Week 7 Overview

Introduction

We've learned about genre and genre conventions, practiced writing within a genre, identified audiences and purposes and learned how to research and build a history around a subject. We've also performed close readings to identify themes and rhetorical techniques in texts and started forming complex claims about a text's thematic content. 

Now, I'm asking that you create a piece of writing that engages all of our course's outcomes and demonstrates your ability to write a piece of significant length; this will be an extended project in which you hone the above skills to persuasively present an adaptation of your own making.

This week, you are submitting a rough draft of Major Project 2: Adaptation and Argument. On Wednesday, bring a draft of your MP 2 complex claim to class for a peer review workshop.

On Sunday, you will submit your Major Project 2 where you will pitch an adaptation of a source text to an appropriate publisher, director, film, etc. and create one adaptation artifact. 

Due Dates

Readings

▢ Read WTM 371 - 377, 381- 394 by Mon

▢ Read the prompt for MP 2 by Mon

▢ Read WTM 344 - 349 from Chp 14 by Wed

▢ Read W/T/M Chp 13 (pp. 285-290, 294-300) on academic analysis and fallacies by  Wed

▢ Read student sample essays by  Wed

Bring to class

▢ Bring a draft of your MP2 complex claim for peer review for  Wed

Assignments

▢ Submit Major Project 2 (draft 1) by Sun

▢ Submit 4 Reading Journals by Sun