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COMM 1303 Writing Workshop (WW) #1 Worksheet
INSTRUCTIONS
: Use this worksheet to draft your responses for your WWs. This is the
first writing submission that will be a part of your portfolio. Blackboard does NOT
allow
extensions on WWs or peer review assignments. Peer reviews are assigned immediately after the WW due date/time expires. Mark your calendar/submit early.
This is a 3-part assignment
: the WW submission, self/peer reviews, and summary discussion thread. If you miss the WW due date, Blackboard will not assign peer reviews once the submission due date expires.
The following questions are in the WW#1 assignment on Blackboard. I highly recommend drafting responses to each question in this Word doc and then copying and pasting them into the question comment boxes on Blackboard. Answer the prompts with correct grammar, spelling, and punctuation. Use the “Save” option while working. Press “Submit” AFTER all questions have been answered. Editing may not be available once you press “Submit” in the last question. Be careful not to submit your WW before you’re done!
All questions are complete/incomplete (1 point for complete and 0 points for incomplete).
Question 1
Share your name and preferred pronouns in the response box so your peers will know how to address you in their feedback to you.
After watching the video Three Ways to Speak English
, share how you would introduce yourself when you meet and greet people you do not know in each of the scenarios below.
1.
Informally meeting new people your own age
2.
Academically in front of a class and your professor at UH
3.
At a job interview or meeting new colleagues
Do you believe it's necessary to know how to write and communicate effectively for each environment you are in (informally, academically, professionally/career)? Why or why not? Support your opinion.
My name is Daniela and I use she/her pronouns. To me, communication is effective if your audience in your specific situation understands you. You do not have to speak formally all the time, but you do have to make your points be understood. For example, when informally meeting new people my age I would speak informally and
introduce myself simply with my name and ask a few questions about the person’s interest to get to know them. When presenting in front of the class and my professor, I’d introduce myself a bit more formally and say my full name, what I’m studying, and perhaps a fun fact about myself. At a job interview, I’d introduce myself professionally with my full name, what I do, and the things I want to do in the future.
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Question 2
This semester we will be creating a digital portfolio where some of your academic projects will be saved to display for future job opportunities. In the response box for this question, create an "About me" paragraph for your portfolio.
In the first sentence of your "About Me" statement, introduce yourself by sharing your preferred name and your pronouns. Use first person language in your portfolio, e.g., "My
name is..." and "I..." Review the following sites for ideas on what else to include.
How to Write an About Me Page in Your Online Portfolio
14 About Me Examples & How to Create The Perfect Writer About Page
4 Unique 'About Me' Page Ideas To Inspire Your Own
27 Best About Us & About Me Page Examples (+10 Templates)
What to include in your online communications portfolio
47 Inspiring Student Portfolio Examples
My name is Daniela Paz and I use she/her pronouns. I’m an aspiring screenwriter and film editor whose short film script was a finalist for the Best Horror Comedy Screenplay Award at the Houston Comedy Film Festival in the Spring of 2020. I am very orderly and
like to focus on details, qualities that have helped me a lot when working as an Assistant Director (1
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A.D.) and Script Supervisor on a few of my friends’ film sets. I like to collaborate with people and appreciate everyone’s hard work since I know that filmmaking cannot be done by just one person but by a whole team of creative and passionate people. I’ve also worked as a product photographer and done web management for my parents’ company’s website. As a Latin American immigrant whose
first language is not English, I have a different perspective than those of my peers and I can use this as an advantage. Through the years I have gathered other skills outside of the filmmaking process which I feel have been beneficial to me so that I’m a more well-
rounded person and am prepared for anything. This Is something that my father always thought me in my life, to learn a little bit of everything you can. 2
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Question 3
When you completed the Voting + Voices quiz
, which answer surprised you the most? Which answer surprised you the least? Why? Share and expand on your thoughts in a reflection post in paragraph form.
Completing the Voting + Voices quiz surprised me in what I found. When asked what percent of Americans aged 18-29 voted in the 2016 presidential election my answer was 57 percent, but it was wrong. Only 46% of young Americans voted. I was surprised because I at least thought the percentage would be a little higher and I was reminded that the percentage of young people voting increased during the elections in 2018 and 2020. A question that surprised me in this quiz was the fact that there are a few states which use methods for determining the winner of an election in case of a tie. Some of these methods are picking from a deck of cards, flipping a coin, rolling dice, and drawing straws. It’s surprising that such an important decision is left up to luck and does not use a more democratic process.
