Goals for today, Thursday, May 29.

Read a couple of articles that the Spanish as a Heritage Language scholar I talked to yesterday recommended and annotate them, so I can reply back to him about them. 

If time, return to the Methodology section I started on Tuesday. 

Assessment of Today's Goals:

I found both articles and did a close reading and annotation of one that was related and relevant to our study and will be useful to us. I started an email to my co-authors about it. Tomorrow I will read the other one and finish and send the email. I'll also be able to email the author back. 

 Goals for Wednesday, May 28:

1)Check out the journal Spanish as a Heritage Language as a possible publication place and also for articles appropriate to a review of the literature.

2)Write to a scholar who has done work in the area of SHL and language mixes in his own academic writing and ask about recent publications in those areas.

3)Continue writing the Methodology section. 

Assessment of Goals:

I accomplished the first two goals, but did not make it to the third. I got involved in responding to email that required attention and also went over the presentation for today. 

 Goals for Tuesday, May 27:

My goal is to prepare for a meeting this afternoon with my co-authors to organize who does what on our article. I will prepare tentative assignments. 

I will be assigning myself part of the review of the literature and most of the methodology, so if there is time, I will work on one of those sections, probably the methodology because it is easier to write, and I haven't finished reading or note-taking for the lit review. 

Assessment of my goals. 

I outlined the structure of our article in a hierarchy with roman numerals, ABC, 1,2,3, etc. with tentative assignments for the 3 of us. I then emailed it to my collaborators to read before the meeting along with the Zoom link.

To prepare to write my methodology sections I located and printed out two ppts we did related to our study and drafted part of a paragraph describing why we used both mixed language music and lit to prepare students for their own mixed language writing. I can continue that tomorrow. 

 Hi--I'm Carol Severino, a Rhetoric prof and Writing Center director. I am in the field of Writing Studies, especially second language writing. I also like to write creative non-fiction. I'm eager to get to know you, what dissertation topics you are working on, and what your other interests are. 

I always look forward to camp because I work well with an imposed structure that others are also following. I plan to work with my two collaborators to write up a study we did of mixed language writing and Spanish heritage learners. There is a large literature both on heritage language learners and on mixed language writing, sometimes called translingual writing or codemeshed writing. Right now I'm trying to read as much of the two bodies of lit as I can and try to map their controversies relevant to our study. 

In my free time, I like to play the drums, learn, speak, and write Italian and Spanish, read fiction and memoir, hang out with my granddaughters and my sons's families and our dogs, cook, eat outdoors, garden, and swim.