Assignments

My general rubric for grading essays in this class:


 * Cultural Analysis

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Here's a good site about annotated bibliographies: []


 * Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL)** is a great source for citation or formatting info.

1. Summarize the major issues surrounding your intended topic. 2. Outline major issues that you plan to research further 3. Explain why this topic is personally relevant. 4. Consider what primary sources you might find on this topic, and/or where to look for such sources.
 * RHETORICAL ANALYSIS**
 * Topic Proposal** - for your rhetorical analysis paper, you will be required to submit a topic proposal prior to our first draft workshop. That proposal should be no more than one page long. Topic proposals should do the following:

Assignment sheet: Pre-assembled reading themes (available at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/pwr/index.htm):

[|Civilization] [|Class and Status] [|Conflict, Terror, and Resolution] [|Environment] [|Immigration] [|Intellectual Property] [|Language and Gender] [|Life at the Academy] [|Multicultural Rhetorics] [|Scientific Literacy] [|Visual Literacy] [|Writing the West]

Peer Review sheet: Self reflection:

Final Reflections:
 * TEXTUAL ANALYSIS**

The Textual Analysis assignment sheet:

I have also uploaded the self-reflection sheet you will need to complete for your portfolio:

Here is the peer reviewing worksheet you will be working with. You will need at least one of these filled out by a peer for your portfolio:

For Friday, September 4th: Please do something to this wiki. What can you do? You can create a new page that you think our class community would enjoy developing, or you can add material to an existing page. Feel free to view recent edits by clicking "Recent Changes" near the top of the navigation panel to the left. Contact me if you have any problems: matthew.sonneborn@colorado.edu.
 * OTHER ASSIGNMENTS:**

Wednesday, August 28th: For your first assignment, please brainstorm/write one loosely-formed page about yourself. Address questions like: where are you from? What kinds of things do you like to do? What brought you to Boulder (literally? figuratively?) and what do you like/dislike about it? What are your expectations for the college experience as a whole, and what are you hoping to get out of this course? What is the most important thing to you, and where did it come from? What is so important about it, and what happens when you have or don't have it?

This is a big, broad topic to write on, so use this opportunity to wander around and think about all sorts of things that fit into or contribute to your sense of identity/activity/community/etc. writ large. The idea here is to get a full page or more of brainstorming (e.g. not edited!) material.

Once you have this page-ish written, go through and pick out a few things that seemed most important and that you are willing to share with the class and on this back-corner of the internet. Write a short 1-paragraph outline/summary/byproduct/derivative of that brainstorm page and add that paragraph, with your name, to the "Class Roster" section listed in the menu to the left.

How do you edit pages? In the upper right part of each page is a tab that says "edit." Click that and the material on the screen should pop up in a text box. As always, let me know if you have any problems or would like clarification on anything.



-Matt