Homework for Tuesday 10/7

1. The homework for the weekend is to take some time to carefully review the following articles, information from which will appear on the quiz on Tuesday:

--“The Composing Processes of an Engineer” (Selzer)
--“Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (Sommers)
--“The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem” (Flower/Hayes)
--“Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block” (Rose)

2. On your blog (entry #7, I think?, write one question you'd like to ask in class about each of the articles before the quiz on Tuesday. I will take a good chunk of time on Tuesday, before the quiz, to answer questions to help you prepare. Thus, blog entry #7 should just have four questions, one about each of the articles. Print out this blog entry and bring it to class on Tuesday.

3. Print out a hard copy of each of the following five articles (if you haven't already done so) and bring these hard copy to class for Tuesday's class (if you already have a hard copy print-outs of all the articles that you have already annotated, please just bring these copies):

1. “Decisions and Revisions: The Planning Strategies of a Publishing Writer, and a Response of a Laboratory Rat: Or, Being Protocoled” (Berkenkotter)
2. “The Composing Processes of an Engineer” (Selzer)
3. “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Experienced Adult Writers” (Sommers)
4. “The Cognition of Discovery: Defining a Rhetorical Problem” (Flower/Hayes)
5. “Rigid Rules, Inflexible Plans, and the Stifling of Language: A Cognitivist Analysis of Writer’s Block” (Rose)

The activity we'll be doing on Tuesday will require you to have a copy of all five of the above articles with you, so, please just make sure that you bring your copy to class.

Have a nice weekend.

mm