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In-Class Agenda:

• Small Group Activity: distinguishing among position, argument, and identity.

• Peer Review: in-class, random assignment of a peer's second draft to peruse and categorize sentence-by-sentence for position, argument, and identity.

• Peruse and select two chapters from the section Interacting with Texts in the Text-Wrestling Book.

• Peer Reviewer feedback/grading from Steph.

Homework:

• Summarize the feedback that Steph wrote to your Peer Reviewer. Post your summary on the Peer Review Process page. Please be sure to sign your work. Consider the ways in which the conversation between me and the Peer Reviewer gives you information that can help improve your paper (and thus your grade). (If you did not receive Peer Reviewer comments then do a similar analysis of the feedback I provided in the elaborations below.]

Read and consider

1. the feedback I just provided to Kate as well as that which I
2. provided to Sharon and (!)
3. the feedback I generated for myself. These examples are elaborations of the kind of analysis I will apply when I assess your final draft performance combining the generic grading criteria (note the five bulleted points) with that of each narrative option.
4. Read: The Poems Came Late: Literacy as Cultural Dialogue by David Wallace in the Text-Wrestling Book, pages 118-131. There will be an in-class quiz. (Think position, identity, argument, and also the elements of the rhetorical situation.)
5. Read Adam's first freewrite (that he gave to me accidentally/on purpose).

Planning ahead:

Final drafts (Unit 1) due Tuesday, October 10. These need to be posted to the wiki AND brought to class in a Project Notebook. Please enclose the Final Draft on top, the second draft next (the one with colors and written comments), and a print copy from the wiki of your first draft with Peer Review feedback (separately if that is how they were posted, but you can just print the Peer Review copy if comments were inserted and summary added to it as instructed). Copy edit your Final Draft carefully! READ it and CORRECT it before printing the final version to hand in.