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11/12: Rubric Review & Introducing Autoethnography
Rubric Review for Collaborative History Project Your Collaborative History Project is due in class today. Take some time in your groups to review your projects using the rubric. How long will your group need to complete any final revisions? Introducing Autoethnography We’ll take some time today to look at an example of the next genre we’ll be studying and eventually writing: autoethnography. What do you notice about the word “autoethnography”? What do you think it means based on what we know about language in general? Together, we will read the first two pages of Dr. Shareen Inayatulla’s chapter “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis: An Automythnography.” Based on this reading, we…
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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…
