15% Class Grade
Integrate a literacy narrative introducing personal experience, expanding and adding to assignment 1. (final running word count: min 2,500 words)
This project situates you within the context of the course theme and allows you to approach course readings, and the questions that arise from them, from your own perspective and experiences. “Literacy” in this context means more than learning to read and write; it is what you know about a certain subject (the course theme for example) and how you came to know it. The project focuses on how the questions raised by our course theme and readings relate to you and your life. Work in this assignment ideally will scaffold into (build up to or relate to) your final project, the research-based argument.
In this class, you’ll be revising and writing additional material at the same time. Unit 2’s narrative essay writing prompt asks you to add and integrate your Unit 2 storytelling into this writing, AND revise your Unit 1 material by addressing the three revision tasks listed below. In essence, you’re writing one ever-expanding essay for this class. How you choose the organize the essay is up to you. You may want to separate the two units of writing into different sections, like little mini-”chapters.” You may want to go through this draft and find places to add storytelling elements. As long as you fulfill the grading criteria, you can add, revise, and remix your writing however you like.
Grading Criteria
Three points (3%) each:
- Provide a cover letter demonstrating how the draft has addressed revision tasks from Unit 1 and incorporated new material for Unit 2. Include in your cover letter a defense of your choices.
- Submit all writing on time (for Oct. 22-24 (500 new words), Oct. 29 (2,000 words), and Nov. 5 (2,500 words) deadlines).
- Meet minimum length requirements.
- Incorporate auto-ethnographic narrative.
- Complete and attend peer review.