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assignments ENGL 101 Writing Rhetorically: PARTNER INTERVIEW mini-paper

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Overview
Every class needs an icebreaker, even though everyone absolutely hates them. So just to try to make it a little more awful--no, kidding, really, to to try to make it more useful, our icebreaker is meant to help you help you to see the process for how most of the assignments in our class will go. And, of course, it will help you to make a connection with at least one other person in our class and, also, to just generally know the people you will spend the next 15 weeks with--because we all have a story, and those stories affect who we are and how we react and participate in any given situation including a class. Also: prizes (see below).

Once you've completed this assignment, I will post your partner introduction to our class website on a "class profile page." I'll ask each of you for a picture of yourself--or some image that you want to represent you. 

Details
In order to write this short introduction of your partner you have to gather two kinds of information then you've got to put it together into a mini-essay.
  1. Basic Facts. These are the easiest things to get out of a person. Things like when you were born and where. If you have siblings. Where you went to high school. Favorites: food, movie, TV show, book, whatever. Hobbies. Dumb interesting facts. Thing they can't stand the smell of. This isn't a complete list, but, you know what I mean.  You want to know just the kinds of things that identify a person.

  2. A story or two that really tells you something about who this person is. This is much harder. People are often super bad about telling stories about themselves. You might ask your partner to tell you a story that their family or friends always tells about themselves. That can be a good place to start. Proudest moment story? Most embarrassing moment story? Best school story? Worst? Story that involves adventure? Story that is about summer time stuff? Stories about you and your family? 

    Here's the thing: at first, this part is going to be hard, but once you get started you'll get some good stories and that will form the basis of your introduction. Because that is the key to this assignment: you want to tell a story about your partner that tells the class something about who they are, what they care about, what matters to them, etc. 

  3. Once you've gathered enough stuff about your partner, write a 250 word introduction of your partner.  That's not very long at all. It can't really be longer because the introduction should be interesting to a reader who is reading this on the web. It should focus on one or maybe--maybe--two stories about this person and it should revolve around a thesis--a main idea or main point--about what you've learned about this person and how this story proves this main point. 

You'll have two class periods to work on this with your partner. You'll be randomly assigned. You'll have a chance to do a little workshopping on your paper. And, as I said above, I'll post it to our class website, and ask you for an image to accompany the profile that your partner writes about you. 

Format Rules​
  • For the purposes of the workshop, double-space your writing and bring a hard copy to class. 
  • When it is time to turn in your final draft: Be ready, to turn in to me, the workshop draft--the one with the comments you and your workshop partner made on it in hard copy. EMAIL TO ME: your revised version of your partner introduction AND your picture (pic needs to be a .jpeg file that I can post to the class profile page for our class).   
  • Cut and paste your final 250 words into an email and send it to me. Please, please, please. This is the easiest way for me to put this all together. 
  • DO NOT .pdf your interview. DO NOT attach it as a word document. DO NOT send me a link to a google doc.

Prizes!
Once the profiles are posted, you'll read all of your classmates profiles. Everyone will have a voting ballot with everyone's name on it. As a class, you will vote for the following categories:
  • Best Information/story
    Who's got the best story out of their interview partner and has done the best job of using the other information to give us a complete picture of this classmate. 
  • Funniest
    Who made us laugh
  • Best Overall
    Who did just a great job all around: good story, good facts, wasn't boring when they were reading. They had a clear main idea and all of their information supported it. 

What do you win? 
Every winner gets a 10 dollar Dunkin' Donuts gift card.
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    • ENGL 301 >
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        • PARTNER INTERVIEW ENGL 301
      • ENGL 301 Discussion Board When We Need it
      • ENGL 301 PORTFOLIOS
      • ENGL 301 READING JOURNALS (assignment)
      • ENGL 301 INTERVIEW WITH A TEACHER (assignment)
      • ENGL 301 BOOK CLUB (assignment)
      • ENGL 301 FLASH MENTOR TEXT MEMOIR (assignment)
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        • ENGL 301 RESEARCH IN TEACHING DIVERSE POPULATIONS (instructions & sample annotations)
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    • ENGL 202 BIZ Com >
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    • ENGL 227 INTRO TO CNF WORKSHOP
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