Course Materials for Writing 2, Winter 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 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.

Final Portfolio Assignment. Explains the requirements and expectations for your final portfolio, due between noon and 3 p.m. on March 16 in my mailbox or my office.

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

Writing Projects (and Project Builders)

Writing Project 1. Due Wednesday 21 January at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder A. Due Wednesday 7 January at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder B. Due Monday 12 January at the beginning of class.
Writing Project 2. Due Wednesday 11 February at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder C. Due Wednesday 28 January at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder D. Due Wednesday 4 February at the beginning of class.
Writing Project 3. Due Wednesday 4 March at the beginning of class.
1. Project Builder E. Due Monday 23 February at the beginning of class.
2. Project Builder F. Due Wednesday 25 February 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.

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 21 January.

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

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.