What research questions guide your study?
Why is this question important to ask?
How did this text come to look the way that it does?
Why does the text achieve some goals & not others?
How could the text be improved?
Initiating text...
writing prompt, it prompts the writer to compose another text (like the job ad, the initiating text is the assignment description)
what happens to the text?
it gets interpreted by the writer (the student); gets negotiated (we're looking for the HOW for each of these points)
How can we discover answers to these points, using the packet we have?
How does he interpret the initiating text, and how does it get negotiated?
I'd say that the first text to come after the initiating text is the rough draft. If not the rough draft, it would be whatever writing took place concerning that text before the rough draft.
The rough draft would show how the writer interpreted the initiating text, and then the responses from peers and the teacher would show how the text is negotiated.
The teacher notes most likely came before the writing prompt, but the notes are geared more toward the teacher, and not the assignment. The teacher would use his notes to start the discussions and such.
We are doing this to track the whole writing experience; if we start with the final paper, we have overlooked many important aspects that influenced what went in to the finished project.
Interpret--
Texts: assignment description (look for key words, what goals were set, what purpose was established, look for words that give emphasis); post write (to figure out what worked and what didn't; he states what his opinion was, how he interpreted it);
Interview: stimulated elicitation interviewing "prop";
Negotiate--
Texts: workshop package (peer review questions, focus us on specific moves the writer should make), teaching notes (to see what was emphasized, repeated);
- Final documents
- Post write (3 times: before, after drafts; after writing final)
- Rough draft(13.14; 17.18); peer reviews
- Free writes (21.22--job skills; 23--audience)
- Free writes
- Rough draft
- Post write 1 &2
- Final draft
- Post write 3
- Rhetorical analysis memo
Collect all the info, and put it in order. Ask the person to explain the brainstorming process; try to piece it together. Writing log--not every day, but ask them to write down everything they did writing for a particular project.
Group work: carefully analyzing the documents, p. 175-180 of Prior
- Free writes--the skills he writes about continue through the documents; he realizes that this is an important aspect of the assignment, and he begins this in a free write
- Rough draft--the skills mentioned in the free write come to play in the rd; he uses the skills that he thinks are the most important and uses them to persuade his audience
- Post write 1 &2--the skills
- Final draft--he connects skills to company needs, as opposed to just pointing to the company itself; he explains the courses by specific name, instead of alluding to them
- Post write 3
- Rhetorical analysis memo
(topics may stay the same, but examples change. what motivated you to bring examples into one cover letter that you didn't bring into your other?)
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