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Class Info

  • Dates: Wednesday, 10/20-Tuesday, 10/26
  • Meeting Info:
    • For the other class meeting time, which would have been 100 minutes long, you will do your work throughout the week asynchronously, on your own time. This work and homework are indistinguishable but all contribute to your informal work for the semester.
    • Work will be due during the week as noted in the weekly agenda, usually with Monday mornings as a deadline to join a discussion so we all have time to read an respond to each other.

Topic

ENG 1101 Project #2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography

Objectives

  • To continue to develop topics for Project #2: Reflective Annotated Bibliography
  • To engage with readings that will help us explore our topics
  • To develop our research skills
  • To continue to build our glossary

To Do from Before

If you have not already posted your Project #1: Education Narrative assignment, please post it or be in touch with me about your project. Everyone should also post the reflection post–instructions are in the Project #1 instructions. As always, you can continue to catch up by reviewing our weekly agendas and contributing to the discussions linked from there (and from our site’s menu)

To Do This Week

We will continue to explore our interests and learn more about developing our research questions, researching topics, and using the library.

Actions

Reading

  • Re-read the Declaration of Independence
  • Read about research! Skim Alison C. Witte’s “Research Starts with Answers” in Bad Ideas About Writing, pp 226-230 (that’s the page numbers within the book–the page numbers in the actual file are a little different), paying attention to 228-229. (note that the title of the book, Bad Ideas About Writing, tells us that each of the chapter titles are themselves bad ideas about writing! But the content includes great ideas about writing!)
  • Read what your classmates are writing about their topics for Project #2

Writing

  • Even if you contributed last week (I know who you are, and thank you more than you can ever know!), come back and annotate the text before class: add comments to the document. Some good annotations:
    • defining words you needed to look up (and then add them to our glossary!)
    • explaining something you understand
    • identifying something you don’t understand
    • pointing out aspects you notice from Reading like a Writer (remember Mike Bunn’s essay?). These include purpose, audience, tone, structure
  • Continue to contribute to our discussions about crowdsourcing hospitality resources.
  • Last week everyone contributed to our brainstorming research topics discussion. Continue writing to think with this new brainstorming discussion to think further about your topic and its importance.
  • Add another entry to our shared glossary (according to the glossary instructions). Think if there’s a word from our current readings or from Tuesday’s library work that you want to add.