WEEK 8:
Reading
- BIAW “Official American English Is Best” (Alvarez 93-98) [6 pages] [podcast, 16 minutes]
- BIAW “Grading Has Always Made Writing Better” (James 255-258) [3 pages] [podcast, 11 minutes]
- BIAW “Plagiarism Detection Services are Money Well Spent” (Vie 287-293) [6 pages] [no podcast available yet]
- BIAW “Face-to-Face Courses are Superior to Online Courses” (Bourelle and Bourelle 351-355) [4 pages] [no podcast available yet]
Turn In
- Writer’s Journal Prompt [Blogs@Baruch]
- Quarterly Feedback/Check In [Blackboard]
- Analysis Polished Draft [Blackboard]
Writer’s Journal Prompt [Blogs@Baruch]
You’ve now read a lot about not only writing, but Writing Studies. Writing Studies is an academic field that researches and writes about the teaching and learning of writing. Bad Ideas About Writing is a great jumping off point to learn more about issues being debated in Writing Studies right now.
For this week, choose an issue from Bad Ideas About Writing that intrigues you. This can be a chapter we’ve read this week or a different one of your choosing.
In your response, please describe the problem or issue you see at the heart of the chapter you’ve chosen. Do some informal research (Google is great here) and see what conversations are happening around this issue.
- Who is talking about it? In what way?
- What are the arguments or positions around this issue?
- What’s your relationship to the problem? Is it relevant to you?
- What do you notice about the issue or problem?
- What do you still wonder?
Quarterly Check-In [Blackboard]
This is a short survey to check-in on our progress and provide self-assessment about your participation in the course so far.
I want to know what’s going well, what I can improve on, and what questions you have. I’ll use this feedback to make any adjustments to the course I can and will try to address questions as they arise.
You can also reach out via email at any time if you have questions that require an immediate, direct response from me.
- What’s going well? What readings or writing prompts have been especially productive or interesting to you so far? What is working well in the organization, delivery, or interactivity in the course?
- What’s challenging? What readings or writing prompts have not been interesting or engaging to you? What suggestions do you have to improve the organization, delivery, or interactivity in the course?
- What questions do you have about the materials/course/etc. or aspects of the course do you think need clarifying?
Analysis Polished Draft [Blackboard]
Revise your rough draft based on feedback.
Assignment Sheet available on Blogs@Baruch.