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Week 10: October 27 - November 2, 2003
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Week 10: Mission
This week we continue in the third unit of our course of study this semester: Processing Information. As you work on your genres you are processing the information you've gathered as a result of your research. The processing is done by running the information through multiple filters: voice, audience, and purpose. This week we will draft our 6th genre and we will plan to meet on Instant Messenger (see below) to discuss the progress of our work.
Class Meeting: October 29, 2003
This week we will meet on Instant Messenger to discuss the progress of our work. Be prepared to talk about your work so far. Where are you finding the work easy? Where are you finding the work difficult? What kind of help do you need at this point to keep you moving to completion?
In order to prep for this meeting, please make certain that I have your screen name (it was so confusing last week that I'm not positive I got all of them). You can simply email your screen name to me, I'll collate them and send that list out to the rest of the group. Do this as quickly as you possibly can.
For class, I'll ask Cindy, Rachel, and Leah to open up chat rooms for their groups. I'll open up a chat room for the whole group.
Assignment 3.3.1: MRP: Draft Genres (one)
Due: November 2, 2003 (midnight)
This week you must post a draft of one more genre for your MRP to your webspace (this will be your sixth genre). 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 3.3.2: Peer Response Groups
Due: November 2, 2003 (midnight)
Last week each of you posted the fifth genre to your MRP. This week, let's do peer response groups on this one. We'll be working in the same groups we've used for the past several weeks. Each of you must provide a peer response on the fourth genre your group members posted last week.
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 3.3.3: Organizing the MRP
We're at the point of having to begin thinking about our seventh genre (even though it isn't due yet) and how we're going to be presenting that to the public. This week I'd like you to create and publish an MRP page in your webspace. This is the page where you will organize your work and make links to lead people through the MRP. You might consider it to be similar to a Table of Contents for the MRP. So, here's what you need to do:
- Create an MRP page that will serve as the Table of Contents for the MRP (see comments below for ideas about how to organize this page).
- Publish this page.
- Make a link from your home page to this newly created page (and then you can remove all the individual links on your home page to the various genres as they will be linked on your MRP Table of Contents).
Think about a Table of Contents and how this provides a linear way to visit a body of work (first this genre and then that genre). Then, think about how the fact that we are publishing these on the web enables us to visit your work in a non-linear fashion (we don't have to read everything in the same order as another reader would). This is where the unifying genre will come in. The unifying genre will incorporate all of the other genres in a way that makes sense to you (and when you get your peer review on that work, you'll get a good idea if it makes sense to others). This requires that our Table of Contents provide multiple ways into the work. Therefore, you will most likely wish to provide two lists, perhaps as shown below.
- Preface (to be written later)
- Acknowledgements (to be written later)
- About the Author (to be written later)
- Unifying Genre (I wouldn't call it that, I would call it "Karen's Journal" or something specific to indicate the type of genre you are using)
- References
For your linear readers, you may wish to do something like this:
- Preface (to be written later)
- Acknowledgements (to be written later)
- About the Author (to be written later)
- Genre (don't use the word genre ...put "Poem" or whatever genre you want someone to read first)
- Genre
- Genre
- Genre
- Genre
- Genre
- Genre
- References
When finished, send email as shown below.
Send to: cd315@topica.com
Subject: Assignment 3.3.3: Table of Contents published
Assignment 3.3.4: Online Journal
Due: November 2, 2003 (midnight)
Sometime between Friday (October 31) and Sunday (November 2) 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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