1. Collect WA1 revision (with changes highlighted from previous draft), the version responded to during Peer Review, and your Research Journal entry #3.
2. Discuss Commerce Week on Writing and your potential involvement.
3. The date for the Fall 2009 Celebration of Student Writing is set! It’ll be at “The Club” in the Sam Rayburn Center on Friday, December 11, from 4:00-5:00. Ready yourself for some noisy, interactive displays of student research worth celebrating (vid at http://www.ncow.org/browse/video/carter_worthcelebrating.html)! See syllabus for more about this event, which will be followed by your individual presentations that will take place during our scheduled final exam time the following week.
4. Generate your blog, prepare your profile, and consider ways to ready the blog in other ways to prepare it to be as useful to you as possible as you make your way through your readings and research.
For next time:
1. Read Yancey’s essay (see “Resources” above) and Resnick (in your book).
2. For RJ4: Complete the Before You Read and After You Read questions before and after Resnick’s article. Use these to generate a thoughtful post to your new blog, which will serve as RJ4. Or just go with the questions/answers format. Up to you, but the former will probably prove more useful to you as you make your way toward your final project. Read and respond to Yancey’s piece, as well.
Some good questions to use whenever you are reading something informing your (potential) research project: What are the key arguments here? What might this tell us about literacy as it manifests itself in local contexts (particularly THIS local context, as your research for this course will deal with Commerce, on campus and/or in the community). What does this make you think about, especially as it informs a potential research project for you? Does the article raise any major questions for you? Any concerns you’d like to investigate through your own, original research? Like what? What research questions does this article yield that might warrant further investigation? Any ideas for that final project yet? (questions/prompts also available at the “Research” link above).
3. Don’t forget to bring a camera! You can work in teams and share a camera, but only if you are going to be able to share the images relatively easily.
English 102-Honors 