Brainstorming for Project 2

We spent today's class studying the video you will use as your focus for Project 2. We read the assignment sheet and the essay the student brought to the writing session, and we watched two of the three segments from the writing session you will analyze.

We then brainstormed a list of ideas you might use for a focus for an essay that uses an analysis of the "action" in these videos to make a point about writing center work. These general statements were meant to give you some ideas that would help you "watch" the video for the particular interactions, conversations, or images that will support the point you want to argue in your essay.

Homework for Tuesday, November 23. By referring to the list we put on the board or by thinking through an idea of your own => state a focus you might use for your essay.

Then => do some brainstorming (similar to what the student in the video does!) to expand and develop that focus. What cause and effect relationships support your "conclusion" about the videos? What "points" would you make with respect to that focus? Which "scenes" could you use to develop those points? This brainstorming can take the form of lists, freewriting, descriptions, or other notes.

After you have done some brainstorming => write a thesis describing what your essay will show. This thesis needs to be specific (remember the difference between the thesis the writer in the video started with - and where she was going by the time she started to write).

Send this writing as an email. It is the Brainstorming assignment for Project 2 listed on the portfolio.

In class on Tuesday we will look through your Practice Analytic essays with the comments, talk about your thesis statements, and work on planning your essays. The Draft for Project 2 will be due Tuesday, November 30.