General+Protocols

Notes on/Protocol for ComCon Writing Process

We agreed that, for all graded writing assignments, we will:


 * • Assign papers on the same day/s in English classes, with plans to discuss the assignment in ComCon Graderoom.

• Collect papers on the same day/s;

• Use a ComCon Leaders meeting to NORM a set of 3-5 papers, discuss issues of Quality, and then GRADE papers;

• Return papers on the SAME DAY.

• GROUP LEADERS will read and grade all initial drafts and subsequent revisions.**

Here’s the first set of dates/deadlines for the first two papers:

=SEPTEMBER=

**Paper #1** Ungraded assignment which is UNRETURNED so as to provide us and our students with a baseline sense of where they’ve started their thinking

 * 10 September:** //Assign paper//
 * 17 September:** //Papers due TO GROUP LEADERS//

=OCTOBER/NOVEMBER=

Paper #2: The Scarlet Letter Assignment (Othering in America?)

 * 18/19 October:** //Assign Paper in English classes; encourage electronic submission//
 * 22 October:** //Fieldwork Day; Group leaders should take time to talk about the paper with their groups today!!//
 * 25/26 October:** //Papers due today//
 * 30 October:** //ComCon meeting to NORM & Grade PAPERS//
 * 5 November:** //Return Papers//**.**

//**Future meeting needs/issues related to writing: We should dedicate an early November meeting to setting dates for the antebellum assignment & processing the October paper.**//