12.18 Thanks & Grades

What a great semester this has been for me.  And thank you so much for your constructive comments about how to present the material in this course in a way that might work a little better for the next group of students.  I took good notes and will be looking through them carefully.

As stated in class, I will be reviewing your work over the next couple of days.  I hope to send you a gradesheet with comments on your final project, and your scores for all the categories listed below.
At that point, if you are OK with the grade, that's the grade you will get.

If you do not agree with the grade - or if I made a mistake adding things up or if you don't agree with the score - send me an email and explain and we will see if we can work things out.  I may or may not revise the score (I am really obligated to evaluate the writing  that is turned in, and cannot grade on effort) but at that point we will know where we stand.  If you remain convinced that the grade is not calculated in line with the terms we agreed upon in the syllabus and in the revisions/discussions through out the course, the process for making a grade appeal is described in the Undergraduate Student Catalog under Grade Grievances.

I expect to send grade sheets by Saturday, and to post your grades on Keanwise by Monday.


Thanks again for being such a great class and Happy New Year!

1.  Blog + comments (response to readings; practice analysis, drafts, reflections, etc)     250 points   

          
2.  Class presentations + group work + participation + homework                                  150 points

3.  Short analysis project                                                                                             100 points

4.  Research project                                                                                                    500 points

200 points =  Creation of  data collection tools, presentation and preliminary analysis of data

150 points= Writing for project planning, evidence of writing process including invention writing, successive drafts, and writing to critique and plan revisions to successive drafts

150= final research essay

Total points for course                                                                                                           1000 points

12.12 Final presentations - turning in your work

In class, we finished in-class presentations for your final projects and talked about final grades and how to turn in your final work.

Your final projects are due at the end of class on Tuesday, December 17.  We re-visited the scoring, listed on the assignment sheet and decided to keep the points the same.  They are as follows.

Data
200 points:  Writing for project planning, Creation of  data collection tools, presentation and preliminarly analysis of data

Writing process
150 points: Writing for project planning, evidence of writing process including invention writing, successive drafts, and writing to critique and plan revisions to successive drafts

Final project
150 final research essay

For criteria for final project see assignment sheet.

You will turn in your work by posting it as Blog 26, AND as an attachment to an email. In this email you will paste in links to blogs which provide evidence of your Data and Writing process.

What we will be doing in next class:
Composing the email you will use to turn in your final project (pasting in the links).
Talking over changes we (I) might want to make to this course the next time it is taught.

Good luck on finishing your projects, and see you Tuesday!

12.10 Presentations

We had a small but excellent class - Debra, Liz, and Fil gave their presentations, so on Thursday we will be looking for Mark, Emily, Caitlin and Jayme to be giving their presentations.

Meanwhile - I will be working through your blogs and providing written feedback to whatever you have posted.  Hopefully - I will have replied to each of you before class Thursday.  This will be my last round of feedback to blogs - so make sure to post anything you want written feedback on.  If you are a little behind - I will be in my office most of the day today, tomorrow, and Monday and Tuesday.  Send a email to schedule a time.

On Thursday we will finish the rest of the presentations.

We will also revisit the scoring for the final project.  Think about how many points you think should be allotted to each portion - and we will talk as a class about whether/how you want the scoring to be set up. Also - I will review what you will do in our last class (Tuesday, 12.17) and how to turn in your work.

For next class:
No additional blog assignment : continue posting and numbering whatever materials you will want to reference for the writing process + data & analysis portions of the writing project.

See you Thursday.

12.6 Follow up post on comments to Blog 24

I thought I was doing you a good turn by looking at your analytic post (due by the end of class yesterday) so that you could have feedback before you started work on posting your drafts for Tuesday.  As it turns out, most of you did not do a lot of analytic writing.  I won't have time to check in on blog posts again until Tuesday, and at that time I will be giving you feedback on your drafts as far as you have written.  If your analytic writing is posted = I will check in on it again then, and give you pointers on how to use that writing (or to do more of it) as you continue to work on your draft.

Good luck writing your papers - and see you on Tuesday.

12.5 More Presentations!

Good presentations today!  Next week we will hear from the rest of you. This week we were working on analyzing data, doing the kind of analytic writing described under "what to do next' on the 11.26 post.  Next week, you will be presenting drafty writing - as much as you have posted, hoopefully pretty much the whole way through.  

12.10  Jayme, Filip, Emily, Caitlin

12.12  Mark, Debra, Liz

For presentations this week, use the following format.

1. State your research question.
2. Provide an overview of the research paper you have chosen to reply to/set up your research.
3. Describe the organization of  your paper.
4. Draw classmates attention to the particular writing issues/sections of your paper you want support on.



Read: Classmates' blogs so you are ready to provide feedback.
Blog 25: Draft research project (as far as you have gotten with it_

12.3 Presentations!

Angie, Courtney and Marc gave presentations today - and you all provided great feedback in terms of clarifying questions, pointing out patterns, and helping pull out relevant data.  Good work!

The presentation schedule for the next 3 classes is as follows:

12.5 Ashley, Dina, Megan, [Caitlin - or 12.12]

12.10  Jayme, Filip, Emily, Kristina

12.12  Mark, Debra, Liz

For your presentation, use the format posted earlier.  You should present from where ever you are in the anaylsis/writing process.  Make sure to have a question posed for your classmates.  Give us a task to help you with!

Blog 24: Analytic memos or sections of draft= whatever you want feedback on.