This I Believe | WRT 105 @ 5pm

This page will be the hub for our This I Believe assignment. We will use it to post our various drafts, including our rough and polished drafts, as well as our reflection assignment.

This is a hub page for our TIB components: each section [ M 289 (2pm), M325 (5pm), M342 (6:30) ] has its own set of drop down-menus, and each TIB component will in turn have its own set of pages. Please take care that you post to the correct page.

The submission timetable for this assignment is below — note that this schedule also matches the timetable that appears on our Unit 1 Calendar, with the exception that all posts should go to our expressions pages and NOT Bb.

Tuesday, September 16

Draft your own “This I Believe” essay. Shoot for two pages (550 words). Remember, a draft is a draft is a draft, and that a draft’s purpose is to be “rough.” Allow the draft to be as crappy and unsatisfying and clunky and clumsy as it needs to be at this early stage in the composing process. 

  • Post your working Draft to the (class) TIB Working Draft Page.
  • Post your draft to your own blogsite on your own TIB Working Draft Page
  • Bring four (4) hardcopies to class.

Thursday, September 18

Revise your “This I Believe Essay” based on the feedback and discussion in class.

Prepare a list of three + (3+) questions/concerns about the essay for the class to consider and respond to.

  • Post the list to our section’s list page. (no need for hardcopies)
  • Post Your revised working draft to the (class) TIB Working Draft Page as a reply to your working draft post (i.e. keep the two (2) drafts next to one another)
  • Post your draft to your own blogsite on your own TIB Working Draft Page
  • Bring 2 hardcopies of your revised draft to class.

Tuesday, September 23

Finish revising, and then polish, your “This I Believe” essay. Complete the reflection component as well.

  • Post your polished essay (with the reflection component) as a single post to the  This I Believe (Polished)  page. Have the essay lead the post.
  • Post your draft to your own blogsite on your own TIB Polished Draft Page