Instructions for Newsletter Draft Workshop #1

Posting Your Newsletter Draft

1. Complete a draft of your newsletter by Thursday, April 7.
2. Save your newsletter as a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro, which is available on the computers in the Downtown Library, bottom floor.
3. Upload the PDF version of your newsletter draft to your Google Docs site by Thursday, April 7, at 1 p.m. Be sure that you copy the web address for your document before exiting Google Docs.
4. Create a “New Page” on your English 301 blog that links to the Google Docs site where your draft is located.

Responding to Your Partner’s Draft

1. Review your partner’s draft using the peer review questions I post to our course blog (see “Peer Review Questions, Newsletter Draft Workshop #1” under the “Pages” column).
2. By Friday, April 8, at 1 p.m., post your revision suggestions to your partner’s blog. Use the “Comment” function on the Page where your partner posted his or her Newsletter draft.

Group assignments for this draft workshop:

• Team Awesome: Will Foreman, Melissa Rhodes
• Team Brilliance: Andrew Holbrook, Jocelyn Waggoner
• Team Cool: Chris Kees, Rosemarry Curfman
• Team Dynamite: Danny Kelleher, Rachel Mort
• The Force-To-Be-Reckoned-With Team: Jared Lathrop, Francesca Gaglianello
• Team Coming-On-Like Gangbusters: Joe Rinaldi (read Allison’s newsletter); Rachel Tibbs (read Joe’s newsletter); Allison Wright-George (read Rachel’s newsletter)
• The Hypnotize You With Our Brilliance Team: Peter Rondy, Bridget Feeney
• The Imposing Team: Mackenzie Mays, Andrew Strittmater
• Their Writing Brilliance Will Make Your Jaw Drop Team: Erin Fitzwilliams,  Kate Everly