Assignments: September 24 through 28

Monday, September 24

READ:

• WAW: Dawkins, "Teaching Punctuation as a Rhetorical Tool" (p. 139)
• ROW: Bryson, "Good English and Bad" (p. 61)

DUE:

• Dawkins:  
• One "Before You Read" activity
• Reading response, including summary of article, synthesis with at least 2 other articles, dialectical notebook for the article, answer QD 5 (p. 154) and MM (p. 155), and give your thought on the article and how you related to it
• Bryson:  (apparatus is on Blackboard) -- posted late.  do as soon as you find time.
• One "Before You Read" activity
• Reading response, including summary of article, synthesis with at least 2 other articles, dialectical notebook for the article, and give your thought on the article and how you related to it
• Project #1 in progress report:  write a 1-2 paragraph post (200 word minimum) about 
• where you are in you project
• what you have done so far
• what you plan to do
• how workshop went for you and how you would improve it

Wednesday, September 26

READ:  Sample research paper posted on Blackboard

DUE:  Peer review of the sample paper (bring hard copy to class)

Thursday, September 27

DUE:  Project #1 for Peer Edit.  Submit on Blackboard through SafeAssign by 8 p.m.

• This should be a complete draft, not something that you just threw out.  
• Remember to do some final editing.  Take time to read through your draft to check for any changes that you want to make before submitting it for peer review.
• Remember to include a Cover Letter.  See the assignment sheet for guidance.

Friday, September 28

READ:  Project #2 Assignment Sheet