English 101: The College Essay Continued Further

Summary

In this engaging and thorough lecture, Professor James Boswell discusses the intricacies of crafting a compelling college essay. He emphasizes the importance of structure and organization in writing, particularly focusing on the thesis statement and the plan of development. The lecture covers various elements of essay writing such as the use of transition words, the essential attributes of a good teacher, and how to effectively conclude an essay. With vivid examples and a touch of humor, Boswell encourages meticulous preparation, attention to detail, and the necessity of rewriting for excellence.

Highlights

• Getting the reader's attention from the beginning is key. 🧐
• A thesis statement should be followed by a clear plan of development. 💡
• Use transition words to seamlessly connect your ideas. 🔗
• Teachers should be prepared and enthusiastic about their subjects. 🎓
• The conclusion is the final chance to reinforce your main points. 🎯
• An essay needs to be clear, well-organized, and detailed. 📋

Key Takeaways

• A strong essay requires a well-organized structure. 📚
• The thesis statement and plan of development are crucial for guiding the essay. 📝
• Transition words help in creating smooth connections between ideas. 🌉
• Well-prepared teachers make a significant impact on student learning. 👩‍🏫
• Revising and organizing your thoughts lead to better academic writing. 🔄
• An effective conclusion ties all points together and leaves an impression. 🎀

Overview

The lecture begins with an emphasis on the importance of the thesis statement and plan of development in essay writing. Professor Boswell explains that capturing the reader's attention early is crucial, and this can be achieved through a well-structured introduction. He highlights several ways of crafting a thesis and stresses the sequential order in presenting the plan of development for clarity and coherence.

Transition words play a pivotal role in writing, as they help to connect ideas smoothly and ensure the essay flows logically. Boswell discusses the characteristics of good teachers, highlighting their preparedness, enthusiasm, and care for students as key qualities. These attributes, he notes, make a significant difference in the learning experience and success of students.

In wrapping up, the professor covers the importance of a strong conclusion. This part of the essay must summarize the key points and restate the thesis in a new way, leaving a lasting impression on the reader. Boswell stresses the value of revision and organization in writing, encouraging students to refine their work to achieve clarity and impact.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 09:00: Introduction and Thesis Statement Discussion The chapter focuses on initiating a discussion about structuring thesis statements and plans of development. The conversation kicks off with a reminder to start recording, emphasizing the importance of documenting this session. The speaker references a PDF entitled 'The Support Structuring of Theme' to guide the discussion. They use an analogy, comparing their task to 'ice cream in the summer,' suggesting that the role or task they are addressing is essential or refreshing during a particular period. This sets the tone for a conversation geared towards understanding and organizing key thematic elements in writing.
• 09:00 - 19:00: Structuring the College Essay The chapter discusses the importance of creating a strong thesis statement in the college essay writing process. It stresses the need for the thesis to captivate the reader's attention and suggests presenting the plan of development in a separate, subsequent sentence. Various methods for crafting a thesis statement and a plan of development are mentioned, underlining their integral role in structuring a compelling college essay. The text advises having introductory sentences that lead the reader into the thesis and its plan of development.
• 19:00 - 32:00: Supporting Information Types The chapter 'Supporting Information Types' discusses various elements crucial for effectively communicating information. It begins with noting essential points such as 'the hired help', and 'the weather', highlighting their role as starting points or introductory ideas for working towards constructing comprehensive topics. The text emphasizes the importance of using transition words to ensure smooth progression and coherence in writing. It illustrates these ideas with the example of 'the first big headache' being the overwhelming amount of forms and regulations that small business owners must navigate, showcasing the necessity for organized and clear information sharing.
• 32:00 - 48:00: Body Paragraphs and Development This chapter delves into the significance of organizing and connecting ideas using a foundational 'three-point' concept, which is essential for the course discussed. It highlights issues related to government forms and regulations, especially impacting small businesses. Additionally, it touches on the struggles faced in securing reliable and efficient support, which is a greater source of frustration than the government constraints themselves.
• 48:00 - 59:00: Vague vs Specific Examples The chapter, titled 'Vague vs Specific Examples,' discusses how transitional topics connect preceding material to new ideas. It uses an example where government form is a prior topic, transitioning to a new topic about employees. The speaker emphasizes the importance of dependable employees who keep their jobs, noting that it's challenging to find such workers.
• 59:00 - 76:00: Writing a Good Conclusion In the chapter titled 'Writing a Good Conclusion,' the focus is on the importance of crafting a strong closing paragraph in writing. It discusses the qualities that make a conclusion effective, such as the ability to reinforce the main points discussed in the work, leaving a lasting impression on the reader. The chapter highlights the importance of including final thoughts that summarize the key ideas, and illustrates this by discussing how a good conclusion might address the challenges and uncontrollable aspects, like weather, to make a compelling point.
