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Course meets M, W, F 12:00-12:50pm BCH 308 || media type="custom" key="12120142" ||

=**Course Meetings**=

01/23 | 01/25 | 01/27 | 01/30 | 02/01 | 02/03 | 02/06 | 02/08 | 02/10 | 02/13 | 02/15 | 02/17 | 02/20 | 02/22 | 02/24 | 02/27 | 02/29 | 03/02 | 03/05 | 03/07| 03/9 | Spring Break | 03/19 | 03/21 | 03/23 | 03/26 | 03/28 | 03/30 | 04/02 | 04/04 | 04/06 | 04/09 | 04/11 | 04/13 | 04/16 | 04/18 | 04/20 | 04/23 | 04/25 | 04/27 | 04/30 | 05/02 | 05/04 | 05/06 | Finals week |

 Class policies/Routines Syllabus/Assignment || Join the wiki Meet in MCHS 3234 for course tools practice ||  || For M 1/30 Finish wiki personal page Take multiple intelligences survey Read explanation Make a new page, write a reaction, link to your personal page: what do you think of the results? || Former students share their experiences and projects || For M 1/30 Finish wiki personal page Take multiple intelligences survey Read explanation Make a new page, write a reaction, link to your personal page: what do you think of the results? || Groupwork: represent results of Multiple Intelligences survey in different ways || For M 2/6, identify a person in your major (or the field you think you //might// major in), and arrange to interview that person about what kinds of writing s/he does. Here are some steps to help you: Summarize the answers to your questions on a new page linked to your personal page. Then write a reaction: What did you learn? What surprised you? What does this make you think about your own career plans? ||
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 * M 01/23 || //Setting Expectations//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 01/25 || //Introductions/Course tools//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 01/27 || Voices from the past
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 * M 01/30 || //Learning styles//
 * The person might be a professor, a professional, or even an upperclassman (preferably a senior).
 * You should first compose a professional email or verbal request asking if and when you can do the interview (the person may agree to meet in person or want to answer your questions via email).
 * Here are some questions you must ask about this person's writing:
 * What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job?
 * Please tell me about the kind of writing you do on an average day.
 * For what purposes do you write?
 * For what audiences do you write?
 * What do you get out of the writing you do?
 * You can also ask additional questions if you wish!
 * Make sure to take notes or save the answers you get from your interview.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 02/01 || //Intro to rhetorical analysis//

Purpose Audience Genre Engagement || For M 2/6, identify a person in your major (or the field you think you //might// major in), and arrange to interview that person about what kinds of writing s/he does. Here are some steps to help you: Summarize the answers to your questions on a new page linked to your personal page. Then write a reaction: What did you learn? What surprised you? What does this make you think about your own career plans? ||
 * The person might be a professor, a professional, or even an upperclassman (preferably a senior).
 * You should first compose a professional email or verbal request asking if and when you can do the interview (the person may agree to meet in person or want to answer your questions via email).
 * Here are some questions you must ask about this person's writing:
 * What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job?
 * Please tell me about the kind of writing you do on an average day.
 * For what purposes do you write?
 * For what audiences do you write?
 * What do you get out of the writing you do?
 * You can also ask additional questions if you wish!
 * Make sure to take notes or save the answers you get from your interview.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 02/03 || //Intro to Multigenre//

[|One mode, multiple genres]

Multigenre Research Video || For M 2/6, identify a person in your major (or the field you think you //might// major in), and arrange to interview that person about what kinds of writing s/he does. Here are some steps to help you: Summarize the answers to your questions on a new page linked to your personal page. Then write a reaction: What did you learn? What surprised you? What does this make you think about your own career plans? ||
 * The person might be a professor, a professional, or even an upperclassman (preferably a senior).
 * You should first compose a professional email or verbal request asking if and when you can do the interview (the person may agree to meet in person or want to answer your questions via email).
 * Here are some questions you must ask about this person's writing:
 * What kinds of writing do you do in your field/job?
 * Please tell me about the kind of writing you do on an average day.
 * For what purposes do you write?
 * For what audiences do you write?
 * What do you get out of the writing you do?
 * You can also ask additional questions if you wish!
 * Make sure to take notes or save the answers you get from your interview.
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 * M 02/06 || //Writing in the disciplines//

Groupwork: Share your answers from the interviews. What similarities/differences do you find? What accounts for these similarities/differences? || Reread multigenre assignment: What Topics, Genres, Audience(s), and Purpose(s) are you interested in pursuing? Answer "topic talk" questions for two possible topics and post your answers in a new page linked to your personal page. (**Note**: You can download and fill out these worksheets, then copy and paste your answers into a wiki page) Please come prepared to discuss this work in class. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 02/08 || //Brainstorm Topics//

Group brainstorming Whole-class discussion || For next class, read sample multigenre project and fill out __W__riting __A__nalysis __S__trategy II & III questions: Post your responses on a new page linked to your personal page.

