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Critical Analysis of ePortfolios Template
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A Primer on Consulting/Editing Clients/Writers
1) Ask the client what their goals are. In the case of the biography, some questions might be:
a. What do you hope the biography will accomplish? (Purpose)
b. Whom do you visualize needing to read this to TRUST YOU? (Audience)
2) Review the biography--ask the person to read aloud, or take the time to read the most revised bio.
3) Let the writer know what’s good about the biography. Offer very specific strategies for improvement.
When going through the document, you solicit questions to the author such as: What kind of information do you feel needs to be included to accomplish your goal? (Purpose) and how the information ought to be conveyed to accomplish their purpose (Style).
4) Give the writer an opportunity to respond and revise. Have them send you their final revision in-progress.
5) Edit the document and provide an opportunity for you to have a follow-up discussion with the writer about your changes.
Final Class Information
Our last class is next week! For our final class, our copyeditors will provide expert reviewing on biographies, LinkedIn profiles, and the alternative professional social networking profile (e.g. About.me, Flavors.me, and Sumry.me).
We’ll also briefly discuss what to expect from the final examination class period, and you will have an opportunity ask any additional questions about your Discourse Analysis revision plan.
Final Examination Information
The ENG 384a final examination takes place on Tuesday, May 3 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. We will be meeting in the Cosby Faculty Cloister.
This meeting will give you an opportunity to showcase your profiles, as well as your revised useable resource. You’ll also get a chance to discuss your experiences with creative consultation(s) and the course, in general.
All revisions will be due within 48 hours of the final exam.
If you are SENIOR, your revision will be due within 24 hours of the final exam.
Professional New Media Networking Some Persuasive Strategies for Success Access: https://goo.gl/A5ykJW
Dr. Lockett presented this workshop for Spelman’s Comprehensive Writing Program on 4.19.16.
Revising the Discourse Analysis: Feedback Review Tips
During the past month, you all composed papers that investigated and analyzed the discourse of some occupation of interest. It’s time to look at the feedback. Since this is a writing course, I am more interested in your process of development than on you composing the “perfect paper.” Both your first attempt and final revision will be taken into account when I provide you with “the grade.” To create the best revision strategy, follow these steps:
1. Read your paper with the marginal comments via Google Documents. Do not simply read the summary you receive through email. Go back and actually re-read your paper in dialogue with the marginal commentary. Imagine that we are simply having a conversation--with the comments intending on ways to help you reach your maximum potential to become an excellent writer.
2. Review the instructor’s feedback via Google Forms. You will receive an invitation to examine your spreadsheet, similar to the way you did when we did the in-class peer reviews of the first draft of the paper. I will also email you a .pdf summary for your convenience.
3. Sign-up for an appointment to come see Dr. Lockett to learn more about your the grade range your paper falls in, as well as to create a Revision strategy that will enable you to practice gaining and demonstrating certain writing skills.
4. Revise the paper, as per the revision strategy.
5. Submit the paper within 72 business days of meeting with Dr. Lockett
Week 13: Profile Revision and Organizing Creative Sessions
Review the Final Assignment Rubrics and use them to guide your revision. Take note of your deadlines and continue to revise your biographies and profiles. Review your bio-analysis notes to recall persuasive characteristics about profiles that influence your perception of “professionalism” in your field. You should also consult the Fertik text for tips that could assist you during the profile construction process, as necessary.
Sign-up for a role(s) in your creative consulting session. The Photographer is responsible for using Doodle to organize the event, in advance. This activity will test your professional communication on multiple levels! Include Dr. Lockett on all of your communications--be sure to forward your emails to the class, Doodle poll links, etc. It will also give you the opportunity to describe a specific project that you accomplished during this course via LinkedIn.
1. Photographer/Creative Director: Communicates with everyone, in advance, to let the writer know how she wants to organize the shoot and its schedule. Discusses wardrobe options, and encourages the writer to experiment with a few different styles. Takes a spread of photos that could serve as your LinkedIn Profile and/or Alternative Professional Social Media Profile. Consults with the Style Consultant to select the “best” photos for each platform.
