Assignments ENGL406: Partner Profile
Research in Writing & Writing Studies: Qualitative Research
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Overview
In a Zoom classroom, it’s difficult to know our classmates, and, thus, difficult to become a community—which is really an essential part of creating a room full of learners. It’s how you build trust and make space for critique and for learning in general. It’s vital. But the zoom classroom can feel rather flat and does not allow for free and idiosyncratic conversation that can build the community described above.
So this is a first opportunity to try to triumph over the difficulties that zoom presents in building and a creating a 250 to 300 word profile of a classmate. That is the occasion and context for this writing.
The audience, as you can imagine, is our small group (primary) and me (primary—and probably, in your position, what you care about more) and any person who finds themselves on my website (very secondary and very small).
Using this information outlined here, what will your profile look like? What questions do you ask? How do decide what to keep and discard? How will you make those decisions? And how will you defend those decisions?
In the larger story of this class, making decisions like these are what makes interviews a form a research: thinking about occasion, audience, purpose, and the ethics of the entire process.
Who Interviews Who
Sam Interviews Deryk
Sasha interviews Sam
Michael interviews Sasha
Amanda interviews Michael
Deryk interviews Amanda
Details
Using the questions we began to formulate in class, and considering the context of this research, you will produce a 300 word profile of a classmate colleague. You will workshop the piece in class and get feedback from some members of your primary audience (though not the person you are interviewing for the profile). You'll have a week to revise the piece.
When you turn in your work: please email me a link to a google.doc using the "share" function. Make sure the link you send me is a link to a document set to "anyone with this link can edit." Don't cut and paste the url from your browser, make sure you go through the "share" button in the upper right corner, set it to "editor," and click on "copy link." It's that link and only that link that will work for me to read and respond to your document.
In that one google.doc, you should include the workshop draft, with the comments from your worshipper; your pre-workshop reflection (done in class), your revision plan (done in class), and, your final reflection (done in class). At the very top of the document should be the final version of your profile. Everything else listed here should be included beneath the final version. If you need to change the settings so that you can share the document, and you don't know how to do that, be in touch with me.
Evaluation
The Partner Profile is worth 10% of your final grade. In order to earn a "B" grade for that 10% you must
In order to earn an "A" grade for that 10% you must
In order to earn a "C" grade for that 10% you must
If you do not meet the requirements for a "C" grade you will earn an "F" for that 10% of your final grade.
In a Zoom classroom, it’s difficult to know our classmates, and, thus, difficult to become a community—which is really an essential part of creating a room full of learners. It’s how you build trust and make space for critique and for learning in general. It’s vital. But the zoom classroom can feel rather flat and does not allow for free and idiosyncratic conversation that can build the community described above.
So this is a first opportunity to try to triumph over the difficulties that zoom presents in building and a creating a 250 to 300 word profile of a classmate. That is the occasion and context for this writing.
The audience, as you can imagine, is our small group (primary) and me (primary—and probably, in your position, what you care about more) and any person who finds themselves on my website (very secondary and very small).
Using this information outlined here, what will your profile look like? What questions do you ask? How do decide what to keep and discard? How will you make those decisions? And how will you defend those decisions?
In the larger story of this class, making decisions like these are what makes interviews a form a research: thinking about occasion, audience, purpose, and the ethics of the entire process.
Who Interviews Who
Sam Interviews Deryk
Sasha interviews Sam
Michael interviews Sasha
Amanda interviews Michael
Deryk interviews Amanda
Details
Using the questions we began to formulate in class, and considering the context of this research, you will produce a 300 word profile of a classmate colleague. You will workshop the piece in class and get feedback from some members of your primary audience (though not the person you are interviewing for the profile). You'll have a week to revise the piece.
When you turn in your work: please email me a link to a google.doc using the "share" function. Make sure the link you send me is a link to a document set to "anyone with this link can edit." Don't cut and paste the url from your browser, make sure you go through the "share" button in the upper right corner, set it to "editor," and click on "copy link." It's that link and only that link that will work for me to read and respond to your document.
In that one google.doc, you should include the workshop draft, with the comments from your worshipper; your pre-workshop reflection (done in class), your revision plan (done in class), and, your final reflection (done in class). At the very top of the document should be the final version of your profile. Everything else listed here should be included beneath the final version. If you need to change the settings so that you can share the document, and you don't know how to do that, be in touch with me.
Evaluation
The Partner Profile is worth 10% of your final grade. In order to earn a "B" grade for that 10% you must
- Complete a 300 word draft for the workshop (see the syllabus for when that is)
- Be an strong workshop partner during the workshop
- Participate in the the pre and post workshop reflection (in-class)
- Turn in a revised 300 word draft of your profile on the due date (see the syllabus for when that is)
- Turned in a photo of yourself to be featured on your own profile.
In order to earn an "A" grade for that 10% you must
- Meet all the requirements for the B grade
- Turn in a draft and final reflection that seriously considers, in writing, how occasion, context, and audience have informed your profile.
In order to earn a "C" grade for that 10% you must
- Turn in a 300 word profile on the due date (see the syllabus for when that is)
If you do not meet the requirements for a "C" grade you will earn an "F" for that 10% of your final grade.