November 2

Most classes from now to the end of the term will be focused on supporting you in your work in the writing center (reading + discussing issues that come up in your sessions) and working on your research projects.

Tonight we began by listing some of the issues from your sessions to make sure we will cover those issues in the readings assigned for the rest of the course. How to work with ESL learners - and how to deal with requests for "correcting grammar" in constructive ways were two issues that came up.

you then read through your classmates' posts about their research projects, and took a look at the sheet to help you develop your research plan (posted on this blog as "Developing a research plan"). The initial writing and reading are to deepen your knowledge and help you define your focus. The writing you will turn in is under point 4. We talked through what kind of information you would post for each section of your research plan. I will post a sample reasearch plan for next class.

You then did some writing to think about your purpose + research question, and we talked some more.

Read: the worksheet on developing a research plan + any materials relevant to your project
Blog 14: Post your purpose + your research question. Do some brainstormy writing about what you will observe at sessions to gather data for your project.

See you in the writing center. Bring your signed permission forms and turn them in to me.