• 76:00 - 86:00: Characteristics of Good Educators This chapter explores the essential characteristics and skills required to be a good educator. It provides insights on how to maintain order and structure in teaching, and highlights the common mistakes students make when organizing information. The discourse revolves around improving clarity, maintaining coherence in delivery, and the impact of external factors like government regulations and weather on the educational process. It emphasizes the importance of systematically addressing these challenges to enhance learning outcomes.
• 86:00 - 94:00: Conclusion and Wrap up The chapter titled 'Conclusion and Wrap up' discusses the importance of maintaining order and consistency in writing, particularly in structured documents like government forms and development plans. It emphasizes listing components in the same sequence they are introduced in the introduction. For example, if government forms are mentioned first, they should be prioritized in the development plan and followed by other elements like employees and weather, in the order given in the introduction. This ensures clarity and coherence in the body paragraphs.

English 101: The College Essay Continued Further Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 okay I want to get the recording underway is the issue here so I'm ready to again I want to look at this thesis statement plan of development um in the um PDF I sent you entitled the support structuring of theme I have found that my job is ice cream in the summer can be
• 00:30 - 01:00 a most trying and exasperating means of making a living that's the thesis statement now the plan of development is in a separate sentence there are several ways of writing a thesis statement and a plan of development but please remember you got to get the reader's attention you got to draw the reader in and so there are sentences as I hope you know and will have that would pred your thesis plan developments in a separate sentence it's the next sentence here one must with the government forms that's
• 01:00 - 01:30 point one the hired help point two and most of all the weather well and here are the topic sentences just wrote the topic sentences not the body paragraphs but that's what we're working toward notice the transition word please don't forget transition words the first big headache is the growing amount of forms and regulations with which the small business man is swamp see you Echo you know uh that's what makes it transition into
• 01:30 - 02:00 connections and organizes you you know just that three-point um um concept can take you a long way in this course and so this one will WR about the forms the government forms and the regulations and some small business folk are really struggling uh these days even more irritating than the government controls is a problem with securing efficient dependable hell this
• 02:00 - 02:30 is called a transitional topic sense because it mentions the preceding material which is the government controls or the government form forms and then it in introduces the new thought the employees Dependable hell let me assure you and I'm glad you're all here today and glad to see all these names um Dependable people keep their jobs and it's hard to find them you know it's it's not easy it's not hard to find people
• 02:30 - 03:00 lots of people you know that would be happy to have a nice salary but are they Dependable you know and that's what that paragraph we write about while the help can be trying notice how the transition you know the help I I would say employees but the help can be trying you save the best point for last the weather is the greatest war of all because it is totally beyond control and that paragraph would deal with the weather and how it impacts
• 03:00 - 03:30 the ice cream business the restatement sentence would be in the fifth paragraph not the whole paragraph you know I hope to get to the concluding paragraph shortly contending with the government as point one the help point2 in the weather can be a terrific hardship for one person to assume keep it in order I keep saying it because sometimes students get out of order they just look at this is random and so I can talk about the government
• 03:30 - 04:00 forms the hired help in the weather and any um um order that I want in the body no no no no no no you know we need order in the paper if you say government forms first in that plan of development that's what you talk about first if you say the employees that hired help second and it is second there that's in the second body paragraph and if you're going to if you mention weather last third body
• 04:00 - 04:30 paragraph you know it's one two three one two three one two three you know as easy as one two 3 a BC it's not 321 one two 3 312 you know that's confusion you know and so you want some organization you know and some of you I'll tell you again you're in a field
• 04:30 - 05:00 some of you are planning to go into a field where organization is extraordinarily strict you know because when it gets sloppy people die people stay sick you know and lawsuits happen you know that's what's you know that's that seems to be almost a process you know so I just thought I would would mention that and since I'm with this document I may as well continue with it because I want to look at
• 05:00 - 05:30 um I'm got to rotate it first so I can get it where I can y types of supporting information I mentioned some of the types of supporting information mentioned the names but I did not go over the the item uh and I did send you this uh example then it gives you a definition of everything in the middle column uh there are two uh types of examples an illustration in an instance
• 05:30 - 06:00 there are two types of illustrations hypothetical and factual an example refers to an event person place or object in narrative or story form an illustration is a detailed example hypothetical discusses what could happen let us imagine that we lost our jobs hope we never have that experience factual discusses what did happen and as an example as an illustration several days ago I lost my job what did happen
