Super Wednesday!!!

Online Snapshot Essay

• Due: March 3 (ok, really the 2nd by 10pm)
  
• 25% of grade 250 pts
• Comment on 3 peer posts (the three below you) by March 5
  
• Email me, and only me, a letter grade and brief rationale for the three peers below you on the list. I will consider your opinions while I grade.

Reqs:

• style elements from the 3 class projects (recall, observation, conversation)
• Links
• Tags
• Go into depth regarding details – be specific, avoid “shortcuts”/judgment statements
• Keep paragraphs smaller, condensed
• Reader friendly formatting (readable colors, fonts, image sizes)
• Open to fact or fiction
• Interesting writing style
  
• Post should be able to stand alone, include necessary background information
• Embedded Multimedia – videos, music, images, etc.
  

Looking back at your observations

As a writer, how did you find this experience? After the other students in your group are reading yours, comment on your own writing. You can speak to improvements you'd like to make, but also think about the experience itself, what was it like leaving yourself out of your writing? Did you? What contexts fit this sub-genre?

p.s. How is your tagging coming along?

p.p.s. In the interest of fairness, since I've shown you a site some use to cheat, perhaps I should show you one instructors use to catch cheaters.

Revising writing from observation

Well, it's great to be back in class, isn't it?

Today we'll review and revise our observation writing. We'll split into groups, again, and comment on each others posts.

Please focus you comments on specific areas for improvement. You should be able to come up with a minimum of two concrete items they can alter to improve their posts.

If you need help deciding what to critique, please use any of the items on this list.

Induction? My dear Watson...

Please be prepared to share your revised recall essays, we will go over them briefly in class.

We will be continuing our work on the snapshot essay by exploring a different skill in the genre, writing from observation. We will also tackle inductive analysis and fictionalization as sense making.

• Tips for writing from observation (please read). I'm curious if anyone notices the source of this tip sheet. How do you feel about it? How do you feel about it being assigned to you?
  
• Just for kicks: Angela Booth's Writing Blog, could be called notes from the copywriter's underground, a great snapshot for those of you interested in freelance or copywriting.

For Monday conduct your own observation and record it in a blog post along with your analysis. Possible scenarios? We'll brainstorm these together in class.