NEWS
Please watch my recap of Week Two, linked here, before meeting on Wednesday morning.
Remember: due to Labor Day, Wednesdays workshops will be combined. Groups A and C will meet at 8 am and groups B and D will meet at 9:10 am.
There will be no class meeting at 8:40, but I will be in the Zoom room and available to answer any questions.
What exactly do you do this week? Complete steps 1-7 by Wednesday 11:59 p.m. Then, complete steps 8-9in time to share your zero draft in Workshop 3, next week.
- Read: “How to Email your Professor (without being annoying AF).” This is important, because I’ve learned from several emails that students do not know this stuff, and it will make things hard for you with other professors.
- Read: “Critical Questions for Big Data” sections 1-6 (665-676)
- Don’t do: The “extra credit” assignment has been removed.
- Lesson 3.1: Special Announcement and suggested viewing (step 10, below).
- “In this class I will be asking you to try and find your style. I want you to use your slang, your sentence structures, your poetry, your many languages, your very self in your writing. In order to be better writers, we first have to know how we relate to our writing, how our writing develops from our very bodies and lives. But know not all professors are like me. They will ask you to write a certain way, judge your work according to certain rules, and demand you speak in intellectually sophisticated ways — whatever these things even mean. Your success, the grade or the job, depends on molding yourself to the criteria and standards they give to you, unfortunately. Going forward, please be aware of this when you are in these other classroom spaces. As much as I hate to say it: it is what is — for now.” Click here to read more or move on to complete lesson 3.2, on linguistic justice and writing.
- Lesson 3.2: Toward Linguistic Justice
- Due Wednesday (11:59pm): Complete lesson 3.2 and complete process writing in the questions and discussion sections inside of the Ted Ed lesson. You will need to log in to Ted Ed in order to post your process writing.
- Read: Essay 1 Overview
- Homework for your next workshop: Essay 1 Zero Draft ** Read this assignment carefully. Be aware that your zero draft is not a formal draft, and a formal draft would be a failed zero draft.** You are invited to continue reflecting on the Ted Ed lesson, where it seems relevant to your rhetorical analysis, in your essay draft.
- Helpful resource: Edited annotations of selections from “Critical Questions” that may help you understand key passages.
- Suggested viewing–completely optional but highly recommended for everyone: I Am Not Your Negro, Raoul Peck’s documentary on James Baldwin can be accessed on Kanopy through QC library.
