Course Materials for Writing 2, Fall 2014:
Academic Writing

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Course Syllabus. Explains course rationale, basic expectations, and basis for grade.

Peer-Review Guidelines. Explains the rationale and expectations during peer-review exercises in class. Collaborative, and always a work in progress. You can earn extra credit for making suggestions for improvement; take a look for details!

Submission Packet Guidelines. Explains what you should include in your submission packets for each Writing Project that you submit. Failing to follow these requirements carefully limits your maximum possible grade to a C.

Grading Rubric for WP Assignments. Explains how your WP assignments are graded, of course. Collaborative, and always a work in progress. You can earn extra credit for making suggestions for improvement; take a look for details!

Extra-Credit Opportunities. Just what it sounds like.

Final Portfolio Assignment. Explains the requirements and expectations for your final portfolio, due between noon and 3 p.m. on December 17 in my mailbox or my office.

Final Portfolio Grading Rubric. Explains how your final portfolio will be graded.

Request for Feedback. Of course, you filled out feedback forms during our last meeting, but this is a chance to provide feedback that I'll be able to read before winter quarter starts (and I'd love to hear what you think!). You can comment anonymously on this document — just make sure you're not logged into a Google account while editing it if that's what you'd like to do.

Writing Projects (and Project Builders)

  1. Writing Project 1. Due Monday 20 October at the beginning of class.
    1. Project Builder A. Due Wednesday 8 October at the beginning of class.
    2. Project Builder B. Due Wednesday 13 October at the beginning of class.
  2. Writing Project 2. Due Monday 10 November at the beginning of class.
    1. Project Builder C. Due Monday 27 October at the beginning of class.
    2. Project Builder D. Due Monday 3 November at the beginning of class.
  3. Writing Project 3. Due Wednesday 3 December at the beginning of class.
    1. Project Builder E. Due Wednesday 19 November at the beginning of class.
    2. Project Builder F. Due Monday 24 November at the beginning of class.

    Some useful resources for WP3:

 

Twitter stream for the course. Contains reminders about upcoming events, links to articles and other content about related topics, and pointers to electronic copies of documents distributed in class. Don't want to sign up for Twitter? You can always come back here and check for updates.

Terms from What Is Truth? discussion. Collects what I quickly took to be some of the major terms in this discussion from 20 October.

Suggested interview questions. A group-developed list of suggestions for questions that you can ask in your interview for Writing Project 2.

Group-generated outline for Joe Chellew's article 5 Stars—a Research Paper You Can Actually Enjoy. This essay appears on pp. 179-81 of Starting Lines.