Writing and Rhetoric 1

Friday, September 28, 2012

Project #2 Groups

Here are the groups I have determined for Project #2. If you feel that you will not work well with someone in your group, please let me know by Monday (Oct. 1) so that I can rearrange.

Aubrey, Ally, JD, and Allison Shenk
Quinn, Aaron, and Wesley
Greg, Megan, Gina, and Abby
Maia, Taylor, and Peter
Allison Sharpe, George, and Michael

My essay is looking at the conversation of coordinating conjunctions. Many students are taught growing up that coordinating conjunctions are not suppose to be used at the beginning of a sentence. Later in their schooling students then learn that in fact coordinating conjunctions can be used at the beginning of a sentence. The purpose of my paper is to argue that students should be taught at a younger age the rules of coordinating conjunctions. My paper also reflects the teaching methods used to teach coordinating conjunctions and how they can be improved.

I thought this paper would be effective because the coordinating conjunction rule is one that I had learned growing up and I thought would be interesting to explore. I organized my paper into different sub categories. A situation a lot of students can relate to, the rules students are taught, breaking the rules students are taught, the teaching methods, and how they could be improved. I think the teaching part is the strongest part of the paper. I think the breaking the rules is the weakest. I would like my peers to comment honestly; about the organization, things that don’t make since, and things they thought were most effective. I would also like suggestions about editing mistakes.

While writing this paper I’ve learned a lot about my own writing process. Since this was the first paper that I’ve written without strict five paragraph essay guidelines I struggled at first to get ideas, I rearranged ideas, quotes, and whole paragraphs at times during the revising stage. When I was in the middle of writing I found a direction I wanted to continue with so I had to go research some more. The whole process was a lot freer roaming than high school papers. Before I would research write and then edit, with this paper it’s taken a lot more going back, rethinking, rewriting, and researching. I have a better respect for writing after this paper.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Assignments: Week 6

Monday, October 1

READ:

Chapter 3 Introduction, "Literacies: How Have You Become the Reader and Writer You Are Today?" (p. 328)
Brandt, "Sponsors of Literacy" (p. 331)

DUE:

Reading response to Brandt:

1 "Before you read" exercise
summary of article (please include audience)
synthesis connecting to at least two other articles we have read
dialectical notebook with a minimum of 5 quotations (please type the entire quotation)
Meta Moment (p.352)
Your thoughts: try to connect to your own experience

Bring a hard copy of your Works Cited page from Project #1
PEER REVIEW

Follow the directions for Peer Review as outlined on the assignment sheet
Write a cover letter addressing what you thought worked well in the paper and what you had concerns about. Again, follow assignment guidelines.

NOTE: You will want to turn on Track Changes under the Review tab in Word before you begin making comments.
Partners: email your essay and cover letter to your partner. If you do not receive the email from your partner containing the essay, please let me know by midnight Friday, September 28.

Aaron and Allison Shenk
Aubrey and Megan
Gina and Micheal
Wesley and Greg
Allison Sharpe and Ally
George and Peter
JD and Maia
Quinn to Taylor; Taylor to Abby; Abby to Quinn

Your Peer Review is due to be returned to the original author before the beginning of class on Monday, October 1
When you email the Peer Review draft back, CC me (your instructor)

Wednesday, October 3

READ:

bell hooks, "Writing Autobiography" ROW (p. 117)
Malcolm X, "Learning to Read" WAW (p. 353)
Sherman Alexie, "The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me" WAW (p. 362)

DUE:

do 1 "Before you read" exercise from either Malcolm X or Alexie
Dialectical notebook for both Malcolm X and Alexie with at least 6 quotations (please include the full quotation)
hooks (posted on Blackboard)

do 1 "Before you read" exercise
summarize
synthesize with at least 3 other authors
dialectical notebook (minimum of 4 full quotations)
answer AE 5 from the apparatus
your thoughts

Post personal literacy narrative (should be at least 300 words. can be a "shitty" rough draft)

HANDOUT AND DISCUSSION GROUP: Malcolm X and Sherman Alexie (responsible for 40 minutes discussion and 2 handouts) (responsible for personal literacy narrative, not for the reading response)

Gina
Aubrey
JD
Taylor
Allison

Friday, 5 October

READ: Dennis Baron, "From Pencils to Pixels: The Stages of Literacy Technologies" WAW (p. 422)

DUE:

Baron

1 "Before you read" exercise
Summary
Synthesis (connect with at least 2 other authors; try to be thorough)
Dialectical notebook (with at least 5 full quotations)
QD 1
Your thoughts

Project #1 Final Essay due with Cover Letter for Instructor

turn in via SafeAssign on Blackboard
due by 5 p.m.
any hand written materials used in your process that I have not seen should either be turned in during class or scanned and emailed

an image guide to posting your rough draft

After you log on to Blackboard,
go here:

then here:

third:

and finally, post.

The following image is what it should look like when you go back to look at your report. Please remember that SafeAssign does not have a lot of the authors or articles we are working with in the database and that we are not submitting works to the database. We are using SafeAssign as a tool. If you have cited your sources correctly, any highlighted areas should either be in quotation marks, from your Works Cited, or be fairly common phrases.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Turning in Project #1 for PEER Review

First, you need to do a cover letter. Please do not forget.

Directions:

When you turn in your projects both for peer review and for my feedback (you must revise to reflect changes you made based on peer feedback), you will need to include a reflective cover letter that

briefly states the main purpose you wanted to accomplish with the paper
explains why you thought your project would be effective (the version for me also needs to explain what changes you made after peer feedback and why, and if you did not make recommended changes, why not;
discusses what parts of your project you think are working well and which parts you think could be better, as well as anything you would like your peers to make sure to comment on;
reflects on what you think you’ve learned about writing (what it is, how it works, your own relationship to it) and attempts to articulate your developing theory of writing based in that reflection.

You need to make sure that your COVER LETTER, your DRAFT, and your WORKS CITED are all in one document before you submit to SafeAssign on Blackboard.

On Blackboard, go the the ASSIGNMENTS section. Select the PROJECT #1 folder. Click on VIEW/COMPLETE under "Project #1 Peer Review Draft," and submit your paper.

I look forward to looking at what you turn in.