Here are the guidelines for the Final Portfolio. The Portfolio should be 75% done (at least) by Wednesday, May 3rd. We will be peer reviewing Portfolios and Narratives in class that day. Your completed portfolio should be turned in no later than Monday, May 8th at 5pm. No late Portfolios will be accepted. Portfolios must be completed in order to pass the course. If I cannot find a link to […]
Using Six Word Stories (or “Sixers”), answer the following reflective questions about your experiences with the WiD Analysis project. Be creative, and have fun with your responses. (Sixers often abstract their subject matter with humor or other emotion.) When you’ve finished, choose one sixer to expand upon in a full paragraph. Upload your responses to your shared folder for this class when you’re finished. In regards to content or subject matter, […]
First Draft Due: April 24th Peer Review: April 24th Second Draft Due: April 26th Final Individual Conferences: April 26th-27th Final Draft Due: May 1st This assignment will ask you to explore the types of experiences that you have had, and to document them using a specific genre – the resume or curriculum vita (CV). In addition, you will be responsible for writing a 2-3 page analysis of those experiences. Where […]
Get out your notes from the last class you had in your major (could have been something from last week, last semester – whatever. Take a moment to think about how you would start to explain the goals, ideas, and theories of that lecture or lesson to someone else in your major who wasn’t taking the class. Write that explanation in 25 words – no more, no less. Then, do […]
For our exercise today, work with a partner who shares your major. Choose one of the professional genres from our previous class. After reading through the scenario below, respond using one of those genres. Think about the type of document you’d need to respond as a professional in your field. For instance, what would a report written by a police officer regarding this event sound like? What would a vet’s […]
Part I. The Genre Project As we start thinking about what it means to compose and communicate in our majors, I’d like to turn us back briefly to the idea of genres. UNC has a great, developing resource to help us think about what types of papers you’ll often be assigned to write in classes for different majors, as well as genres you’ll need to work with professionally. Take a minute to […]
First Draft Due: April 5th Second Draft Due: April 12th Individual Conferences: April 12th-13th Final Draft Due: April 19th For this paper, you’ll need to rely upon the skills of rhetorical analysis and genre identification that you’ve honed throughout the semester. What does it mean to be a writer and communicator in and about the profession you are hoping to go pursue as a career? This project will require you to […]
Part I. Reflective Writing We’ll take about 20 minutes to thoroughly respond to the following questions. Please answer in paragraph form. What insights did you gain into your communication habits as you took on your observations of digital discourse communities? How do you see your relationship to your discourse community differently, now that you’ve spent a concentrated period of time observing and analyzing it? How does the writing process you […]
In addition to the ethnographic research you’ll need to do for your Empirical Research Project, you will need to include some quantitative data. This data will be used to supplement your observations, and to give you some insight into another research methodology. As you compile this data, keep in mind the following based on our class discussion on 3/20 and 3/27: Select a specific range of data to examine. Remember […]
Here is an example of a student’s quantitative data analysis. (And here is another.) What are they missing? What do they do well? What does the use of quantitative data do for the claims they are making? (Note: Remember that this student was working on a different assignment than the ERP we are doing in this class.) Part I. – Reading and Analyzing Before I ask you to think about […]
