MON, FEB 22: Before our class meeting in CAR 109, please complete the following:

  • Find and read Nancy Sommers’ 1980 research article, “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers,” published in the journal College Composition and Communication, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 378-388. Do not pay to access this article! Ask for help if you can’t locate it.
  • Although we don’t have a shared copy in our folder, mark up this article like we did Howard, Serviss, and Rodrigue’s, noting those statements or sections that you find helpful and those that you find confusing.
  • Begin drafting a rhetorical summary of this article, following this linked template. Your goal is a 100-150 word summary that manages to identify the motivating problem, intended audience, central claim, principal evidence, purpose (what Sommers wants her audience to do), and potential implications for YOU, even though you’re not her intended audience.
  • Come prepared to help each other make sense of Sommers’ argument and see if your summary is on the right track!

WED, FEB 24: In preparation for our Zoom session (https://learnonline.unca.edu/course/view.php?id=8997#section-1), please complete the following:

  • Find and read Teresa Thonney’s 2011 research article, “Teaching the Conventions of Academic Discourse,” published in the journal Teaching English in the Two-Year College, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 347-362.
  • As we did for Sommers, so too here: Mark up your copy of the article (what’s helpful? what’s confusing?), draft a rhetorical summary, and come prepared to help each other make sense of Thonney’s argument. Fair warning: We’ll be testing out her conclusions on the other research articles we’ve read by Howard (et al.) and Sommers, so pay close attention to how she explains and exemplifies her findings.

FRI, FEB 26: Please complete the following asynchronous tasks by 5:00 pm: