Fall 2011

Arlington students
Cristina: cristinas2cents.blogspot.com
Chezerae: chezsthoughts.blogspot.com
George: george-gasca.blogspot.com
Latoya: latoyascomments.blogspot.com
Michael: myflo1.blogpsot.com

Ft. Worth students
Shawn Smith--choosing to be offline
Lisa: wwwlisac.blogspot.com

Summer 2011 classes

Student blogs include:

Sherre's blog: http://sherresthoughts.blogspot.com/
Joe's blog: http://prosejustice.blogspot.com/
Jason's blog: http://jstack-strangebrew117.blogspot.com/

Welcome to composition 2!

Welcome to composition 2 for the summer! This week, choose a news article and post your response to it.

Elimination

The death penalty is a hotly-debated subject in the United States. Are you for or against it?

Pick your poison

This week, we will continue to evaluate the validity of sources. Choose one of the articles from the attached link and decide of you buy it: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/05/to-do-list-new-leaders-for-al-qaeda-the-flintstones.html.

I particularly like the idea of the pet service post rapture (which, according to the article, is this Saturday).

Brith control in middle school sample topic

Working thesis: Birth control in middle school is unnecessary and contributing to the downfall of society through reinforcing weak moral expectations in modern youths.

Article 1:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21358971/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/t/maine-middle-school-offer-birth-control/

This link is relevant to my paper because it describes the controversy happening in Maine over distributing the pill to children. This link is credible because it is from GMA. However, this is not the best source for my paper because it is dated. I should find something from 2009 or later.

Article 2:
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Ready for part 2?

Now that you all have firmly established your blogs with an article or two, it's time to get started on research. The next two blog posts (completed by week 5) are all about your research project. You'll be finding sources and deciding if they are (1) relevant and (2) valid. You'll write your comments on both points in your blog. This information will prove helpful when writing your paper and your annotated bibliography.

Happy hunting!

http://www.economist.com/node/18620944

What I really loved about this news article was the graph on gas prices. Compared to the rest of the world, we are paying a fraction of the gas price, and yet we squeal every summer. Do you think better roads would make a shorter commute? If it did, would you feel anyt better about gas prices?

A second question...if the government swore it would make 820 better, would you believe them and give them the money?

Helpful links

www.lirn.net
www.mycomplab.com

Assignment for week 1: news article response

Jennifer provides us with an ideal news article response when she poses the question: Is ethanol good or bad? For more information, see Jennifer's blog at
http://jennifercomp2.blogspot.com/.

Some blogs I like for the news, business and writing include:

http://www.ducttapemarketing.com/blog/
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.webinknow.com/
http://www.hownottowrite.com/

Blogs from Comp 2 students

Friday class:
Chewy's blog: http://chewy-comp2.blogspot.com/
Daniel's blog: http://ghostbuster-2020jusman.blogspot.com/
Shey's blog: http://shey-compforsuccess.blogspot.com/
Ric's blog: http://ricscompii.blogspot.com/
Stephanie's blog: http://stephcorner.blogspot.com/
Andrea's blog: http://ambagsby.blogspot.com/
Ja'Von's blog: http://aggland.blogspot.com/
Jason's blog: http://jasontheman1.blogspot.com/

Thursday class:
Aaron's blog: http://aaron-comp2blog.blogspot.com/
Monique's blog: http://mfloresrealwords.blogspot.com/
Jennifer's blog: http://jennifercomp2.blogspot.com/
Chris's blog: http://sapper-winning.blogspot.com/
Scott's blog: http://scottcomp2.blogspot.com/
Joanna's blog: http://joannascompclass.blogspot.com/
Silpa's blog: http://comp2munlau.blogspot.com/
Anela's blog: http://spring2011am.blogspot.com/
Crystal's blog: http://2011compprojectcrystal.blogspot.com/
Jason's blog: http://jstack-strangebrew117.blogspot.com/
Yasmina's Blog: http://jasminahusanovic1987.blogspot.com/
Adam's blog: http://www.irishbm3.blogspot.com/
Natasha's blog: http://natashacomp2.blogspot.com/
Tony's blog: http://teezy214.blogspot.com/

Welcome!

Welcome to comp 2--the blogging experience. Good luck this term.