Class Minutes September 8th, 2008 by Sarah
CLL 410 Writing for Environmental Professionals
Date: September 8th, 2008
Class Facilitator: Don Wagner
Minute Taker: Sarah Kelsen
Atendees: Chris, Yumie, Nicole, Amanda, Julie, Megan, Owen, Chris D., Benjamin, Daniel, Jamie, Josh, James, Bobby, Svetiana, Sarah
Previous Class Minutes:
• Few changes will be made to class minutes from last class due to typing errors
• Attendee names were checked for correctness
• Don will post the minutes on the class website
Today’s Class Minutes:
• In the beginning of each class, meeting minutes will be read aloud and interpreted
• Technical edits will be noted, including punctuation such as:
o : colon ; semi-colon – hyphen . end stop “beginning quote and end quote” (parentheses) . . . ellipsis etc.
• Don commented that each student will hear and see different things and it is important to consider how interpretations are different
• Don recommends two things:
o All public documents should be read aloud before submission so that we as a class are more conscience of what we write
o Punctuation is crucial and here are some tips:
• Make sure your sentences are complete sentences, which should include a subject, a verb, a capital letter at the beginning and a terminal punctuation mark (.?!).
• Series (i.e. noun, noun, and noun) should have commas between distinct categories i.e. the flag is red, white, and blue
• Conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, yet and so) and joining punctuation should be used properly
• a sentence, and a sentence needs a comma between
• conjunctions combine noun and noun, verb and verb, and phrase and phrase
• When submitting work, check your conjunctions (especially and, but, and or) to make sure punctuation is correct
• We reviewed learning contracts as a class and noted that example documents included headings, structure, some sort of narrative
Next Class Agenda Items:
• For Wednesday’s class students should be prepared to talk about their interview and read the website regarding resumes
____
NOTE from Don:
Library offers RefWorks training sessions in September and October
RefWorks is an online citation management tool available to all SU students and faculty. Come see how RefWorks can help to quickly and easily organize your research material. These are hands-on sessions and will include demonstrations of how to import and save citations, generate bibliographies, insert in-text references, and more. All sessions are 80 minutes long and will be held in Room 046 of Bird Library.
There is no registration required. Drop-ins are welcome!
Tuesday, Sept. 16 (11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.)
Monday, Sept. 22 (12:45 p.m. - 2: 05 p.m.)
Thursday, Oct. 2 (12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.)
Wednesday, Oct. 8 (12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.)
Tuesday, Oct. 14 (11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.)
Tuesday, Oct. 21 (2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.)
Monday, Oct. 27 (2:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.)
Date: September 8th, 2008
Class Facilitator: Don Wagner
Minute Taker: Sarah Kelsen
Atendees: Chris, Yumie, Nicole, Amanda, Julie, Megan, Owen, Chris D., Benjamin, Daniel, Jamie, Josh, James, Bobby, Svetiana, Sarah
Previous Class Minutes:
• Few changes will be made to class minutes from last class due to typing errors
• Attendee names were checked for correctness
• Don will post the minutes on the class website
Today’s Class Minutes:
• In the beginning of each class, meeting minutes will be read aloud and interpreted
• Technical edits will be noted, including punctuation such as:
o : colon ; semi-colon – hyphen . end stop “beginning quote and end quote” (parentheses) . . . ellipsis etc.
• Don commented that each student will hear and see different things and it is important to consider how interpretations are different
• Don recommends two things:
o All public documents should be read aloud before submission so that we as a class are more conscience of what we write
o Punctuation is crucial and here are some tips:
• Make sure your sentences are complete sentences, which should include a subject, a verb, a capital letter at the beginning and a terminal punctuation mark (.?!).
• Series (i.e. noun, noun, and noun) should have commas between distinct categories i.e. the flag is red, white, and blue
• Conjunctions (and, or, but, for, nor, yet and so) and joining punctuation should be used properly
• a sentence, and a sentence needs a comma between
• conjunctions combine noun and noun, verb and verb, and phrase and phrase
• When submitting work, check your conjunctions (especially and, but, and or) to make sure punctuation is correct
• We reviewed learning contracts as a class and noted that example documents included headings, structure, some sort of narrative
Next Class Agenda Items:
• For Wednesday’s class students should be prepared to talk about their interview and read the website regarding resumes
____
NOTE from Don:
Library offers RefWorks training sessions in September and October
RefWorks is an online citation management tool available to all SU students and faculty. Come see how RefWorks can help to quickly and easily organize your research material. These are hands-on sessions and will include demonstrations of how to import and save citations, generate bibliographies, insert in-text references, and more. All sessions are 80 minutes long and will be held in Room 046 of Bird Library.
There is no registration required. Drop-ins are welcome!
Tuesday, Sept. 16 (11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.)
Monday, Sept. 22 (12:45 p.m. - 2: 05 p.m.)
Thursday, Oct. 2 (12:30 p.m. - 1:50 p.m.)
Wednesday, Oct. 8 (12:45 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.)
Tuesday, Oct. 14 (11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.)
Tuesday, Oct. 21 (2 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.)
Monday, Oct. 27 (2:15 p.m. – 3:25 p.m.)
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