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Week 8: October 13-19, 2003
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Week 8: Mission
This week we move into the third unit of our course of study this semester: Processing Information. In truth, you've begun to do that as you worked on the first three genres that have been posted. As we continue to add genres to your MRP, you'll find yourself thinking hard about how the information comes together...processing the information. Our mission this week will be to draft genre #4 and peer review genre #3. We'll take another week off from the MOO but I'll encourage you to use that time to work on your assignments for the week.
Class Meeting: October 15, 2003
There will be NO class meeting at the MOO this week. Instead, use this time to get your homework done or go to a lab and work with Powerpoint if you need to (or go enjoy the Fall Festival sponsored by NSSLHA).
Assignment 3.1.1: MRP: Draft Genres (one)
Due: October 19, 2003 (midnight)
This week you must post a draft of one more genre for your MRP to your webspace (make sure you have links to these on your home page or some easy way for your classmates and myself to visit them). I've made available some assistance in developing your genres. Please visit the following:
If, in your searching, you locate web sites that might be helpful to others in developing certain genres, please send them to the class list and I'll be happy to include them in the documents above.
Assignment 3.1.2: Peer Response Groups
Due: October 19, 2003 (midnight)
Last week each of you posted the third genre to your MRP. This week, let's do peer response groups on these. We'll be working in the groups we've used on the MOO (listed below to remind you). Each of you must provide a peer response on the most recent genres posted by each person in your group.
The best way to accomplish this, I think, is for your to send your reviews through to the class mailing list. This way they are archived and readily accessible for the author to retrieve.
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).
Group 1: Leah, Becky, KristinM, Joanna
Group 2: Kara, Cindy, KristinG, Anuschka
Group 3: KristinB, RAchel, Melissa, and Laura
Send to: cd315@topica.com
Subject: PR for <who>'s <what>
(for example)
Subject: PR for Kara's webliography
Assignment 3.1.3: Online Journal
Due: October 19, 2003 (midnight)
Sometime between Friday (October 17) and Sunday (October 19) at midnight, post your weekly 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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