Blog Assignments

[find your readings in your required texts, on reserve, or at the “Readings” tab above]

Deadlines and Blog Assignments have been moved to the front page. Click “home” for those time-sensitive details.

before noon Sunday, 10/18

Everyone should sign up to be involved with the Commerce Week on Writing in a way that extends beyond this particular class. Use your blog to post what you will be doing and how and why. Use this blog to post regular reports of what you have done and have planned to do.

How will you help? Specifically.

What will that help entail? How will you go about it? Keep us informed so we don’t rework ground you’ve already covered. Keep up with one another through the blogroll. This will be mroe important over the next couple weeks than ever before.

–NOTE–Whoever took over developing the Instructors Guide for the outside reading/video/audio projects (Before You Read/After You Read questions) should certainly take that into consideration when signing up to help with other projects. We certainly will!

We’ll want that guide by Friday, 10/16, if at all possible. Monday, 10/19, if the previous Friday isn’t possible.

before noon Sunday, 10/24

Between now and the Sunday, 10/24, post your reviews or other attempts to document the Commerce Week on Writing for our NCoW entry (“Spotlight On Community”) and the document we will be sharing with the campus and community that brings together reviews and other documentation of the week’s events and potential impact.

Week 6 and 7 in Review

Week 6 in review:

D’Andra will be bringing together all of your blurbs and promotional materials to share as a single document (or at least link out to those materials provided elsewhere. We hope to be able to circulate that before the end of this week.

Week 7 in review:

We need someone to take on the challenge of bringing all of your reviews/other “during” activities and thinking through a way to share that document across the campus and in the community. We will use this as a springboard activity for generating a “Spotlight On Community” category for NCoW. Review the “Spotlight On” sections of NCoW (at http://www.ncow.org/site ) for more about what we hope this project will eventually become. But for now it is enough to focus on the Commerce Week on Writing.

before noon Sunday, 10/11

Commerce Week on Writing, http://convergingliteraciescenter.wordpress.com/events

For one event taking place during the Commerce Week on Writing, write up a detailed summary that covers items like these: (1) What is the event? (2) Where will it take place? (3) Who is the primary audience? (4) Who is organizing the event? (5) Why should folks go? What will they get out of it? (6) What contribution does this make to the Commerce Week on Writing? AND generate a draft of a potential flier for this event. Bring both to class and/or post them to your blog so we can access them during class and talk about them.

1. NCoW Theater (organizer, Carter, with Luca Morazzano)- Sean F-W

2. Writing Local History (organizer, Conrad with Carter)

3. Norris Community Project (organizer, Hendricks with Carter and Dunbar-Odom- Laura

4. Story Slam! (organizer, Tabetha Adkins, with JP Sloop) (already done)

5. “No Experience Necessary” (organizer, Jim Anderson)- Sean K

6. Writing Center Open House/Memoir Workshop (organizer, Tabetha Adkins with JP Sloop)- Mandy

7. Artist Lecture (organizer, Michael Miller) [title: On Being an Artist: Daily Affirmations and Gang Jargon]

8. Artist Lecture (organizer, Josie Durkin)

9. Literacy Narratives from three PhD students (organizer, Dunbar-Odom, with Carter)- Toni (news release)

10. Something else I’m forgetting

Instead of the “Week in Review,” someone will be responsible for compiling these various reviews and promotional materials into a single document we can circulate to use in promoting the entire event.

We will need that before the typical Sunday noon deadline, if at all possible. By Friday, 10/16? Earlier?

before noon Sunday, 10/4

–EL, Chapter 5- Sean Kennedy

–EI, Chapter 6- Sean F-W

–EI, Chapter 7- Mandy

–EI, Chapter 8- Toni

–EI, Chapter 9- Laura

–Draft of WA1, WA2, or WA3

–Week 5 in Review (due Sunday, October 11, by noon)- Kim

Toni (already finished)–Week 5 in Review (due Sunday, October 3, by noon)

Before class next week:

Before and After Questions for next week:

What Empirical… Kim

What They Bring… Laura

I Hate Writing… Mandy

Yancey… toni

Who is a Writer…. Sean K

WA2… D’Andra

WA3… Sean F-W

before noon Sunday, 9/27

Laura–EI, Chapter 5

Sean K–WA3 (for 101)

Mandy–“I Hate Writing” (video)

Sean F–“What They Bring with Them” (video)

Kim–Bruffee

Toni–Commerce Week on Writing

D’Andra–Week 4 in Review (due Sunday, October 6, by noon)

before noon Sunday, 9/20

Sean K–EL, chapter 3

Laura–Harris, “Talking in the Middle”

Kim–Video, “An Empirical Look at a Writing Program’s Commenting Practices”

Assessing Writing: “’Sh*t-plus,’ ‘AWK,’ ‘Frag,’ and ‘Huh?’: An Empirical Look at a Writing Program’s Commenting Practices”—a video by graduate students and their professor (Asao B. Inoue, California State University-Fresno) sharing their research on commenting practices in a first-year writing program, studying undergraduate students and their responses to instructor comments. (graduate students involved in the creation of this video are Jocelyn Scott, Maryann Jamali, Megan McKnight, Meredith Bulinski, Andy Dominguez, Sharla Seidel, Holly Riding)

Sean: Yancey, “Writing in the 21st Century”

Yancey, Kathleen Blake. “Writing in the 21st Century.” A Report from the National Council of Teachers of English. February 2009.

Mandy: WA2 and reflections

D’Andra: “Literacies for Further Learning” (video) and other details for WA2 (see “Deadlines” tab for more details on this assignment, listed for Week 2)

See “Deadlines” tab above for details.

before class Tuesday, 9/22

Toni will respond to each of the above posts and, before 9/27, post “Week 4 in Review” to the “Teaching Writing” blog (Week in Review tab)

before noon, Sunday 9/13

–see “Deadlines” tab for details

EI, chapter 2 (Kim)

EI, Chapter 3 (Mandy)

EI, Chapter 4 (Laura)

Literacies for Further Learning, fodder for WA2 (Jonathan)

NDoW/NGoW (Sean K)

D’Andra/Laura will post a synopsis of our Week 2 conversations/findings/tips/resources, both online and face-to-face, to the Teaching Writing blog under the “Week in Review” tab.(perhaps just D’Andra, as she explains her involvement with the blogging activity up to this point, but that’s up to this team)

before class Tuesday, 9/15

D’Andra will respond to each of your posts above

before Sunday, 9/20, noon

D’Andra will post a synopsis of our conversations/findings/tips/resources, both online and face-to-face, to the Teaching Writing blog under the “Week in Review” tab.

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