Today’s class notes serve as the posting site for the peer response assignment due on Friday, October 23. Review the directions carefully, along with the other notes that follow.
Analysis Peer Response Assignment
Directions
- After tomorrow’s hard deadline for the analysis, at 10:40 a.m., go to the class page, and click on the link for the blog of the classmate whose name precedes yours. If you are first on the list, go to the blog of the student whose name is last. Note the difference between this step and the first step of the blog response assignment for the literacy narrative. For that assignment, your designated classmate’s name followed yours; for this assignment, it precedes it.
- If your designated classmate’s blog is not linked to the page, or his or her analysis is not published, choose another classmate’s blog.
- Read the classmate’s analysis.
- Compose a one- or two-paragraph response (75 words, minimum) that includes both the classmate’s name and the title of his or her analysis. In your comment, address one or more of these elements: the title, the introduction, the thesis, textual evidence, the conclusion, the image documenting part of the writing process away from the screen, the embedded link to a relevant website.
- Recommended (not required): Draft your comment longhand in your journal.
- Type your response as a comment. You should see a leave comment/reply option at the top or bottom of the post. If you do not see that option, click the title of the post and scroll down. You should then see leave comment/reply.
- Before you click leave comment/reply, copy your comment (on a PC, copy with control + c; on a Mac, copy with command + c).
- After you submit your comment on your classmate’s analysis, return to this blog post, and paste your comment as a reply (on a PC, paste with control + v; on a Mac, paste with command + v). This step is critical because your classmate may not approve your comment, which means it will not be visible on his or her blog. To receive credit for the assignment, you must post your duplicate comment as a reply to this post, “ENG 1103: Analysis Peer Response.” To submit your comment, click the title of the post, then scroll down to the bottom. There you will see the image of an airmail envelope with a box for your comment. Type your comment in the box and click Comment. Post your comment by 7:30 a.m. on Friday, October 23. I will make your comments visible after the deadline.
You are not required to read other classmates’ analyses, but I encourage you to browse their blogs and read the posts that pique your interest.
Upcoming Readings
At the beginning of tomorow’s class, you will receive copies of two additional articles that focus on aspects of the course. Can you guess which ones? Read and annotate both for next Monday, October 19, along with the two distributed yesterday. If you are absent from class or misplace your copies, download and print them from Blackboard.
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review your journal notes and the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips.
Coming Soon
In class on Monday, you will receive your group oral presentation assignment, which will focus on one of the articles distributed in class this week or on the first chapter of Ted Chiang‘s “The Life Cycle of Software Objects” in Exhalation (62-74). After I offer an overview of the assignment and distribute copies of the directions, you will have class time to devote to planning and practice. Since you don’t know which reading will be the subject of your group’s presentation, be sure to complete all five. That will ensure your class time can focus on actual preparations (rather than your initial reading of the text).
