• • Week 11 Assignments

    • Each week, I will ask you to do four things:
    • 1/  Post an entry in your Learning Journal.  Entries in your Learning Journal (LJ) will most often be focused on Free Writing or Structured Free Writing, which is Free Writing in response to a specific topic, prompt, or question.  I will give you a weekly LJ assignment.  Please post entries in your LJ HERE.  This is a private journal that only you and your instructor can access.
    • 2/ Complete one or more Group Assignments (GA), which will require that you contribute either a BLOG POST and/or to our course Discussion Board.  These posts and discussions will be read by our entire class.
    • 3/ Complete one to two Reading and Writing Assignments (RWA), which, unless otherwise specified, you will submit as a separate entry/entries in your Learning Journal HERE.
    • 4/ Check in at least THREE separate times a week and respond at least ONCE to contributions by other student blog posts on the Home page of our course Web site AND to forums on the course Discussion Board

     

    • WEEK 11 ASSIGNMENTS:  DUE DATE:  Tuesday, November 12  at 5PM.

    During Week 11, you will be asked to design your own RWA.  The lives of some members of our course have been severely affected by Hurricaine Sandy.  Therefore, if you are unable to complete this week’s assignments, just let me know.  This will not be a problem.

    • LEARNING JOURNAL 11
      
    • Please spend 5 to 7 minutes free writing about your neighborhood, what it is like, what makes it unique, and what might be some of the more distinctly local things about it.
  • GROUP ASSIGNMENTS

   Group Assignment 16:   Where We Are Re: College Writing
  

• Please write a short blog post telling us about what questions you continue to have about college writing.

Reading and Writing Assignment 14:  Design Your Own RWA

Last week, we read this article:  Nicholas Carr, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” .  Would you like to write about this article?  If yes, please develop a Reading Response question and write one to pages in response to it.  If not, why not choose an article or essay of your choice to write a response to?  If you don’t already have something in mind, take a look at the Essays + Articles section of Professor Rodgers’ www.digitalcomposition.org Web site.  There, you will find lots of texts on a variety of subjects in different genres and media.  Once you’ve chosen something to read, read it and then develop a Reading Response question and write one to pages in response to that.