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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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    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…

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    9/19: Working With Artifacts & Genres

    I’ll be using the words artifacts and genres interchangeably today as we move through an exercise in preparation for Project 1, the Discourse Community Analysis. HOMEWORK Your in-class writing in response to your artifact/genre is a draft of BP2. As a reminder, here is the prompt: According to Johns, genres enable communication within a discourse community and represent the “values, needs, and practices of the community that produces them” (56). What is the genre or artifact that represents your discourse community? Who is the author? For whom, specifically, is your genre composed? How does it represent the “values, needs, and practices” of your discourse? Finish composing BP2 in a post…