3-31 class

Today we'll discuss the proposal assignment for the research paper. We'll do an exercise analyzing the "rhetoric of CCCC proposals" to develop a list of criteria for the proposal assignment (See materials added to Webcampus). This should answer most of your questions about how to write the proposal. It will also be an exercise in "joining" the discourse community of composition scholars.

I read through everyone's annotated bibliographies. I liked the ones that opened with a brief summary of the research project. There was one that concluded with a summary of insights gained from the preliminary research. Now that's using the annotated bib in a generative way, as was the intent of the assignment. Contrary to one person's comment that annotating was taking time away from writing the paper. I suppose research writing is one type of more formal writing process (given the fact that many research projects need to be articulated clearly up front for either grant or acceptance purposes).

I also read the responses to week 3/24. You should see grades for both in WebCampus. Yes, I still need to get the grades for Dissonance papers and week 3/10 done.

I'll be heading out to New Orleans on Wednesday for the field's big conference: The Annual Conference on College Composition and Communication. Susan is going too. She better blog about it, from New Orleans preferably!