Summer 2003: Week 8

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Week 8:   Mission

Continuing with the third unit of processing information we move forward with pulling everything together this week.  Our mission this week is to continue to draft work for our MRP, peer review the fifth and sixth genres from last week, and continue revising any of the genres. 



Class Meeting:  July 29, 2003

This week we will be meeting at the MOO for a brief period of time.  I want you to have an opportunity to talk together about your work...share your frustrations and successes.



Assignment 3.2.1:  Unsubscribe - mailing list
(optional) 

As the class draws to a close you may want to unsubscribe from the mailing lists you joined.  The welcome messages you received should enable you to do that without much difficulty.  If you have questions or difficulties, send email to the class list. 



Assignment 3.2.2:  MRP:  Draft Genre 7, Preface, Acknowledgements, About the Author
Due:  August 3, 2003 (midnight)

This week you should draft your last genre, preface, acknowledgements section, and about the author section.  Refer to the instructions for the Multigenre Research Project to remind yourself what belongs in each of these sections.  In addition, you may wish to refer back to some of your writings from earlier in the semester to complete these sections. 

Be thinking this week about how you may want to introduce your MRP on your blog.  For instance, where do you want people to start?  How will they move from one genre to the other?  Next week you'll be organizing this information on your web page.

Assignment 3.2.3:  Peer Response Groups
Due:  August 3, 2003 (midnight)

Last week each of you developed two more genres as part of your MRP.  This week, let's do peer response groups on those.  Continue to provide peer reviews at your group mates' nicenet classes. 

Below is a suggested format for the information I want you to include in your peer review/response.  Remember that this an assignment for each of you so I expect that you will be discerning and critical (not just affirmative) in reviewing each other's work.  Your responses need to be specific and useful to the author while providing them with direction about where and how their work is strong and where and how it isn't.

Format:

  • Voice:  Whose voice is this piece in?
  • Audience:  Who is this piece written for?
  • Say Back:  What do you think the author is saying with this piece?  (not what do you think they mean to say, but what are they actually saying)
  • Bless:  Find something specific in each piece that you can "bless."  You might like the originality of an idea, a particular word used, whatever.
  • Address:  Find something specific in each piece that the author should "address."  Make this something that will actually improve the quality of the piece...your group mates are counting on you to help them make their work stronger (just like you are counting on them).

Assignment 3.2.4: Online Journal
Due:  August 3, 2003 (midnight)

Sometime between Friday (August 1) and Sunday (August 3) at midnight, post your weekly online journal.  You will be posting your online journal entries (as well as some other items) to your nicenet online journal.  Please note that this assignment, unlike most of the others, does NOT enjoy the two week completion time.  In other words, your online journal postings must be made each week (between Friday and Sunday midnight as explained in the instructions) in order to receive credit for them.  Please review the Instructions for Online Journals to ensure acceptable completion  of this assignment.

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