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Writing to Explore

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Writing to Explore

timeline: 1st rough draft workshop 7 Sept.

2nd workshop 9 Sept.

3000 words by 10 Sept.

Final WTE portfolio due 21 September, before class begins. When you are finished assembling your portfolio, email the url of your portfolio to conner@mail.usf.edu. Please attached a version of the final draft element of your portfolio in one of the following file formats:

.pdf

.odt

.doc

.rtf

These blog prompts are designed to help you generate content that you can use to create a Writing to Explore piece:

***ethnography assignment

***civic engagement fair assignment

***mixmaster blog on service learning and leadership

***WTE feedback: a WTE handbook grows here. When in doubt, consult the Writing to Explore Rubric

Here is an example of one way that you can "write to explore." In this post, Travis May, working as an advocate generating research for the Spring 2009 SPB, visits Pinellas Hope. First, he composed questions, and shared them with his peers on the wiki. After garnering feedback, he was ready to explore. To turn this blog into a Writing to Explore essay, Travis really only needs to connect these images and interviews with some of his own writing: questions, thoughts, research, and other connections, presented to and designed for a specific audience.

In fact, the Spring 2009 SBP#9 produced a number of interesting ethnographies, many of them composed by writers on this very wiki, currently enrolled in ENC 4311/6319. Browse through these exploratory blogs and ethnographies for inspiration and ideas as you set out to find a specific issue, critical need, or nonprofit agency to learn more about; consult these examples again when you write up your exploration/ethnography for the wiki.

At the same time, in the MHG, check out Writing for College Scenario 1 and Writing for Life Scenario 4 (p.1 35). The purpose of our WTE exercise is to generate and explore questions, and to find quick answers to easy questions so that we can start naming the bigger, not-so-easily answered questions. We will focus our questions as large group:

How can I make a difference in the world/ in the St. Petersburg community?
How have others endeavored to make a difference in the world?
What does it mean to be a leader?
What are some of the issues affecting downtown St. Petersburg?
What are the critical needs currently capturing the attention of the local nonprofit sector?
add your questions here

And as we explore, we will become more specific with our questions and search for answers: What does it mean to be an observer of the downtown community? What are some of the problems or issues or concerns of the area? What are the local non-profit organizations and what do they do in the St. Petersburg/Tampa Bay area?