English 102-H

Fall 2009

Name
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Best way to contact you?

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(provide relevant contact info)

1. Describe some of your favorite moments as a writer (briefly). This can

include writing for school or in other contexts.

2. Least favorite moments as a writer?

3. Tell me a little about your previous experiences as a researcher. What’d

you research? What was your research question? What’d you learn? How’d
you feel about the project once it was done?

4. Have you created videos, podcasts, or photo essays, graphic narratives, or

other kinds of multimodal texts? If so, what did you create and for what
purpose/audience? what did you learn from the experience?

5. For several years, A&M-Commerce first-year students have been studying

literacy as it manifests itself among members of a particular community. This
term we will be researching language and literacy practices in Commerce,
Texas—now and over time, on campus and in the surrounding community.
This first phase of the Commerce Writes Research Project could really benefit
if a number of new researchers come in with relatively well-established
connections to this community and/or more than a passing familiarity with
this place . How familiar are you with Commerce and our campus? Do you
have family or friends with ties to this community? Perhaps they’ve lived here
before (or now) and/or attended this university themselves. Who? Are you
already a good resource for those of us hoping to understand language and
literacy practices in this local context? If you don’t think you are now, you will
be VERY soon!