WRA 101: Week 4

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"so, what are you going to do after college?"

I'm sure you've heard this question SO MANY TIMES already, and many of you have a definite answer. Our second project, the Disciplinary and Professional Literacy Project, gives you an opportunity to really explore what it means to be a member--an insider--within the field or profession that you are interested in joining through a variety of artifacts.

-- Dr. Prielipp

Monday through Wednesday

Read the Disciplinary & Professional Literacies Project Overview
Download/save the DL Checklist to help you organize your time and work (also available through Google Classroom)
Watch the Disciplinary & Professional Literacies Project Overview video below.
Set project learning goal (in Google Classroom)

thursday
in-person

Setting up the DL project
Prewriting: Artifact 1
Positionality: Artifact 2
Types of sources: Artifact 3
Preparing for interview
Slideshow from 9/21 Class -- this includes tools for organizing your DL and artifacts 1-3 discussion

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friday through sunday

Work on Artifacts 1 through 3
Begin thinking about who you might interview
Purdue Owl:
APA and MLA Style Guides for Citations. If you click on the Online Writing Labs tab, then Research and Citations in the menu on the left-hand side, you will also find citation style guides for IEEE, Chicago Style, ASA, AMA, and other citation styles. These links are also on the course website under Resources, then WRA 101 Resources.

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Activity Choices

This week's activity choices are aligned with PREWRITING and are available in Google Classroom -- remember, you should choose ONE activity for EACH area of the writing process: