FEB 3 Meet for COMPOCON (ENG 1302.13)

We will be meeting for this event at the UTPA Ballroom at 9:45am on Monday.

• I will be taking role at the event
• Please make sure to bring questions related to your research

COMPOCON Web Site

EVENT: CompoCon 1-The Question

DAYS: Feb 3 & 4

TIME: 8am-4pm

SITE: UTPA Ballroom

ONLINE: ccharlton.wix.com/compocon

The first year writing program's second annual conference on writing, inquiry, and student engagement begins this Monday. Our two main goals with this event are (1) to increase student investment in English 1302 research projects and (2) increase student networks across campus. We do this by inviting experts (from our writing program, from the library, and from a variety of university and community areas) to come sit down and have short conversations with students about their research questions and ideas. New twists for this year: we’ll have more student experts participating and we’re lucky and very excited to have Karen, Andrew, and Carl from the library joining us.

Last year, instructors and volunteers worked with over 800 students in two days, and we’re hoping to see the same amount of traffic. If you’re interested in participating or just want to come by and see how CompoCon works, we’d love to see you there. If you know other people who would be interested, please forward this email. The conference runs all day, and we pause for short introductions at times when classes normally start.

I’ll be finalizing and posting a “schedule” to the CompoCon site this weekend that has info on the types of student interests and questions circulating and the times those classes will be participating. Email me if you have question, and here’s to a great weekend!

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1/29 (ENG 1302.13)

Remember to bring a journal article related to your research question, something concrete that deals with your topic.   We will continue to discuss abstract proposals tomorrow.

1/27

Assignment:  1/2 page to 1 full page

• Abstract proposal for research that investigates literacy, reading, or writing.  I encourage you to find something that interests you.  Please have your abstract printed out before class and be ready to discuss on Monday.  

• Read Stage 2 of the writing program.

FRI 1/24

Assignment:

• Read article titled "School as Inquiry" by Steven Wolk (found in the assigned readings link)
• 1 page response paper
• Be ready to discuss the reading

Add to Circles

Hello everyone, great discussion today, seems like we are always left needing more time at the end.  That's a good thing!  This post is to remind all of you to add me to your circle, in order to actually access the readings and or the assignments, you may have to create a Gmail account.  Familiarize yourself with Google+ and send me a request by clicking on my profile icon in the home page.  

That said, I have added those of you that gave me your gmail accounts already.  Some of them did not work, if you did not get a request from me then please send me a request.  Have a great weekend!

Blog artwork by: Peter Saville / Trevor Key
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Welcome

I want to take this opportunity to welcome everyone to our class forum. I will be integrating our readings, announcements, workshops, assignments and discussions on here; so it would be wise if everyone begins to browse and familiarize yourselves with the page. I look forward to meeting everyone. Look for more updates soon.