Something that did not surprise me was the number of Americans, 6.1 million, that were
denied the right to vote in the 2016 elections due to a felony conviction. We’ve come to understand that there are a lot of limitations for people who have been to prison in recent years. The movie Ant-Man exemplifies this well. In the movie, the protagonist, Scott, is an ex-convict who after getting out of prison tries to put his life back together, so he’ll be able to see his daughter. He says getting a new job won’t be hard since he has a master’s in Engineering. Cut to him being a Baskin Robbins employee and proceeding to be fired because they found out he was an ex-convict. We know the motives why Scott is in jail, and we know he is not a dangerous man but a good person that was shortchanged by his employers. There are a lot of people who get out of prison
and want to earnestly make a new life and improve themselves, but the government limits them in what they can or can’t do. If they can’t even do something as integral and important as voting for president, how can they start to improve their own lives?
The answers to these questions serve to remind us that there’s still a lot of work to do if we want elections to be completely fair and democratic. Question 4 1. ARTICLE
: Choose one of the articles in the Student Choice folders in the Start Here Welcome Module or
Day 2’s Module 1
and share two or three takeaways about it and how it relates or may be relevant to your career goals or past, present, and/or future lived experiences. It should not be a previous response in any assignments. Use the following template:
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In the article "____________," they say that ________, and I concede _________. But ____________.
Writing template instructions
: (
Write in paragraph form and spell and grammar check before submitting.)
In the article = Name the article in the first sentence
They say that = Name the author and share: what did the author say? Summarize the message of the article.
And I concede = what did you agree with that the author wrote? State it in this sentence.
But = what did you disagree with? State your disagreement and support your opinion. Support claims with evidence. If you don't disagree with anything the article said, what are the gaps? What did the article not address that is important to the topic?
2. VIDEO
: Choose one of the videos in the Student Choice folders in the Start Here Welcome Module or Week 2's Student Choice Video folder
and share two or three takeaways about it and how it relates or may be relevant to your career goals or past, present, and/or future lived experiences. It should not be a previous response in any assignments. Use the following template:
In the video "____________," they say that ________, and I concede _________. But ____________.
Writing template instructions
: (
Write in paragraph form and spell and grammar check before submitting.)
In the video = Name the video in the first sentence
They say that = Name the speaker and share: what did the speaker say? Summarize the message of the video.
And I concede = what did you agree with that the speaker claimed? State it in this sentence.
But = what did you disagree with? State your disagreement and support your opinion. Support claims with evidence. If you don't disagree with anything the speaker said, what are the gaps? What did the article not address that is important to the topic?
In the article “What you should — and should not — say when talking to people who voted for a different presidential candidate”, Catherine Clifford says not to immediately judge those who voted for a different president but to first understand the person’s story and why they would make that choice instead of arguing. I concede that there needs to be some understanding of why people make decisions like, for example, voting for 4
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Donald Trump. Many disenfranchised people see value in what he said. But I don’t completely agree that this is something to be done with everyone you disagree with because some of those people are also white supremacists that are not going to listen to polite debate regarding this. We must understand that, yes, some genuinely disenfranchised people don’t feel the government has helped or represented them. Many times, those people are poor, uneducated people who are victims of vicious fascist propaganda unknowingly. But there are also full-on neo-nazis that want minorities exterminated and spout these same fascist ideas they’ve learned from far-
right politicians. As a Latin American immigrant who has Jewish roots, I will not spend one minute debating a nazi when I know that what they want is my extermination. I will not “try to listen” to someone who literally wants me dead.
In the video “Touchscreen”, Marshall “Soulful” Jones says that technology has impaired our ability to connect with people and we have forgotten how to interact with others meaningfully. I concede that he is right about us forgetting how to personally connect with people and how we’re preoccupied more with followers than sharing a life with our families. But I also feel like there are good ways to utilize technology to connect with your fellow peers, friends, and family. Organizations mobilized with just a few clicks on social media, and we’ve learned to use social media as a tool to spread awareness of important things. It has also helped us to network within our industries. For example, if I
had never found out about the Houston Comedy Film Festival through social media, I wouldn’t have submitted my screenplay, and I wouldn’t have been nominated for Best Horror Comedy Screenplay. Attaching a nomination from a film festival to my screenplay interests other filmmakers that might want to know about my screenplay and
possibly want to work with me to produce my short film. Social media has helped us bridge a gap between beginners and people in the industry by using it to network and put our work forward.
Question 5
: Feedback Role Play Scenario
You are a professor and about to give feedback and scores to one of your colleagues who wrote a peer-review journal article. In your opinion, which feedback below do you believe would be considered the "better" delivery to a colleague regarding the writing they shared, Example A or Example B? Why? State your reasoning for the Example you
chose. Next, step into the author's shoes. Which feedback would you as a writer prefer to receive? Why? How did each of these examples of feedback make you feel as a reviewer? As the author? As a student? Elaborate by reflecting on the emotions each 5
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created when you were reading in paragraph form in the response box and give an example of how you would improve upon each of the feedback examples.
