Independent Study - TASK 13

For 13C students...

The following comprises TASK THIRTEEN. It needs to be completed by Monday 30th January.

• Go to the collaborative writing site - Writeboard - and follow the instructions to set up your own personal writeboard account.

• Paste your full Independent Study title and first paragraph onto your writeboard.

• Save your writeboard.

• Invite Macguffin and your 'Study Buddy' to collaborate to your writeboard. The latter was decided in the last lesson and was based on two key criteria - that you were researching similar areas and that you felt you could work well with each other, trusting that you would provide mutual support. (Shabaaz, Roohdip and Harbinder - who missed the lesson - will make up a 'Study Buddy' threesome).
  

• When you receive your email invitation from your 'Study Buddy' you must help them to re-draft their introduction by editing their writeboard page (whose link they will have also sent you). Make changes to spelling, punctuation, grammar, sentence construction/expression, etc. Also, add anything that you think is missing and make suggestions about what else (quotes, references, elaboration, etc.) that needs to be included [do the latter in square brackets like these].

• Click 'save as the newest version'.

• Click 'send via email' to your 'Study Buddy'.

• When you receive your new version from your 'Study Buddy' go to your writeboard page and compare your version with the updated one using the compare tool. Make changes to the updated version based on your 'Study Buddy's' suggestions but remember that you don't have to follow everything they say (they may actually be wrong themselves!) Use each change/comment as a prompt to help you think about how your work could be improved.

• Click 'save as the newest version' when you're happy with the results and send to your 'Study Buddy'. Then you should have a much improved introduction to start off your essay and as this is one of the crucial aspects of any piece of writing, you should end up producing something much better when you complete your 3000 words (see TASK FOURTEEN).
  

This is the first of many more collaborations that you'll be embarking on with your 'Study Buddy' so make a positive start by meeting the deadlines!