Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/01

• Introduce Project Two
• Review guidelines for invention activity
• Assign research plan

Read Understanding Discourse Communities

Invention Activity: 1 pm CT on Wednesday, March 3 to Student Google Folder

03/03

• Model identifying a discourse community, collecting data, and analyzing collected data
• Practice discourse analysis
• Construct research question(s)

Read Narrowing a Topic and Developing a Research Question

Research plan: 4 pm CT on Friday, March 5 to Student Google Folder

Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/08

• Review sample draft of a discourse analysis composition

03/10

• Spring Refresh (03/09-3/11)

Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/15

• Understand positionality and research ethics
• Discuss ethics involved with specific chosen discourse communities
• Draft an outline

Read Research Writing: What's Your Positionality?

Outline due by end of class

03/17

• Preliminary Data Collection and Analysis

Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/22

• Share Data and Analysis
• Draft composition

First draft: 1 pm CT on Wednesday, March 24 to Student Google Folder

03/24

• Peer respond to two student drafts
• Share commentaries
• Construct plan for revision

Revised draft: 4 pm CT on Friday, March 26 to Student Google Folder

Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/29

• Meet on one-to-one basis to discuss revised draft

Construct two questions that will lead our discussion on revised draft

Portfolio: 4 pm CT on Friday, April 2 to Student Google folder

03/31

• Meet on one-to-one basis to discuss revised draft

Construct two questions that will lead our discussion on revised draft

Portfolio: 4 pm CT on Friday, April 2 to Student Google folder

Date

Agenda

Class Prep.

Work Due

03/29

• Begin invention activity

Think of social problems that require solutions/interventions

03/31

• Share social issues from invention activity

• Read Active Reading