Example A:
The bullet list you have above is a lot clearer than ch. 2 is at the moment. I hate to say it, but you have some work to do before this will be ready for the committee. The two big
things to attend to are overall organization and the way you are treating your claims. The claims included in the chapter contrast highly with the nuanced and hedged claims made above. In addition, many claims were not cited, or were cited from literature that may have mentioned something related to the claim, but did not study that claim. Based
on my reading of Chapter 2, I have created a new outline for you. I suggest that you follow it quite closely.
As for chapter 3, it looks good to me. However, you will spend Ch 2 making an argument for your framework of equity consciousness with specific criteria. Therefore, chapter 3 should explain those criteria again and explain how you will use those criteria to inform judgments about the data. You can still do the thematic coding that emerges from the data as well. Finding tensions and concordances between those codes and the
ones that emerge from your framework will be exciting and inform chapters 4 and 5.
I have a marked up copy of your chapter I can share, but I am not sure how helpful it will
be at this point. I think if you can reorganize using my outline, cut what does not fit, add what is needed, and cite everything you will be in a much better place to carry this off.
Example B:
The literature you summarize in Chapter two is extensive - very well described with appropriate use of quotations. The knowledge shown here is impressive! Your writing is excellent, and I appreciate how carefully you've done this draft. As you will see in my comments the major point I have, at many places, is whether what is presented is based on theory & ideas, and what can be supported by empirical evidence. I point this out because as a dissertation the emphasis on research and empiricism is paramount. It
would be helpful I think to clarify supports for ideas presented - are the claims based on logic, theory, agreement among experts, experience, research? The other aspect that could be improved is relating each of the major sections to your study - the summaries are great but seem somewhat removed from your research questions and methods. So something about how ideas are important to your study would be helpful.
Chapter 2 is in good shape. It might be good to indicate more specifically the total number of interviews for each teacher, along with an indication of how many of those you conducted. How will the artifacts and other data be used in conjunction to establish each "case"? Is the coding different for different teachers since you are looking at cases
and not necessarily combining data from each teacher? You could be more specific about the amount of transcript there is to be coded, and could provide more detail about
how you will go about the coding. I can't be sure how much work this will be for you - it may be that it makes sense to start with just a few teachers and then do more if warranted. I take it you want a "typical" case? (there are different types of cases - extreme, representative, typical). For "generalizability" I'd suggest using translatability.
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I hope these comments are helpful, as well as the ones I've done in track changes. This is such a great and timely project - we desperately need good research on how teachers develop multiple perspectives.
In my opinion, the feedback from example B is better than example A. Example A’s feedback just reads as pretentious and is not constructive criticism at all. Telling the author how to specifically write their journal article and not offering ideas for improvement is pretty awful and reeks of egocentrism. This is not a way to send feedback to your peers. If I were the author of the article being reviewed, I would have cut ties with the person because they’re not offering me actual constructive criticism, unlike in example B where the reviewer is explicitly stating which parts of the article work and what needs improvement. If I were a student and this was my teacher sending
feedback like in example A, I would hate that teacher because they’re not teaching anything constructive and doesn’t make me want to learn. There’s just something awful about example A that is basically saying, “If you don’t do this exactly as I want you to do
it, it’s going to be bad”. That almost made me want to stop reading the whole feedback. Important Communication Guidelines for Peer Evaluations & Discussion Forums
1.
Welcome multiple viewpoints
Speak from your own experience by using “I statements.” Ask questions to understand the sources of disagreements.
2. Own your intentions and your impacts
Respect each other’s experiences and feelings by taking responsibility for the effects of your words. On the other side, if you have a strong reaction to something, let the individual and/or the discussion group know. Be open to dialogue. Respect everyone.
3. Work to recognize your privileges
Use this space to recognize and investigate your privileges (for example: class, gender, sexual orientation, ability). Honor the different experiences we all bring to this space. Recognize and acknowledge the value of multiple cultures and experiences.
4. Take risks: Lean into discomfort
We are all in process. Challenge yourself to contribute even if it is not perfectly formulated. Reflect and share understanding that we all contribute to knowledge.
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5. Step back
Encourage those who have not spoken to share their thoughts and opinions.
6. Notice and name group dynamics in the moment
We are all responsible for this course's peer review and discussions forums. Be aware of how others are responding or not responding. Ask for dialogue if needed.
7. Actively listen
Use your energy to listen to what is said before thinking about how to respond. Notice when defensiveness and denial arise. Question how you are reacting to messages.
8. Challenging with care
Find ways to respectfully challenge others and be open to challenges of your own views. Think about how to question ideas without personal attacks.
9. Confidentiality
Share your own summary of the message, not exact wording or the messenger. All messages are confidential in this course. If a student is found sharing screenshots or posts, it will result in an "F" and the student will be dropped from the course.
10. Break it down
Use simple language and background information when necessary. Ask for clarification if needed. If quoting others, cite your work. Read the syllabus regarding plagiarism.
Modified from © AWARE-LA www.awarela.org
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