Assignments

Full descriptions of our assignments in the links below; we’ll support the work in class and with feedback.

• Ongoing: Reading and Annotating in Perusall (see below) 70 points
• Ongoing: Peer response (see below) 30 points
• Aug 24-31: Tracing Your Literacies (data collection & paper) 15 points (5 points tracing (Aug 24); 10 points paper (Aug 31))
• Sept 7-14: Literacy Interview (interview & paper) 25 points
• Sept 19-28: Digital Literacies (data collection & paper/artifact) (modified: we just worked on data collection for 5 points in class on Sept 21)
• Oct 3-24: Schooled Literacies (data collection, summary, & paper) 40 points (15 points journal summary (Oct 17); 25 points paper (Oct 24))
• Oct 26-Dec 7: Project: Choose Your Own Adventure (Curated Resource & Poster Session) 50 points (5 points google form with research idea (Nov 2); 25 for curated resource (Nov 16); 20 for sharing project in gallery walk (Dec 7))

235 points total

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Reading & Annotating in Perusall (10 pts each; 70 points)

various due dates (see calendar & below)

We’ll read together using a platform called Perusall. In a nutshell, we are working more like I work with colleagues when we read together: we are reading and sharing comments together.

To Join:

• Go to perusall.com, click Login, and then either log in using your Facebook, Twitter, or Google account, or create a Perusall account using your email address and setting up a password.
• Select I am a student and enter our course code JAXON-MATRT.

Readings this semester:

• Aug 29: Gloria Anzaldúa’s “How to Tame a Wild Tongue” from Borderlands 
• Sept 7: Derek Van Ittersum & Tim Lockridge’s “Finding the Best Tools for the Job: Writing Workflows”
• Sept 19: Sean Michael Morris & Jesse Stommel’s “A Guide for Resisting Edtech: the Case against Turnitin”
• Sept 26: Ann N. Amicucci’s “Four Things Social Media Can Teach You About College Writing–And One Thing It Can’t”
• Oct 3: Elizabeth Wardle’s “You Can Learn To Write in General”
• Oct 5: Tylor Branson’s “First-Year Composition Prepares Students for Academic Writing”
• Nov 2: Dana Lynn Driscoll’s “Introduction to Primary Research”

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Peer Response (10 pts each; 30 points)

Due (in class work): Aug 31, Sept 14, Nov 16

We’ll give peer feedback to all drafts. We’ll create guiding questions and guidelines together for our feedback. Must be in class for credit.