Personal to Professional: Personal to Academic

“What’s the purpose of the personal besides being personal?”

Presenter
Lou Buran
Topic
· Moving personal writing to public writing for professionals and students
· Making use of technologically rich composition
Activity
1. Participants will start with a personal piece written on Google Docs
   

a. Write a 250-500 word quick write on technology and the writing classroom.

2. We will consider how moving this piece to a public place affects the writing process.

a. Revise quick write to be published on NCWP’s blog site

1. Create accounts with blogs

2. Cut and paste quick writes into the blogging editor

3. Save as “drafts” (personal)

4. Explain features of wysiwyg editor

i. Full screen mode

ii. Inserting media

iii. Inserting links

5. Time to work on revisions
6. Explain title, tagging, and categories
7. View blogs

i. Discuss rss feeds and how they are used

3. We will consider what skills are implemented in the development of professional and academic writing.

a. Respond to my blog on the topic of moving personal writing to professional writing

1. Use the commenting feature to respond about the process

i. What changes did you make?

ii. What did you do first?

iii. How did you know it was ready to post?

iv. What skills are required to go public with writing?

4. We will consider insights in light of student examples.

a. Read examples from my students this year.

5. We will consider teaching methods that will encourage the development of the skills necessary to develop personal writing into academic writing.

a. Respond to my blog on the topic of necessary skills for moving personal writing to academic writing

1. Use the commenting feature to respond about skills

i. What skills do my students need to have to be more academic

ii. What ways might these skills be taught

6. We will reflect on the role of technology in creating public writing opportunities for students

a. Read and comment on a blog about how blogging creates an audience for student writing

Intelligences

· Using online tools

· web browser

· Google Docs (online word processor)

· Writing blogs

· private posts

· public posts (publishing)

· Reading online writing

· subscribing to feeds

· Using comments

· creating online feedback


to do:

[ ] Write blog (in NCWP blog) about moving personal writing to professional writing

[ ] Write blog (in NCWP blog) about what skills students need in order to move personal writing to academic writing

[ ] Collect student examples and publish (privately)

[ ] Find article about how blogging provides an audience for student writing and link (NCWP page “link menu”)

[ ] Publish Agenda (in NCWP blog)

[ ] Add links to agenda