Tuesday, August 26, 2014

Welcome to College Writing I

This will be our class blog for the semester. You should have already received an invitation for how to join this blog as an author. You can find instructions on TRACS for setting up your account.


On days when a reading has been assigned, you are expected to come to class prepared to engage in a conversation with the text and your peers. To help you prepare for these conversations, I will post reading questions to TRACS under the assignments tab. You will be expected to respond to these questions with either a blog entry or a blog comment. Your assigned peer group’s schedule will dictate whether you are responsible for a full blog entry or only a blog comment. The peer group that has been assigned to lead discussion for the day will responsible for posting that week’s blog entries, while all other peer groups are responsible for responding with blog comments. Though these grades are largely for completion, additional points may be gained by more thorough and thoughtful responses, and points may be deducted for incomplete or sloppy work or for work that shows little to no engagement with the text. Blog Entries must be a minimum of 350 words. They must be posted by midnight preceding class. Blog comments must be a minimum of 250 words, and they must be posted by class time the day the reading is due. Blog entries and comments will make up a significant portion of the Drafts and Blogs grade. In order to receive full credit for these assignments, blog entries and comments must be posted to the class blog by their deadline as well as printed out in hard copy form to bring to class. Late blogs and comments will not be accepted for credit. I will also not accept blog entries or comments via email. 

If you have any questions, feel free to email me at shilohbooker@txstate.edu or shilohbooker@gmail.com.  

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