• • Week 4 Assignments

  • This week, we will be thinking about and working on revision!

    • Week 4 Assignments
    • Group Assignments DUE by MIDNIGHT, Wednesday, October 2
    • RWA and LJ DUE by MIDNIGHT, Sunday, October 6
  • LEARNING JOURNAL 4
• Please spend 5 to 7 minutes free writing about any thoughts, feelings, or experiences you have about Revision.  I’d like you to first think about this word and what connotations it has for you.  Can you recall any particular experiences when you have had the opportunity to re-see something, e.g., see something in a new way or from a new perspective?  What was that like?  Could that experience inform your understanding of revision in writing?  Why or why not?

  Group Assignment 4:

  • Please read the following Guidelines for Peer Editing.   After reading them, please write an e-mail to your peer editor (see below for pairings) and cc: me (jrodgers@citytech.cuny.edu), explaining some of the concerns and questions that you have about your work on your personal essay to date and on writing this essay in general.  We will be exchanging and commenting on each others’ drafts next week.  Here are the pairings for peer editing:
    TBD in Class on Monday, Sept. 30:  IF YOU WERE NOT IN CLASS ON MONDAY, SEPT. 30, YOU WILL NEED TO E-MAIL ME AT JRODGERS@CITYTECH.CUNY.EDU SO I CAN PAIR YOU WITH A PEER EDITOR.

•   RWA4: Preparing a Finished Draft
  College Writing
  Professor Rodgers

To complete this assignment, please do the following:

First, read over your literacy narrative essay draft and take notes on it.  What is it about?  What is the “story” that you are trying to tell?  What are some of the most interesting passages in your draft?  Do these support what you think your personal essay is about?  If no, should you perhaps change your focus to make it possible to include these passages?

Second, once you have read through your first draft, taken notes on it, and noted any places where sentences may not be clearly communicating to your audience or your points may not be clear, please complete the Personal Essay Reflection Questions below.

1. What is your essay about?
2. How well does your title reflect the content of your essay?  Does the title capture the reader’s attention?  Why or why not?
3. Who is the audience for the essay?  How is that evident in this draft (word choice, style, other?)?
4. What do you like about this draft?
5. What do you believe makes the draft unique both in terms of its content and the style of the writing?
6. Do you feel that this draft fulfills your purpose for the essay?  Why?  Why not?  What might it need in order to better fulfill its purpose?
7. Reviewing this draft alongside Professor Rodgers’ book, particularly pp. 10-13 and pp. 31-36, please write down questions that you have about college writing?

Third, please look over your draft again alongside these notes, the e-mail to your peer editor, this Questionnaire, and the original guidelines for the assignment and prepare a revised draft in which you integrate all of the changes that you believe would improve the draft.  You will be handing in this REVISED draft along with your FIRST draft on and the completed QUESTIONNAIRE on Monday, October 6.