The blog posting for Monday's assigned reading (Min-Zhao Lu's "Professing Multiculturalism") will be postponed until Friday, October 26. (During the first half of Friday's class, we will discuss the article's implications for peer tutors, then you will meet with your peer tutoring conference group.)
I've discussed with some of you topics for the Inquiry Project. During Monday's class meeting, we will share potential topics and discuss requirements for the project. On Wednesday, October 24, we'll meet at the library instruction room to begin library research on your proposed Inquiry Project topic.
To prepare for tomorrow's class, please read the Inquiry Project Description, which is posted on the Course Documents page of the English 401 Blackboard. You may post your initial topic ideas as comments to this page. During the second half of Monday's class meeting, you'll do some in-class writing and invention to discover what you already know about your topic as well as what you want to discover.
See you Monday morning. Please email me with questions or concerns at bridgeto@elmhurst.edu.
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I think that I want to discover if there is a correlation between skilled writers and reading levels. I believe that people who read well and learn to read young grow to be skilled writers.
I think I want to look at specifically something like the "5 paragraph essay" and research if its really "so horrible" and if it really does "suppress the writer and their creativity," and if so is there is a better way to teach students how to write an academic paper? B/c personally I don't think this model is so horrible! But maybe thats b/c I'm so used to it that if it was taken away from me I wouldn't know what to do? Not sure yet...
I would like to do my inquiry project on academic discourse and the disadvantages of writing in the specified style this discourse commonly calls for. I would like to research and argue that academic discourse and the style of academic papers is unnecessary and alienating. (As I suggest in my most recent blog.)
well, for some reason I can not open the course document for this project, but I think I would like to do something regarding the barriers/problems concerning inter-cultural discourse in academic writing. i dont know, we'll see.
Dr. O'Rourke,
As we discussed before, I have an interest in writing about the correlation between reading skills and learning to write.
I noticed Crystal is interested in using the same topic; are we both allowed to do this or should I consider something else?
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I am interested in templates and whether or not they stifle creativity. ALso, along he way I will see how useful they are and what not. I don't know for sure yet but I know it will focus around templates.
I am interested in exploring methods currently used in the pre-secondary education, focusing specifically on seventh and eighth grades. What is being done to prepare students for the level of writing they will be expected to do in high school? I want to speak to instructors regarding what methods are currently in use and what the benefits of those methods are. If a student doesn't respond well to a "template" what else can be done to teach writing?
I would be interested in exploring differences in gender writing and/or speaking (communication aspect).
I would also be interested in learning about voice and audience in the academic discourse and communications discourse.
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