Critical Writing – Thinking and Writing about Community

Mar 28 2021

General Feedback – Essay 2

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I’ve finished reviewing your Essay 2 Phase 2 drafts, and scores have been posted to Gradebook on D2L. As before with Essay 1, this feedback post speaks to issues I...

Mar 01 2021

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General Feedback – Essay 1

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I’ve finally finished reviewing your Essay 1 Phase 2 drafts! I’ll likely finalize and upload the scores to your Gradebook on D2L by tonight, but I wanted to publish the...

Apr 25 2021

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General Feedback – Essay 3

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Thanks for your Phase 2 drafts! Most of my comments have to do with the choice and use of your secondary sources, as well as your analyses of your primary...

Apr 23 2021

Agenda, Instructions & Examples

Week 14 Schedule of Work

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Strap in for the final blog post of the semester. Somehow it felt both incredibly slow and as fast as warp-speed, but then again: In this post, I’ll go over...

Apr 16 2021

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Week 13 Schedule of Work

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Time flies, and we’re approaching the end of the semester! This is our penultimate week, but it’s kind of like our last week of class content since Week 14 is...

Apr 10 2021

Instructions & Examples

Sources and Analysis

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By now you’ve all hopefully completed the Ethnographic Research Tutorial and begun to experiment with the Vetting Sources worksheet. As we move from Essay 3 Phase 1 to Phase 2,...

Apr 10 2021

Instructions & Examples

#AcademicTwitter recently offered these embodied metaphors about levels of engagement with sources in research writing. You may have learned in high school to “wave” at sources, where you’re citing just...

Apr 10 2021

Agenda

Week 12 Schedule of Work

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Thanks in advance for engaging in your group workshops, completing your Essay 3 Phase 1 Peer Review Forms, and submitting your Essay 3 Phase 1 drafts to me in a...

Apr 02 2021

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Week 11 Transcripts

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Today I’ll be describing how to evaluate and incorporate sources into your drafts, and answering FAQs concerning Essay 3 Phase 1. The agenda for today consists of the following: Revisiting...

Apr 02 2021

Agenda

Week 11 Schedule of Work

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This week we’ll be formulating controlling ideas for Essay 3 from your primary research (field notes)—which you should have spent last week revising, expanding, or otherwise finalizing—and continuing to delve...

Mar 30 2021

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General Feedback – Field Notes

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I’ve managed to read enough of your Field Notes that I feel comfortable creating a general feedback post about them. Many of you did excellently, jotting down all kinds of...