For our third writing project of the semester, we will explore the meaning of community and how specific alterations to context affect, not only the concept of community, but how we write within them. More precisely, as the title of WP3 states, we want to investigate how our notions of community change as our writing processes, the spaces in which write, and the materials conditions associated with our writing moments transform. To this extent, you want to think of materialism as "the causes of developments and changes in human society" ("society," in this case, being our class) based upon what we as humans "produce and reproduce" so as to sustain our "material requirements of life." For example, for your first pre-writing assignment on Wednesday, you composed with a pen or pencil in a notebook or on a loose-leaf sheet of paper. Obviously, there are certain limitations to writing in this manner, but there is also something liberatory. How, then, do these material realities shape both your thoughts, words, and process when writing about community? The same questions can be asked when thinking through and articulating spatial considerations. Once again, in your first writing assignment, you were outdoors and off-campus; but you can also conceptualize space more literally: an 8 1/2'' X 11'' rectangular page on which you wrote. When considering space, don't forget CDA, chapter 8, wherein they define personal, social, and institutional contexts. TO wit, the institutional space of Friday's pre-write, coupled with the presence of an authoritarian figure (i.e. me) necessarily alters how and what you compose. Finally, you will also want to consider the process. While the teaching of writing instruction focuses on a particular process of writing, there is a vast array of processes one can undertake, and with this project, we will be exploring some of them. Do not, by any means, think that there is any singular manner in which the writing process unfolds.
The initial aspect of this project, then, is to participate in the four pre-writing assignments. The first, as previously mentioned, was the free-write we conducted at the amphitheater near the "Fake River" in Wednesday's class session, and the second assignment was the shared keyboard experiment in Selek Hall's computer during today's class.
For the third pre-write, you will and your partner will write collaboratively, once again beginning with the word "community" in the chat window of Facebook. Once again, I expect you to alternate every word when writing this piece. When turning the final version, you will need to copy-and-paste your entire conversation with Fb-handles, etc. into a word document so as to demonstrate you composed the response in the appropriate manner and a second word document that contains only the words the two of wrote (i.e. excluding the other messenger information) in paragraph form. This will probably be best completed if you select the chat "Pop Out" option that allows you to chat in full-screen mode. DUE: Monday, November 1 @ 8:30AM.
Facebook:
Finally, for the fourth pre-write, you and a partner will use the same prompt but compose (in the same fashion as the Selek Hall assigment) on the typewriter in the Henzlik computer lab. Since each of you, for your final project, will need to turn in a hard-copy, you will need to make a scan or xerox of the original so you both have something to turn in. DUE: Friday, November 5 @ 8:30AM.
Completion of each pre-write is worth 1.25 points, for a total of 5 points.
During Monday's class session, we will meet in the Love Library and begin the next phase of WP3, which will entail you finding two secondary sources for the final assignment. More specifically, you will need to find two print sources (whether they are books or essays in an anthology/journal is up to you) that provide critical insight into the manner in which communities and communal relations are formed, destroyed, nurtured, or neglected through materiality, process, space, and and context in general. After locating these sources, check them out from the library and write one-page, double-spaced annotated bibliographic entries for both in proper MLA-format. The work you do on this portion of your WP3, both intellectually and written, should contribute directly toward the final, written component of your project. DUE: Monday, November 8 @ 8:30AM and worth 5 points.
The final aspect of WP3 will be a collaboratively-written, 5-page, double-spaced essay that explores the concepts of materiality, process, and space as they relate to community and writing. To this extent, you will use the pre-writing assignment as primary, experiential sources through which to conceptualize these topics. Ostensibly, your essays should address each of the themes equally, in addition to an introduction and conclusion that frames your discussion. While I want you focusing on the pre-writing assignments you can, to a lesser degree, invoke aspects of WP1 and Wp2; but, I reiterate, the pre-writing assignments for this project should be the focal point. Furthermore, you and your partner need to include all four of your collective secondary sources into the fabric of your essay, cited in proper MLA-format both in-line and in a works cited section at the end of your paper. As a side note, the works cited page does not factor into your page-count.
Final Paper:
Melissa and Christy, Allison and Michael, Audrey and Taylor, Kathleen and Catherine, Elizabeth and Logan, Matthew G and Roni, Matthew C and Meghan, David and Sarah, Dustin and Scott, Nadia and Dichele.
Rough drafts will be due on the November 15. You will need to bring 2 hard-copies to our class session on that day for peer-review, as well as a further revised version on the November 17. I will provide peer-review response sheets for those class sessions that will need to be filled out thoroughly with specific examples and suggestions. Peer-reviews, which include both bringing completed rough drafts of your own work and engaging in written, critical responses to your peer's writing are worth 5 points total, and DUE on Friday, November 19.
