Again: I gave comments on everyone’s journal posts so check that out. I will not always give feedback on these but I do read them all.

Review (10 min)

Review goals ans class so far:

• Understanding of existence of many languages and complications of standards when writing
• Considering your own goals along with class goals in your writing
• Writing to learn, to include using evidence from personal life
• Genre of literacy narrative using Liao criteria and example literacy narratives
• Descriptive writing
• Writing Process vs. Writing Practice
• Drafting

What do you know about this subject? What can you learn about it through writing? How can you use descriptive writing to lay out the “facts” and then reflective writing to make meaning of them?

Next we will test it out a bit in analysis and then do research on it in research project. All writing, but different ways it can help: Reflection, Analysis, Research.

“Comprehending Old Thoughts” and “New Way of Looking at Same Information” (15-20 min)

We are going to “try to comprehend old thoughts” or and have a “new way of looking at same information” right now.

Re-read your half-draft and take notes on where you feel the energy, where you feel things are going well, where you feel you are stuck, etc. When finished, you are going to write a brief letter that you are going to share with a partner.

Write a brief letter to your partner about how things went (good and/or bad) in terms of:

• where you are at in terms of your paper so far: what you were trying to do in the draft? what do you want to do more of? what might you want to do less of? where are you stuck? what help do you want? why?
• how your draft is (or is not so far) about information literacy. How is the draft about a history of yourself finding information, evaluating information, and using that information? Do you talk about what information is to you? Make sure you review the prompt to help make sense of these questions.
• your writing process (all the things you did to prepare this draft–e.g., outlining, brainstorming, writing, rewriting, taking notes, sharing with other readers, reflective writing…anything and everything).
• your writing practice (the conditions of writing each time you sat down to write: the noises/sounds of the environment, snacks, time of day you wrote, the location you wrote, any metacognitive work you did like reflection, distraction management techniques, taking breaks…anything and everything).

Peer Review–getting started (20 min)

We will have a more formalized structure for peer review next week and I’ll also assign you into writing groups for it.

For now, share letter with a partner for peer review. Partner reads letter and draft and circles places where they reacted most strongly as wanting to read more or curious about what they meant. “Circle the Good Stuff.”

Afterward, talk more about it and come up with plan for next steps. Take notes while partner and you are talking about your draft so you have material to use to write a brief reflection.

Reflection and Next Steps (10 min)

Write about what you feel is the most important next thing to work on. Then write about what you will do during the next session you sit down to write. Keep in mind that a full draft is due one week from today on September 20.

Goals (30 min)

Write about writing you admire. Take 1-2 minutes to do this. Think of one piece of writing. What did you like about it? Why? Something you read that you really liked and that stuck with you.

Write about if they want to try any of that. Then write about goals in general and what you want help with from me on this Google Doc (only on the first page for now).

Let’s look at the course goals and think about where some of these goals fit. What do you think? See Google Doc again after the first page to see where some of the goals you mentioned might fit.

When you sit down to write the cover letter for your full draft due on September 20, keep these goals in mind! Let me know what things YOU want to try to work on and what you want feedback on! Have fun with this stuff, think about your own life goals (personal or professional), etc. I believe we learn more when we have a personal investment and some control over what we want to work on. I will help you with these goals in combination with our course learning goals.

Next Time (2-5 min)

• Read “The Maker’s Eye: Revising Your Own Manuscripts” by Donald Murray
• Post at least three annotations
• Have your Thursday to Wednesday Labor Log completed
• Write your weekly Worker’s Journal
• Full draft + cover letter of Information Literacy Narrative is due September 20.