Unit Three: Writing Material
About Unit Three:
Now that you have gathered your research and given yourself time to play with your questions, watch them evolve, etc., it’s time to draft and revise a paper presenting your findings. In Unit Three, you’ll submit a complete draft of a paper early on. Then we’ll spend the rest of the unit reading and revising these together, incorporating professional workshop and publishing strategies to get your work ready for distribution.
Given our emphasis this semester on writing process and the many materials that accompany any “published” text, you’ll submit your final project in multiple states:
You’ll submit an archival box with all your notes (handwritten and typed, words and drawings), copies of marked-up sources (including survey and interview data), experimental samples, a companion infographic, plus drafts and critiques and anything else you know is part of the “life” of your project. You’ll also digitize these materials and put the digital copies on a flash drive in your archival box.
You’ll submit a polished, publishable draft of your research essay.
You’ll create a research poster and present your work in an open-to-the-public poster session, giving an elevator speech and responding to questions.
Unit Three: Major Writing Assignment UPDATED
[my draft in progress, for reference as needed]
[my revised intro, outline, and sample conclusions, for reference as needed]
Excerpts from They Say, I Say: