Writing Project Two: Issues in Community and Personal Identity in Academia
(Research Journal and Formal Writing/FYP Presentation Proposal)
For this project, you will be learning how to access, assess, store, and use information for a variety of purposes, such as researching to learn more about the activities of writing and participating in academic discourse communities as well as how to write a formal academic proposal for your First-Year Symposium Presentation (FYSP) and your Writing Project 3. You will also be learning more about yourself, your community, and yourself and your community in academia. The research you gather for this project will be used for Writing Project 3 and First-Year Symposium, which is a shared Learning Community N assignment. You may continue with the same community you chose for Writing Project 1 or you may choose a new community if you no longer want to use it or it doesn’t fit with the requirements for this project.
Your FYS will require students to organize themselves in groups of 4 team members. Each group must make a connection to the broader learning community themes listed below. Groups will need to select one of the themes that will inform the content for the presentation and establish a connection among each group members topic.
· Persistence and Success
· Knowledge is Power
· Power of Literacy
· Higher Education and Social Change
You will be required to choose and research an ISSUE within your community IN academia from which you will craft a Research Log, four Source Evaluations, and a Formal Conference Abstract. These components will all be in APA style, as will your Writing Project 3, where you will argue for a solution(s) for the issue you researched as well as discuss how a positive growth mindset could affect the outcomes in yourself and your community. The issue you choose must also fit in one of the broader themes listed above. For these assignments, you will want to stir up interest for your audience, inform them about the issue, give some examples of the issue in academia (you can also use your own personal examples), explain possible solutions for your issue, and finally propose which solution/combination of solutions you think is best.
When choosing a community, make sure that it is a community that will give you ample information to search for and write/present about. You don't want to choose so specific of a community that it is hardly discussed in academia at all, but you also don't want to choose one that is too broad and you get overwhelmed with the research. That also goes for the issue you choose to research and write about. You want to make sure that it is an issue where there will be ample information to search for, but you also want to make sure that it isn't too narrow.