2. Style Consultant/Lighting/Set-Designer: Communicates with the Photographer about the shoot and its schedule. Discusses each “client” with the photographer and follows-up with the writer about the specific wardrobe she should be wearing and/or bringing to the shoot. Assists the Photographer, Ensures that wardrobe, hair, and make-up are ‘on point.’ Consults with the Photographer about the ‘best setting’ for the shoot, as well as ‘best photo’ for each social networking platform.
3. Make-Up Artist/Profile Proofreader: Communicates with each woman about her relationship to make-up, especially about any brands or ingredient allergies. Asks the writer to bring her own make-up to the shoot, but feels free to borrow from Dr. Lockett’s palettes. (Note: Dr. Lockett will provide brush cleaner and face cleaner, as well). Researchers make-up techniques via Instagram and YouTube. Documents each specific site that she visits to learn. Selects and applies make-up.
4. Copyeditor for Biography/Proofreader: Communicates with each author, in advance, for her to submit the latest version of her biography via a Google Document entitled, “Review Copy for CC Copyediting.” Using the “suggestion” feature, reviews the biography and provides critical feedback about content, style (e.g. word choice), grammar (e.g. syntax), and mechanics (e.g. punctuation). Probes the writer for even more information about her background and experience. Provides specific strategies for improvement.
5. Copyeditor for LinkedIn/Proofreader: Reviews each of the LinkedIn profiles and provides critical feedback about content, style, grammar, and mechanics. Advises the writer about LinkedIn’s plethora of features. Provides specific strategies for improvement. Proofreads each biography for grammatical errors that will compromise the writer’s credibility (e.g. misspelled words, fragments/run-on’s, punctuation errors, incorrect formatting, etc.).
6. Copyeditor for the Alternative Social Networking Platform/Proofreader: Reviews the About.me/Flavors.Me/Sumry.me profiles and provides critical feedback about content, style, grammar, and mechanics. Consults the writer about the medium’s plethora of features. Provides specific strategies for improvement. Proofreads LinkedIn profiles for grammatical errors that will compromise the writer’s credibility (e.g. misspelled words, fragments/run-on’s, punctuation errors, incorrect formatting, etc.).
Set up an appointment to meet with Dr. Lockett about your course progress and ePortfolios.
Week 12: Bio-Feedback and Editing Workshop
Please examine each of your peer’s three biographies, as well as the combined one. Highlight the sentences that appeal to you the most. Use “suggestion mode” to leave them a single end comment (e.g. in paragraph form) at the end of their document that highlights two major strengths and two areas of improvement. Scroll back through the document and re-examine the sentences you highlighted. Organize the sentences into a “coherent biography” and include your remix after your comment.
Note: In-class, we will look at the five different “remixes” and figure out which one is the “best” versions of the song of yourself.
Review each your assigned peer reviewer’s LinkedIn Profile. Here are your partners:
A.C. will work with A.J.
M.S. will work with B.G.
T.B. will work with F.M.
You will physically print their profile and “edit” the document. In other words, you will want to identify whether the author has:
- Parallel verb tenses (e.g. they are not talking about a job that ‘are doing,’ when it is a job they held in the past)
- Use of active voice (e.g. no “is” “was” “should” “would” “will” “have” etc.)
- Use of specific examples of accomplishment (e.g. I raised this many dollars, recruited this many people, composed these types of articles, etc.)
- Tap into LinkedIn’s various resources for demonstrating one’s professional expertise. (e.g. mentions special projects, volunteer efforts, etc.)
- Grammatical syntax, as well as appropriate use of punctuation and powerful word choice.
Highlight (e.g. circle, underline, etc.) any areas of their profile that raise concern about the writer’s credibility.
After you have completed your thorough editing of your peer’s LinkedIn, please make two copies of the document--one for your peer and the other for my records/assessment.
4th Hour Justification: Revise both your Biography and LinkedIn profile based on peer and instructor review commentary, as well as your own recollection of additional professional experience that may be omitted from your LinkedIn. (To recall, go back to the first few weeks of class when you physically wrote out the past 3-5 years of activity).
Bio-Writing Discussion (4.5)
Please contribute to this document.
Week 11
Readings
Visit, read, and analyze this collection of strategic responses to the problem of gender and privacy online. Really dig into the site. After reading the site, carefully browse: A DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity
Explore both LinkedIn and About.me. As you examine both sites, note their major similarities and differences--preparing yourself for the possibility of a pop quiz over these platforms.
