Portfolio Assessment Sheet!

Please fill out this assessment sheet out for EACH item you include in your portfolio. You should use complete sentences and save each assessment sheet to its own clearly labeled Word or PDF document. Have fun!

Write a précis of this piece of writing as it stands now:

What is the major goal of this piece of writing (what does is hope to accomplish in relationship to its audience)?

Based on your own evaluation, what are the major strengths of this piece of writing?

What basic writing skills does this piece of writing showcase?

What COULD this piece of writing do well that it is not doing well now?

What do you hope the précis for the piece of writing looks like when you are finished with it? (Write a full new one that differs in some way from the the original).

End-Of-Semester Survey (HW extra-cred!)

Hi, friends,

Yet again! The Writing Program asks students to take a CONFIDENTIAL survey at the beginning and end of each semester so that we can gather data about how student writing develops. We are looking for TRENDS and PATTERNS in what students say about their writing processes-- NOT for information about specific students.

You'll get an email receipt once you've completed the survey-- please forward it to me, and I will give you an extra credit homework grade as a thank-you for helping us gather this data.

Thanks in advance!
Anna

SECTION 001 (8:30a class) CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/a/guilford.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegTWIg-EK0hwpEkZGvwMT55ssfEClnWfFjrCQUWWuocdbotw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.597511211&entry.1402257472=ENGL+102-1&entry.405874708&entry.158750287&entry.1220809703

SECTION 004 (11:30a class) CLICK HERE FOR SURVEY: https://docs.google.com/a/guilford.edu/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSegTWIg-EK0hwpEkZGvwMT55ssfEClnWfFjrCQUWWuocdbotw/viewform?usp=pp_url&entry.597511211&entry.1402257472=ENGL+102-4&entry.405874708&entry.158750287&entry.1220809703

Portfolio Assignment Sheet

Select 15 pages of writing that you feel could benefit from extensive revision. Consider using:

·      Blog posts

·      Graded assignments

·      Resume/CV/Cover letter

·      Personal statement for an internship or job

·      Maybe! An assignment from another Guilford Class

Fill out an assessment sheet for each item in the portfolio. I will provide this sheet. You will fill it out.

Develop a one-page Revision Plan for your portfolio centered around:

1. One major goal for content
2. One major goal for structure
3. One major goal for style.

This is a general process that you will follow for revising each item in the portfolio. You should outline a specific set of steps (the same steps) that you will follow for each piece of writing.

REVISE! RADICALLY! Meet with me in office hours. Use the learning commons. Follow your plan!

Write a 1-page revision reflection reviewing your writing process and highlighting what worked and what didn’t. This is not a reflection on the course- it a reflection on your writing process. What were your major points of growth this semester? What were you major challenges? What do you wish to work on next semester? How, specifically, do you see writing fitting into your college education, now that you've got one full semester under your belt?

Submit to me via email (all in one email as attachments, please)

An assessment sheet for each revised assignment

·    Your Revision Plan

·      Your Revision Reflection

·      The original copy AND revised copy of each piece. I NEED BOTH.

TADA! All done! Veg out!

Signal phrases, In-text citation, and Formatting: a Resource List!

Signal phrases:  http://www2.isu.edu/success/esol/handouts/Verbs%20Used%20in%20Signal%20Phrases.pdf

MLA in-text citations: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/2/

MLA Formatting Guide: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/24/

Artist Profile Rubric

Hi, friends. Here is the rubric that I'll use to grade you artist profile. Please do use this as a guide, in addition to your personalized assignment sheets from Friday.


ARTIST PROFILE SCORING RUBRIC

-Develops compelling original thinking about the artist, and places this at the center of the essay /20

-Identifies and thoughtfully explores three clear themes pertinent to each artist and their life and work /30

-Uses a quotation, a piece of information, or an idea from each of your five research sources, and engages IN CONVERSATION with this source work, using to support and explore you own ideas /25

-Employs close listening of at least two of the artist's songs /10

-Uses a strong, clear structure to make connections and establish a sense of order in the paper as a whole /10

-Proper MLA formatting and citation /5

Total /100

Artist Profile Source Sheet Instructions

Hi, friends. Now it's time to identify the SPECIFIC bits and pieces that you'll be using from each source when you write your Artist Profile.

For each of your five sources, please identify the following:

-One quotation that you think might be useful for the artist profile (max two lines long).
-One paraphrased fact or piece of information that you think might be useful for the artist profile.
-One idea that you think might be useful for the artist profile.

Please list these for each source in single document or blog post, and turn in on Wednesday!
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Artist Profile Assignment Sheet Blog Entry

In a blog entry, please write a 2-3 sentences EACH answering the following quesritons about your plans for the Artist Profile. This will build the base of your assignment sheet!

1. What is the central purpose/goal of your artist profile?

2. Who is your ideal audience or audiences for this profile? Who might benefit from/enjoy reading it?

3. What types of content (original ideas, personal narrative, source work, etc) are you planning to create in the this essay?

4. How will your outside sources play a role in this essay?

5. Which of the academic writing skills that we have ALREADY USED IN OTHER PAPERS do you plan to use in this essay?

Finally, please list what you imagine to be the BASIC requirements of this essay. Nuts and bolts-- what ingredients should it contain? What skills should it demonstrate?

