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11/5: Collaborative Drafting & Task Schedule
Working as a Large Group Look more closely at “Our Collaborative Histories” for how students last semester articulated their common goal in their collaboratively written piece. Consider how their different narratives sit next to each other throughout their article. Working in Small Groups As a reminder, these are the groups you will be working in on the Collaborative History Project: Take time to work in your groups to compare your revised individual narratives that you posted BP4; I suggest moving these narratives into your straw document. Together, you will begin to answer these questions for your group: You may identify important similarities and differences between your narratives. Take note of…
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10/31: Project Management Day
Today’s goals move between collaborative work and individual work. I’m happy to structure class time so I direct what you’re doing or to allow you to move organically between the collaborative and individual. We can decide together how to move forward. Your work for the next two weeks is to complete your Collaborative History Project. Based on the feedback you gave me after last class, I’ve assigned your groups as follows: Once you’re in your groups, access Team Writing from BrightSpace. As per the advice in this reading, you will assign a project manager and create a straw document. (You will develop a task schedule next week.) As you work…
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10/29: Returning to Your Collaborative History
Access your recent blog post, BP3 where you wrote about your history of collaboration within a discourse community and used Bruffee to help you reflect on your collaboration. Give your post a re-read and think about if this collaboration experience is something you want to develop for your next major assignment, the Collaborative History Project. In pairs or small groups, share your posts with each other. Identify the questions you have about the Collaborative History Project and how you want to present your own history of collaboration within a community. Go back to your writing from class on 10/22 where you reflected on your recent collaboration in-class. Since you will be…
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10/24: Introducing the Collaborative History Project
Modes of Collaboration We’ll take a little more time today to review the readings you presented last class. Wendy and Yuantong will kick us off by presenting on Beck’s and Ofgang’s pieces. We used our class time to discuss collaborative writing and the ethics of working with A.I. HOMEWORK Carefully READ instructions for our next assignment, the Collaborative History Project and come to class with any questions you have. Take a look at this example of the Collaborative History Project from ENGL 201W in Spring 2024. It might also be helpful to look brieflt at these models of collaborative writing: McNamee & Miley and Efthymiou & Zea.
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10/22: Group Presentations
You’re leading class today! I’ll give you time in each of your groups to reconvene about presenting your assigned reading(s) to the class. As a reminder, you should summarize the reading(s) you’ve been assigned, identifying the author’s/authors’ main claim(s), any controversies they bring up, and important takeaways of the reading(s). I encourage you to choose relevant quotations as evidence in your presentation. Individual Writing Take a few minutes to reflect on how this recent collaboration worked. How would you describe the goals of your group work for today’s class? How did your group structure work or divide labor to fulfill your goals? What did you do together? What did you…
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10/10: Your History of Collaboration
We’ll begin today by revisiting Bruffee. Do you have questions or thoughts about the article? We’ll look together at p. 642, where Bruffee offers a definition that is related to how we’ve understood discourse communities: “A community of knowledgeable peers is a group of people who accept, and whose work is guided by, the same paradigms and the same code of values and assumptions.” Think about the work you just completed in your Discourse Community Analysis assignment. How does this definition align with or deviate from Gee’s and Johns’? INDIVIDUAL WRITING Think again of the many discourse communities in your life, but this time think specifically about when you’ve collaborated “in…
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10/8: Kenneth Bruffee Introduces Collaborative Learning to College English Teachers
RHETORICAL SITUATION We’ll begin by orienting ourselves to Bruffee’s “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind’” (available on Brightspace) by understanding the rhetorical situation of this piece. We did this with Gee earlier in the semester; specifically, we will chart what we know about the author, audience, and text to take stock of the information we have going into this reading. Group Work In your groups, (quickly) answer the following questions. You should use textual evidence from Bruffee’s article, and I welcome you to use any relevant personal evidence, as well: Within your groups, you will need to assign the following roles: scribe, presenter, and observer. After you’ve developed an…
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10/1: The History of Collaboration
In-class Writing Prompt Think back to a time in your life when you worked with others in a meaningful way. Maybe you were on a sports team or a community organization. Describe this collaboration. How did you and your partner(s) work together towards a common goal? How was labor divided? Did different people have different roles? Were there more experienced peers that helped those with less experience? Give as many details as possible. In groups Share your in-class writing with your group and consider the following together: Compare your collaborative experiences with each other. What similarities do you notice across your experiences? What differences? After sharing our writing as a…
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9/26: Writing Workshop Day 2
Peer Review Groups Please find your partner(s) for the day and sit together: You will spend today reviewing each other’s drafts alongside the rubric. HOMEWORK Work on Project 1, your Discourse Community Analysis.
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Writing Workshop Day 1
Writing Processes We’ll begin today by reflecting on our individual writing processes. Think about how you approach a writing task. Do you take a bunch of notes first and then organize your thoughts? Do you have to craft a “perfect” introduction with a one-sentence thesis before you can move on? Do you reread each sentence you write before you can move on to the next? Are you an outliner? A mapper? An all-nighter-writer? Take a few minutes to write about the kind of writer you are. When you finish writing, take a look at this short excerpt where Anne Lamott’s defines her idea of writing “Shitty First Drafts.” Decisions, decisions…
