Thursday, October 25th (.210)

Hello everyone. As I said in my BB announcement, today's class is canceled. Instead of class, please review my notes below, and continue to work on your Intersections Project.

Reminders

• Registration is officially one week away. I hope you have had time to visit your advisors and have cleared all your holds. I strongly suggest you have at least two "rough" schedules planned, just in case some of the more popular classes/times are filled before you register.

• Included is a tentative schedule for the work we will be doing on the Intersections Project. If you miss a class, please keep in mind that you should continue working on this sequence...

• Tentative Schedule

• Genre #1 Drafting (10/25)

• Genre #1 Peer Review (10/30)

• Genre #2 Drafting (11/01)

• Genre #2 Peer Review (11/06)

• Genre #3 Drafting (11/08)

• Genre #3 Peer Review (11/13)​​​​​

• Final Portfolio (12/07)

Today

• Informative "Blurb"

• Please submit this blurb today.

• In your blurb, please identify the "need" you are trying to address.

• Also, identify the specific audience you are targeting.

• Finally, identify the "genre" that you are creating and the method or platform you would use to distribute this genre to your audience "in the real world."

• Genre #1 Drafting

• ​You have a need that you are attempting to address by speaking to / writing to / communicating with a certain audience.

• You are creating specific genre to reach this audience.

• For today, you need to begin drafting this genre.

• You are not writing an essay or informative paper. You are drafting the actual genre that you have chosen to communicate with your intended audience.

Homework

• Please turn in your Blurb by close of business (11:59 PM) today.

• Please submit your most recent Discovery Blog by Sunday at 11:59 PM.

• Remember, this should be based on credible and/or scholarly research and directly linked to your topic for the Intersections work.

• Reading

• Let's tackle the whole Genres in the Wild reading. You have read pieces of this previously, so some of this will be review, but I would like to discuss this whole thing in a bit more detail on Tuesday.