• 06:00 - 06:30 an instance is an undetailed example referring to specific cases rather than describing an event okay several examples are used and here is an example of an instance the past fail grading system is effective Southwest High Columbus High and Franklin High all report that their students work just as hard as under the traditional system you know Harrisburg Community College was considering going
• 06:30 - 07:00 on a p fail system you know it got defeated because well a lot of our students transfer and you need a grade point average in other words you need a number you know or or a letter grade in order to get scholarships in order to transfer and that kind of thing and so we said no no no we'll handicap our students if if we do that and so we didn't other schools in the country did do that would have been a lot easier because all I got to do is this looks
• 07:00 - 07:30 like passing to me I can just skim over things you know but uh I don't think I would have done that but the tempt Temptation would have been great a comparison statistics and the last thing is testimony comparison Compares either phenomena unlike or phenomena that's alike figurative and literal figurative gossips are like funnels they pay pass everything to
• 07:30 - 08:00 others keeping nothing for themselves violence is in this country is spreading like a cancerous disease literal it has often been said that our society will Decay as did the Roman Empire I hope that doesn't happen but we seem to be Mighty close to that statistics uses figures one out of every four American deaths would be from cancer well now this is a dated uh statistic this is one of of every two you
• 08:00 - 08:30 know CO's doing its job unfortunately and testimony I always like to present this material if time allows me testimony that's a quote essentially presents another person's view either a direct quote or conclusion and I like this one here I always like to share it Bob Dylan is still living you know he got the Nobel Prize for his song lyrics yeah that's how
• 08:30 - 09:00 famous and important he is and was keep busy at the task of living and remember the words of Bob Dylan he not busy being born is busy dying very interesting words from Mr Bob Dylan now I'm ready to get into my PowerPoint at this point try to pick up I'm dealing with body paragraphs and the
• 09:00 - 09:30 five paragraph essay and there is an example right before your eyes of a an outline of a body paragraph the successful student this is the thesis prepares herself well by you know I'm not leaving out the fellas but the focus is on the uh the ladies because there are more women
• 09:30 - 10:00 going to college um in some institutions anyway than men um and women make a 52% of the population of the world you know they outnumber the men this the successful student prepares herself well by good attendance taking good notes and studying three-part plan of development and what I tried to outline was
• 10:00 - 10:30 the first point only now you only need um under the first point in that topic sentence three points now I've got five because I'm overdoing it but I just want you to get the idea that you need to develop the body paragraph you know the body needs to be developed we don't want under develop paragraphs andic paragra that's why I say at least two full page not not one and a half you know you're honest second page would have one and a half but I mean two full
• 10:30 - 11:00 Pages the second page as full as the first that's what I'm looking for as a minimum you know as a minimum you know uh I would prefer you to have three maybe four pages so just letting you know um all this needs is a topic sense introduce it first of all then that t would be small T um the successful
• 11:00 - 11:30 student prepares herself well by good attendance then here are five points I'm using them as teaching points as well as looking at the body paragraph should strive for perfect attendance now a lot of you have done quite well there should strive for perfect attendance good attendance creates a good impression that's a good reason for attending you know because I I do make a mental note in fact I make a written
• 11:30 - 12:00 note I keep a record you know and then at the end of the semester I look at that too you know especially for class participation because we've had some times when we have discussed things but maybe not as much as I I should do as other teachers um do but just by seeing that name there and assuming that you're you know like sort of in the room you know now you may run and get a glass of water or something
• 12:00 - 12:30 because you're on mute and I can't hear it just make sure you got the sound up high enough so you can at least participate in some kind of way you know um good attendance creates a good impression good attendance is important for forming good work habits you know um God bless those nurses and those other healthc care workers because they were still expected to be there and they were you know because they couldn't leave
• 12:30 - 13:00 their patience you know that's the kind of person you want in that field you know uh they ought to all get bonuses as a result they really should you know because they're risking life and limb you know uh because of well the Dependable you know well I think no matter what field you're in one needs to be Dependable you know uh and so what you do in the classroom can be transported into the workplace because
• 13:00 - 13:30 I've seen folk who have been undependable don't show up don't get things done and you're paying them you know well you don't pay them for month for long I could have stopped right there I could have developed those three points into a nice paragraph that would be about half a page one will not be lost because of the work missed you know because of the work missed sometimes it's good to see it
• 13:30 - 14:00 hear it and be in the environment because this is called remote teaching a lot of folk um find uh remote a little tiring and exhausting but some do a lot better when you're doing things remotely than if it's just pure virtual and some people do even better when it's face to face but you know um sometimes we are so mistrustful of technology sometimes that we think that remote can't still do the job and it can