Please publish this to your blog!

Academic source for annotated bibliography!

Or find the PDF here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/z1c3smy4e8v8isl/Classification%20and%20Culture%20%28Lena%20and%20Peterson%29.pdf?dl=0

MLA

Lena, Jennifer C., and Richard A. Peterson. “Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres.” American Sociological Review, vol. 73, no. 5, 2008, pp. 697–718., www.jstor.org/stable/25472554.

APA

Lena, J., & Peterson, R. (2008). Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres. American Sociological Review, 73(5), 697-718. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472554

CHICAGO

Lena, Jennifer C., and Richard A. Peterson. "Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres." American Sociological Review 73, no. 5 (2008): 697-718. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25472554.

Export Citation

Export to RefWorks

Export a RIS file (For EndNote, ProCite, Reference Manager, Zotero…)

Export a Text file (For BibTex)

Note: Always review your references and make any necessary corrections before using. Pay attention to names, capitalization, and dates.

Assignment Sheet: Annotated Bibliography

Artist Profile Annotated Bibliography Instructions

You’ll be working for the rest of the semester to write an artist profile—an essay focusing on the musical artist of your choice that combines source material with your original thinking to discuss the artist’s life, art, ideas, and public persons with the goal of talking about other important issues or themes in the process. I’ll be giving you the full assignment sheet for the essay itself when the time comes, but we’ll begin by amassing your sources and creating an annotated bibliography.

Your annotated bibliography will amass your five sources for this artist profile, and present each source with proper MLA formatting and short paragraphs summarizing the source and discussing what it contributes to your larger project.

You will begin the bibliography with a ~100 word introduction explaining the project and its themes and goals. You will follow with an entry for each source.

Each entry will follow this format:

·      MLA Citation

·      Summary/Precis of ~100 words

·      ~ Source discussion of ~100 words

·      Set of five keywords from the source

We will follow the Purdue OWL guidelines for MLA-style bibliographies—you can find sample documents there, and we will review the basics in class.

You should amass the following sources for your AB:

·      A scholarly article (I will provide this)

·      An interview with your artist

·      A biographical source about your artist OTHER THAN an encyclopedia or Wikipedia.

·      An image of your artist

·      One of your artist’s social media (or equivalent) accounts

You should also prepare a playlist of five of your artist’s songs or videos. You do not need to do an AB entry for the songs, but you should provide the playlist, with a proper MLA-style entry for each song, at the end of the AB.

The challenge of this project is the push BEYOND the summary of your source and into real original thinking about how your source serves your project. This is the beginning of your CONVERSATION with your sources!

Basics:

·      MLA-style Annotated Biography

·      ~250 words per entry with breakdown described above for each entry

·      Third person (you’ll have the chance to use the first person in the actual essay!)

·      Carefully proofread

Go team!

In-Class Reading: "The House that Hova Built"

Hi, friends!

Next week we'll be reading "The House that Hova Built", by Zadie Smith. Feel free to preview it over the weekend!

Anna

Structural Revision Redux

Structure is the order in which you present your ideas, and the relationship you build between them.

Here's the structural revision process we'll be following in 102:

1. Write a precis of your current draft, trying to look at it with "fresh eyes". Make sure to write your precis of the draft as it IS, not as you WANT IT TO BE.

2. Write a one-sentence summary of each paragraph or chunk of the essay.

3. The above is your reverse outline. Review it, and ask yourself:

• What's missing?
• What can you cut out?
• Is this the best order for your ideas? Should you rearrange the paragraphs in any way?

4. Identify the five most important words in your essay. Write them down in your notes. These are your keywords!

5. Compare you paragraphs, one at a time, to the paragraph sandwich model. For each paragraph, ask yourself:

• What's missing?
• What can you cut out?
• Is this the best order for the paragraph?

6. Try to DOUBLE the number of times you are using your keywords in the paper. Pay special attention to weaving the keywords into the beginnings and ends of paragraphs.

Use your notes from steps 1-6 as a structural revision checklist. Make the changes you've identified one at a time, checking them off as you go. Boom! New draft.

Paragraph Sandwich

As we discussed in class, here are the four essential ingredients of a delicious paragraph:

Topic Sentence (The Bread!)

Introduces the main idea of the paragraph.

Example (The Cheese!)

Illustrates that idea through facts, figures, stories, etc.

Discussion (The Meat!)

Explains the thinking behind the topic sentence and example. Gives the reader insight into the writer’s logic.

Analysis (The Bottom Slice Of bread!)

Connects the main idea of the paragraph back to the paper’s thesis.

Short Paper #2

Prof. Anna Carson DeWitt

Eng 102

Guilford College

Short Paper #2: A Closer Listening

For your second short paper, please DESCRIBE the song of your choice using THREE of the “elements of music” that we discussed in class. Then, end with a conclusion that discusses the overall listening experience that these elements create. How does the song effect the listener? Why does that matter?

 The challenge: write in the THIRD PERSON the whole time.

This is a lot of work to do in 750 words, so your writing should be succinct, a ndshould help the reader imagine a listening experience that combines immediate apprehension and synoptic comprehension.

Other important stuff:

-Strong sense structure (order and connection)

-750 words

-Carefully proofread

-APA formatted (no abstract necessary)