ASSIGNMENT 1: For this discussion post, respond to the following prompts after reading “The Maker’s Eye” by Donald M. Murray. In this essay Murray recognizes the need to produce a first draft, no matter how messy, in order to move to the real job of writing. For him, as for almost all practicing writers, writing is revising.
Murray states that many writers consider the first draft “the zero draft-” what do you think he means by this statement?
What does Murray see as the connection between reading and writing? How does reading help the writer? What should writers be looking for in their reading?
Suggested length: 200 – 250 words
ASSIGNMENNT 2: After reading Writing Matters, Chpt 1 The Writer’s Responsibilities and and reviewing the RMU policy on Academic Integrity, respond to the following journal prompt:
Within its presentation of a writer’s responsibilities to topic, other writers, and self, WM chpt.1 includes a section on academic integrity and plagiarism. Often students (and others) think of academic dishonesty as an individual issue (i.e. cheating on a test, plagiarism on a paper), but the issue is in reality broad, and involves more than the individual.
Write a journal entry in which you:
discuss the “hidden risks” of academic dishonesty (i.e. cheating, plagiarism, unauthorized collaboration, etc.). Suggestions for inclusion:
risks to the individual
risks to the institution
risks to stake-holders like other students, teachers, employers, administrators
others? Overall risks to society?
Be sure you have addressed the prompt, that you are specific, and that your entry says something worthwhile. Journal entries are informal writing, but as with all class writing, editing counts. Be sure to proofread your entry.
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