Assignment #1: Multi-vocal Book Review

Goals: There are several learning goals for this project:

• plan and carry out a cooperative project
• read and respond to an important new text in our discipline
• synthesize info: our understandings of multi-vocality, disciplinary practices of book reviews, knowledge of a single text in the context
• research and better understand electronic publication
• develop a project for electronic publication

Planning: Here’s some very basic planning, but we’ll need to add to it as a class:

1. Read Day and Eodice’s book.
2. Discuss book in GDC
3. Decide on form and content of review in GDC
4. Assign reading/writing/etc. and develop schedule over next two weeks.

Products: Here are the things you will produce as the result of this assignment:

• a multi-vocal book review in an electronic format (group)
• a memo self-assessment of your work and group interaction (individual)

Grading Criteria: Here are the criteria upon which I will ask you to assess yourselves:

• offered input into planning the project
• prepared for project by completing assigned reading, researching appropriate outside materials
• offered carefully considered feedback on peer writing
• wrote intelligent, focused prose and response on topics assigned by group
• wrote the amount of prose assigned or agreed to by the group
• worked to make this a successful project by being a strong collaborator