Below find your work for the upcoming week. Read the whole post, as you'll have two rough drafts due at the end of the week.
On Wednesday of last week, I got word that I had been accepted to the VCCS Developmental Institute. It will meet on Tuesday, 12 April in Roanoke, and it will be just before the New Horizons conference at which I will be presenting on Thursday, 14 April. Between the two, I will be out of town for the week of 4/11-4/15, and I will not be holding formal classes or office hours for the week.
The presentation at New Horizons has long been booked, but the Developmental Institute is a new developmental. Over the next two years, the VCCS system will be making substantial changes to how our developmental programs are implemented. We will be streamlining the number of developmental credits students take before beginning for credit certificate or degree work, and we will be making substantial changes in the curriculum. As the Writing Program Administrator, I applied for a week long Chancellor's Developmental Institute to familiarize both me and the English program at Reynolds with the changes. The committee met last Tuesday to decide who would attend, and I was accepted. Unfortunately, attendance at the pre-conference developmental institute on 12 April was a mandatory part of this acceptance. My absence from classes for the week will mean we've got to make some changes to how you will work over the week.
Writing and Work for the Week, ENG 112:
1. Update your mid-term portfolio reflective cover essay to include sections covering the course learning outcomes in which you’ve improved over the past few weeks. The updated rough draft is due this week.
2. On Tuesday, 12 April and Thursday, 12 April, you should spend the English class hour in the library. If you haven’t finished the worksheets and assessments for the library modules, then do so during this time. If you haven’t completed your annotated bibliographic entries for your primary and secondary sources and published these to your blog, then do so during these two hours. If you have completed both the library modules and your blog annotated bibliographic entries, then work on an early rough draft of your second paper for HIS/ENG.
3. On 19 April, an early rough draft of your second research paper will be due. Post it to your blog. Because of my attendance at the VCCS Development Institute on 12 April, I have decided to wave the requirement that each group develop a common thesis statement. While you remain limited to the primary and secondary sources which your group has annotated and the same research question, you can develop your own, individual thesis and base the early draft of your research paper on this individual thesis
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