See how you're improving!

I have asked some students who have written good paragraphs to publish them in the Medallion Zine. (I have included a couple of paragraphs from last year about those dangerous consumer products, so the data is slightly different.) Take a minute to read them! Maybe on this next assignment, I'll ask you to publish your paragraph too! Kudos to these writers.

I have also updated the web-based gradebook
so you can see how you're doing. Check your email for a message from me (sent 9/13) with your "secret code." I have also posted a class-wide "Grade Analysis Worksheet" so you can see how much the whole class is improving. Check the Archives for links to these and other documents I have posted this semester.

Reminder! Please submit a recording of your Short Take on Statistics (using evoca) with your text in the class Zine. Practice reading your paragraph a couple of times before you call it in. (There is a document called "RecordingHelp.doc) with some suggestions about how to read more effectively in the course folder. Use the link to the right.)

Note that we will be working with the injury data in a second piece of writing; I have posted that assignment and linked it to the assignment page.

If you have questions about this statistics assignment, check the Assignment Questions in the Help & Feedback section of the discussion group. I often provide help there. Remember that there is no such thing as a "dumb" question.

Finally, I have added several additional general-interest topics in the discussion group, and you can write in response to them to meet the discussion group requirement of this class. Make sure to write good solid well-developed paragraphs (no one sentence responses please!) These topics are open to students in all three sections of this class, so make sure you either have a signatiure file or sign your entries with your name. Use the Active Topics link at the top right of the discussion group page to see just the new entries since you last read. Or you can select a time interval you prefer from the drop-down box. I often go back to see what has been written in the past 2-3 days, just in case I missed something good.

You're published!

The first paragraphs have been published in the Zine. Hooray!

Read (and listen to) the ones from your section and maybe some of the others too. Read my comments about this assignment, and then comment in the discussion group about these -- your first "publications" in this class.

Did you know that I list all the files (well, almost all the files) for this in the archives? If you can't find something, check the archives. Most likely it's listed there. If you can't find something, ask me!

Don't forget to check this assignment off your task list in Blackboard.