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Rough Draft Workshop 2 Project 2

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Second Rough Draft Workshop

 

Housekeeping: 

  • MINI-CONFERENCING: we'll be having mini-conferences IN CLASS on Monday and Wednesday. Be ready to work on your drafts IN CLASS as I go around and talk with everyone individually. 
  • Mid-semester evaluation: FRIDAY we'll be doing mid-semester evaluations (where you give ME feedback about how the class is going - including what STYLE of conferencing you feel works best for you).
  • SPRING Cleaning - make sure your Roster Page is formatted and easily accessible (for you, me, and your peers).
    • Are your projects all correctly labeled (i.e. LAST NAME P# RD/FD)? Are all your links active? 

 

Agenda: 

  • Rough Draft Workshop!! 
  • The difference between C and A -
    • Remember a "C" paper meets ALL THE GUIDELINES INCLUDED BELOW - "C" means "satisfactory"! A "C" paper clearly and EXPLICITLY meets all the criteria for the assignment. "A" and "B" mean that you EXCEED the guidelines listed below - for example, on this project I will be looking for papers that or organized at the paper and sentence level for A and B papers (papers that USE LANGUAGE EFFECTIVELY).  
  • FOR PROJECT TWO:  
    • The page-length for Project Two is 4-6 pages typed standard MLA style (12-point, Times New Roman, Double Spaced). You should type your paper and SAVE IT AS A WORD.DOC/DOCX and then CUT AND PASTE IT to a wiki page (and format it to the wiki page however you desire).
      • You'll also submit your paper to SAFE ASSIGN via Blackboard. 
      • Remember, the project description is: Apply what you have learned about rhetoric to a piece of discourse written by someone else. This exercise will give you an opportunity to express your critical reading ability and your knowledge of the ways in which rhetoric is put to use by other writers. 

Good Paragraphs - this is a link to examples of GOOD PARAGRAPHS from STUDENT PAPERS

 


 

DIRECTIONS FOR PEER REVIEW

 

  1. LOG ON
  2. You are responsible for reading and commenting on ONE paper.
    1. Find ONE people near you (one student at your set of tables). Get his/her names and read his/her paper.
    2. There are be SPECIFIC questions to guide your peer reviews (based on the Project Two Rubric) posted HERE. 

Questions for Comments

 

  1. Look at the Project Two Rubric
  2. Respond to these questions in the COMMENT BOX below the paper. 

 

  1. Is there a clear argument/thesis to the paper?
    1.  Identify the thesis directly in the text (through highlighting) or paraphrase it in your own words.
      1. Does it identify the author, work, thesis of the work, and the rhetorical strategies of the work? 
    2. Does the thesis (or the introduction) identify the work's intended audience?  
  2. (Organization) Does the paper follow a clear structure or does it read more like a disconnected series of observations?
    1. DOES THE PAPER ADHERE TO THE THESIS?  
    2.  Is there any part of the paper that seems unnecessary - "beside the point" or unrelated to the overall argument of the project as a whole?
    3.  Do body paragraphs FULLY SUPPORT thesis?
    4. Paragraphs are limited to DEVELOPING AND SUPPORTING A SINGLE IDEA.
    5. Ideas are connected with transitions.   
    6. Paragraphs include a variety of basic and complex sentence structures with a minimum of error. 
  3. (Audience) Does the paper demonstrate a strong awareness of the text's audience (or specify a limited section of that audience to be analyzed in the paper)? 
    1. Is the paper addressed to the appropriate audience: THE CLASS   
  4. (Rhetorical Situation)  
    1. Does the paper identify rhetorical strategies/rhetorical elements in the thesis?
    2. Does the paper analyze the ROLE of these rhetorical strategies in the body paragraphs? 
      1. Are rhetorical strategies related back to the text's AUDIENCE?  
    3. Does the paper balances the author's own point of view with supporting evidence? 
  5. (Support) Successful papers include TWO kinds of support in body paragraphs: 
    1. evidence from the text
    2. evidence from an outside source ABOUT rhetorical strategies or about the context of the text to SUPPORT THE MAJOR CLAIMS OF THE WRITER'S ARGUMENT. 
    3. Successful projects will also illustrate that the writer is able to distinguish credible sources from doubtful sources, and be able to accommodate and address differences, contradictions, and oversights in the sources they employ.
    4. Sources will be incorporated into the writer's own arguments with ease, and sources will be documented and cited according to the standards of an academically-accepted style guide. 

 

6. What, in your opinion, is the strongest part of this paper?

 

7. What, in your opinion, is the weakest part of this paper?

 


 

Need Help?: Beside our peer-to-peer rough draft workshop, we are going to conference one-on-one on your PROJECT ONE papers this Wednesday and Friday (there is NO IN CLASS MEETING - just conferencing in my office), and for additional assistance everyone and anyone is encouraged to drop by the Writing Center for more in-depth one-on-one tutoring. 

 

http://writinglab.clas.wayne.edu/ (Writing Center Blog - link for online appointment scheduling)

 

 

Comments (1)

Bianca Hunt said

at 12:25 pm on Feb 15, 2012

Bianca Hunt
1) This is a clear thesis statement identify tyhe author, work and thesis work.
2)there is structure to the paper things are not just all over the place, I think she does a good job on putting everything in the right place, sneteces are not too long and there are supporting details to the thesis.
3)there is a clear audience,there are also use of rhetorical situation.The paper is also address to the correct audience.
4) the paper identifies rhetorical elements in the thesis and the body paragraphs does support.she shows that the author does express his feeling on the issue at hand with supporting details.
5)there are evidence from both kinds of body prargraphs both text and an outside source to support the argument. she has a credible source the source that she has should play into her paper just right.
6)the strongest part of the paper to me is the thesis or intro paragraph.
7) the weakest part of the paper I would have to say are the body paragraphs.

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