Assignments

= = =Requirements for Revising Essays:=

=Proposal for Selecting Discourse Community:=

====As explained in class, you will be selecting a discourse community to research for the entirety of the semester. This means that you will write about your chosen discourse community to fulfill the requirements for essays 1-5. In order to ensure your success for selecting a discourse community that YOU CAN write about for 14 weeks, the following proposal must be completed, submitted, and approved by your instructor.====

====Here is the electronic version of the Proposal, which you will also receive as a hard copy in class. As the directions state, please copy and paste this proposal into a new Google Document, fill it out, and submit it by sharing it with your instructor (mgrohow@gmail.com) before class starts on **Tuesday, 8/28.**==== = =

[[file:Discourse Community Proposal  Grohowski.doc]]
==== Maybe the above document, my filled out version of the proposal can be a model to help you fill out your own proposal? You are free to read this model proposal for some insight into how you might complete your proposal. I hope this will be of help. Realize that there is no right or wrong answers to these questions-- I am looking for evidence that you are thinking and understand what a discourse community is. I am also looking to make sure that you can write 5 essays about your chosen community. ====

=Semester-Long Blogging Assignment:=

====We will be blogging throughout the semester as a way to reflect upon readings and discussions, as a means of brainstorming and drafting ideas for your essays, and as a way for connecting class content to real world happenings. Your instructor will subscribe to your blog and comment on the blog throughout the semester. You will be given prompts to address in the writing of your blogs. However, you are also welcome to blog beyond the assigned posts. I ask that you set up a Blogger blog. Blogger is free and accessible to anyone with a Google / Gmail account, which is required for you to use Google Docs. The following document will help you set up your account.====

====Clicking on this link will download a very modest tutorial for setting up your blog (on blogger.com) as well as how to compose and publish your first post. At the very least, you'll want to glance at this, unless you are a seasoned blogger.====

====If you are having trouble with this process please consider the document more closely. If after reading and trying things out, you still can't get it to work, please DON'T HESITATE to CONTACT ME. You can also watch these helpful videos from blogger.com. The videos are short tutorials on all things blogger (from changing privacy settings to blogging from your mobile phone).====

=Prompt for Blog Post due 9/4:=

You may choose one or more of the questions to write about or you may choose to simply ignore these questions and use your post to reflect on the readings as you wish.

 * ====Share what you learned or found most valuable from the assigned reading and why.====
 * ====When if ever, and why, have you ever thought about paragraphs and writing "well developed" or specific kinds of paragraphs?====
 * ====What kinds of paragraphs (from the types you read about) do you think you will use for essay 1; why?====
 * ====GSW calls topic sentences and transitional phrases, sentences, and paragraphs "metadiscourse" (see the rubric). Why do you think that topic and transitional sentences are important in writing?====

Help with Peer Review:
All semester long we will be engaging in Peer Review. The attached document may prove helpful for those of you who are a bit uncertain or hesitant to offer suggestions or criticism to your peers. I like it because it shows peer review in action. Personally, it makes me feel like I too could offer similar feedback to a peer. What do you think?

=Directions for Peer Review // Revision Plan Assignment Explained: =

=Directions for Peer Review Draft Commenting: =