Course Materials for Writing 2, Spring 2015

Academic Writing

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 on that assignment 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 at the rubric for details.

Extra-Credit Opportunities. Just what it sounds like. Always subject to change as new opportunities become available.

Final Portfolio Assignment. Explains the requirements and expectations for your final portfolio, due between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on June 9 in my office.

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

Writing Projects (and Project Builders)

Writing Project 1. Due Wednesday 15 April at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder A. Due Wednesday 1 April at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder B. Due Wednesday 8 April at the beginning of class.
Writing Project 2. Due Wednesday 6 May at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder C. Due Wednesday 22 April at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder D. Due Wednesday 29 April at the beginning of class.
Writing Project 3. Due Wednesday 27 May at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder E. Due Wednesday 13 May at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder F. Due Wednesday 20 May at the beginning of class.
Some useful resources for WP3:
- Academic Search Complete. This is the scholarly database that you should be using to complete Writing Project 3.
- Subject Guide for Writing 2 providing information about using library research sources — navigate using the tabs on the top. Prepared by Librarian Shari Laster.

Chalkboard shots. If you want to take another look at what's been on the chalkboard, here are some (occasionally blurry) shots from my cell phone.

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 15 April.

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

Group-generated reverse outlines for student essays from Starting Lines. Constructed in class on 27 April.

Group-generated outline for David Bartholomae's Inventing the University. presented as a sample of how reverse outlining can help you get a view of your own paper's structure.