CUNY Academic Commons

Well done! You Made It!Grab a snack! Read your work! As we settle in I’ll ask that you select a passage to read aloud from your Autoethnographic Essay. The […]

12/10: Peer ReviewWe’ll return to Inayatulla’s and Rainey’s autoethnographies today to look closely at their introductions. Together, we’ll make a list on […]

EXTRA CREDIT: Visit the Writing Center!You can receive 5 points extra credit (that’s the equivalent of a blog post OR 5 missed class points!) AND get support towards your f […]

12/5: Writing Workshop – Using EvidenceWe will be working with two handouts I distribute in class today to identify the evidence you will use in your autoethnographic […]

12/3: Building Character in your Autoethnographic EssaysAs you compose your Autoethnographic Essay, you will inevitably introduce characters–or individuals with whom you’ve interacted–that […]

11/26: Coding Data towards AutoethnographyLast week, you worked to develop your own resource for this assignment in this list of qualities of autoethnographic essays and possible […]

11/21: Brainstorming Your Autoethnographic EssayThe rest of this semester is dedicated to supporting you in writing your final project. Small Group Work As a way of imagining […]

11/19: Models of Autoethnographic WritingToday, we’ll look at Tiffany Rainey’s autoethnography “Her Own Voice: Coming Out in Academia with Bipolar Disorder.” CONTENT ALERT: This […]

11/14: Building Our Definition of AutoethnographyToday, we’ll continue to look at Inayatulla’s autoethnography “Literate Vixens and Shameless Hijabis” in an effort to build our […]

11/12: Rubric Review & Introducing AutoethnographyRubric Review for Collaborative History Project Your Collaborative History Project is due in class today. Take some time in your groups […]

11/5: Collaborative Drafting & Task ScheduleWorking as a Large Group Look more closely at “Our Collaborative Histories” for how students last semester articulated their common goal […]

10/31: Project Management DayToday’s goals move between collaborative work and individual work. I’m happy to structure class time so I direct what you’re doing or to […]

10/29: Returning to Your Collaborative HistoryAccess your recent blog post, BP3 where you wrote about your history of collaboration within a discourse community and used Bruffee to help […]

10/24: Introducing the Collaborative History ProjectModes of Collaboration We’ll take a little more time today to review the readings you presented last class. Wendy and Yuantong will kick […]

10/22: Group PresentationsYou’re leading class today! I’ll give you time in each of your groups to reconvene about presenting your assigned reading(s) to the class. […]

10/10: Your History of CollaborationWe’ll begin today by revisiting Bruffee. Do you have questions or thoughts about the article? We’ll look together at p. 642, where B […]

10/8: Kenneth Bruffee Introduces Collaborative Learning to College English Teachers RHETORICAL SITUATION We’ll begin by orienting ourselves to Bruffee’s “Collaborative Learning and the ‘Conversation of Mankind […]

10/1: The History of CollaborationIn-class Writing Prompt Think back to a time in your life when you worked with others in a meaningful way. Maybe you were on a sports […]

9/26: Writing Workshop Day 2Peer Review Groups Please find your partner(s) for the day and sit together: Group A: Gabriela & Yuantong Group B: Andy, Beatriz, […]

Writing Workshop Day 1Writing Processes We’ll begin today by reflecting on our individual writing processes. Think about how you approach a writing task. Do […]