Day 14 (Thursday, October 4) Connection to Course Goals Research
and collaboration are essential skills within academic
communities (as well as within many other contexts). Connection
to Students’ Own Writing Today’s class is a CSOW smorgasbord.
Since each group (and, probably, each student within each group)
will be at a slightly different stage than the others, you’ll be
offering a number of activities for groups to choose from, all
of which are designed to help students with their research,
their annotations and/or with the collaborative explanation. In
other words, the class will engage directly in composing
processes today. Now that your students have attended library
instruction and attempted searching their topics, they will
doubtless have new questions and concerns about researching
their topics. Choose an activity that will allow you to respond
to their needs and reinforce the lessons of the library session.
Few if any of your students will have prior experience with a
large research university libra