The basic format of Project 2 mirrors Project 1. The activities in Project 2 are designed to revisit a number of the skills introduced and practiced in Project 1 and deepen the development of those practices while introducing new skills. The structure of Project 1 asked you to explore how literacy impacted you. The structure of Project 2 is framed by the question: How does this discourse community use writing to communicate? Through the tasks and their attached assignments, you will select a discourse community to explore and begin to examine their texts in order to answer the question with the goal of informing your reader.

Reading, annotating, and summarizing are revisited and developed through practice with popular, or public, sources and with scholarly, peer-reviewed articles. The outlining process is expanded to include collaboration and gridding. Research skills are introduced in the form of gathering textual evidence related to a discourse community of choice.

Because the inclusion of sources is required in Project 2, content related to the attribution and integration of source material in MLA is included. Self Review is revisited, and Peer Review is added to the revision process. Project 2 also includes opportunities for reflection throughout the tasks and after submission and for self-directed learning based on the new skills. Activities connected to each task will allow for collaboration and feedback.