About twice a week until the end of the quarter, youll need to post a journal entry for an assigned reading in our textbook . See our master schedule for specific assignments.The journal entry should be short and informal. I recommend a ten-minute freewrite immediately after reading the assigned section. About 200 words.Your can only be viewed by you and by me (not by other students, unlike the Discussion Board). While I want your posts to the Discussion Board to be more careful in their grammar, spelling, etc, your freewrites just need to explore any reactions you have to the reading. You dont need to worry about mechanics in these posts. Only I will be reading these posts, and Submit your journal entries to the first Journal assignment in Module One. Note: you will submit all your journal entries in the same place. For future entries you will return to the Journal assignment and click on the Re-submit Assignment link that will appear at the right side of the Journal assignment submission screen.Please note that rather than grading them one-by-one throughout the quarter. In order to get full credit for your freewriting, you need to complete all of the assignments and demonstrate your careful participation in this activity. If you dont do all of the assignments, or if I dont see evidence that you are truly devoting about 10 minutes to each activity, you will only receive partial credit. Remember, for these freewrites, Im not grading on quality of ideas, use of grammar, etc. When I assign your freewriting grade at the end of the quarter, Im going to look at your entries to see if youve participated in a thorough, thoughtful way. Freewriting is a strategy many writers (professionals as well as students) find helpful. As Diana Hacker explains in , In its purest form, freewriting is simply nonstop writing. You set aside ten minutes or so and write whatever comes to you, without pausing to think about word choice, spelling, or even meaning (9). (or keep going if you feel like it!). If you dont know what to write at any point in your freewrite, . Just write I dont know or write anything until the next thought comes. The idea behind freewriting is to stop procrastinating and simply write without editing or censoring yourself.If you freewrite using a pen/pencil, the rule is that you dont take the pen/pencil off the page: you keep writing. If you freewrite using your computer, you should ideally NOT be looking at your screen (turn off the screen if that helps) and you should not pause in your typing.For our purposes in this class, you can submit your freewrite as is with no editing. However, for other writing situations, freewriting can help you discover ideas that you might be able to develop into usable material. Another technique that you might find helpful in the future is called , which is when you take the most promising ideas from your first freewriting session, write out (or cut and paste) these ideas on the top of a new page, and start a new focused freewriting session in which you work on thinking more about and developing these specific ideas.

Reading Journal

Order Description

Assessment Assessment task 1: Reading Journal
Objective(s): a and c
Weight: 25%
Task: Students will make a weekly entry about the required reading from weeks 2-7. Each week students will choose one quote from the required reading for that week. Students should discuss the significance of the quote in relation to the main argument of the reading. Each weekly entry should be no more than 500 words, and is to be submitted in class to your tutor. In Week 7, students submit all five entires, up to a total of 2000 words, in a single file to Turnitin.
Length: 2,000 words
See also Further information.
Criteria:
Timeliness of submission of entries
Relevance of chosen quotes
Depth of discussion of the quote’s significance
Clarity of writing Accuracy of referencing

!!!Tutor gives us Some important notes!!!
1.No single entry should be more than 500 words. In total all entries should be roughly 2000 words.
2.Start writing with the quote from each required reading.Each week students will choose one quote from the required reading for that week.
3. 2-3 reference for each week reading journal, and one reference must from required reading!!!
i will put all the required readings on my account
each week only have one required reading, choose one quote from that reading, and have 2-3 reference, one is from required reading

Reading Journal

Order Description

Assessment Assessment task 1: Reading Journal
Objective(s): a and c
Weight: 25%
Task: Students will make a weekly entry about the required reading from weeks 2-7. Each week students will choose one quote from the required reading for that week. Students should discuss the significance of the quote in relation to the main argument of the reading. Each weekly entry should be no more than 500 words, and is to be submitted in class to your tutor. In Week 7, students submit all five entires, up to a total of 2000 words, in a single file to Turnitin.
Length: 2,000 words
See also Further information.
Criteria:
Timeliness of submission of entries
Relevance of chosen quotes
Depth of discussion of the quote’s significance
Clarity of writing Accuracy of referencing

!!!Tutor gives us Some important notes!!!
1.No single entry should be more than 500 words. In total all entries should be roughly 2000 words.
2.Start writing with the quote from each required reading.Each week students will choose one quote from the required reading for that week.
3. 2-3 reference for each week reading journal, and one reference must from required reading!!!
i will put all the required readings on my account
each week only have one required reading, choose one quote from that reading, and have 2-3 reference, one is from required reading