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Blog one post discussing your ideas for Project 3. How do you think you will approach this composing project? What things about yourself or your interests would you like to highlight? How might you be able to do that effectively? Also, what software do you think you’ll use? Do you have a few you canContinue reading “Project 3 Blog”

Hearing the details of project 3 has got me very excited. I appreciate, so much, the creativity we are allowed to have with all of our assignment, but this one in particular. This project gives me a chance to express myself and make a piece of artwork that I created myself, from start to finish.Continue reading “Blog one post discussing your reaction to Project 3. What do you think of this assignment? Secondly, what is Shipka’s idea about a composition “made whole?” What does she mean by that? How do you think this assignment draws from Shipka’s theory of rhetoric and composition?”

Blog one post to determine the following things for today’s text (these are two chapters from the same book so you can treat them as one text):  Who is talking/writing? Who is the primary audience for this text? What does the text say (or imply) “rhetoric” is? What does this text say (or imply) “genre”Continue reading “Johnson, “Introduction” to Romancing the Atom (p. xi-xvi) and Johnson, “For the Love of Pretty Things: The Radium Girls and ‘Dying for Science’” (p. 1-14)”

What discipline/profession have you selected?  What do students of that discipline/profession write in school?  What topic do students write about? What genres are students asked to write in?  What research methods are students learning? What do professionals of that discipline/profession write at work? What topics do they write about? What genres do they write in?Continue reading “Project 2 Blog 1”

Blog one post to determine the following things for today’s text (Palmeri):  Who is talking/writing? Who is the primary audience for this text? What does the text say (or imply) “rhetoric” is? What does this text say (or imply) “genre” is? What is the main argument or message of this text?  What does this textContinue reading “Palmeri “When Discourses Collide””

Blog one post outlining your thoughts about research (aka “inquiry” or “information literacy”). What is research for? Why do people do it? Why do researchers use different methods? What research methods have you used? What about research is confusing for you? Respond to two posts in your group Research is very important for learning. My wholeContinue reading

Blog one post reflecting on what you learned from completing Project 1. Address the following: What did you learn from this assignment? How did you learn it? Why is this new knowledge significant as it contributes to your learning in (or beyond) this course? What do you need to know/do next to prepare for ProjectContinue reading “Project 1 Reflection”

Blog one post to determine the following things for today’s text (Miller; Wardle):  Who is talking/writing? Who is the primary audience for this text? What does the text say (or imply) “genre” is? What is the main argument or message of this text? How is this main argument different from Bitzer, Edbauer, OR Herndl &Continue reading “Read Ball and Loewe, Bad Ideas About Writing, Wardle, “You Can Learn to Write In General” (p. 30-33)”

Blog one post detailing your revision process for P1 and what you think/feel about your process (So, first, what was your process for revising P1? When/where did you do this? How long did this take? Was this process different than the first draft? If so, how? Then, second, describe how you felt while revising. WhereContinue reading “Project 1, Draft 2”