Projects and Activities

Project Overview and Grade Breakdown

Project I

    A series of assignments, moving from a definitional statement, to a summary, to a review, to a compare-contrast paper that will act as the building blocks for all future writing in this course.
    20 points (defining concepts: 2. summary: 3. review: 5. comparing: 10)


Project II

    Culminating with a Research Based Argument Paper, this project also entails analysis of publications, a rhetorical analysis of an article/source, an annotated bibliography, and a proposal.
    30 points

Invention Strategy
Publication Evaluation Worksheet
Article Rhetorical Analysis

Project III

    A chance to explode what "writing" and "text" mean. Taking what you have learned thus far in the course, this assignment asks you to Document Yourself.
    25 points


Weekly Document Assignment

    Uploading and responding to forum topics on the course website, primarily exploring different types of documents that represent various realities in the world around you
    15 points

Portfolio Assignment