Project 1 Peer Review and Reading Response (For Monday)

For Monday, you'll need to complete two writing tasks, a review of a peer's Project 1 essay, and a Reading Response to the Brandt article. You also need to read that Chapter 3 Introduction in Writing About Writing. 

Here's how the peer review will work.

We'll assign partners and exchange e-mails in class. I'm hoping that I can get most people paired up with someone working on a similar topic. Partners will be expected to e-mail each other their drafts (including the cover letter inside the .doc) by no later than 3pm Friday (9/28)-the sooner the better really. If you do not receive a draft by this time, you need to send me an e-mail so I can send you the draft. Once you receive your partner's draft you'll want to follow the directions on the peer review sheet and critique your partner's essay inside their document. Once you finish (make sure you hit all the tasks on the peer review sheet), save the draft as a new file, for instance, Project1draftswithpeer'scomments.docx. Then e-mail this file back to your partner before class Monday. You'll also want to cc me on to the e-mail so I have a copy. If you can't figure out how to cc; just send me the new file you create in a separate e-mail. Please remember that your peer review is a major obligation according to the contract and I do expect you to do some thorough work, but please also keep in mind what we are going for when we critique someone eles's writing-constructive criticism, sweet before the sour.

For the reading response on Brandt, please do the pre-reading, summary, synthesis, and personal response as usual and respond only to question 1 under Applying and Exploring Ideas.

Beyond the Red Ink

If you missed class 9/21, make sure you watch and think about this short video. We're moving into a phase in the course where we'll start commenting on each other's work and we need to be careful and ethical about how we do that. This includes my comments on your drafts as well as your comments on peers' work.

Intro/Conversation Assignment

For Friday, you should write a draft of your Project 1 Introduction and "conversation"- This is due to your blogs at 9 pm on Thursday evening so that I have a little time to look over your work and select some examples to discuss the next day in class. This piece is process work and doesn't need to be polished; however, I do expect you to meet certain requirements to get credit for this assignment:

1). Introduce your topic/construct. This draft should provide a fuller introduction to your topic/construct than you provided in the proposal. It should also be written for an audience beyond me, an audience composed of other academics and students interested in writing studies. If it helps you, you can think back to the target audience on the assignment sheet: readers of the journal Young Scholars in Writing.  Something you'll need to remember when thinking about this audience, then, is that you can't take for granted that your reader knows anything about the assignment (in fact you shouldn't even talk about the assignment) or the assigned readings. You may even need to explain the term "construct" if you use it. Though it's fine to use a term like "misconception."

You should spend some considerable time providing detailed information about your construct and how you are dealing with it -challenging it, complicating it, etc. As in the proposal, you'll want to explain how the construct is visible in culture and how it is perpetuate by different individuals.

2) Summarize the scholarly conversation. Your draft should also attempt some synthesis of at least 5 sources. In the synthesis, you'll want to emphasize the similarities and differences  between different author's treatments of your topic. For example, if you're considering the construct that "good writing?teaching=good grammar"- how do these different authors  challenge that idea with their own arguments? This summary should get you thinking about YOUR ideas and what you can add to the conversation. Who do you agree with and disagree with? What arguments are left out or misrepresented? End this draft by thinking about where your own thoughts/ideas fit in.

Remember- Post to your blogs but also save a digital copy (Ms. Word) for your portfolio. Title it: Project 1 Intro/Conversation.

Grammar Sources

Andrews, Richard, et al. “The effect of Grammar Teaching on Writing Development.” British Educational Research Journal. 32.1 (2006): 39–55.

Conference on College Composition and Communication. “Students' Right to Their Own Language.” CCC 25 (1974): n. p. NCTE.org. Conference on College Composition and Communication. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Delpit, Lisa. “The Politics of Teaching Literate Discourse.” Teaching Composition, 3^rd ed. Ed. T. R. Johnson. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2008. 491–502.

Donahue, Christiane. “’Internationalization’ and Composition Studies: Reorienting the Discourse.” CCC 61.2 (2009): 212–43. 

Dunn, Patricia A., and Kenneth Lindblom. “Why Revitalize Grammar?” The English Journal 92.3 (2003): 43–50.

Ehrenworth, Mary. “Grammar—Comma—A New Beginning.” The English Journal 92.3 (2003): 90–96.

Hartwell, Patrick. “Grammar, Grammars, and the Teaching of Grammar.” College English 47.2 (1985): 105–27. 

Micciche, Laura R. “Making a Case for Rhetorical Grammar.” CCC 55.4 (2004): 716–37. 

National Council of Teachers of English. “Resolution on Grammar Exercises to Teach Speaking and Writing” NCTE.org. National Council of Teachers of English. 1985. Web. 16 Nov. 2010.

Sources for Texting / Writing Construct

*Naomi Baron, “Instant Messaging and the Future of Language.”

(Communications of the ACM 2005). Research demonstrates that computer-mediated communication such as SMS texting and IM chatting is not the death of good language and formal writing.

*Crispin Thurlow & Alex Brown, “Generation Txt?: The Sociolinguistics of Young People’s Text Messaging.” (Discourse Analysis Online 2003). In-depth discourse analysis of a corpus of text-messaging, finding that ultimately SMS is not radically different from other forms of communication.

You'll have to plug these titles into ArticlesPlus and see if you can find them but they look like excellent sources.

Ways of Seeing on Youtube

A Clip from John Berger's documentary "Ways of Seeing"- I'm thinking about showing this in class. But you can check it out beforehand, if you like.

Source on Plagiairsm

Here's a source on plagiarism I noticed today. Those of you writing on this topic might find it useful. You can get to it through ArticlesPlus


Anson, Chris M. "Fraudulent Practices: Academic Misrepresentations Of Plagiarism In The Name Of Good Pedagogy."Composition Studies 39.2 (2011): 29-43. ERIC. Web. 7 Sept. 2012.

Library Research Prep. Assignment

In preparation for our lesson on research this friday (remember we're meeting in Gordy 012 ), I'd like you to check out the library course guide prepared for our class. Review all the tabs but pay special attention to the "Tutorials" tab. There are four videos there that detail how do perform different research tasks. Please write a short summary of at least 3 of these videos and post it to your blog with the title "Research Tools: Summary." When we meet Friday, we'll get to look at some other databases and you'll also get a chance to do some research. These summaries are due to your blogs before class Friday for credit.

Link to Library Guides: http://libguides.library.ohiou.edu/content.php?pid=354005&sid=2898622