WEEK 14: NOVEMBER 21-NOVEMBER 27
Thanksgiving Holiday: November 25-November 28
Reading
- BIAW “Some People are Just Born Good Writers” (Parrott 71-75) [5 pages] [podcast, 14 minutes]
- WS1 “Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking” (Giles 191-204) [~13 pages]
- ENG 2100 Learning Goals
Turn In
- Writer’s Journal Prompt[7] [Blogs@Baruch]
- Autoethnography Rough Draft [Blackboard]
Writer’s Journal Prompt [Blogs@Baruch]
Choose one of the following prompts to write about this week:
- Draft a Letter to the Reader (as described in Giles) as a way to help you plan your Revision 1 and Revision 2 projects. Choose a project you’d like to revise and reflexively answer the questions from Giles’s prompt (194). Finally, use your answers to these questions to brainstorm and plan an approach for the Revision projects.
- In the Autoethnography project you’ll be asked to do the kind of reflective writing Giles Review the learning goals for this course and consider how you feel about them and your progress as a writer so far. Choose one or two learning goals as a jumping off point or frame for a brief reflection on your writing in this course. Do you think you’re meeting these learning goals? How do you know? What evidence do you have from your writing that you’ve worked on these goals?
- Parrott writes about metacognition and the idea that writers aren’t necessarily prolific and definitely aren’t just lucky or naturally gifted, but are instead persistent. How would you define and describe persistence in this course and in your writing experiences? Do you consider yourself a writer?
Autoethnography Rough Draft [Blackboard]
Assignment Sheet available on Blogs@Baruch.