| Rules & Advice |
| Writing Workshop #1 | Writing Workshop #2 |
| Writing Workshop #3 | Writing Workshop #4 |
Rules & Advice
Rules
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- If a writing workshop partner fails to submit work by a deadline: you
are no longer obligated to work with that person (no points will be deducted from your grade). You have the option of choosing to continue to work with this partner, but you are not required. - If you fail to participate in the workshop, to share things with your partners by a particular deadline: you will no longer belong to your writing workshop group, and you will lose points for this assignment. (Your partners have the option of choosing to continue to work with you, but they are not required.)
- If you find yourself no longer a member of your assigned workshop group, at any time during the remainder of the semester, email me right away. Your email should express that you wish to try again to work with others. I will assign you to the Writers Block Party group, which will have slightly different rules and deadlines.
- It is possible to switch Writing Workshop groups. If you are unhappy with a group, you must stay with it for the duration of that particular workshop period, but you can request that I move you to another group for the next workshop period. Send me an email with your request, and I will do my best to accommodate you.
- If a writing workshop partner fails to submit work by a deadline: you
- On your group’s discussion page, comment often and with depth of thought! Two suggestions is the minimum number of comments required to earn a passing grade of C; if you want to earn an A, you should post more. Keep in mind, however, that it isn’t just the quantity of posts that matter; it is also the quality: one large comment of quality feedback might count more than three brief posts of low quality feedback.
- All due dates and deadlines are by 11:59pm, Ohio time, of that particular date!
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Advice
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- Pay close attention to deadlines (below)! Not all of these deadlines are on
the Course Plan. - Try to be patient with your partner(s); if they are late, let me know, and I will reach out to them for you to find out what’s going on, but you should also feel free to email them yourself. In other words, if they are late, you are no longer obligated to work with your partner(s), but please try to do so nevertheless.
- If you find yourself no longer in a group, don’t give up. Let me know that you are still interested in trying to complete this assignment. I will try to put you together with other students who are in the same situation.
- Pay close attention to deadlines (below)! Not all of these deadlines are on
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Writing Workshop #1
- By January 22: Post a greeting on your workshop group’s discussion board. Write a few words about what your interests are. Share your KSU email address.
- By January 27: Post some ideas for your Essay One (approximately 100 words).
- By February 1: Respond to each group member’s post of ideas. Make suggestions for developing the idea or for generating a thesis statement (25-50 words).
- By February 3: Share the KSU Google document for your Essay One with each of your workshop group members. The document should have a rough draft of the essay (at the very least, a few notes expanding upon the discussions about your essay.
- By February 8: Provide some feedback to each partner’s essay. Post the feedback in the discussion board. This feedback should be about ways to improve the essay: at the sentence level, at the paragraph level, or at the overall-essay level. Do not mark or edit the essay! If there is a sentence or paragraph you wish to discuss, copy and paste it into the discussion board.
- February 10: Essay One & Reflective Journal #1 are DUE
Find Your Group!
NOTE: Each group discussion
board is password protected.
The password will be sent
to you via email.
Writing Workshop #2
- By February 12: Post a greeting on your workshop group’s discussion board. If you are new to the group, write a few words about what your interests are. Share your KSU email address. If you are in the same group, you do not need to post anything (free points).
- By February 17: Post some ideas for your Essay Two (approximately 100 words).
- By February 22: Respond to each group member’s post of ideas. Make suggestions for developing the idea or for generating a thesis statement (25-50 words).
- By February 24: Share the KSU Google document for your Essay One with each of your workshop group members. The document should have a rough draft of the essay (at the very least, a few notes expanding upon the discussions about your essay.
- By March 1: Provide some feedback to each partner’s essay. Post the feedback in the discussion board. This feedback should be about ways to improve the essay: at the sentence level, at the paragraph level, or at the overall-essay level. Do not mark or edit the essay! If there is a sentence or paragraph you wish to discuss, copy and paste it into the discussion board.
- March 3: Essay Two & Reflective Journal #2 are DUE
Find Your Group!
NOTE: Each group discussion
board is password protected.
The password will be sent
to you via email.
Writing Workshop #3
- By March 7: Post a greeting on your workshop group’s discussion board. If you are new to the group, write a few words about what your interests are. Share your KSU email address. If you are in the same group, you do not need to post anything (free points).
- March 9-15: SPRING BREAK
- By March 17: Post some ideas for your Essay Two (approximately 100 words).
- By March 22: Respond to each group member’s post of ideas. Make suggestions for developing the idea or for generating a thesis statement (25-50 words).
- By March 24: Share the KSU Google document for your Essay One with each of your workshop group members. The document should have a rough draft of the essay (at the very least, a few notes expanding upon the discussions about your essay.
- By March 29: Provide some feedback to one partner’s essay. Post the feedback in the discussion board. This feedback should be about ways to improve the essay: at the sentence level, at the paragraph level, or at the overall-essay level. Do not mark or edit the essay! If there is a sentence or paragraph you wish to discuss, copy and paste it into the discussion board. Do not work on a document that another partner has already worked upon! If there are only two of you, obviously this is not an issue. If there are three of you: Student A work on Student B’s essay; Student B work on Student C’s essay; Student C work on Student A’s essay. If there are four of you, pair off: Students A & B and Students C & D.
- By April 2: Respond to the feedback with questions for clarification or with questions for more ideas. You’re trying to really polish the essay now!
- By April 5: Respond to the questions for each of your partners with further feedback.
- April 7: Essay Three & Reflective Journal #3 are DUE
Find Your Group!
NOTE: Each group discussion
board is password protected.
Writing Workshop #4
- By April 9: Post a greeting on your workshop group’s discussion board. If you are new to the group, write a few words about what your interests are. Share your KSU email address. If you are in the same group, you do not need to post anything (free points).
- By April 14: This time, you have free reign as to how you conduct the workshop. By this due date, have posted 2-3 posts with your writing workshop partners, getting organized for how you will help each other build successful portfolios. Note: you have three weeks to complete this work.
- By May 3: Have posted either reports of what you are doing with your group for your portfolio work (brief descriptions of plans and of accomplishments of those plans) or continue discussions of this work (do the work in the discussion board). For example, if you meet online to work together on your Visual Presentation of Essay Three, report that. If you wish to follow an extended pattern of previous workshops, that’s alright as well. By this date: have posted six posts!
- May 9: Portfolio is DUE
Find Your Group!
Available April 6
NOTE: Each group discussion
board is password protected.
