CD 315: Week 12: November 10-16, 2003

Week 12: November 10-16, 2003

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Week 12: Mission

This week is our final week 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'll draft the preface, acknowledgements, and about the author section. We'll also meet on the MOO to catch up with one another after a couple of weeks off.

Class Meeting: November 12, 2003

This week we will NOT meet online.

Assignment 3.5.1: MRP: Draft Genres (see below)
Due: November 17, 2002 (midnight)

This week you should draft your 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. If you visit http://klm.antville.org/topics/TOC/ you can see how I handled these sections in my unfinished piece of work. Also, visiting http://klm.antville.org/stories/140529/ will give you links to the summer MRPs where you can visit some of their work.

Assignment 3.5.2: Peer Response Groups
Due: November 16, 2003 (midnight)

Last week each of you posted the seventh (and final) genre to your MRP. This week, let's do peer response groups on this genre. 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 3.5.3: Response Groups (references)
Due: November 16, 2003 (midnight)

Visit the references pages for the people in your group. Instead of using the peer response form shown above (e.g., voice, audience, say back, etc.), examine at least one reference from a journal, one reference from a book, and one reference from the Internet for APA accuracy. Send your comments to the list as shown below:

Send to: cd315@topica.com
Subject: PR for <who>'s reference page

(for example)

Subject: PR for Kara's reference page

Assignment 3.5.4: Online Journal
Due: November 16, 2003 (midnight)

Sometime between Friday (November 14) and Sunday (November 16) 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.