We are reading thirty articles, writing summaries and paragraphs for them. The paragraphs should work as building blocks for your research project depending on your topic. All the articles and topics spring from Hurricane Katrina, Zeitoun, and When the Levees Broke—from there, it's open.
This gives every person in class a solid, shared foundation of information. This forces everyone to examine various types of articles for useful information while looking at what works and what doesn't work for a college-level research paper. This will hopefully cut down on accidental plagiarism (or plagiarism of any sort).
For every 5-6 paragraphs you write, I grade the one that looks the worst on the scoring guide. This is to help you figure out how to improve, not to destroy your grades. You get points for each paragraph, but the scored ones are assessments. If all of your articles look good, then scoring any of them should be an easy bump. And, again, these are some of the building blocks of your essay.
Everything we have done in class so far has been in preparation for the 5-8 page research project. How you write, how you incorporate research, how you process and share information will determine whether you are ready to be graded at the WR121 or WR115 level. All of the steps we've done together in class, you would be doing on your own at college. If you take this seriously, you will have the skills you need to do well.
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