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4.9.25, Core Writing

Workshop 7 in class!

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4.7.25, Core Writing

We are going to do something a little different for our D3.1 SRA today with some mind-mapping:

SRA Instructions: Please create a mind map of your paper and what you must do after today. Please just go ahead and read your work so far and map out what you have done, then use the same map to plan the rest of your paper before you continue writing. You choose the mind map that works best for you; the links below describe their different styles. Please hand in this map before you go; take a picture if you will continue working from it!

My examples: -> Thesis & Body Paragraphs + Anatomy of a Body Paragraph →  Types of mind maps → More on mind maps |→ Last one on mind maps

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4.4.25, Core Writing

O3 PR (link) in class today!

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4.2.25, Core Writing

Review O3 assignment description. FD2 Comments Great ideas!

BUT:

Quotes: dropped, uninterpreted

Thesis - BP connection & revision

Read & reread readings

Stay away from AI or cite it

Have full assignments ready; "catching up" is almost impossible when we just keep going!

From the board re TSIS, Ch. 9, and getting started:

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M 3.31.25, Core Writing

Think about how Goldsmith, Rosen, Carr, and Cadwalladr have discussed technology. 

Take the paper in front of you, diagram your "tech" day, take a pic, and post the result. Then we shall discuss!

I did mine first, so no need to be embarrassed.

Notes from class discussion today added above.

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LA275: 3.28.25: Re: FPRD1: The Introduction

🔹Since you are doing RD sections of the final proposal, I commented more on your submissions for this week, so make sure you look at those under Grades or Grading on Schoology. A few common themes: 🔹 Don’t stop researching just because you’re done with a section. The best thing you can do for your project is to get a little rabbit-hole-y about it, and to see where the serious research and the Googling take you. 🔹 Don’t be afraid to use intermediary sections. Going from “Parking in the US” to “Parking on College Campuses” to “Parking at SVC” involves a series of pretty enormous jumps. Adding intermediary sections like “Parking in Western Pennsylvania” or “Parking: High School vs College” would help enormously.  🔹 On the one hand, it should show your potential funding source (patron) that you can parse and then effectively represent information in digestible chunks, which is always a valuable skill.  🔹 On the other hand,  it will also allow you to present your argument in smaller, rapid-fire chunks so that the reader, distracted as we are these days, does not lose the thread. 🔹 You will likely have more sources for the larger levels of problem and population than for the more specific ones. That is okay; you should assemble as many good ones as possible because it gets harder and harder to find those sources outside of fieldwork once you get hyper-local. 🔹 I’m looking forward to reading your Lit Reviews next week. Along the way, keep googling about your project, especially the local or model elements–– this is the key! 🔹 Here's the direct link to this document, also available under “Materials” on Schoology.

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LA275: New Resource: The Literature Review

The Literature Review (link)

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M 3.24.25, Core Writing

Class is online, asynchronous today, so please do the following:

🝊 Read Goldsmith (401). 🝊 Complete the Goldsmith Reading Discussion Activity (link) by noon. 

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LA275: New Resource: FP RD1: The Introduction

The Introduction (resource) (link)

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F 3.21.25, Core Writing

FD2 (link) due by end of class.

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LA275: 3.21.25: Re: Post 8: The Budget

🔹 Take a quick look at Cassidy’s Budget justification paragraph, where she writes, “Furthermore, I will need to conduct further research into the specific cost breakdown for the refill stations and local recycling services, as well as potential discounts from vendors for supplies reusable containers. These details can be finalized by contacting suppliers and service providers throughout the upcoming weeks.” This is a good idea: write out for yourself what else you need to do, especially on the local information level…that, more often than not, has to do with fieldwork.

🔹 Plan and Budget are closely related to fieldwork. Budgets are difficult to obtain; even when dealing with an organization that the law requires to display its information, the exact numbers can take forever to find, if they can be found at all. *** Remember: We are looking for a sense of what is possible here, not a complete business plan. However, every item must have a cost and relate to local evidence. Please see the resource document from last week for more information. 🔹REVIEW: What are they already doing? vs.What do they THINK that they're already doing?? 🔹 A budget point is often forgotten: What has the funding source already funded? If they funded the Taylor Swift Songs Night last year, they would likely be open to doing something similar again. This event is a good example of real-world research, and previous and existing funding indicate a commitment to the issue in question. 🔹 Here's the direct link to this document, also available under “Materials” on Schoology.

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W 3.19.25, Core Writing

Making Better Connections workshop (link)

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M 3.17.25: Core Writing

In class 🝊 D2.2-PR (link)

HW for W 3.19 🝊 Revise P2  based on D2.2-PR. 🝊 Write Revision Memo RD! 🝊 Read TSIS, Ch. 7 & complete the Ch. 7 Tutorial online.

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F 3.14.25, Core Writing

In class 🝊 Work on papers: counterargument game

HW for M 3.17 🝊 Revise D2.1 based on the SRA. 🝊 D2.2 (link)

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LA275: 3.13.15: Re: Post 7: Planning

🔹 I didn’t even comment individually on most of the plan outlines, as they were so strong. Thank you all for paying so much attention to the resource docs, following the formatting, etc. At this point in the semester, we are so close to putting everything together that it makes a lot of difference if the setup is solid as we start that process. 🔹 I can tell you that the key to a successful plan is “what they are already doing at the place in question,” which I have said so many times over the past 24 years that I might as well get it printed on a t-shirt. 🔹 I was thinking about using one of your projects as an example. Still, we have so few students that I don’t want anyone to feel singled out, so I’m going to use an example from the same class but from last spring’s section of it so take a look at this doc I just made, where I critique a student’s plan (that turned out well at the end of the semester): Thinking More About Your Plan (Sorrell LA275SP25) (link). 🔹 As always, it is a pleasure to read your work each week and see your projects develop. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns! 🔹Here's the direct link to our semester-long “Notes” document with all our overall assignment feedback that isn't individual, also available under “Materials” on Schoology.

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W. 3.12.25, Core Writing

In class 🝊 SRA for D2.1 during class

HW for W 3.14 🝊 Revise D2.1 based on the SRA. 🝊 Read TSIS, Ch. 6 & complete the Ch. 6 Tutorial online.

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LA275: New Resource: The Plan

Planning (link)