The document provides information about wrapping up a class on writing and research. It discusses peer reviews, evaluations, and details about the final assignment and calendar. The final will be a take-home assignment distributed on December 8th and due on December 15th. It will involve responding to two questions, one requiring additional reading, and have a 2000 word limit. The class will involve poster and project presentations on December 8th when final assignment instructions are also provided and project portfolios are due.

1. The end is near!
• Blakeslee & Fleischer
• Peer review wrap-up
• A word about the final and calendar
• Evaluations

2. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• “Shifting from writing to explore to writing
to present:” Good points, but the border
between the two is leaky
• A lot of the writing advice here are things
we’ve covered already...
• “Selecting Your Audience,” “Determining
Your Purpose,” and “Considering and
Selecting a Genre” are all intertwined, IMO

3. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• I usually ask students to find an example of their
genre or info about journals where they’d ideally
publish their project
• “Choosing the right genre..depends...” And
remember, your MA project ≠your “last chance”
at research!
• Positioning yourself as an author is subtle and a
little more than “voice”
• Cool story about “student who researched Nobel
prize speeches

4. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• You want to persuade your audience with
an argument/point (or maybe that’s
obvious)
• Story telling is useful for qualitative
research, but potentially tricky ethically
• Letting it sit is indeed ideal
• (And don’t forget to be ethical
researchers!)

5. Peer Review Wrap Up!

6. The Final and Calendar
• The Final:
• Take-home
• Distributed 12/8, due 12/15 (electronically)
• 20% of the grade
• (Probably) two questions, one of which will
involve some more reading
• (Probably) a total of 2,000 words (or less)
• “Opportunity for success”

7. The Final and Calendar
• The Calendar:
• Your Project Portfolio Due by class time on 12/8
(And it needs to be the Google Doc for peer
review, too).
• Third progress report, due by class time on 12/8
• Posters and presentations in class, 12/8
• Introduce final, 12/8
• Final due (and the “end of time”), 12/15