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.  

 Week 1 - Overall Goals: Get the faculty review, a letter of rec, and dept self study done

05/28-05/31 Daily Goals

                                       Goals                                               Progress Report & Reflection

Tuesday      Outline of Review, maybe first para?           Wrote a draft of the whole review. 

Wednesday   Review needs more examples.              Inserted examples, finished it, and sent it off!

Will look at all my docs to find & insert them.

Thursday  Revise/update a letter of rec.                    Finished and sent it!

Friday  Continue revising department self-               I edited the first 10 pages of this 21-page

study. Begin assembling proper appendices.              doc. Determined appendices.  

                                                                                

                                                                 

                                                                                       

Reflection on the week:  I had to spend this week on service obligations that are due. I'm hoping to get some work done on my research study on mixed language writing next week: the curriculum for it and the IRB application. I won't get the teacher's syllabus for Latino Lit for the IRB application though until June 15, so I won't be submitting the application during camp. I could make some progress on it during camp, especially since I may be submitting it for another conference. 

Week 2 - Overall Goals: Try to wrap up the self-study, at least do everything I can do on it and then send it to my chair. That way, I can at least spend a day or two on my IRB application.

06/03-06/07 Daily Goals

                                     Goals                                                            Progress Report & Reflection

Monday         Continue editing Self-study.                            Clarified requirements with the

                                                                                                 College. Sent it to my chair to edit.  

                                                                                                 She did and sent it back. 

                                                                                                 Started assembling files to merge.

                                                                                                           . 

Tuesday   Continue assembling files to merge.    Submitted the Dept Self-Study to the College!   

                                                                               Read an article related to my research!    

Wednesday Look at what I did a month ago           Worked on IRB ap & proposal for AAAL. 

on the IRB site for my mixed language study          Had trouble saving on IRB ap. They said it was

in a Latino Lit class.                                                  a problem with VPN. It was driving me nuts.

Thursday

Continue IRB ap & AAAL proposal.        Revised the AAAL proposal, got feedback from the head 

                                                                  of our colloquium group, and revised again. No time to 

                                                                  work on IRB. 

Friday

Work on IRB proposal. 

End-of-camp reflection:

Next steps:

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 and speak Italian, read fiction and memoir, hang out with my granddaughters and my sons's families and our dogs, cook, eat outdoors, garden, and swim.  

 June 10 Last Day of Camp

I wrote 1700 words toward an essay about the indoor pool as an unnatural place and experience and contrasted it with the Lake as a possibly more natural place.  It's a little clunky and too long, so I'll print it off and read it aloud today to edit it. 

To prepare for the interview of  one of President Wilson's PR guys on Tuesday, I will write up questions for him. 

I will respond to one of my previous interviewees, David Hamilton, Professor Emeritus in English, who wrote back to me after I asked him if he remembered the Ryan Report of 1979. He didn't. He's one of the few faculty still alive who can remember something about the period I'm studying-- 1979 to 1984--and one of the few UI faculty members who was not only interested in Writing across the Curriculum, but taught a WAC course called Writing for Biologists and published articles about it, and conducted WAC workshops at the University of Southern Alabama. 

 June 9 

Goals for today:

I am switching back to creative writing to write an essay on an unnatural place--that is, the places where most of us spend most of our time (unless we are forest rangers): e.g., climate controlled buildings like EPB where the windows don't even open, which means they are too hot in the winter and require employees to bring fans, and too cold in the summer requiring us to bundle up in sweaters and hoodies.  I'm going to write about the indoor pool where I swim and maybe contrast it with where I want to swim once I develop enough stamina--with the I-Cows at Lake McBride. Let's face it: swimming laps in a chlorinated pool is a highly unnatural experience. 

 June 8 

Today's goal: To continue working on organizing docs for a time line.

For the third WAC moment, I am still organizing all the emails and documents into a timeline from Feb 2020 until August 2021 for a time line. I'm realizing that were the following key events from my point of view: 

 1) The acceptance by CLAS of 5 Writing University pre-proposals of very different proposals and proposers, tasked by CLAS to work together on a Mega-proposal for the P3; 

2) The formation of an Obermann Writing University working group composed of the 5 proposing teams to put together that megaproposal; 

3) The surprise of finding out another parallel committee was tasked by the Provost with the same writing/communication mission as ours: the Writing and Communications Committee 

4) Getting myself and other Rhetoric people on that committee; repurposing the Obermann Working Group to focus only on Teaching with Writing across the Curriculum, finding out about Minnesota's program, etc.

5) The second surprise of finding out that there was no source of funding from the Provost's Office for that Writing and Communication committee's proposals and that the only funding available was P3 funding;

6) Working with Rhetoric faculty and CLAS and the rest of the Writing and Communications Committee to put together the P3 proposal, believing what they told us that anything we put together would be accepted.

7) Finding out that the P3 Writing and Communication Proposal was rejected but not finding out why, except that it was rushed and didn't have enough metrics for measuring success.