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Welcome to the English 328 Style Rules Wiki!
Update on February 17! Check out the latest class news....
The first thing you should do is visit the "my profile" tab in the upper right-hand corner of this window. Set your profile and take a look at the tutorial videos!
Here is what is here so far:
Here's how peer review will work:
We had one peer review already for the first assignment, and after that and previous experiences you may have had, I think you have an idea about how the process works. This time, try to focus on things about the process that worked well, and to try and minimize the parts of the project that didn't work so well. And as was the case before, give this process a chance and I think you will find it makes you re-think (and thus revise) your writing.
Now, we're trying an experiment this time around in using this wiki space. This is a space that can be read by anyone (though it would be unlikely that this would be the kind of space that someone from outside of our classes would find) and edited/commented on by many (though that is restricted to classmates). Besides introducing the idea/concept of a wiki to the class as an important writing technology and also as a way of easily sharing/publishing writing on the Internet, we will be using this wiki as a space for discussing and even editing each others' work in peer review.
Here's how this will work (hopefully):
Update on February 17! Check out the latest class news....
The first thing you should do is visit the "my profile" tab in the upper right-hand corner of this window. Set your profile and take a look at the tutorial videos!
Here is what is here so far:
- Sandbox is a place where you can do whatever you want and have no fears for messing anything else up. (Not that you would mess up stuff intentionally anyway, and it's easy to fix stuff you do mess up on accident, too!)
- Style Rules Table of Contents is where you will post your style rule. Remember! 150 words or less! Visit that page to get the instructions on how to create your style rule so it ends up in the right place on the wiki.
- Style Rules Essays Table of Contents, is where you will post a draft of your essay for peer review. Visit that page to get the instructions on how to post your style rule essay so it ends up in the right place on the wiki.
Here's how peer review will work:
We had one peer review already for the first assignment, and after that and previous experiences you may have had, I think you have an idea about how the process works. This time, try to focus on things about the process that worked well, and to try and minimize the parts of the project that didn't work so well. And as was the case before, give this process a chance and I think you will find it makes you re-think (and thus revise) your writing.
Now, we're trying an experiment this time around in using this wiki space. This is a space that can be read by anyone (though it would be unlikely that this would be the kind of space that someone from outside of our classes would find) and edited/commented on by many (though that is restricted to classmates). Besides introducing the idea/concept of a wiki to the class as an important writing technology and also as a way of easily sharing/publishing writing on the Internet, we will be using this wiki as a space for discussing and even editing each others' work in peer review.
Here's how this will work (hopefully):
- First, each of you will need to upload you rule (make sure you put it under the "Style Rules Table of Contents" page!) and you will need to upload your essay (make sure to put it under the "Style Rules Essays Table of Contents" page!). Second, make a link from your essay to your rule. Check out my "apostrophe s" example if you get stuck.
- Once you have your rule and your essay set up on the wiki, select five classmates' essays and corresponding rules to read, review, comment on, and/or edit. Two guidelines for how to select rules/essays:
- Pick a mix of students who are both in your section and in the other section of the course.
- Only five reviews per student essay! In other words, if five other students have already commented on a particular student's essay, then pick someone else.
- Pick a mix of students who are both in your section and in the other section of the course.
- I will leave it up to you if you want to discuss the essay in the comment section, make edits/suggestions in the text, and/or some kind of combination of both. Notice in my apostrophe s example, I demonstrated how I could change the text color to indicate a change. However, it is always possible to get back to an original version of a page, so don't be afraid to make some edits to the page if that will help the process.
- Has the writer clearly articulated her rule? Do they provide effective examples on how this rule works?
- Is the writer quoting and paraphrasing the texts effectively in order to explain his rule? Does she introduce the sources and comment on the quotes or paraphrases? Do you have suggestions where he might go into further detail with either of the texts?
- Do you think the essay is written in a "good style" as Williams and/or Strunk and White might say? In other words, since it would be problematic to write a "badly" written essay about books that talk about writing "well," do you think the writer is following the rules she is discussing?
- Is the writer using MLA style effectively to cite the books and web sites within the text? Do they include a "works cited" page?
