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Wiki due dates & topics
=Welcome to AFRS104W: Writing About American Inequality= ==We will use this wiki to post writing throughout the semester in order to share ideas and styles. I will post the writing question for each wiki posting during the week assigned, and for most postings we will start them in class. Each wiki post should be 150-200 words, and you must post within a week of the date listed on the syllabus. Please do NOT procrastinate. Below I am posting some ideas from an article about success in college writing, and the list they offer works well as an opener for our course to start thinking about the layers of writing and writing as a process. These notes come from the article, "Framework for Success in Postsecondary Writing," put together by the National Writing Project. They suggest that for students to succeed in college writing, they need to develop the following "habits of mind":==


 * ==Curiosity: the desire to know more about the world.==
 * ==Openness: the willingness to consider new ways of being and thinking in the world.==
 * ==Engagement: a sense of investment and involvement in learning.==
 * ==Creativity: the ability to use novel approaches for generating, investigating, and representing ideas.==
 * ==Persistence: the ability to sustain interest in and attention to short- and long-term projects.==
 * ==Responsibility: the ability to take ownership of one’s actions and understand the consequences of those actions for oneself and others.==
 * ==Flexibility: the ability to adapt to situations, expectations, or demands.==
 * ==Metacognition: the ability to reflect on one’s own thinking as well as on the individual and cultural processes used to structure knowledge.==