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 […]

9/19: Working With Artifacts & GenresI’ll be using the words artifacts and genres interchangeably today as we move through an exercise in preparation for Project 1, the […]

9/17: Discourse & ConflictReview Project 1 We will review your Discourse Community Analysis project, and I’ll address questions or concerns you have. What does […]

9/12: Discourse Communities, Genres, and PowerWe’ll focus on two goals today: understanding Ann M. Johns’ text “Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice” and assigning Project […]

9/10: Understanding Gee's Theories of Discourse CommunityWe’ll begin by reading a couple of paragraphs of Gee’s “Literacy, Discourse, Linguistics: An Introduction” (1989) together. Group […]

9/3: Introduction to Discourse CommunitiesCourse Review We’ll continue reviewing our course syllabus & schedule. We’ll also look at some examples of your peers’ websites and […]