Home+&+Q's

=Welcome!= This is our course wiki for: include component="pageList"

= WRTG-1150 - 1st Year Writing & Rhetoric =

I came across this article about "multimodality" in composition. It makes a great case for our use of this wiki, so I thought I would share it. Here it is:

Course Syllabus and Schedule:

This is a place to share your work and your thoughts about course material. The wiki is shaped by your use of it, and I will do my best to leave any changes you make. My biggest request is that you not delete anything that is not your own work. All changes are tracked, so we can all see who has done what to improve or detract from this space. You can also create pages that you think might me useful for the class. Please use this opportunity. **
 * REMEMBER: YOU CAN CHANGE, EDIT, AND ADD TO ANY WIKI PAGE!

Check the pages on the left for important information regarding the course. Please note that additional assignments beyond those in the syllabus are posted in that list.

To access course readings, click on "Manage Wiki" --> "Files" The course materials are listed there for your use. Please do not share these materials or the means to access them with anyone else unless you have gotten permission from me.

For copyright reasons, some materials will be posted on the class CULearn site, which is officially available! We will continue to use this space for most of our online course work, in part because we get to decide what it is, what it does, what it represents to our class, etc. For the moment, all course materials are posted in the Files section here.


 * If you have ANY problems creating, editing or navigating on this wiki, please contact me immediately**. My CU e-mail address is //matthew.sonneborn@colorado.edu// and I check it regularly (unless I am teaching or taking a class).

= **Questions** = This section is designed for any questions you may have. My intention is for us as a class to help our fellow class mates and answer their questions. Whether those questions are any where from "What's being served tonight at Sewall," or, "Do you know what our assignment is for tonight," or even, "I don't quite understand what (blank) means." Ask any question you need an answer to, and if you know the answer to someone's question, help them out! I hope that this will help us become closer as a class and create discussion in order to clear things up about the class itself. Don't be afraid to ask questions, we are all in the same boat and the truth is someone else probably has the same question as you. Click on the "Discussion" tab above and ask any questions you need answered. Use the same process you use to post your journal entries.

It might also be fun to have people click "edit" on this page and type their questions/thoughts right below these paragraphs. That way they can be edited and collaborated on if necessary. I don't know why, but the discussion posts seem impossible to edit or do anything to but delete.

I have a question: Why does everyone keep correcting me when I refer to images/statues of our school mascot as a buffalo? Folks seem to love telling me "it's actually a bison." Does anyone know the difference?

-->Answer: I'm pretty sure that it just depends on where they come from. One is from North America and the other isn't. I couldn't tell you which is which however.

Buffalo is the colloquial term for the plains bison. They are synonymous. So people from the East coast seldom hear the term "buffalo" and that is why they correct you, that would be my guess.