• 14:00 - 14:30 and it does teachers like audiences you know we we like to have folk that we can work with that's why we went into the business when writing the body paragraph it is important that you develop the points as clearly as possible it is important that the body be developed absolutely essential you know you want to develop that body we don't want anorexic paragraphs
• 14:30 - 15:00 anemic paragraphs full-bodied paragraphs that's what we're looking for you know whether it's the three body paragraphs and of course we do want you to develop that introduction too introductory paragraph and we want you to develop that concluding paragraph but I'm on my way to the concluding paragraph because I'm looking at the body paragraph now and emphasizing the parts I even have a restatement sentence this time for you um almost done with
• 15:00 - 15:30 body paragraphs I'm ready to to move o in to to um the concluding paragraph because I don't want you to I want you to do a nice job there anyway writing a paper requires three things well requires a lot of things but thinking determination and perseverance writing require writing a paper requires those three things life requires those three things life does
• 15:30 - 16:00 you know thinking determination and perseverance plan of development I'm emphasizing that because that is a little challenging for folk to get because you how do I know what I'm gonna say until I say it you know that's where outlines can be helpful and once you write the body paragraphs maybe you don't have the plan development with the thesis yet but you can take from the body paragraph and put it in the plan of develop because that's what you wrote about it's part of the
• 16:00 - 16:30 tell me what you're going to tell me peace you know and I try to those of you who submitted topics I tried to read to write a thesis for you if you didn't already have one some already did and um add a plan of development to it you know I'm G leave anything to chance think that well maybe they'll do it without me saying it no no uhuh so I would write it out there now of course it's rough not that rough though and you can revive eyes that's where your vision comes in you can smooth it out change it
• 16:30 - 17:00 fix it make it sharper plan development thinking paragraph on that determination paragraph on that and perseverance paragraph on that you it's a point that we're trying to make body paragraph number one I just want to emphasize the topic sentence there I didn't write the paragraph first of all writing a paper requires much thinking you know that's part of the writing
• 17:00 - 17:30 process you know throughout the entire process thinking is necessary so your mind gets a workout I think I would be saying a lot of those things when you are writing a paper and those of you who are studying The Sciences that's a good thing you know because the more you give those uh brain cells work out the longer they endure and longer they last lose a brain cell you never get a back you know so
• 17:30 - 18:00 anyway um second point about thinking first point about thinking second point about thinking this would be in the body development and maybe a third point about thinking in that paragraph now I want to show body paragraph number three because I want to illustrate transition you know and I'll be looking for that you know I will be looking for that you know you I don't keep it a mystery I don't believe writing should be a mystery you know unless you're writing AER mystery novel or something and even then
• 18:00 - 18:30 you know they can get rather explicit not only does writing require determination that's the second point you know and that would be in actually body paragraph number two it asks for what perseverance you know to keep on keeping on keeping on keep on keeping on you know um transition topic sentence
• 18:30 - 19:00 restatement sentence that would be in paragraph number five writing makes the following demands on the writer I try to change it around somewhat so it's not you know not paring you know regurgitating I don't like that word thinking determination and perseverance you know notice the order you know that's something that is well teachable and learnable the details come from your reading and your experience erience in your prior prior knowledge I
• 19:00 - 19:30 can't do anything about that you know only you can and that's why I keep mentioning read and I'm I'm reading a book I'm you know because reading is my pleasure and I'm not gonna teaching is my pleasure too but I've made up in my mind that I need to take some time for me you know and I'm not doing it you know I'm not want to do that and a lot of people aren't U maybe you aren't you know but sometimes you have to say I'm going to
• 19:30 - 20:00 do something that I enjoy you know that's safe vague versus specific and I'm still in body paragraphs you want to be specific you know those are the details those are the things you've got to you know pull out of your mind and I'm going to say it's not easy to do that but that's what I want you to do you know when you're writing you know because when you're working
• 20:00 - 20:30 with the client I don't know what field you're specifically going into it's got to be up there and sometimes you got to be creative in order to succeed vague I had never seen anything like it before that's vague vague I don't know what you're talking about the tornado see I got a picture one these all these sentences are vague had cut a path of Destruction through
• 20:30 - 21:00 the town now let's look at well let's go down here for one and two this vague here specific although I had seen from afar the funnel cut through this once quiet suburb I was not prepared for the scene that stretched before me now let's go to the specific sentence for number two destructive um path of Destruction tells me nothing the tornado let's get specific had cut a jagged line 100 yards
• 21:00 - 21:30 wide and a mile and a half long through the town that's a lot more specific let's go back to the vague number three and then I'll go to the specific number three take them together it reminded me of pictures I had seen the bomb cities during World War II vague none of us were on this planet during World War II none of us all along its path lay the Twisted hulks
