As promised, here are the details for the final draft of the first paper.
- The paper should be a minimum of 1500 words (since we are composing in the wiki we will not frame our length in page numbers)
- I will comment on your first drafts by Friday evening within the discussion page for your paper. Let me know if you have a problem finding it
- The final draft of your essay is due in the wiki by 6:00 pm on Monday. You will not be able to make any changes to this paper after that -so be sure that you finish up promptly
If you have any questions or concerns please record them in the comments below or email me, although I prefer comments in the blog, so that we can all learn from each others questions about the process. Sam’s post about the first paper topic was an excellent example of such an occurrence.
Professor Groom,
I checked to find your comments on my essay but did not come across them. I wasn’t sure if you just hadn’t commented yet, or if I was looking in the wrong place. Please let me know when you get the chance. Thanks!
Kelly
Kelly,
Check in the discussion page of the page where your classmate commented on your paper. I recently updated my comments for your draft, so you should find them there. Let me know if you have any questions.
Prof. Groom
Do we post our finished essay under our first essay link, or do we create another “Allison C’s finished essay” type of link?
Allison,
That is an excellent question which gives me the opportunity to explain the logic of the wiki for drafting papers in a bit more detail. As I said last week, I expect you to be doing all of your writing and revising within the wiki. I will be showing a couple of examples of how the wiki remembers previous version and can visually represent the logic of editing a paper in some very exciting ways. So the short answer to your question is leave the final version in the wiki, and be sure not to copy over the entire draft with a version from MS Word or some other word processing program. Rather, please do all of your editing and revising within the wiki. We will discuss the formatting differences at length this week.