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5/14: Last Day of Class!
First, enjoy snacks! Next, this is a reminder that you have to compose an About page for your site. Many of you have template or generic placeholder that WordPress automatically populates to most sites. Write about two paragraphs (they can be short or long) that introduce me to you and to your relationship to this course. Take a look at my example of an About page for a model of what’s expected. We will also look at some of your peers’ pages for inspiration. Finally, ask me any questions you still have about your Final Autoethnographic Essay! This is DUE ON THURSDAY, MAY 16 as a NEW PAGE to your WordPress site.…
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5/9: Revising the Autoethnographic Essay
Last class, you used this rubric to move forward on your Autoethnographic Essay. Our conversations about your work focused mainly on integrating the following types of evidence in your essays. Today you will work in pairs or groups of 3, to read each other’s drafts. It will help to have our Autoethnographic Essay Rubric accessible while reading. As you read, take notes on the following to discuss with the author: Before we end class, you’ll create a new page on your website for your final essay. You will also start working on your About page. Take a look at my example of an About page for some guidance of what’s expected.…
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5/7: Drafting the Autoethnography
Access the Autoethnographic Essay Rubric for use during today’s class. Using the rubric as our guide, we’ll look together at an excerpt of Rainey’s autoethnography to understand how that text fulfills expectations of the rubric. This is your chance to ask any questions about the rubric to better understand expectations of the assignment; this is also my chance to revise anything on the rubric that needs clarification. Access the draft of your Autoethnographic Essay that you brought to class today. Using the rubric, identify what area you need to develop first. You will have time in class today to write and revise. HOMEWORK Come to next class with a more…
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Extra Credit Opportunity
You can receive 5 points extra credit AND get support towards your final Autoethnographic Essay if you make an appointment with a Queens College Writing Center tutor. Here’s how to earn these points and receive support:
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5/2: Autoethnography Revisted
Welcome back from a long break from our class. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading Rainey’s and Smith’s autoethnographies assigned over the break. We’ll consider these texts as sample autoethnographies and identify conventions of each that will help you move towards your final autoethnographies. Looking at Models of Autoethnographic Writing We’ll split into groups and take time to re-familiarize ourselves with Rainey’s “Her Own Voice: Coming Out In Academia with Bipolar Disorder” & Smith’s “Collaging the Classroom, the Personal, and the Critical: Autoethnographic Writing in the National Writing Project.” Address each bullet point below with specific examples from the text. What can we transfer into our autoethnographic writing? For our purposes,…
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4/16: Mapping your Autoethnography with Data
Working with Datasets Access your dataset by looking at your coding tables you created for homework. Carefully read these tables as together, as if they were one text. Using a highlighter, pen, or other signifying tool, mark any codes that are similar across the tables. You may want to denote one set of similarities with an asterisk (*) and another set of similarities with a particular color. After reading your coding tables, make a list of the similarities that occur across your dataset. Then, take time to note any outliers, themes or ideas that stand out as unique. After you work independently on your data sets, we’ll come together to…
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Blog Posts
To earn full credit for a blog post, you must compose 300 words in response to the prompt, and you must quote and cite an assigned source. Below is a list of graded blog posts this semester, linked to corresponding prompts: If you want to discuss your blog grades or make-up any of the above work, reach out to me by April 25. If you completed the blog post from the first day of class about your collaborative marshmallow build, five extra credit points will be added to your final grade. You will be assigned to write an About page before the end of the semester. Details to follow. There…
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4/11: Grounded Theory Coding
For our final project this semester, you will assume the role of researcher of our ENGL 201W class, using grounded theory coding to make sense of the written data available to you on our WordPress site. We will practice coding today so you are prepared to code data before next class. Grounded theory coding is a form of data analysis that involves labeling & defining written text (also known as qualitative data). Charmaz describes grounded theory coding as “the process of defining what data are about. Coding means categorizing segments of data with a short name that simultaneously summarizes and accounts for each piece of data. Your codes show how…
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4/9: In the Final Stretch
Plans for our end-of-semester work have changed, so I’ll use today to go over our new final project. We’ll take time to answer questions and discuss next steps. As an introduction to grounded theory, we’ll look briefly at Charmaz’s text, your next reading assignment, and discuss the example of coding that Charmaz models. We’ll then collaboratively code sample text in class. I’ll end class by asking for a volunteer who would be willing to offer one blog post for us to collaboratively code next class. HOMEWORK READ Chapter 5 from Charmaz’s book Constructing Grounded Theory (available on Bb).
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4/2: Finishing our A.I. Syllabus Statement
Today will be our last day working in-class on the A.I. Syllabus Statement. In the service of finishing this assignment, here’s a roadmap of today’s plan: ANNOUNCEMENT Our next class on Thursday, April 4, is cancelled. Andrea will be in Spokane, WA at a conference. HOMEWORK DUE TUESDAY, April 9: I’m using this planned time off to ask us all to reflect on the writing and collaboration we’ve done throughout the semester. You began by writing collaboratively in, what I’ll call, a traditional sense, writing a single document together like Ede & Lunsford, Efthymiou & Zea, and McNamee & Miley. You then moved to consider the kinds of agency you…
