Building Block Essay 1

Building Block Essay 1 Assignment Sequence Reading Assignments: Envision (Text and Companion Website): Chapters 1-3 Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum (WRAC): Chapter 13 Writing Assignments: JE1: Read pp. 654-75 in WRAC. Read Envision Chapter 1 (Text and Website), then do Writing Project 2 on p. 36. RP1: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs by amplifying or rebutting at least one observation they have made about connections between their chosen visual and verbal texts, or by adding an observation of your own that they may have missed. JE2: Read pp. 675-91 in WRAC. Read Envision Chapter 3 (Text and Website), then do Writing Project 1 on p. 103. RP2: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs by amplifying or rebutting at least one observation they have made about the image they have used as the foundation for their argument, or by adding an observation of your own about their image or argument that they may have missed. JE3: Read 691-751 in WRAC. Read Envision Chapter 2 (Text and Website), then do one of the four Writing Projects on pp. 64-65. RP3: Respond to two of your groupmates’ JEs by amplifying or rebutting at least one observation they have made about the ads they have used as the foundation for their analysis, or by adding an observation of your own about their ads that they may have missed. Building Block Essay Draft 1: Use one or more of the Synthesis or Research Activities on pp. 747-51 in WRAC as the foundation for your essay. Writer’s Memo 1: Discuss which of the course goals and objectives you believe you have developed through your essay and explain how and where your essay demonstrates that development. Include this memo with the building block essay draft. Two Peer Evaluations (1-2): After reading two groupmates’ essays and memos, point out aspects of their essays that provide further evidence that they have developed course goals and objectives and

indicate your suggestions on how they might enhance that development through further revisions of their essay. Send each peer evaluation by email to the groupmate and to me. Writer’s Memo 2: Having now read two groupmates’ building block essay drafts and having received two peer evaluations and my comments, plot a strategy for how you will develop this essay further by the end of the term so that you will be able to use it to demonstrate more fully your development as a writer and reader of texts.