Reading Annotations (50 points): Because reading is so important for developing your writing, one of the ongoing assignments for the course will be to complete Reading Annotations. We will go over these during the first week of the class, but these assignments will more or less be graded for completion (with some pointers from me in the early part of the term). Essentially, you will show how you are taking notes on the readings for the course to get practice with making the steps from reading to writing.
Process Documents (50 points): Process Documents are spaces to work out some initial ideas that will extend to larger pieces of writing. Sometimes these pieces will respond to readings about topics related to learning goals associated with assignments (e.g., rhetorical analysis, finding sources, narrative writing). Sometimes these pieces will be more directly associated with writing projects: goal-setting document, proposals, and the annotated bibliography for the research-driven writing project.
Participation (50 points). This relates to completing activities during Learning Modules, participating during Zoom calls, completing work for Writing Groups, and anything else that might come up that helps to assist maintaining a classroom community and assisting in learning material related to the course.
Questions for Second Reading (QSR) (50 points): Some readings will require deeper reflection, and, so, we will take a second turn in reading them to explore them further. In the QSR, you will write in response to a prompt to work out your thinking when encountering the reading for a second time.
Midterm Learning Narrative (50 points): This project is a chance for you to reflect back on your goals for the semester and consider how you are doing based on a close analysis of your own writing.
Literacy Narrative (100 points): The first major writing assignment of the semester, this project is geared toward getting some experience with making explicit your writing process, developing a writing practice, and considering the relationship between writing and your identity (and the relevance of that relationship to how you interact with audiences and work with other writers and readers).
Literacy Narrative Revision Project (100 points): The first major writing assignment gave you practice with just getting your thoughts down and generating material about your relationship to language, rhetoric, and writing. In this revision, you are asked to use this material generated in the first draft to revise around something you thought was exciting that you would like to develop further. As a separate project, you will get practice in learning about your revision process.
Rhetorical Analysis (200 points): The second major writing assignment of the semester, this project asks you to continue to develop your expertise as an analyst of texts of various genres and to begin to synthesize your ideas with the ideas of others. After submitting a first draft, you will turn in a second draft responding to the same prompt a few weeks later.
Research-Driven Writing (200 points): The third major writing assignment of the semester, this project asks you to begin to get experience with finding, evaluating, and integrating the ideas of others in order to make an argument or tell a story about a topic important to you. After submitting a first draft, you will turn in a second draft responding to the same prompt a few weeks later.
Experiential-Learning Document (150 points): The final writing project of the semester, this document, like the midterm learning narrative, asks you to reflect back on your goals by analyzing the writing you have completed for the course. Unlike the learning narrative at midterm, this document is a bit more detailed and substantive.