March 16 - Accidents are so unexpected

I was in a car accident Wednesday night after class and am just beginning to think about my teaching responsibilities.  I am OK but uncomfortable and we will need to reschedule the concept paper conferences, and I will not be in class on Wednesday night.  I'm sorry to  miss our class - but I think you should be well able to make constructive use of the time even if I am not there.  This is the plan.

Discussion of articles:  The first half of class will focus on the two assignments about process pedagogy & WAC.  The new format for reaction papers is posted here and at the link to the left.

Useful references for placing the articles within a historical context include:

• From Cave Paintings to the Internet
• The Ohio State University has an excellent interactive timeline on composition and rhetoric - but I can't get the link to work at this time.  Hopefully it will be up an running when you need it.

Qualitative methods:
During the second half of class you should discuss the second half of Mertens - on approaches for qualitative data analysis.

I am hoping to post some guide for discussion before class - so check back here on Wednesday night.

Read through the Homework assignment together before leaving class
Homework:  Read Sample Transcripts + write the Data Analysis Assignment 1 for April 6.  The Sample Transcripts present several revisions/re-representations of the sample  "Friends" transcript you looked at earlier for practice coding.  The homework asks you to walk through some of the analytic methods presented in the sample.

There is no reading assignment.