Blog #6

Blog #6: Reading Response and Writing Center Internship Reflection
Due Friday, February 15th, by 11am (or soon after your WC Internship)
Responses to your Peer Group due the following Monday by 11am

New Peer Groups for Responding:

Michael	Jordan	Josh
Jake	Morgan	Lenard
Kaycee	Kyle	Taylor
Cody

Three parts to this blog:

Part 1: Reflection on Writing Center Internship (or revise your Letter to the Editor)

Writing Center Internship: Please describe what you did for your Internship this week: the writing you saw, the students you worked with, the concepts you discussed, etc. As before, you'll need to reflect on your experiences and how they will help you revise your writing. Below are the guiding questions to help you reflect on what you learn:

• What you learned as a tutor
• What you notice about other students’ writing
• What you notice about the writing of multilingual writers
• What you notice about your own writing
• The language of tutors and writers
• Insights about language, academic writing, or tutoring
• How you helped other writers
• How other writers helped you

If no students came to the Writing Center during your hour, then use this space to revise a second part of your Jr. Writing Portfolo or other piece of writing (see Part 2 below). Paste the original here, and then then revision; be sure to reflect on the changes and what you still want to work on.


Part 2: Revision of Jr. Writing Portfolio or Previous Piece of Writing
Select a relatively short piece of writing from either your Jr. Writing Portfolio or another previous piece of writing (try to pick something that you have some interest in revising). The goal is to pick a piece of writing that was written a while ago, so you have some distance. Then paste a paragraph or two from this piece of writing and apply the concepts from Chapter 6 (use strikethrough or bold text when you make changes, so we can see the revisions). Focus on making connections between all your sentences.


Part 3: Reading Response to Ch. 6, pp. 37-41 of Style 
"Given the dynamics of written communication, the burden of clarity rests squarely on the writer. One way to bear that burden gracefully is to make clear and explicit connections between sentences and paragraphs" (p. 37).

Now reflect on how the concepts in Chapter 6 helped you as you revised your Jr. Writing Portfolio.  What did you change and why?  What did you keep and why?  What else from what we've learned in class did you revise?  Is there any part of this chapter that confuses you? As always, the more details you can give, the more helpful your responses will be to us and to you.

Length: For your reading response section, again aim for about 250 words or 2-3 paragraphs.

Response: For your response, you should 1) continue the conversation the author started in Part 2. You should also 2) try to comment on their revised sentences in Part 3. Examples:

• Why do you think the revised paragraph is an improvement over the original paragraph?
• Can you suggest another revision?
• Where is an example of two or more sentences where the author successfull demonstrates the concepts presented in Ch. 6?

Due: Respond to everyone in your (New!) peer  group, including yourself (for your own blog, either respond to one or both of your peers' responses or simply revise another part of your initial post), by Monday morning at 11am.

Length: Again, a paragraph is good. Try to work on choosing the right verbs and eliminating bulky modifiers in your response AND/OR having a variety of simple, compound, and complex sentences (feel free to use the strikethrough option to show us your revision process).