Topic proposals due Friday 2/10: What topic have you settled on, and why? For what audience(s) and purpose(s) might you design this project? What sources might you draw on? What genres might you use to represent your work? Post your responses on a new page linked to your personal page. || Discuss sample project and WAS sheets || For next class, [|choose a sample multigenre project] and fill out __W__riting __A__nalysis __S__trategy II & III questions: Post your responses on a new page linked to your personal page. || Groupwork: Using our class rubric, what grade would you assign to the sample project and why?
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 02/10 || //Sample Multigenre Project//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 02/13 || //Sample Multigenre Project//

Process journal Sample FQI sheets Research Resources || Meet in Bakeless Lab 205 for research presentation 1. || Using available resources || Begin your process journal on a new page linked to your personal page. Meet in library for research presentation 2 ||  Identifying reliable sources
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 * W 02/15 || Library research presentation 1:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 02/17 || //References//

Quoting, paraphrasing, and citing sources Making a Works Cited page Library research || Find 1 example of each of these 2 genres for next class: --Professional journal article from your major (for example, in my field of English Education, I might choose an article from //English Journal//) --Diary entry Make a new page, post your examples, link to your personal page, and bring your examples to class. || Group: deriving characteristics and criteria for genres || Meet in library for research/conferences Update process journal || At least 2 FQI sheets due by end of class || Find 1 example of each of these 2 genres for next class: --Slideshow used by a professional in your field (for example, I might ask for one from a high school English teacher) --Magazine ad Derive characteristics/criteria for each genre; Make a new page, post your examples and characteristics/criteria; link to your personal page; and bring examples and characteristics/criteria to class. || Group: deriving characteristics and criteria for genres || Meet in library for research/conferences Update process journal || At least 2 FQI sheets due by end of class || For your professional genre: find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; come prepared to discuss during 2/29 class.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 02/20 || //Genre practice//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 02/22 || //Research/Conferences//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 02/24 || //Genre practice//
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 02/27 || //Research/Conferences//

Also: Choose 1 genre from your FAQ-I sheets; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; Use the models and the characteristics/criteria you derived to try to make yours as good as you possibly can without help. post and link to your personal page and be sure to bring models, characteristics/criteria, and 3 copies of your draft to class. due 2/29. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 02/29 || //Peer review practice// || Meet in library for research conferences

Prepare for peer review: For your professional genre, draft a problem statement/literature review:
 * For each of your sources, write a summary (what do they argue) and evaluation (what gaps are left?)
 * Decide in what order to arrange your sources--how will they lead in to each other and build toward a point?
 * What is the problem or question you'll pose in your professional genre?

Also: develop the other genre you've been working on in the last week. Use the models and the characteristics/criteria you derived to try to make yours as good as you possibly can without help. post and link to your personal page and be sure to bring models, characteristics/criteria, and 3 copies of your draft to class. due 3/5 ||  At least 10 FQI sheets due by end of class || Prepare for peer review: For your professional genre, draft a problem statement/literature review:
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 03/02 || //Research/Conferences//
 * For each of your sources, write a summary (what do they argue) and evaluation (what gaps are left?)
 * Decide in what order to arrange your sources--how will they lead in to each other and build toward a point?
 * What is the problem or question you'll pose in your professional genre?

Also: develop the other genre you've been working on in the last week. Use the models and the characteristics/criteria you derived to try to make yours as good as you possibly can without help. post and link to your personal page and be sure to bring models, characteristics/criteria, and 3 copies of your draft to class. due 3/5 ||  Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 03/05 || //Peer review Genre 1// || Revise Genre 1

After Spring Break, we'll start Literature Circles! For this book club, you and your group members must choose a book you want to read together. In preparation for this, please post your suggestion of a book you'd like to read to the discussion forum at the top of this page.

Interested in reading more about Literature Circles? Click [|here] || 
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 03/07 || Discuss peer review process

Smart moves from Genre 1 || Revise Genre 1 Update process journal

After Spring Break, we'll start Literature Circles! For this book club, you and your group members must choose a book you want to read together. In preparation for this, please post your suggestion of a book you'd like to read to the discussion forum at the top of this page.

