Friday the 13th (April-style)

Today was a work day/announcement day in class. I'll post the time schedule for the conferences on Monday. Until then, here are the announcements we went over.

Announcements!! Some things to consider…

This coming Monday: Rough draft is due

·        Bring copies/computer for peers to look at

·        AND one hard copy for me to look at before our writing conferences in the next two days

Final Learning Blog and Presentation Criteria

The Final Learning Blog and Presentation (30 pnts total)

The Learning Blog:

·        This is the only one for this unit, so take that into consideration

·        This pulls together your learning about writing, etc. that has taken place this semester in English 101

·        It will probably contain those  big “takeaways” from this class (or those major points of learning)

·        It should be quite a bit longer (for some of you…)

Monday, April 9

Hope that everyone is thinking about their Grassroots articles! Today in class, we had a quick (yet somewhat indepth) discussion on two areas in the construction of these: Content and Criteria/Research. Be sure to continue to think about these two aspects and utilize them wisely as you work to conceptualize your stories.

In Wedneday's class, we'll be discussing three more aspects pertinent to your writing: The visual elements, the abstract, and the (often forgotten) title. Happy writing!

GWRJ Final Rubric

GWRJ Class Rubric

Article Format: (these are all pretty mandatory points):

·         A hybrid genre (with close analysis, it’s possible to see evidence of lots of other genres in the texts; aka “a genre on the move”)

·         Title

·         Abstract

·         Paragraph format

·         Attention getter

·         Visual Element

·         Headings (optional)

·         3-5 pages, 12 pnt font

Audience: (mandatory point)

·         Writers 

Wednesday, April 4

In class today, we finalized the grassroots rubric which you will use to construct your own article. You can find a copy of this rubric contained in the next post on this blog. For Friday, you will want to post your proposal for the article. We'll discuss them in class that day.

Monday, April 2

In class today, we began our discussion of the Grassroots Writing Research Journal and the rubrics which we will use to help us construct our own articles.

For Wedneday, you'll want to read Koehler's article on page 21 and my grassroots article, making changes/updates to the rubric as you see fit. We'll briefly discuss the articles and finalize the rubric for class on Wedneday. I added some more points to the rubric from your group assignments, so you'll notice some changes

Proposal for GWRJ Article: Due Friday, April 6

Here are the questions you need to have answered on your blog for this Friday. I'll give you feedback during Friday's class period.

1. A general topic description
2. Describe the specific genre(s) that your article will explore (if any)
3. An explanation of the author's perspective (i.e. are you planning to creat a personal narrative of your own experience, or to research how other people writer, or what?)
4. Potential use of visual elements
5. Discuss your plans for citing research in your articles

Questions 4 and 5 will be elaborated more in coming classes, so don't worry if you don't have a definite answer to these yet--just an "educated guess."