Assignments

(FULL description) | (Models) | || 20% || (Community Literacy Under Examination) || In college, you are often asked to "think critically"; this involves awareness assumption made by the community around one. You are also often asked to do "research." This assignment provides practice in both, as you gather a variety of data from dorms, public spaces, and people on campus to think critically about college life through ethnographic research. (FULL description) | (Models) | || 20% || (Engaging other Audiences with your Research) || In college, you are often asked to make an "argument"; this involves awareness of the audience and the purpose for which are trying to persuade them. This assignment involves taking the results of your CLUE assignment and rewriting them for different audiences and purposes, as well as changing the "genre" or type of communicative conventions you use. (FULL description) | (Models) | || 20% || (Tracing Education in your Life as a Learner) || In college (and beyond), you are often asked to write a "personal narrative": this means deciding what you believe and how those beliefs arise from your personal history, as well as selecting details and crafting a good story for your audience. In this assignment, you'll write about three moments/artifacts that represent your education--past, present, and future. (FULL description) | (Models) | || 20% || (FULL description) | (Models) | || 20% ||
 * **Assignment** || **Brief Description** || **Grade Percentage** ||
 * Participation || Over the course of the semester, I'll ask you to post portions of your assignments and reading responses to your personal page, as well as to engage in in-class activities like groupwork and peer review. I have designed these activities primarily to help you complete the larger assignments, so it makes sense to do them thoroughly and on-time.
 * CLUE
 * EAR
 * TELL
 * Portfolio || A selection of work from your class to which you will add comments that explain how you addressed the goals of the course (writing for a purpose, addressing an audience, applying genre and language conventions, using multiple media, and revising your writing).