How to order your books: You can purchase these books through the Amazon Course Materials tool; search for Englwrit 112 on SPIRE to get the direct links. If you search for the books online, look for them using ISBN numbers to ensure that you’re getting the correct edition. All texts are also available on course reserve (print only) at the DuBois Library.

1. Read preface and all 5 “Inquiring Into The Self” sample essays in SWA pg.45-63

*Come up with one revision idea to share with the class based off a passage or rhetorical/structural decision from one of these 5 essays.

 

2. Begin revising using peer response feedback! Revised Draft due Thursday 2/7. Bring physical or digital working draft with you to class.

2. Context free write. (15 minutes) share with partner.

3. Context & identitree activity. How have intersecting contexts shaped your identity and ideas about the world?

4. Begin revising
5. Discuss homework. 
revision metaphor
assignment sheet free write

○ Example: "Failing your style tests will affect your grade, but the effect on your writing will be more serious." 

○ Example: “When a sentence includes a direct quote (that’s an introductory clause), the comma always goes inside the quotation marks,” the professor said. “So does the period.” 

○ Example: It’s going to cost more to attend college next year, because the university raised its tuition. 

○ Needless to say : If it’s needless to say, don’t say it. 

○ Example: "Students who did not qualify for their loans this year said they’re going to file new applications while there is still time." 

● Your, you’re : Your is possessive, meaning “belonging to you,” and you’re is a contraction for you are. 

○ Example: "Now you’re ready to test your skill by editing your essays." 

Some examples:

Harris, Muriel. "Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers." A Tutor's Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth, Heinemann, 2000, pp. 24-34.

Swanson, Gunnar. "Graphic Design Education as a Liberal Art: Design and Knowledge in the University and The 'Real World.'" The Education of a Graphic Designer, edited by Steven Heller, Allworth Press, 1998, pp. 13-24.

 

Assumption/Beliefs: Do you know why it is important for this author to express the views that are voiced in this text?

What is at stake for this author? What assumptions does she bring to the text that seem to be unquestioned?

 

Audience: Who does the author seem to be addressing with the text? What does the author seem to think this audience believes/assumes about the topic?

 

Context: What other positions does the essay refer to and/or imply are “out there” about this issue? What other solutions to the problems? What might other groups not included in the audience think?

Post assignment on google classroom. 

2. Upload your song to 112 playlist in google classroom in COMMENTS section. Please choose a community friendly song. We will only listen to the first 20 seconds or so. 

3. Draft 3 research questions from the show and tell activity/concept map. Use EW research question framework, Watch research question video. 

1. Discuss use of research in Bliss essay. Reading circle.
What kind of sources does Bliss include? 

How is research used?

 (10 minutes)

2. Intro Annotated Bibliography and expectations/When to cite video/CRAAP test. (10 minutes)

3. Project proposal peer share out and homework. 

4. Demo UMass Library research (10 minutes)

5. Class playlist (20 minutes)

*Minimum 2 sources from UMass library system

*Each annotation should be 200250 words minimum and include a summary and reflection for each source. See Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliography page for clarification

2. Read Texting and Language by Emily Smith in SWA p. 109-113.

● Does the song evoke a memory? 

● How does it make you feel?

Break up into groups and discuss thoughts on songs.

 
·      Why are you interested in this conversation? 

 

·      List 3 keywords to narrow your research

 

·      What is your central research question/problem?

o Response: working with old notions (10 minutes)

3. Focusing questions (10 minutes)

4. Annotated bibliography peer review. (10 minutes)

5. Homework and plagiarism policy. (5 minutes)

6. Music appreciation. (20 minutes)

- When it comes to research topics, what might you conclude about the value of lots of feedback early on in the process of writing? -
-  Did anyone get any questions they hadn't thought of? 
- You can get insight about what others already know from the questions listed on your page, as well as insight into what might interest an audience, what their questions might be as you go about researching this topic. 
-You get insight about what your audience knows or doesn't know, what it might be safe to assume and what you will have to explain. 

 Form five focusing questions about their topic, these should help guide (not limit your research) (10 minutes)

ii. Your project’s area of interest

iii. The intended audience for your project

iv. How your project is informed by, and comments on, your identity

v. The ideal publication for the public distribution of your project

vi. Elevator pitch; aka a brief, catchy summary of your project

2. Bring a developed project mock-up to our conference on either 4/16 or 4/18.

Please be on time for your conference.