Lamar Critical Editions HNRS 1302.60: Honors Composition & Rhetoric II
"Universities
that want a rich undergraduate experience should look carefully at the
possibilities of first-year composition as the place where expectations are set
and appropriate habits of mind are taught." (Downs and Wardle, 2010, 182)
Welcome class!
I have created this guide to help your teams through the process of creating your own Lamar Critical Edition website. This section of my website will serve as a source of information and guidance for you during the process while also introducing you to Weebly, the website hosting service we will be using. The project is essentially to work as a team to create a critical edition website of a work or group of works of literature. For this project, each individual is responsible for conducting multiple types of research and for writing pieces in multiple genres. As a team, you will put those pieces together into a complete project called a Lamar Critical Edition. See the "Tasks & Timeline" and "End-of-Project Review" pages for more information about the grading process.
This project, a form of undergraduate research, is designed to help you learn several important skills and habits that are markers of successful undergraduate education.
First, you will practice scholarly habits of mind by pursuing your own research questions formed through careful research into the contexts and the critical conversation surrounding your text(s), a research method that is useful in many academic fields and careers.
Second, you will gain experience reading and using difficult scholarly texts, learning how to actively read with attention to the rhetorical situation of the author and how to demonstrate deep understanding of sources through summary-writing.
Third, you will practice writing aimed at a specific and real audience, which has specific purposes from which the genres in which you will write emerge organically.
Fourth, you will come to see yourselves as producers of knowledge rather than recipients of knowledge from "experts." As you formulate original arguments based on genuine research, you will come to see yourselves as having authority and as making a genuine contribution to the academic discourse and learning community of Lamar University.
Finally, even though much of your work will be completed as an individual, you will learn to handle the challenges of a team project and practice effective methods for predicting, preventing, and resolving conflicts, as well as understand your own "team personality" better.
© Amy C. Smith 2013
Welcome class!
I have created this guide to help your teams through the process of creating your own Lamar Critical Edition website. This section of my website will serve as a source of information and guidance for you during the process while also introducing you to Weebly, the website hosting service we will be using. The project is essentially to work as a team to create a critical edition website of a work or group of works of literature. For this project, each individual is responsible for conducting multiple types of research and for writing pieces in multiple genres. As a team, you will put those pieces together into a complete project called a Lamar Critical Edition. See the "Tasks & Timeline" and "End-of-Project Review" pages for more information about the grading process.
This project, a form of undergraduate research, is designed to help you learn several important skills and habits that are markers of successful undergraduate education.
First, you will practice scholarly habits of mind by pursuing your own research questions formed through careful research into the contexts and the critical conversation surrounding your text(s), a research method that is useful in many academic fields and careers.
Second, you will gain experience reading and using difficult scholarly texts, learning how to actively read with attention to the rhetorical situation of the author and how to demonstrate deep understanding of sources through summary-writing.
Third, you will practice writing aimed at a specific and real audience, which has specific purposes from which the genres in which you will write emerge organically.
Fourth, you will come to see yourselves as producers of knowledge rather than recipients of knowledge from "experts." As you formulate original arguments based on genuine research, you will come to see yourselves as having authority and as making a genuine contribution to the academic discourse and learning community of Lamar University.
Finally, even though much of your work will be completed as an individual, you will learn to handle the challenges of a team project and practice effective methods for predicting, preventing, and resolving conflicts, as well as understand your own "team personality" better.
© Amy C. Smith 2013
