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1114 Homework Options |
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In Weeks 9-12 of this course, I need you to keep
reading and/or writing each week on a subject in the textbook
CollegeWriting.info or something related. This is how you will
meet the required number of homework hours set by national and IHCC
standards for a class with this many credits.
As you work to meet this standard, I would like you to
continue to learn about writing. You may continue to learn about
research writing and/or the structuring of papers. However, there
also are other alternatives. My main desire is that you continue to
learn about writing in some way that is interesting, helpful, and/or
useful to you now or in your future.
I used to assign one specific review chapter each week, but after talking with several past classes, I have gradually
switched to more options. The options now are that you may continue
to do Study Questions (options #1-2), or you may choose from among the other
alternatives (options #3-8). These alternatives are listed in brief below, and in
detail in the middle column. Please choose what you need and find
most interesting each week to help you continue growing as a writer.
8 Options:
1.
Review Info about Writing
2.
Read Chapters on New Papers
3.
Write New Types of Papers
4.
Do Extra Credit Instead
5.
Write about Your Own Writing
6.
Write Lessons on Writing
7.
Write a Creative Story
8.
Write Extra D-1, 2, 3, &/or 4's.
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OPTIONS FOR
WEEKS 9-12 ALTERNATIVE ASSIGNMENTS
Choose any one of these options below in any single week (directions -
see column on right):
(1) Continue Study Questions by Reading Chapters on Basics of How To Write
Better:
Each week, write 150+ words in a list
of 6+ items (just as in the earlier part of the term), on any one or more
of the following chapters you have not yet read in
WritingforCollege.org:
OR
(2) Continue Study Questions by Reading about How To Write New Types of Papers:
Each week, write 150+ words in a list
of 6+ items (just as in the earlier part of the term), on any one or more
of the chapters (you may choose just one chapter per week) in
the following sections of
WritingforCollege.org:
OR
(3) Write New Types of Papers: Read or skim one
or more of the above chapters in "2." an then (with no Study Questions
necessary), simply write 300+ words on a subject of your choice using the
patterns for that type of paper. (600+ w. = 2 wks. of assignments;
900+ w. = 3 wks. of assignments, etc.)
OR
(4) Do Extra Credit (or Nothing): You don't have to do any of the
"Options" assignments in Weeks 7-12. However, if you don't do them,
you lose 6 X's/points. It is possible to still get the X's/points by
earning them through
extra
credit instead. (The extra
credit X's/points will be added to your attendance.)
OR
(5) Write about Your Own Writing/Research Process/Experiences: Write
about any writing experiences for 300+ words/wk. You
may write about Drafts 1, 2, 3, and/or 4; writing assignments for other
classes; past writing in school or work or for personal purposes. (600+ w.
= 2 wks. of assignments; 900+ w. = 3 wks. of assignments, etc.)
Examples: how your writing is proceeding in one (or more) of your
current writing assignments, your trials and tribulations in writing your
papers for this class, you're experience of writing in this class, past
experience(s) with writing, how you started as a writer, your history of
writing, your experience of writing in one or more classes, what you'd
like to learn/become as a writer in the future, etc.
OR
(6) Write a Lesson Plan on How To Teach Writing/Research: Write
300+ words/wk. as a list, outline, or regular paragraphs on how you
would teaching one or mroe specific writing lessons to a group of your
choice in a place of your choice (e.g., to students in a certain grade, to
your children, to employees at your place of work, etc.).
OR
(7) Write a creative story--fiction or nonfiction--with a plot line
(plot = person with a problem), 300+ w. To count if for
two weeks, write 600+ w. with all of the 5 senses added at least
two times each. To count it for three weeks, write 900 w.
with all of the 5 senses and the 5 W's added at least two times each.
To count it for four weeks, write 1200 w. with all of the 5 senses
and 5 W's added at least two times each, and include 300+ w. of dialogue.
(For help, see "K2.
Writing a Story" in CollegeWriting.info.
OR
(8) Write extra Draft 1, 2, 3, or 4 papers: new D-1 = 3 X's,
D-2 = 5 X's, D-3 = 6 X's, & D-4 = 7 X's. Simply use another cover
sheet and attach a note on top explaining the paper is for the "Reading
Options Assignments" or for "Extra Credit." (Either way, you'll
receive the same X's/points.)
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