1) The due date is being moved back to next Sunday, September 26th to give you plenty of time to do this assignment.
2) Unless you received an email from me personally, you only have to do 175-200 words for this blogpost since you came and stayed through the event.
3) Guidelines for this and all future blogposts:
A) 400-500 words (or 175-200 in this case) means that 399 or less and 501 or more aren't acceptable for most professors. As this class is meant to teach you how to succeed in college, including writing, your posts from here on out will be penalized 2 points for going under or over the word limit.
B) Likewise your response (don't forget to do this too!!) will be penalized 1 point for going under or over the 75-100 word count.
C) Feel free to use "I" since this is deemed a response paper. It's ok to be informal in an informal setting.
D) A short grammatical note since many of you missed this last time (and I won't take off points, don't sweat it, but professors might!): "affect" is a verb- you affect something- vs. "effect" is a noun- it has an effect on you.
E) Also in all writing, refer to authors by their first and last name when you first introduce them and then their last thereafter.
I hope these tips help you guys become better college-level writers, I wanted to go over them in class but we simply didn't have time!
4) Finally, the topic: Which question (please pick just one) from the diversity event did you find particularly surprising, offensive, thought-provoking, annoying, chaotic, funny, or weird? Did you join the "agree" or "disagree" side? What made you feel that way? What argument or statistics would you bring to a discussion about this statement? What does the other side say? How can you politely and thoughtfully refute their idea?
I really wanted to get you guys a list of the questions, but the office that put on the event won't give it to me. If you need helping coming up with a question to address, let me know!
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