Homework for Thursday 11/13

1. Reminder: NO CLASSES ON TUESDAY 11/11.
2. Blog Entry #13: generate a list of no fewer than (5) ideas for how the teaching of writing can be improved at your old high school. Once you've completed this list, for each item, think about how you can connect your proposal with the research we have read this semester on composing processes.
3. Please go to our Google Groups site and download the article called "The Novice as Expert: Writing the Freshman Year" by Nancy Sommers and Laura Saltz (Sommers.Saltz.pdf). This is a LONG article--26 pages. DO NOT TRY TO READ IT IN ONE SITTING!!! I am assigning this longer piece because we are not meeting for a full week (again, no class on Tuesday). Thus, I think of this article as, essentially, two readings in one (even though it's just one article). Please divide the article into manageable chunks. I think that you will find that the writing, itself, is accessible (in the way that the earlier article we read by Sommers was accessible), but I would recommend that you take a look at the article before you begin reading and figure out how to break it up into 3-4 parts or sections which you will read one at a time, over the course of several sittings.
4. Blog Entry #14: What did you find interesting or surprising about the Sommers/Saltz article and why? (please quote from the article at least 3-4 times as you explain your answer). Your post should run 250-300 words or so.