After that, we will work on our topics from the Readability handout, and create our handouts and/or posters. The final version is only due the day after the Thanksgiving vacations. Those who share a topic with a partner can discuss how to split up the different pages.
Those who were not here on Monday have been assigned a topic; so please look it up on the old blog, and ask if you have any questions.
Those who missed class this Monday and are excused (if you had an "observation" or appointment with your chair, this counts as excused!), please pick up a Fry graph handout from me, so you can complete the in-class assignment you missed. Ask me or your neighbors if you have any questions. The prompt is on Monday's blog.
The others: please hand in your Fry Graphs. I'll give you 10 points for them and your table, and then you can take them back into your files - KEEP them, because you will need them for the final Readability Essay, in which you will compare this Fry Graph for your blog writing with your readability for your research writing!!!
The purpose of our Readability Unit:
There are 4 possible scenarios:
1) Ideal case: This is probably true for most people - you will find that you have a readability level of 8-13 for blogs, and 16+ for research writing. Guess why?
2) You have a readability of 16+ for both blog posts AND research writing. This means your writing style is generally very elevated. Kudos! But what does that mean when you address younger students in a class blog, etc.??? Do you know at what grade level newspapers are written??? Why could that be the case?
3) You have a readability of 9th grade or below for both blog posts AND research writing. This is a very unlikely scenario. What would it tell you?
4) The measurement to assess your readability did not work. You feel you have a higher or lower readability than the formula granted you. It is faulty in certain aspects, and did not give a true picture of your personal writing style. Explain why.
You will ponder about all these scenarios in your final Readability Essay, for which you have received the prompt in an email. You can already start writing the parts you have completed in-class. The Readability Essay is due on the final day of class, Dec. 5th, at class time, as an email ONLY. There is no length or format requirement; just follow the prompt and answer all questions.
Today is the last day your audiences can respond to your surveys. You need a minimum of TEN responses by Friday. If you have 0-3 answers by now, say so in class today, and we will take your survey (no extra credit; this is "a little help from your friends"). It is unlikely that your real audience will respond by Friday, so we will "save you." If you have 7-9, just wait the two more days. If you don't have 10 on Friday, some of us will take your survey on Friday.
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To sum up, in today's workshop you can
- ask people to take your survey, to bring your answers up to 10
- work on your 5 min. readability presentation for Dec. 1st and Dec. 3rd (after Thanksgiving)
- start writing the parts of your Readability Essay that you have completed with the Fry Graph
- do your Fry Graph, if you have missed Monday's class and were excused
On Friday, we will finish up our Research Essays by exchanging the invented numbers for the real results, by adding the Introduction, Conclusion, missing parts of the Abstract, the Participants, and the Methods. The essays must be COMPLETE for Monday, Nov. 17th, for our peer-editing unit!!! (in online format)
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