FEB. 3 Meet for COMPOCON (ENG 1302.02)

We will be meeting for this event at the UTPA Ballroom at 8am on Monday. 

• I will be taking role at the event
• Please make sure to bring questions related to your research

COMPOCON Web Site

 

 

EVENT: CompoCon 1-The Question

DAYS: Feb 3 & 4

TIME: 8am-4pm

SITE: UTPA Ballroom

ONLINE: ccharlton.wix.com/compocon

The first year writing program's second annual conference on writing, inquiry, and student engagement begins this Monday. Our two main goals with this event are (1) to increase student investment in English 1302 research projects and (2) increase student networks across campus. We do this by inviting experts (from our writing program, from the library, and from a variety of university and community areas) to come sit down and have short conversations with students about their research questions and ideas. New twists for this year: we’ll have more student experts participating and we’re lucky and very excited to have Karen, Andrew, and Carl from the library joining us.

Last year, instructors and volunteers worked with over 800 students in two days, and we’re hoping to see the same amount of traffic. If you’re interested in participating or just want to come by and see how CompoCon works, we’d love to see you there. If you know other people who would be interested, please forward this email. The conference runs all day, and we pause for short introductions at times when classes normally start.

I’ll be finalizing and posting a “schedule” to the CompoCon site this weekend that has info on the types of student interests and questions circulating and the times those classes will be participating. Email me if you have question, and here’s to a great weekend!

/.colin

dr. colin charlton

associate professor-rhetoric, composition, & literacy studies

coordinator-first year writing programs . ccharlton.wix.com/thewp

department of english . utpa

1/29 (ENG 1302.02)

Great discussion today.  We will continue discussing our abstracts on Wed., I hope that the dialogue is helping in further developing your research question/s.

For next class period:

• Continue Discussion
• Bring 1-2 articles that deal with your research question
• Please be on time 7:50AM

1/27

Assignment:  1/2 page to 1 full page

• Abstract proposal for research that investigates literacy, reading, or writing.  I encourage you to find something that interests you.  Please have your abstract printed out before class and be ready to discuss on Monday.  

• Read Stage 2 of the writing program.

FRI 1/24

For those of you that did  not attend today's class:

• We have moved our class time to 7:50AM
• Discussion of "good writing", constructs, and framework
• Submission of essay

Assignment 1/24:

• Read article titled "School as Inquiry" by Steven Wolk (found in the assigned readings link)
• 1 page response paper

Lastly, I want everyone to begin thinking about a research question that address an issue about reading or writing.  We will continue the discussion on Friday. 

Add To Circle

Hello everyone, great discussion today, seems like we are always left needing more time at the end.  That's a good thing!  This post is to remind all of you to add me to your circle, in order to actually access the readings and or the assignments, you may have to create a Gmail account.  Familiarize yourself with Google+ and send me a request by clicking on my profile icon in the home page.  See ya'll next week! 


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9/17/13 Assignment 1302.02

NO CLASS 9/17


Assignment:

Please read Stage 1 in the WP STAGES

FOCUS:  What is your idea of "good writing"?

Essay Length: 3pgs.



Paper Format:



Name
ENG 1302.02
Stage 1 / Draft 1

   
    Please make sure to double space your paper.  12pt font, Times New Roman.  Double

spaced.  Subsequent drafts will be listed on the Draft heading:  ex.  Draft 2, Draft 3 etc..  I look

forward to reading your papers. 

Welcome

I want to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to our class forum.  I will be integrating our readings, announcements, workshops, assignments and discussions on here; so it would be wise if everyone begins to browse and familiarize yourselves with the page.  I look forward to meeting everyone.  Look for more updates soon.