on-line databases.  Just type in the title, in quotation marks, and you will get the full text of the article.

2.  Robert Kubey and Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi, "Television Addiction Is No Mere Metaphor," Scientific American Special Edition, Vol. 14, Issue 1, pp. 48-55.  This article too you can download from Ebscohost.  Type the title into the search box.  Print out both articles and bring them to class with you on Wednesday.

The subject area for essay four is Technology.

Complete the following writing by Wednesday (and bring it to class):

A reflection paper on Wallis and Kubey and Csikszentmihalyi.  For each article comment on what you think are the most important points and the implications of the argument.  Discuss each article separately.

Reminder.  You should have completed the following writing before today:

Your revised essay 3.


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