Friday, October 20th

How Hogwarts celebrates Friday...

Habit of Mind Openness

The willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world, and is fostered when writers are encouraged to listen to and reflect on the ideas and responses of others—both peers and instructors—to their writing.

Learning Outcome Seven

Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively as members of diverse teams / groups of writers.

Reminders

Monday, October 23rd -- Office Hours Day (Good luck on your exam!)

Compinar on Wednesday, October 25th -- Lab Workshop Day (OCNR 240)

Friday, October 27th -- Midterm Portfolio is Due in your OneDrive folder

Tuesday, October 31st -- Happy Halloween!!

Wednesday, November 1st -- CONHS Meet and Greet for Seminar

Monday, November 13th -- In-class Seminar Canceled

Wednesday, November 15th -- Compinar for Mock Symposium

Thursday, November 30th & Friday, December 1st -- First Year Symposium Presentations

To Do List

Peer Review

Get into your groups today and pull up your reflective overview and/or proposal. Determine who is going to look at what, and then follow these guidelines when working on peer reviewing one another.

When it comes to commenting versus conversation, you need to FIRST make comments while you are reading. Once you have made the necessary comments, THEN you can converse with the writer to make sure that none of your comments are miscommunicated.

TO HOLD ONTO COMMENTS SO YOU CAN USE THEM AS EVIDENCE FOR DRAFTING (Final Portfolio) AND GROUP WORK (Midterm Portfolio)...

After receiving comments on a draft -- HIGHLIGHT, COPY, and then PASTE your writing into a NEW word document and save it as a "second", "third", "fourth", etc. draft! This way you have the necessary evidence that you received comments from peers, and that you used their comments to help you in the rewriting process.

Remember to also screenshot the comments you leave on your peers' work so that you have evidence proving that you actually participated in peer review!

Things to Keep In Mind...

Remember to DISCUSS the three aspects of the rhetorical situation in the second section of the reflective overview!!

The Rhetorical Situation

1. Audience

2. Genre/How

3. Purpose

The portfolio is due by the end of the day that Friday -- IF you need more time you MUST email me before then and I will give you an extension! But you can't wait till the last minute to ask for it.

The Midterm Portfolio consists of your Reflective Overview, a rough draft of your Proposal, an updated Discovery Log, and any evidence you reference in the Reflective Overview.

You can click here to download a word document version of the Midterm Reflective Overview Template.

You can find the grading rubric for the Midterm Portfolio here.

Homework

Week Seven Reflection -- How did your week go? Are you feeling ready for the midterm portfolio? Why or why not? What questions do you have about the assignment at this point? How do you feel about exam two? Are you ready to go or do you feel not at all prepared? Discuss and reflect upon your studying process for this exam, compared to the first one. (Due Monday BEFORE the exam!)

"Getting To Know Me" Blog Post -- If you could only watch three movies and read three books for the rest of your life, what would they be, and why? (Due Monday)

Work on your proposal and/or reflective overview! (Due Friday, October 27th)

Announcements

Priority Deadline for the Program is November 15th