3/24

Mon

Second Half Introduction

Feedback on drafts, feedback on the first half of the course, overview of the second half of the course.

3/26

Wed

Online Resources

Take a webtour of community literacy resources and post a reflection to the weblog. Formulate groups for the community literacy project.

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3/28

Fri

Ethnographies and case studies.

Brandt, "Sponsors of Literacy," in Literacy (555ff). Identify potential interview subjects from the community. Make a contact before Friday April 4.

3/31

Mon

Primary research and interviewing.

Second draft of academic essays are due.
The Subject is Research   Terly Grosz, NDSU's IRB director, will talk about human subject research.

4/2

Wed

Community Literacy

Read Peck, Flower, and Higgins"Community Literacy" (Literacy 572ff).  We will use their description of the Pittsburgh Community Literacy Center and its projects as a starting point for our project. We will brainstorm possibilities for NDSU's role in community literacy.

4/4

Fri

Project management

Read Szwed, "The Ethnography of Literacy" in Literacy, 421ff. Feasibility study overview. Update the group on the status of your interview subjects. 

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4/7

Mon

Group Work (change in schedule)

Discuss CLI project options within your group. Do any relevant research. Begin drafting a survey to be given to NDSU liberal arts and english education undergraduates.

4/9

Wed

Group work. (change in schedule)

Some of the essays that were originally scheduled for this day may be relevant to your project; someone in the group could be responsible for reading one or more of these pieces.

Decide on a CLI project--groups will report to each other on their decisions.

Identify information needed to complete a draft of the background section of the feasibility report.

Identify and work on other tasks relevant to the project: survey, web-research, further research on writing feasibility reports, etc.

4/11

Fri

Project management.

Update groups on interviews. Interviews should be arranged, ideally completed by now or early next week.

Additional research on community literacy (web or print based) should be conducted and shared with the class as a whole.

Background section of feasibility report should be drafted and shared.

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4/14

Mon

Visitor (s): Community literacy workers

I will try to arrange appropriate visitors based on areas of group interest. This should function as a "group interview" and material should be relevant for your feasibility study.

4/16

Wed

Group work

Pulling together material so far: individual and group interviews, secondary research (the essays we have read), models you have seen / read about (in print, on web). Outlining feasibility study and clarifying tasks that need to be done between now and next Wednesday.

4/18

Fri

Good Friday—no class.

Give a draft of your "Sponsors of Literacy" essay to each group member either before today or email it during this long weekend.

4/21

Mon

Easter Monday — no class.

4/23

Wed

Project management.

Continuing work from last Wednesday: your goal should be to have a draft of your feasibility study done. Prepare a brief progress report by the end of this class.

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4/25

Fri

RRCWL Conference—attend 9:00 am session or others of interest to you.

Memorial Union,

4/28

Mon

3 Styles

Sponsors of Literacy essays due.  Be sure your interview subject has approved your essay!!

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4/30

Wed

Professional style and document design

Three professional styles, page design, and document design will be reviewed. Be sure to have your feasibility study available to work on.

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5/2

Fri

Project management

Full draft pulled together by the end of class.

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5/5

Mon

Editing and revising

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5/7

Wed

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5/9

Fri

Feasibility reports

Oral Presentations of feasibility studies delivered (10-15 minutes each); feasibility study due.

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Revisions Due (addition to schedule)

Revisions to your creative writing project, academic essay, and/or sponsor of literacy essay are due today by 5:00 pm.