The revised version of WP3's final essay is worth 10 points and DUE on Friday, November 19.
On November 19, then, each of you will turn in a Final Portfolio that contains the following items:
Final Essay
Peer Reviews (you'll need to get these from your peers at the beginning of class)
Rough Drafts of Final Essay
Annotated Bibliographic Entries
Pre-Writing Assignments
Please, make sure your materials are in a pocketed folder and in this order. Failure to present me with this work in the required form and order will result in a loss of points.
The initial aspect of this project, then, is to participate in the four pre-writing assignments. The first, as previously mentioned, was the free-write we conducted at the amphitheater near the "Fake River" in Wednesday's class session, and the second assignment was the shared keyboard experiment in Selek Hall's computer during today's class.
Computer Lab:
For the third pre-write, you will and your partner will write collaboratively, once again beginning with the word "community" in the chat window of Facebook. Once again, I expect you to alternate every word when writing this piece. When turning the final version, you will need to copy-and-paste your entire conversation with Fb-handles, etc. into a word document so as to demonstrate you composed the response in the appropriate manner and a second word document that contains only the words the two of wrote (i.e. excluding the other messenger information) in paragraph form. This will probably be best completed if you select the chat "Pop Out" option that allows you to chat in full-screen mode. DUE: Monday, November 1 @ 8:30AM.
Facebook:
Allison and Audrey, Melissa and Kathleen, Christy and Elizabeth, Michael and Taylor, Catherin and Meghan, Logan and Matthew C, Matthew G and Dustin, Scott and Sarah, Roni and Nadia, David and Dichele
Finally, for the fourth pre-write, you and a partner will use the same prompt but compose (in the same fashion as the Selek Hall assigment) on the typewriter in the Henzlik computer lab. Since each of you, for your final project, will need to turn in a hard-copy, you will need to make a scan or xerox of the original so you both have something to turn in. DUE: Friday, November 5 @ 8:30AM.
Typerwriter:
Melissa and Allison, Audrey and Kathleen, Christy and Taylor, Michael and Elizabeth, Catherine and Matthew G, Logan and Meghan, Roni and Matthew C, Dichele and Sarah, Scott and David, Nadia and Dustin
Completion of each pre-write is worth 1.25 points, for a total of 5 points.
During Monday's class session, we will meet in the Love Library and begin the next phase of WP3, which will entail you finding two secondary sources for the final assignment. More specifically, you will need to find two print sources (whether they are books or essays in an anthology/journal is up to you) that provide critical insight into the manner in which communities and communal relations are formed, destroyed, nurtured, or neglected through materiality, process, space, and and context in general. After locating these sources, check them out from the library and write one-page, double-spaced annotated bibliographic entries for both in proper MLA-format. The work you do on this portion of your WP3, both intellectually and written, should contribute directly toward the final, written component of your project. DUE: Monday, November 8 @ 8:30AM and worth 5 points.
The final aspect of WP3 will be a collaboratively-written, 5-page, double-spaced essay that explores the concepts of materiality, process, and space as they relate to community and writing. To this extent, you will use the pre-writing assignment as primary, experiential sources through which to conceptualize these topics. Ostensibly, your essays should address each of the themes equally, in addition to an introduction and conclusion that frames your discussion. While I want you focusing on the pre-writing assignments you can, to a lesser degree, invoke aspects of WP1 and Wp2; but, I reiterate, the pre-writing assignments for this project should be the focal point. Furthermore, you and your partner need to include all four of your collective secondary sources into the fabric of your essay, cited in proper MLA-format both in-line and in a works cited section at the end of your paper. As a side note, the works cited page does not factor into your page-count.
Final Paper:
Melissa and Christy, Allison and Michael, Audrey and Taylor, Kathleen and Catherine, Elizabeth and Logan, Matthew G and Roni, Matthew C and Meghan, David and Sarah, Dustin and Scott, Nadia and Dichele.
Rough drafts will be due on the November 15. You will need to bring 2 hard-copies to our class session on that day for peer-review, as well as a further revised version on the November 17. I will provide peer-review response sheets for those class sessions that will need to be filled out thoroughly with specific examples and suggestions. Peer-reviews, which include both bringing completed rough drafts of your own work and engaging in written, critical responses to your peer's writing are worth 5 points total, and DUE on Friday, November 19.
The revised version of WP3's final essay is worth 10 points and DUE on Friday, November 19.
On November 19, then, each of you will turn in a Final Portfolio that contains the following items:
Final Essay
Peer Reviews (you'll need to get these from your peers at the beginning of class)
Rough Drafts of Final Essay
Annotated Bibliographic Entries
Pre-Writing Assignments
Please, make sure your materials are in a pocketed folder and in this order. Failure to present me with this work in the required form and order will result in a loss of points.
