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1. The end is near!
• Blakeslee & Fleischer
• Peer review wrap-up
• A word about the final and calendar
• Evaluations

2. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• “Shifting from writing to explore to writing
to present:” Good points, but the border
between the two is leaky
• A lot of the writing advice here are things
we’ve covered already...
• “Selecting Your Audience,” “Determining
Your Purpose,” and “Considering and
Selecting a Genre” are all intertwined, IMO

3. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• I usually ask students to find an example of their
genre or info about journals where they’d ideally
publish their project
• “Choosing the right genre..depends...” And
remember, your MA project ≠your “last chance”
at research!
• Positioning yourself as an author is subtle and a
little more than “voice”
• Cool story about “student who researched Nobel
prize speeches

4. Blakeslee & Fleischer
• You want to persuade your audience with
an argument/point (or maybe that’s
obvious)
• Story telling is useful for qualitative
research, but potentially tricky ethically
• Letting it sit is indeed ideal
• (And don’t forget to be ethical
researchers!)

5. Peer Review Wrap Up!

6. The Final and Calendar
• The Final:
• Take-home
• Distributed 12/8, due 12/15 (electronically)
• 20% of the grade
• (Probably) two questions, one of which will
involve some more reading
• (Probably) a total of 2,000 words (or less)
• “Opportunity for success”

7. The Final and Calendar
• The Calendar:
• Your Project Portfolio Due by class time on 12/8
(And it needs to be the Google Doc for peer
review, too).
• Third progress report, due by class time on 12/8
• Posters and presentations in class, 12/8
• Introduce final, 12/8
• Final due (and the “end of time”), 12/15