CD 315: Week 11: November 3

Week 11: November 3 - 9, 2003

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Week 11: 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 last genre, do more peer reviews, and begin to work on our references page.

Class Meeting: November 5, 2003

This week we will NOT meet on the MOO.

Assignment 3.4.1: MRP: Draft Genres (one)
Due: November 9, 2003 (midnight)

This week you must post a draft of one more genre for your MRP to your webspace (this will be your seventh and final 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 3.4.2: Peer Response Groups
Due: November 9, 2003 (midnight)

Last week each of you posted the sixth genre to your MRP. This week, let's do peer response groups on this one. 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 both genres to 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 3.4.3: Instructor Feedback
Due: November 9, 2003 (midnight)

I plan to provide feedback on one of your genres. Sometime this week, send an email to me letting me know which of your genres you want me to review. Include a link directly to the genre to make my job a little easier. The due date shown above is for the email. If you don't respond by then I'll assume you don't want my feedback.

Assignment 3.4.4: Draft of References
Due: November 9, 2003 (midnight)

Post your draft of your reference list. Use APA style for both in-text citations and for your reference list.

Assignment 3.4.5: Online Journal
Due: November 9, 2003 (midnight)

Sometime between Friday (November 7) and Sunday (November 9) at midnight, post your weekly online journal. 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.