Hi everyone!  so, for Friday, you need a proposal for Unit 3.  If you missed Wednesday’s class, the first thing you should do is read the description of Unit 3 (under “major assignments”) and then you should do the questionnaire here: https://forms.gle/7acmutKhTjukdvUm8

For everyone that was in class, you can skip right to the assignment, which is this:

WRITE:  You will need to write a proposal of at least 200 words outlining what you plan to do for Unit 3. Post to website. This proposal should tell us: 

  • A 1-2 sentence statement of what you want to teach your audience (the most important thing you learned in Unit 2) 
  • The audience you are trying to reach
  • The genre you are planning to write in and why you chose it
  • What you know about this genre, or how you plan to learn about the genre (watch TED talks, read speeches, read how-tos, etc)
  • A plan — how do you intend to get started?  Spend a little time on this.  Write out your first three steps.  What are you going to do?  
  • Anything you might be worried about.  What are your concerns about finishing this project? 

Some things to consider: this is a writing assignment.  There can (and probably should) be other elements like images or sound– if those fit, but you definitely need to have writing! If you do a video, you will need to write a script or an outline.

Remember– when you choose what type of piece (what genre) you are going to write: a TED Talk, a song, an article for a teen magazine, an informative brochure, etc…, the most important thing to consider is this: WHO IS YOUR AUDIENCE AND WHY WOULD THEY READ OR LISTEN TO OR WATCH THIS GENRE? Pick something that’s going to reach your intended audience!

START:  Start working on the project!

Due by noon Weds, Nov 11:

READ and DEJ: “Annoying Ways People Use Sources” by Kyle Stedman: https://wac.colostate.edu/books/writingspaces2/stedman–annoying-ways.pdf

Post your DEJ on the website with post (below) 

WRITE:  Just as a little spoiler, you should know that the things that annoy Kyle Stedman are not really particular to him. In general, these are things worth avoiding in your writing, though some conventions may vary, as Stedman himself points out, from genre to genre.  Please write a two-part response after reading Stedman’s article

  1. (approx 150 words) What did you learn from reading this? Anything new? What questions or comments do you have on how to use sources?
  2. (150-200 words) Write a paragraph for your intended audience for unit 3 using one of your “quotables” from Unit 2 in that paragraph. Keep Stedman’s guidelines in mind while writing this paragraph. Be kind to your audience! Try not to lose them by the side of the road!  —What I’m saying here is– write a new paragraph for the audience you’re trying to reach in this new unit, using the guidelines Stedman describes.  Use one of the quotes from your research.   Category: Unit 3

WORK and POST: keep working on your unit three project.  In a separate post (Category: Unit 3) post some evidence of your work on your project– just whatever you have done so far.  I will be checking these and we will be discussing how the projects are going in class.  I realize you might just have a little bit so far, but you need to post SOMETHING– because you need to start!