Please assign to RITWICK B Week 11 Community Work No unread replies. No replies. This is your last Community Work and it takes the place of both Community Work and Engagement

& Application this week except that you do have a short assignment on Tuesday to comment on the draft rubric for the paper. Please take this process it seriously and give it your full attention. READ ALL OF WHAT IS BELOW. :-) Notes on Completing This Assignment For your work to be marked as Complete, you must: 1. Post your draft and feedback on time so that others are not left unable to respond and so that everyone gets a timely response. If you don't post your draft on time, your classmates who are looking for a paper to read have a right to move on and respond to others who have. Drafts must be posted by Monday at 11:59 p.m. Feedback must be posted by Thursday at 11:59 p.m./n2. Give thoughtful, substantive feedback. That means, your feedback will: Directly answer the writer's questions with more than a pat on the back. Even if you think an element of their paper is highly effective, you should explain why you think that thoughtfully so that the writer understands how you, the reader, are experiencing their writing. • Make references to specific elements of the paper that are appropriate to the question focus. Give concrete, specific suggestions that you, as a reader, would find helpful for the writer to do. These should relate to the writer's paper rather than being general suggestions, such as, "add transitions." If you think a smoother transition is needed, identify where you think it is needed, why, and suggest something specific that the writer might do. Recognize the parameters of the Research Paper assignment. If you have doubts about the writer's focus being appropriate for the assignment, you should share those. Your feedback also should be given with knowledge of the assignment so that you are not suggesting the writer do something that would not actually be appropriate for the assignment. • Recognize the purpose of the writer's paper and their argument. It's completely okay to share skepticism about the writer's argument, based on how they have presented it. Be concrete about that: why are you not/nPurpose Well, obviously, to get feedback from readers to use in final revisions. More important, to do some final reflection on the ideas in your essay and areas of possible improvement to address over the weekend before the final paper is due. Also, to benefit from putting yourself in the reader's seat by responding to someone else's paper. Being an effective writer often depends on being able to imagine the perspective of the reader. So use your experience being a reader to raise your awareness of strategies and techniques that help readers. Apply that to your revision work during the week. DON'T wait to revise until you get feedback. Deciding how your paper can be improved is your work, not your reader's. If reader feedback is something you really want, remember that a lot of people can be a reader for you, but you still must sort and sift what they say according to the goals you have in this paper. Requirements 1. Post the complete draft of your paper by Monday at 11:59 p.m. • Please do this as an attachment or, if you are sharing a link to a Google doc, make sure you have allowed anyone with the link to open the document. It is your responsibility to post an accessible paper, so check it after you post it. 2. Along with your paper, include three questions you want your reader to consider as they read and to answer by sharing their thoughts or experiences of reading your paper./n3. Pay very close attention to the following instructions: • After you post your paper on Monday, claim the paper of a classmate to review by responding to their post to say, "I will review this paper." o BEFORE YOU CLAIM A PAPER, MAKE SURE NO ONE ELSE HAS CLAIMED IT. o DO NOT CLAIM A PAPER IF YOU HAVE NOT POSTED A DRAFT. This will leave someone else unable to claim a paper to review. After you have read your classmate's questions, read their paper. Post your response to their questions as a reply to their paper post by Thursday at 11:59 p.m. o Number your responses according to the number of their three questions. • Provide specific references and/or examples from parts of their paper in your responses. . Do not tell the writer what they should do. You may make suggestions, but frame these within your experience or understanding of the paper as a reader. Use "I" rather than "you." • Example: "In paragraph 8, I got a little lost. It's very long and has three quotations and I wasn't sure how they all related or what the main idea was of that paragraph. For me, it would have helped to have the paragraph separated into short paragraphs and to have more context for each of the quotations."