COMMUNITY RHETORICS:

Writing in the Service-Learning "Contact Zone"

Assignments

The Leap-of-Faith Essay / The Community Writing Project / The Research Paper / Informal Writing: PanFora Forum / Reading or Film Presentation / Community Writing Presentation / End-Quarter Portfolio

 

WRITTEN WORK

The Leap-of-Faith Essay: A Contextual Analysis

The Leap of Faith: Part 1

The Leap of Faith: Part 2

The Leap of Faith: Draft (Assignment Sheet and Criteria)

Peer Review Form

Conference Schedule for Peer Review Conference on the Draft

 

The Community Writing Project

More About Community Writing

Community Organizations Partnered with Our Class

Current Students' Projects

Examples of Past Students' Community Writing Projects

Community Writing Project CONTRACT

Conference Schedule for Individual and Group Conferences on CWP Drafts

 

The Research Paper

NOTE: Throughout your research project, refer to SKIL (Stanford's Key to Information Literacy: An Interactive Tutorial) as an essential supplement to our texts. This new and excellent source of information will instruct and advise you about undertaking research at Stanford and beyond. Familiarity with specific aspects of this site will be actively assigned from time to time.

Assignment Overview

Stage 1: 3 Topic Ideas

Stage 2: Research Proposal (draft to be ready for workshopping in class on Thursday, October 16; revised proposal to be submitetd in class on Tuesday, October 21)

Research Topic Form (Please fill this form out and print it out for class on Tuesday, October 21. I will deliver these forms to the libraian who is leading our workshop on Thursday, October 23.)

The Library Workshop (during class time on Thursday, October 23) will be designed around your research paper topics. To prepare for your library workshop on, please take the Green Library Online Tour

Stage 3: Working Annotated Bibliography

Stage 4: Outline

Stage 5: Draft

Peer Review Form

Conference Sheet for Peer Review Conferences on the Draft

Stage 6: Revision

PWR Research Paper Examples: Boothe Prize Winners 2000-2001

 

ORAL WORK

Reading or Film Presentation: A Rhetorical Analysis

Presentation Guidelines: Rhetorical Analyses of Written and Film Texts

Presenters and Dates

 

Community Writing Project Presentation

Presentation Guidelines

Presenters and Dates

 

Multimedia and Oral Communications Resources

The Oral Communication Program at The Center for Teaching and Learning

The Multimedia Studio (located on the second floor of Meyer Library; the Multimedia Studio provides consultants to help students develop multimedia projects)

 

END-QUARTER PORTFOLIO

Assignment Guidelines: Cover Letters & Introductions

Portfolio Checklist

 

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