Composition
Compose three different (180 word) "angles" for your About.me biography. Deliberately organize it through some clear trajectory of time and topic. This should happen naturally after you RE-READ what you wrote. Revise each of the (180 word) angles and examine their relationship. Develop a new (100 word) response that incorporates elements from each of them. Your original drafts and revisions should be in two different colors. Your most finalized draft should be indicated by a heading and a different color from the original and revised drafts.
Entitle the document YOURINITIALS_AboutBio_FirstDraft. [Share the document with me at [email protected].]
Use Flickr Commons, CC, and/or Photopin to discover images of inanimate objects that would serve as a striking/intriguing/attractive image to represent your likeness on About.me. Select 10 of the best images you can find. Be prepared to discuss your choices, feel free to make a short note with each.
Use Google Slides to create a Visual Deck of the images. Entitle the presentation YOURINITIALS_About.me Image Selection. [Share the document with me at [email protected].]
Additional Resources:
www.tor.org
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35924859
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/seattle-police-raid-home-privacy-activists-who-maintain-tor-anonymity-network-node-1552524
http://www.scmagazine.com/doj-defies-court-order-to-turn-over-spyware-code-used-against-tor/article/486396/
www.duckduckgo.com
https://www.fastcompany.com/3026698/inside-duckduckgo-googles-tiniest-fiercest-competitor
http://qz.com/574853/duckduckgo-the-search-engine-that-doesnt-track-its-users-grew-more-than-70-this-year/
Week 10
**Reminder: Your Discourse Analysis is DUE on March 31 no later than midnight. (Share your Portfolio with me ([email protected]) via Google Documents)**
Read M. Fertik’s The Reputation Economy (pp. 1-16)
Writing: Contribute three annotations to the crowdsourced glossary. Link to the source, and use primary sources for the asterisked items.
Read Part I. of Social Media Privacy and the Twenty-First Century Employee (pp. 63-95)
4th Hour Justification: Complete the Bio-Analysis Assignment.
Additional Resources:
Browse Searching for Work in a Digital Era and Social Media Usage: 2005-2015
Consult Reputation Management and Social Media
Peer Review Instructions and Final Draft Revision Tips
1. Please read at least two or three pages of each person’s first draft. The writer should have shared the work with everyone by now.
For each peer, complete the following surveys no later than Saturday, midnight.
Peer Review for T.B.
Peer Review for A.C.
Peer Review for B.G.
Peer Review for A.J.
Peer Review for E.M.
Peer Review for M.S.
Peer Review Workshop: 3.22
Tonight, we will conduct our first major assignment critique. This review session will enable each writer to share the first 1-2 pages of their work with the entire class for feedback.
Peer Review for T.B.
Peer Review for A.C.
Peer Review for B.G.
Peer Review for A.J.
Peer Review for E.M.
Peer Review for M.S.
Follow the appropriate portfolio formatting when you turn in the final draft.
For your fourth hour justification, you will complete the Discourse Analysis Rubric. To edit the document, go to file, click on “MAKE A COPY,” and revise the title of the document:
YOURINITIALS_DAPEERREVIEWFOR_WRITER’SINITIALS. Download the file and complete in MS Word, or edit directly via Google documents. Be sure to share the document with both me AND the writer.
Peer Review Partner Assignments
E.M./M.S.
B.G./T.B.
A.C./A.J.
Note: Peer Review Assignments have changed based on your peer’s ability to attend class for the critique session, as well as other extenuating circumstances.
For this week’s 4th hour justification, you are responsible for meeting your peer no later than Friday, to complete the review.
You may turn in the paper, no later than midnight on March 31.
Week 9: 3.22
Revise and complete a full draft of your discourse analysis for power review. Feel free to draw on any of the sample outlines for additional assistance. Upload the work to Google Documents entitled, “Discourse Analysis 1st Revision,” and share with each member of the class for peer reviewing.
4th Hour Justification: TBA
Week 8 (3.15)
No Class on 3.8 (Spring Break 3.7-11)
This week, you will research and draft the first review copy of your Discourse Analysis. The first draft should be no fewer than 3 pages, but no more than 5 pages. Share this document with me via Google Documents (entitled: Discourse Analysis 1st Draft) at least an hour before class starts.
