Week 8 Schedule of Work

Thanks in advance for engaging in your group workshops, completing your Essay 2 Phase 1 Peer Review Forms, and submitting your Essay 2 Phase 1 drafts to me in a timely fashion! As always, starting at 5pm today (Friday 3/12), I’ll begin checking your submissions.

We do not meet as a full class in Week 8. Instead, I will be conducting feedback conferences Monday through Thursday of Week 8. Feedback conferences cannot be made up if you miss them—or, put differently, if you don’t schedule one or miss the appointment, you miss your chance at feedback with me before revising for Phase 2. I highly recommend that you schedule Zoom meetings for 15 minutes, as this meeting is only for discussing how to proceed with your Essay 2 drafts. If you have questions about other work, you should make a separate conference for Week 9 to discuss it.

Here are some reminders about what your “scores” will look like on Blackboard, followed by work expectations for the week.

“Grading” + Conference Reminders

None of your drafts will receive letter grades on D2L Classes. Instead, you’ll be evaluated on the basis of whether or not you completed the assignment and satisfied its parameters. To indicate levels of completion or additional work needed, we’ll be using the following symbols:

If you didn’t submit your essay on time, you’ll receive an L. If you don’t submit your essay within a week, it becomes an M. L and M designations cannot be changed, and both impact your guaranteed final course grade of B+. If you receive a + for Incomplete, you must meet with me within a week to determine how to proceed.

Reminder that D2L requires that I enter a numeral, but the number doesn’t mean anything. Depending on whether I’m inputting the data on my laptop or a tablet, it may be a 1 or it may be a 0 but a 0 doesn’t mean no credit any more than a 1 means full credit. Instead, pay attention to the textual symbols in the table above, and refer to the LBG Contract if you’re confused about our grading system.

Remember also that on Phase 1 drafts you will not get written comments. I’ll write personal comments if there’s a critical need for me to do so, but you’ll receive comments when we talk over Zoom in our feedback conference this coming week. It is your responsibility to check Gradebook on D2L in a timely fashion.

Week 8 Schedule of Work

As usual, the agenda is stated in the calendar. You will largely be continuing work on your Essay 2, moving from Phase 1 to Phase 2. Remember that I’m here for you during this process, during my available hours Monday – Thursday this week. Here’s a list of items you’re responsible for this week:

• Reading: Sample Student Essay 2 drafts.
• Reading: Purdue OWL’s Analyzing Visual Documents and Elements of Analysis
• Prewriting: Complete the Visual Analysis Worksheet on D2L, which you do not need to submit to me, but will help you with…
• Writing: …Incorporating both rhetorical analysis and visual analysis into your draft as you move towards Essay 2 Phase 2. Using the feedback you received from me and your peers, keep drafting!
• Writing: After your feedback conference with me, write a short revision plan in your Slack #workshop group channel telling me what 2-3 tasks you plan to prioritize as you revise/draft towards Phase 2. (As with all written assignments, you should post your writing by Friday at 5pm, but it might make more sense to post it right after your conference with me.)
• Writing: Keep working on your field notes. This is not an assignment best put off to the last minute, so pace yourself. The richer your field notes, the stronger your Essay 3 will likely be. If you were pacing yourself according to the Calendar, you should be working on Field Note #2 this week.

Looking Ahead…

We will meet as a full class in Week 9 on Tuesday 3/23. We will be introducing Unit 3: The Virtual Ethnography and will discuss how to conduct and write a virtual ethnography. By then you should be well into compiling your field notes assignment since all three field notes are due on Friday 3/26. You will also continue to revise your Essay 2 based on peer review and my feedback, since Essay 2 Phase 2 is due on Friday 3/26 as well. You’ll have videos to watch for Unit 3 and I will remain available for one-on-one conferences to field any questions you might have.