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= media type="custom" key="11601154" = = **AFRS129: AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERARY CLASSICS @ Fresno State** =

**Welcome to AFRS 129!**
**"work hard, play hard"** Home2-Grading for wiki


 * "I'm for the truth, no matter who tells it.**
 * I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against." --Malcolm X**

We will use this wiki to post both individual and collaborative writing throughout the semester. This course will be both reading and writing intensive, AND I hope it turns out to be one of the most rewarding and memorable courses of your college career! My personal goal is for you to remember this class five years from now, ten years from now, etc.

Below I am posting some ideas from an article about success in college writing. The list they offer works well as an opener for this course, getting us started on the right foot. These notes come from the article, "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," put together by the National Writing Project. They believe that for students to succeed in college writing, they need to develop the following "habits of mind":


 * Curiosity: the desire to know more about the world.
 * Openness: the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.
 * Engagement: a sense of investment and involvement in learning.
 * Creativity: the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.
 * Persistence: the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.
 * Responsibility: the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.
 * Flexibility: the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.
 * Metacognition: the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.

We will also form writing groups to workshop drafts of your papers in groups of five. (We will use class time for this, but you can also use wiki pages in your writing groups later in the semester.) You will stay with the same four people (5 including you) throughout the semester, and your work in that group will continually improve your writing through feedback and revision. It's a huge gift to have multiple readers for your writing, and it will help us make huge progress by the end of term.

If you don't believe it yet, just trust me! One more time - __welcome to AFRS129__.