• 21:30 - 22:00 of automobiles and the unrecognizable Rubble of what had what had been houses you know and then of course you can go to a little bit more Des scripture a little bit more details but that's just looking at the sentences alone that's a more detailed and specific sentence than the one up above number four almost nothing had been left standing well that tells me nothing for certain that tells me
• 22:00 - 22:30 nothing and he's talking about a tornado I don't know if you've seen with your own eyes the aftermath of tornado and I don't mean just on TV I mean you walked with the devastation took place I I experienced that years ago um it was actually I just haven't forgotten it 1980s you know that's quite a few years ago but it was a devastating tornado it was in Pennsylvania Northwestern Pennsylvania quite a few
• 22:30 - 23:00 people died in that was one of the worst disasters um that the state has ever experienced you know and U Ohio part of Ohio you know was awful so anyway um so I I know what that looks like other than on TV of course there's been more recent tornadoes including this year um and you you can see what's left and the devastation that people go
• 23:00 - 23:30 through be thankful if you've not gone through such things because people are going through um the pandemic and fire and or or whatever I just can't imagine it occasionally oh let's go to four number top almost nothing standing the detailed sense occasionally as if to emphasize the capriciousness of this agent of Destruction the storm had left a single chimney or trailer untouched in the
• 23:30 - 24:00 midst of broken brick shattered wood and convoluted metal you know that particular sentence is a lot more specific than the sentence up above you know uh which is unfortunately vague now now as far as a sample outline is concerned learned um there's one in your
• 24:00 - 24:30 booklet filled out you might want to look at it carefully as I move on to the concluding paragraph paragraph five how to write a good conclusion paragraph is what we're about now I should say next now I think of the conclusion as a way to shut
• 24:30 - 25:00 up you know that's what uh candidate Biden told president Trump to do as they were sort of debating so-called anyway that that that that occurred the conclusion as a way to shut up isn't it is a way to put the icing on the cake you tell the reader what you told them tell me what you told me
• 25:00 - 25:30 making the three points crystal clear crystal clear one president used to say let me make this perfectly clear you know well it wasn't always perfectly clear but we want you to be crystal clear you want the reader to see the point that you are trying to make so that uh you need to try and do more than try make the ideas as clear as possible
• 25:30 - 26:00 last words are rather important I want to use a music analogy is my example entire canatas that's what they're called as a musical composition have been written about Christ's last words it is finished the last words give us one last jolt it is like the last three notes or
• 26:00 - 26:30 the last measure in a boach Corral you want s invol where the piece of music come to its end and resolves itself the conclusion says that you know what you're talking about that you know your subject and you end it thoughtfully the entire paper that is and there are some techniques in order to make that happen you know you want to make sure that in
• 26:30 - 27:00 that conclusion you tie everything together well a loose thread in the composition can unravel the entire house the objective of a piece of writing is to get the reader to think that you're you're brilliant not that you have a few screws loose you see so um interesting outline here I'm going to add to it but you can see you need several
• 27:00 - 27:30 sentences to make it happen not one not just two I've I've read student papers and they just had a restatement and one sentence after it you know brought the grade down a conclusion starter one sentence a summary of the main part or body of an essay you know the restatement of the thesis and plan development a couple of sentences afterwards and a concluding sentence which we have called you're
• 27:30 - 28:00 clena so the conclusion this is where you tell me what you told me where you restate the thesis and the plan of Development I've said this many times so far give some ending remarks you know and the Clincher which I also refer to as a Zinger leave a real
• 28:00 - 28:30 Zinger you know that's my way of thinking of Clincher from the conclusion the paper's main purpose is evident and there are different types of conclusions chronological wrapup and I did give an example of that in the PDF restatement that's the one I requir that's why I underline it I want a restatement sentence in that conclusion now one could also end with with the question you can you can um U
• 28:30 - 29:00 do one or more of these techniques uh in a concluding paragraph in other words you can have a quote in that conclusion but I still want a restatement illustration that's a detailed example you know that can be in the conclusion but I still want a restatement story a brief story in the conclusion but I still want a what restate but please note chronological
• 29:00 - 29:30 wrapup that's more uh that works best with process not process it works best with um um a narrative type essay restatement question quotation illustration story just just a few of the techniques there are many more those are the ones I highlight now is important I'm G leave that up there you're invited to take
• 29:30 - 30:00 notes it's important to use a device to get the reader to understand what you are trying to tell him or her do not contradict yourself or Rush the assignment you know once you get it in on time um but you got some time to get together you know I hope you put aside a generous amount of time because the more you can play with it theoretically the better it's going to
• 30:00 - 30:30 be because you get a new idea better idea add you subtract it's called Revision in drawing the essay to a close is important that you know your subject that's why I asked you to choose something that you know something about you know I gave you several lists of possibilities you know typical thesis support college essay list H well it's important that you know your
