Phase Two Calendar

Phase Two Calendar

The Rhetorical Analysis and “Peer Profile” Assignment

During Phase 2, you will learn more about reading texts for what they “do” and practice analyzing texts for their rhetorical features. You will also practice creating writing a profile featuring an interviewed subject. Among other small assignments, you will complete the second major writing assignment of our course, the Peer Profile.

Note: you should have access to all readings & all assignments every class (in print or on your laptop/phone). This is because we’ll likely refer back to previous assignments/readings.

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Date

Homework Due BEFORE Class

In-Class Topics/Goals

Week 8 — Tuesday, 3/5

  1. Sign up for CUNY Academic Commons. Watch this video about creating a WordPress Site. Follow video to create a first draft of your WordPress Site. Submit a link to GC.
  2. Review and then select 3-5 peers’ narratives from our shared folder that you would be interested in analyzing.
  • MEET IN COMPUTER LAB
  • Phase 1 Reflection
  • Assign Phase 1 Revisions
  • Digital Portfolio & WordPress
  • Selecting a peer narrative
  • Scheduling interviews

Week 8 — Thursday, 3/7

  1. Read Borges’s “The Library of Babel.”
  2. Read Jonathan Basile’s “The Library of Babel as Seen from Within.”
  3. Write and submit to GC a one-page rhetorical analysis of either Borges’s or Basile’s work.
  • Interview questions and interview strategies
  • The magazine “Profile” genre

Week 9 — Tuesday, 3/12

  1. Complete the interviews with your two peers (one where you’re the interviewer and the other the interviewee).
  2. Transcribe at least 250 words from the interview, capturing salient/interesting moments. Submit to GC.
  • Analyze a Model Text
  • In-class writing of Part 2
  • Workshop in-class writing

Week 9 — Thursday, 3/14

  1. Write and submit to GC a first draft of Part 2. Print and bring to class 2 copies (or bring your laptop with the latest draft saved).
  • Workshop Model Text as class
  • Workshop Part 2 drafts

Week 10 — Tuesday, 3/19

  1. Revise and polish the final draft of Part 2 based on peer feedback. Then, write and paste your cover letter at the beginning of the document. Submit to GC.
  • Review Phase 1 Feedback
  • Revisit WordPress
  • Revision/Editing Strategies