Unit 2 Meta-Document Requirements

For Unit 2, we'll be workshopping the meta-documents your group prepares.  Here are the main requirements for these projects.

Unit 2 (WAC)

Interviewing Professors: Setting the Groundwork for Your Writing Research

For Project 2, each group will interview a professor or instructor your selected discipline.  The professor interviews are meant to provide insights regarding the nature of writing in your field and to give additional direction to your writing research.

Please Note: These interviews are not meant as human subjects research.  You may not ask any personal questions during the interview, and you may not record the interviews (though you should certainly take notes during the interview).  Before posting notes or your interviewees name to your blog, must obtain either written or e-mailed permission, and you must make it clear that your interview may withdraw this permission at any time if he or she isn't comfortable being identified on your blog.

Unit 2 (WAC)

Annotated Bibliography: Organizing Research

Research is a crucial component of many projects in your academic and professional lives.  For Project 2, you'll use annotated bibliographies to organize your writing research.

Unit 2 (WAC)

Quiz - Amy Tan and Writing Across the Disciplines

Today's quiz on the readings for Amy Tan and Writing Across the Disciplines will be an open-book group quiz.  For this quiz, you'll each work in groups to provide written answers to questions from the text.

Unit 2 (WAC)

Unit 2 Rationale: Writing Across the Curriculum

For the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) project, you'll be working in small groups to describe how writing is used in other disciplines.  This description of the project is meant to provide an in-depth description of the scope and aims of the project.

Unit 2 (WAC) - Spring 2012 Schedule

Unit 2: Writing Across the Curriculum - Spring 2012

For the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) project, you'll be working in small groups to describe how writing is used in other disciplines.  These links are meant to provide resources and suggestions for your projects.

Spring 2012

CHAT Hubs: Examples of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Here are links to the Hubs created by students in response to Project 1, CHAT and Popular Culture.  For these webpages, students assembled PowerPoint slides for the seven aspects of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, and then posted the slides online with descriptions of how these examples of popular culture were affected by the different components of CHAT.

Project 1 - CHAT and Popular Culture