• 30:30 - 31:00 subject and that you give enough information preceding the conclusion that is you want to begin to close it let's say go back and polish the paper you will need to be careful with the words that you that you use you will need to touch up the paper so that will say what it needs to say but the conclusion is the icing on decate and I like icing on my
• 31:00 - 31:30 cake the conclusion lays the argument to rest it tells the reader what you told him one last note a final Point closes the piece I'm thinking music again beautifully here's an example handles Messiah about 200 pages of Music takes four hours to perform if every note is sung complete with Orchestra and soloist
• 31:30 - 32:00 and I've heard it done that way in person one year I don't think they've ever done it again as far as I know Messiah is now Messiah University in Grand in Pennsylvania and they had you know a choir and an orchestra and soloist the all men in handles Messiah that's the end of it closes the piece
• 32:00 - 32:30 majestically beautifully that's about 15 pages of Music the AL Men by itself handles Messiah that's an oratorial one of the greatest ever written so I'm saying the greatest ever written at the end of the interview there is the firm handshake at the end of the date the good night kiss if expected and desired the ending is so important you
• 32:30 - 33:00 must handle this part with absolute care it is like the sounding of the Bells a good paper deserves a good conclusion and so it needs some Polish in order for that to happen let's look at some uh um some more information on the concluding paragraph before I look at a sample
• 33:00 - 33:30 essay from your booklet grade A teachers page I believe it's page 62 restate thesis use new words but points in the same order that's what I tried to show you with the paper dealing with ice cream summarize well that would be the plan of development summarize main points of essay remind reader what you
• 33:30 - 34:00 said this is important technique I'm requiring it you know this is important technique in your Communications course also known as speech 101 I don't know how they're doing it in a remote environment but I know they're doing it and so therefore you may have one of those glasses when you get to the end of the speech which is uh only so minutes long you got to try to get it in there to tell them what you're going to tell them tell them and now we're on to tell them what you told them
• 34:00 - 34:30 end with a lasting impression give reader something to think about after finishing essay that's that's a standard practice and a conclusion you want to try to put that in there in that fifth paragraph thesis statement here's a here this is just a restatement of the thesis statement moving right along San Francisco this was the original thesis
• 34:30 - 35:00 is a stimulating place to visit because of its magnificent location is theaters and art galleries and as many fine restaurants that's what was talked talked about in that paper would be talked about you know location theaters and art galleries and the restaurants restated thesis this that would be an introduction this will be in the conclusion if you love beautiful
• 35:00 - 35:30 surroundings World Class theater and art and an Exquisite meal then San Francisco is the place for you and that's just a restated thesis statement it's not the entire paragraph however so it's to tell me what you told me sentence that's an excellent example now I want to look at um I I I put in a PowerPoint slide theme organization wor she required I'm looking for it it's the
• 35:30 - 36:00 first thing I be looking for you know and I'm finding that even though it takes me longer to get through papers but if you drop everything as a separate document then I know I got it you know rather than be surprise and click on um one document and things are missing but that's up to you some people have been able to put it in there and I can just scroll right on down scroll you know um that's not a problem either the problem is is when I got to take points off and
• 36:00 - 36:30 so instead of getting a an A minus you're getting a B+ instead of getting a B+ you're getting a b instead of getting a b you're getting a B minus instead of getting a B minus you're getting a C+ you know because I take some points off when things are missing grade A teachers title purpose to argue about the qualities that make a good teacher I'm gonna look at this grade a teacher's paper in a moment conclusion too many expect things to be
• 36:30 - 37:00 easy that's that's what I'm that's the person who wrote this that's how they read people and are too lazy to learn because learning is hard work but please remember I'm teaching this organization she education is a privilege requiring hard work but it is a privilege you know yeah you you don't have to have a good
• 37:00 - 37:30 education I'm going to look at this paper this is the thesis the great a teachers the topic sentences you know um plan of development and then I'm GNA look at the paper I'm try to get to it an instructor who generously giving A's does not mean he or she is a great a teacher in order to be a good teacher a person must be what well prepared for class that was was her first point student wrote this I just typed it
• 37:30 - 38:00 enthusiastic about teaching and caring for students first of all good teachers should be what well prepared before going to the classroom transition words a second trait possessed by most good teachers is the enthusiasm about teaching see the word enthusiastic that was second point and this is a transitional topic sentence for the third Point aside from class preparation point1 impersonal enthusiasm
• 38:00 - 38:30 Point 2 good instructors also care for their students now I've got to go find the paper um that I put in the booklet this is in the booklet uh and uh it's four pages typewritten double spaced title capitalize the
• 38:30 - 39:00 letters of the words in the title you know certain words do not have to be capitalized in the title words like of and and if it's in the middle but everything else gets capitalized people are having trouble with that I'm going to go into the paper now in college each student takes courses with many instructors who have different teaching styles some of them are very influential on students others are Unforgettable while the evaluation of an