Carefully read the rest of this post. As part of your research process, you will consider how Twitter (and LinkedIn and Facebook) play a major role in how your occupation constructs and performs its discourse and identity. Thus, in the beginning stages of drafting, I am requiring you to complete a research activity that should offer some useful primary source material that will assist you in the development of your draft. It also contains some reminders and suggestions that should be useful to your work.
You will share your research process with me via Google Documents (see step 4), which will count as next week’s 4th hour justification.
3.15: A Method for Researching Discourse via Twitter
Step 1: You received an email with your hacker name. Create a gmail or yahoo account that you can associate with the hacker name.
Step 2: Go to Twitter.com and create an account with your hacker name. When you are creating your account, DO NOT ADD ANY OF TWITTER’S SUGGESTIONS! The point of this account is to experiment with the use of Twitter as a source of “discourse intelligence,” which means only adding accounts that provide you with “insider knowledge” and evidence of discourse communities engaged in the process of making themselves “socially recognizable” identities.
Step 3: After you have created your account, add the following users:
@spelmanenglish and @techneliving
Step 4: Create a Google Document entitled, “Twitter Research Notes,” in which you will keep track of your observations and reflections about what you are learning about your occupation’s discourse. Instructions for note-taking are specified in the ‘tips.’ Share this document with Dr. Lockett ([email protected]).
Step 4: Browse Twitter to discover and follow the following individuals and organizations that represent a mixture of professional organizations in your field, well-known professionals in your field, well-known institutions/organizations affiliated with your profession, publishing outlets for your field/career, and government organizations that regulate your field/career.
* Fifty of the most “well-known” professionals in your field/ideal career choice.
* Several major professional organizations in your field/ideal career choice
* Several trade or scholarly journal publishers that publish work about your field/ideal career choice.
* A few to several government organizations that regulate your field/career
Note-taking tip: Briefly acknowledge how you discovered these individuals, organizations, and media.
Step 5: Interact with these accounts by browsing through their tweet content, who they follow, etc. while noting each accounts visual design and bios.
Note-taking tip: Explicitly discuss similarities and differences between how these accounts use discourse to make their occupation “socially recognizable” via Twitter. How does Twitter, which is a discourse community, enable that “recognition work?”
Step 6: Pay close attention to how adding certain people and organizations brings you into contact with others. Feel free to add the most useful accounts to your Research Twitter. As tempting as it may seem, avoid connecting to your favorite celebrities, shows, etc.
Note-taking tip: Were the connections between accounts obvious? How does Twitter connect individuals and organizations representing your occupational interest? Is your occupation well-represented? How much? What do you think accounts for your occupation’s representation via Twitter?
Week 7 (3.1)
Read: James Paul Gee’s Introduction to Discourse: Theory and Method and B. Spradley and J. Mann’s How to Ask for a Drink.
Research: CareerOneStop’s database of professional organizations to discover some of the major professional organizations that represent your occupational interests. Make a list of 3-5 organizations that you would like to know more about.
Writing: You will compose a response that consists of three parts. They will all go on the same page, but you should page break between each response. Use this template. For your convenience, I have also included the prompts below. Complete the work and share it with me via Google Documents.
4th Hour Justification: Read the Discourse Analysis Assignment Sheet and set up an appointment with the instructor to develop a strategy for completion.
1. Before you visit their websites, compose a list of several questions (e.g. 7-15) that would enable you to discover useful information about a professional organization and its discourse (e.g. what year was it founded, how many members, etc.). Note: This exercise will help you revise your useable resource.
2. Browse and analyze their websites, using the techniques you’ve been learning these past couple of weeks. After you visit each site, write a brief response to the following questions: How does the organization attempt to sell its utility? What do you remember the most after visiting the site? Note: By brief, I mean do not write more than 200-250 words for each organization.
3. Re-read your responses and determine which organization interests you the most. Visit their website again and analyze its features using James Paul Gee’s method: How does the professional organization use discourse to make itself a “socially recognizable member” of the occupation(s) it claims to represent? Note: Your response should be between 2-3 pages, double-spaced.
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