Week 9 Assignments

- This week we are going to create a writing inventory and start thinking about the research project.
- Group Assignments DUE by MIDNIGHT, Wednesday, Nov. 6
- RWA and LJ DUE by MIDNIGHT, Sunday, November 10
LEARNING JOURNAL 9

Please spend 5 to 7 minutes free writing about what factors enable you to write most freely and unselfconsciously. Is it being in a certain place? Writing about certain topics? At certain times of day? In response to certain assignments? When you know that you will have lots of time? When you do not have a deadline? Writing to a particular audience? Writing to yourself? Writing to your best friend? Some combination of all of these things?

GA9: Blogging Your Writing Inventory

Please write a blog post explaining the writing issues that you plan to work on for the rest of the semester. Please make sure to include at least one, and no more than three issues in each of the following categories: Argument/Structure/Clarity/Revision

RWA9.1: Writing Inventory

Purpose: to identify the writing issues that you plan to work on

1. Take a look at all of the starred sentences. What do you notice about these sentences? Why do you think Prof. Rodgers thinks they are impressive? Do you think they are impressive? Are there other sentences in the essay that you think are particularly impressive or effective? If yes, list them and explain why you think they are impressive.

2. List, interpret, and categorize each circled word/issue and marginal comment in the essay. What’s going on with each word/sentence marked? What happened? Did you make a typo? Need to revise? Can you name the error?

3. Make a list of all of the categories circled on the essay grading rubric

4, Re-read Professor Rodgers’ ebook College Writing: Some FAQs and her Understanding and Repairing SWE Errors in College Writing.

5. Make a list of what you are beginning to see as recurring issues that you can work on in your writing. Some of these may be SWE errors and therefore would be categorized as being related to Clarity. Other issues may be related to Argumentation. Some may be related to Structure. Some may be related to Revision. Please list at least one and no more than three issues that you plan to work on in the following three categories: Argument/Structure/Clarity.

RWA9.2: Introduction to College Research and Choosing a Topic

Part I: Please READ Krause’s chapter “Thinking Critically About Research.”http://www.stevendkrause.com/tprw/chapter1.html Second, please read through the following information about Evaluating Sources and Searching the WWW:http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/553/01/http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/558/1/Third, please read through the following information and COMPLETE THE QUIZ that is included on this site:http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/index.html

Part II: Choosing a Topic

The first step in any research process is choosing a topic you are interested in researching and which you can feasibly research in the time allotted for your research project.

1/ Income Inequality in the U.S.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/magazine/10wwln-lede-t.html?ref=incomeinequality

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3094214/?tool=pubmed

2/ NYC and Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists: Confronting Climate Change in the Northeast

Is Sustainability Still Possible?

3/ Food in America

“You Are What You Grow” by Michael Pollan

4/ Video Games and Behavior

http://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2003/10/anderson.aspx

5/ Video Games and Rhetoric

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/9780262026147_pre_0001.pdf