Blog Assignment on Polio article for today, April 11:


Which of the 9 Research tasks that Polio lists might you be interested in pursuing and why?

For blog post for Tuesday, March 21:


Evaluate this article as a piece of research in terms of strengths and weaknesses.  In addition, what are its pedagogical implications? In other words, what does it say to you as both a writing teacher and a peer workshopper?

For blog post to start thinking about your research project, Thursday, March 9: Anticipating your research proposal and considering the issues and research practices from Hyland and the articles we’ve read, what issue(s) and practices appeal to you most?  What questions do you have about those issues that would be researchable?

For Blog Post, for Tuesday, March 7 on Evans, et al:


What are the advantages and disadvantages for teachers and students of dynamic written corrective feedback?  Would you consider using it in teaching L2 writing?  Why or why not? If you answered in the affirmative, how do you think you might use it in your teaching? 

For Blog Post for Thursday, March 2:

What lessons did you learn from this study? How can you apply them to your own experiences as a teacher and/or writer? What were the study’s strengths and weaknesses (See blog post assignment questions in Appendix.)

OR

Design a Follow-up or Spin-off Study that related to the issue of global and local feedback.

Post for Tuesday, February 28:

For Claudia, Kye, Upendo, Fang, and Rocky:  What are your experiences teaching with and/or using Wikis or Google Docs?  What do you think are their advantages or disadvantages?  How does this study relate to the two studies we read of face-to-face collaborative writing?  What are some of the more significant similarities and differences?

For our experimental online collaborative/cooperative writing pair, Amanda and Carrie: =  What do you think are their advantages or disadvantages of using wikis or google docs for writing or teaching writing?  How does this study relate to the two studies we read of face-to-face collaborative writing?  What are some of the more significant similarities and differences?                      

 

For Thursday, Feb 23:  Read Hyland, Chapter 6, and use the first page of yesterday's worksheet (items 3-7) to analyze your assigned study in your next blog entry.  (Amanda, please use the second page of the handout to propose a new empirical study based on Truscott's synthesis).  Thanks!