• 39:00 - 39:30 instructor's teaching Effectiveness notice the good vocabulary of this student and it is in the booklet on page 62 varies from student to student the names of those good teachers are mentioned over over again conversations among students about their teachers can often be heard on campus during registration and registration starts soon this week you know so you need to be thinking ahead to the next semester
• 39:30 - 40:00 be optimistic the names of those good teachers have mentioned over and over again conversations among students about their teachers can often be heard on campus during the registration such as Professor a this is how she captures her attention she she she has a setup going here a series of examples as her intention getter but also contrast Professor a is very nice you can always expect a grade A B or better or Miss B is great too she has never
• 40:00 - 40:30 given any homework assignments and the tests are pretty easy or I would say that Dr C is the best teacher I have ever had most of his students get an A no assignments no quizzes and only one midterm and a final examination it seems now she set us up that good teachers are those who assign little work but give lots of a I hope you don't get a teacher like that because when you do you're
• 40:30 - 41:00 happy but you don't know it don't know much you know from that course ignorance is bliss that's what they say that ignorance causes most of the world problems clearly this is a misconception of a good teacher now she's going to set the record straight she's gonna argue what a good teacher is an instructor is generous in giving A's does not mean um that he or she is a grade a teacher in order to be a good teacher a person must
• 41:00 - 41:30 be we already shared this well prepared for class um oh that's a spelling there um enthusiastic about uh huh I didn't see that teaching and caring for students first of all good teachers should be well prepared before going to the classroom although
• 41:30 - 42:00 instructors as the first point preparation although instructors are generally very knowledge about the subject matters to be taught good planning will ensure quality teaching to attain the goal she develops the point adequate preparation of the teaching materials is necessary including topics to be covered examples to be used and exercises to be assigned this along with effective oral delivery and organized presentation will make classroom learning a positive experience in many
• 42:00 - 42:30 courses teaching AIDS such as well not using that now and that's older technology she wrote this a number of years ago such as overhead projector TV set and video cassette player now everything is DVD and CD are needed it is important that the instructional equipment be set up before the class begins many instruct distribute handouts to students well
• 42:30 - 43:00 you're getting them as um attachments since such auxiliary materials are intended to supplement the class lectures they should be welld designed furthermore useful references are put on reserve in the library as additional readings that's now digitized these days they can be checked out by the students to enhance their understanding of the course subjects concluding elment as a result of these coordinated efforts and course
• 43:00 - 43:30 what preparation high quality of teaching follows naturally a second trait possessed by most good teachers is the enthusiasm about teaching now she's going to talk about enthusiasm the instructor's attitude towards teaching contributes to the success or failure of a class without loss of generality what good teachers um are usually interested in sharing their knowledge with the students
• 43:30 - 44:00 they're also what concerned about whether and how much the students learn in most colleges a teacher is responsible for a limited number of courses and consequently transition word repetition of the same course is inevitable while many instructors might feel tired of teaching the same subject matters year after year good teachers are able to derive much satisfaction from that by taking Innovative
• 44:00 - 44:30 approaches for instance transition words they use different examples in different semesters or update the lecture notes on a regular basis by incorporating the State ofthe art in their respective fields of study other alternatives to make teaching more enjoyable include changing textbooks every several years inviting guest speakers to the class encouraging group discussion and promoting case presentations by
• 44:30 - 45:00 students they try very hard notice how this is welld developed to make sure that the students have a thorough understanding of the course materials due to their what enthusiasm you know she's emphasizing the point about teaching good professors not only enjoy classroom instructions but they also keep improving their teaching techniques based on the students's comments to
• 45:00 - 45:30 maintain a positive atmosphere in the class room a sense of humor I like how detailed this is or some real life examples or sometimes helpful in case there is a need to cancel a class responsible teacher would make it up one way or another to ensure the coverage of topics indicated in the course syllabus besides that's actually a transition word finding instructors know how to what motivate their students
• 45:30 - 46:00 I'm just hammering the points that she wrote they reward academic excellence and provide additional help to those individuals who do not perform well then the concluding statement in that paragraph it is apparent that good teachers are enthusiastic about teaching and are dedicated to their profession the next body paragraph third Point aside from class pration 0.1 and personal enthusiasm that was 0 two good
• 46:00 - 46:30 instructors also care for their students and then she explains how that can be done in class they take the time to explain Key Concepts notice or details illustrate important techniques and answer questions raised by the students outside the classroom they make themselves available during the office hours to assist students in their coursework term projects and so on in the capacity of advisor make sure you see your
