NIT 2: INTERACTING WITH TEXTS asks you to collaboratively develop an article to be published in a newspaper.
Each of the five unit assignments requires that you engage in a careful writing process. For each unit, you’ll develop and submit a portfolio that includes the following:
a. GENERATIVE WRITING to explore ideas and writing options;
b. a FIRST DRAFT;
c. a substantially REVISED DRAFT, based on feedback from self, peers, instructor, and others;
d. a further REVISED AND COPY-EDITED FINAL DRAFT;
e. REFLECTIONS ON YOUR OWN WRITING to help you identify effective processes and writing choices.
Each activity, including peer review, is meant to help you focus on specific aspects of your writing; you’ll get teacher feedback once during the drafting stage of Units 1-4. With certain assignments, we may make more time for certain stages of the process, and at other times, we may move more quickly. At least once, we’ll experiment with publishing your text.
To grow as writers, we need to write, reflect, and write some more—thus, each part of the process is required, and you will be assessed based on the entire portfolio, not only the final version of essays. Be sure to save every piece of writing! For each unit, you’ll be given instructions on what to submit, how, and when.