Week 4

Collaborative Essay Update

• Using Google Docs
• Printed copies

Review Use of Quotations

• Nuts and Bolts
• In-Text Citations

Review of Semicolon

• Basic rules

Reminder about MCL

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This week we being work on on an awareness/fundraising campaign for the Nicaragua Project.  We will work together to understand the campaign from the framework of a rhetorical situation as described in the homework for this past weekend.

• Author
• Audience
• Text
• Context

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Task 1:  Help analyze the current brochure we are using for the project and provide an analysis. Work as a team to come up with a one page analysis.  

Task 2:  Work in your established groups to set up goal for the awareness/fundraising campaign.  What do you want to accomplish together?  Here are some of the things to consider that would be most helpful for the project: 

• An email list of people interested in learning more about the Nicaragua Project.  
• Children's vitamins and books (paperback/Spanish) for the upcoming August trip. 
• A team fundraising goal to reach by the end of two weeks.

Task 3:  We will have a table set up on campus to sell cooked and baked goods.  This table should work as a "text" for the group and the activity around the table will be the foundation for the rhetorical situation of the project.  Come up with a schedule for the campus tables.

Task 4:  By June 16, groups will turn in a four page report providing the following:

• An introduction describing the group effort in participating in the Nicaragua Project.
• An analysis of the group's purpose, attitude, and background.
• An analysis of the audience that the group set out to reach.
• An analysis of the context in which the project was carried out.
• An analysis of the text the group created to engage in the audience.

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Service-Learning

Remember that the course has a 10-hour service-learning requirement.  In order to receive credit for your service-learning work, you will need to complete the sign-up forms, perform your service, and provide an analysis.  The Nicaragua Project will fulfill all of these requirements.  There are other possibilities, however.  Please check with me.