• 46:30 - 47:00 advisors for the spring semester the next semester good uh teachers help their advisories with course scheduling as well as registration at the beginning of the semester at times they play the role of counselor by offering tips to the students for surviving the school or for resolving personal problems advisor it is not uncommon for a student to experience some unexpected rough times
• 47:00 - 47:30 such as sickness car accident or family death and hence request a special permission to hand in the assignment late or to take an examination beyond the scheduled period of time that responsibility lies with the student when that happens a considerate teacher would make every effort to accommodate the students needs to help him or her out and I always add within reason a teacher who really cares for the students usually shows genuine
• 47:30 - 48:00 concern about their Career Development I try to mention that almost every other class this can be reflected in the willingness of serving as a reference or writing letters of recommendation for graduating students notice vocabulary good sentences because of these the relationship between the students and a good instructor could go beyond the professional level to a personal one so that they eventually become friends concluding element to be
• 48:00 - 48:30 sure caring for students is a necessary though not sufficient condition for being a good teacher paragraph five tell me what you told me in summary good teachers are characterized by at least three desirable professional attributes well preparedness for class that was point one she kept it in order enthusiasm about teaching that was
• 48:30 - 49:00 point2 and genuine care for students point three they normally have adequate preparation before giving a lecture which is the key to the overall success of the class since fine instructors are enthusiastic about teaching taking their courses is always an exciting experience they also care about their students and like to see them succeed they distinguish themselves from their peers
• 49:00 - 49:30 through the commitment to Quality education Clincher you know and she's said a home run while it might not be easy to get an A from their classes they are indeed the grade A teachers and she is right on that's an outstanding piece of work that's why I put it in the booklet oh there are some things that have changed as far as
• 49:30 - 50:00 technology technology does change um even though I used some of it or used some of it and still can use some of it but technology has changed um now grade A teachers now I gotta do some wrapping up around here um because I want to get little bit further than I did see teacher classroom characteristics of the best educators and what I want to demonstrate is that she emphasized every one of these things
• 50:00 - 50:30 in her paper organization the best Educators tend to be organized they tend to be good managers is what it says this came from Time Magazine that's my source you know and she hadn't even read T Time Magazine when she wrote the paper because the article that I got this from hadn't been written yet lofty goals have high expectations of their students and themselves she mentions just about every one of these things you using different words Ingenuity varying their teaching
• 50:30 - 51:00 strategies forth thought handle discipline through prevention she didn't mention that per se empathy are usually warm and caring preparedness shot a paragraph on that one have a strong grasp of the subject matter approachability or readily accessible to students outside of class the best Educators as we research has said and she hit all just about all the
• 51:00 - 51:30 buttons now what you don't know is that that individual who wrote that paper was Chinese her second language English she didn't start off well in the course she had some some some issues in fact she began to do polay but she uh went to college in China and and so she learned how to study and she learned how to persevere she learned how to work hard and she
• 51:30 - 52:00 picked up English at least writing it as you can as you've heard extremely well you know and so there's no excuse for improving and being able to write well whether English is your second language or your 15th language or your only language that's the point I'm trying to make and I want to wrap up with the post-writing exercise I wrote it in the D2L I mean in the PowerPoint slide it's
• 52:00 - 52:30 also in D2L now I do have a few more things to do let me let me let me what was your biggest problem in writing this paper folks what was the easiest part about writing the paper don't forget to post-writing exercise and why did you select the audience that you did and don't forget audience and position on the outline uh let's pretend and this is a pretend example group of high school seniors academically talented group a
• 52:30 - 53:00 physics class you know that would have to be a topic dealing with science of some sort position I just made it up University Professor lecturing to potential physics Majors now we did uh have I didn't retype uh I may do that next time I don't know but we uh do have in the booklet um a sample um outline uh form
• 53:00 - 53:30 um uh filled out we do have one um I believe it's on 59 or 60 or somewhere thereabouts I didn't recopy it I should have done that um but I might still do that for next time um I hope you are reading through the booklet you know and there's a couple I have a few more things that I'll begin um the next class with um 34 oh I don't
• 53:30 - 54:00 know why I'm saying it but that's where I want to want to want to begin next time I just wrote it down um now H any questions any questions about the concluding paragraph and the body paragraph there are two other sample essays written by students in the booklet I am not going over those
• 54:00 - 54:30 I always choose one they used to choose grade A teachers because that's well one of my all-time favorites and that's why I published it in the uh booklet is everyone's okay I don't hear anything Dead Silence well anyway hope that's not a bad sign well I'm going to stop there I have a class immediately after this one as you know um have a good
• 54:30 - 55:00 day and we'll see you on Wednesday thank you you're welcome Santa Miss gagno thank you you're welcome Miss Morrison I'd like to hear a few voices on the way out bye