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Resources for English 102 instructors include the

sample syllabus, “Instructor Guide to English 102″ (below), theoretical framework for this approach, and much more at http://faculty.tamu-commerce.edu/scarter/102_resources.htm. Also useful (I hope) are the specific activities, documents, Research Journal prompts, and other projects detailed below.

Activities/Support by Assignment:

Student Info

Info sheet from Day One Tons of other “Getting to Know You” activities available all over the place, including at the above 102_resources link but also here.

Support for WA1

WA1 Assignment Sheet (scroll to end) Generating ideas for WA1 (interview scripts, etc) Deborah Brandt images Video from Brandt’s lecture in Minneapolis, MN at WPA 2009 (Sylwester Zabielski’s “Remixing Brandt“) Other links and ideas available at Guide below.

Remember, their major research projects can emerge from any of these assignments.

Three final projects emerging from WA1–

Joyce, Hunter. “Past Panels: The Influence of Our Literacy Histories.” English 102-H. December 2009. Texas A&M-Commerce.

Bordon, Jeremy. “Like Father, Unlike Son.” English 102-H. December 2009. Texas A&M-Commerce. Here’s Jeremy presenting his final project on 12/17/09: http://vimeo.com/8672485

Pleasant, Eric. “Punk Literacy in 1980s Waco.” Young Scholars in Writing: Undergraduate Research in Writing and Rhetoric. Volume 5 (2008). Also available in Literacies in Context.

Also worth looking at are

Allie Stauffer’s “L173R4CY” (A study in the perceived differences between high schoolers who identify as “math” people and those who identify as English people. Differences described by students at Commerce High School), Ashley Moses’s “Are You Right Handed or Left Handed?” (Investigation of patterns of life experiences leading to left-hand or right-hand dominance, with particular attention paid to experiences the researcher

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