Laptop Woes

Our first item of interest today: vocabulary, specifically the words replete, arable, ubiquitous, and equanimity. Tomorrow, we will add for more words to our vernacular, and we will check to see if you have retained your knowledge from today.

The remainder of the class centered on the first assessment: student to professor e-mails. By 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 18, you will need to send me three separate e-mails. The topics for these e-mails are asking a question, reporting an absence/requesting makeup work, and requesting a rec letter. Make sure to pay attention to the details -- mechanics -- so that you will not receive any deductions on your e-mail evaluation. 

For tomorrow's class, we will be working with annotation and summary writing. We will not need laptops tomorrow, so it should be a smooth ride for us.