Interested in reading more about Literature Circles? Click [|here] ||


 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 03/09 || //Intro to Literature Circles//

Intro to Literature Circles

Choose Lit Circles books || Buy Literature Circles books for 3/19 Group 1: Ryan, Kim, Tim, Lexi - [|The Blind Side] Group 2: Ally, Mike, Brandon, Matt Sok. - [|It's Not About the Bike] Group 3: Tamim, Meghan, Rimana, Tabetha - [|The Vow] Group 4: Cody, Cody, Maria, Luis - [|Crank] Group 5: Matt B, Matt C, Paul, DeShea - [|The Blind Side] Group 6: Mahi, Sam, Matt Sul., Zach - [|A Treasury of American Scandals]

Due 3/19 For your professional genre: Decide what your response to the problem will be. Will you: Find models for this section of your professional genre (often called "method" or "theoretical framework") Draft your own version of this section. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * Propose a new way of understanding or evaluating the problem?
 * Propose and carry out some kind of intervention (e.g., a survey or observation)?

Also: Choose 1 genre from your FAQI sheets; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * Spring Break! || Spring Break! || Buy Literature Circles books for 3/19

Due 3/19 For your professional genre: Decide what your response to the problem will be. Will you: Find models for this section of your professional genre (often called "method" or "theoretical framework") Draft your own version of this section. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * Propose a new way of understanding or evaluating the problem?
 * Propose and carry out some kind of intervention (e.g., a survey or observation)?

Also: Choose 1 genre from your FAQI sheets; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. ||


 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 03/19 || Peer review Genre 2

Literature Circles meet to set schedule || Revise Genre 2 Update process journal

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 1 on 3/23

For 3/26: For your professional genre: What are the results/implications of your response to the problem? How might they change the way people think about this issue/event? This is your chance to "talk back" to the sources in your literature review. Use your models & characteristics/criteria to draft this section of your professional genre. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.

Also, compose Genre 3 find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 03/21 || Smart moves from Genre 2 || Revise Genre 2

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 1 on 3/23

For 3/26: For your professional genre: What are the results/implications of your response to the problem? How might they change the way people think about this issue/event? This is your chance to "talk back" to the sources in your literature review. Use your models & characteristics/criteria to draft this section of your professional genre. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.

Also, compose Genre 3 find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || For your professional genre: What are the results/implications of your response to the problem? How might they change the way people think about this issue/event? This is your chance to "talk back" to the sources in your literature review. Use your models & characteristics/criteria to draft this section of your professional genre. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 03/23 || //Literature Circles pt.1// || For 3/26:

Also, compose Genre 3 find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 03/26 || //Peer review Genre 3// || Revise Genre 3

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 2 on 3/30

Due 4/2: For your professional genre: What is the conclusion to the argument you've made in this piece? Typically, this section: Use your models & characteristics/criteria to compose a draft of this section. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * Sums up your argument
 * Sums up the implications
 * Raises new questions/issues for future research

Also: Genre 4 due 4/2; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 03/28 || //Smart moves Genre 3// || Revise Genre 3

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 2 on 3/30

Due 4/2: For your professional genre: What is the conclusion to the argument you've made in this piece? Typically, this section: Use your models & characteristics/criteria to compose a draft of this section. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * Sums up your argument
 * Sums up the implications
 * Raises new questions/issues for future research

Also: Genre 4 due 4/2; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || For your professional genre: What is the conclusion to the argument you've made in this piece? Typically, this section: Use your models & characteristics/criteria to compose a draft of this section. Post to a new page linked to your personal page.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 03/30 || //Lit Circles pt. 2// || Due 4/2:
 * Sums up your argument
 * Sums up the implications
 * Raises new questions/issues for future research

Also: Genre 4 due 4/2; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 04/02 || //Peer review Genre 4// || Revise Genre 4

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 3 on 4/6

Now that you've finished about half of your project, reflect on how you might synthesize your genres using a repetend or linking mechanism, and how you might "package" your project; post this brief reflection on a new page, link to your personal page, and come prepared to discuss on 4/4

Due 4/9: For your professional genre: You've now drafted all the sections of your professional genre; go back and put them together, making revisions based on your models & C/C, as well as what you've learned. It's typical to find that your argument has changed and you need to change your problem statement. Post this complete draft to your wiki personal page.

Also: Genre 5 due 4/9; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 04/04 || //Smart moves Genre 4//

Discuss packaging and synthesis || Revise Genre 4

Update process journal

Prepare for Lit Circles pt. 3 on 4/6

Due 4/9: For your professional genre: You've now drafted all the sections of your professional genre; go back and put them together, making revisions based on your models & C/C, as well as what you've learned. It's typical to find that your argument has changed and you need to change your problem statement. Post this complete draft to your wiki personal page.

Also: Genre 5 due 4/9; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || For your professional genre: You've now drafted all the sections of your professional genre; go back and put them together, making revisions based on your models & C/C, as well as what you've learned. It's typical to find that your argument has changed and you need to change your problem statement. Post this complete draft to your wiki personal page.
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 04/06 || //Lit Circles pt. 3// || Due 4/9:

Also: Genre 5 due 4/9; find at least 3 examples; derive characteristics and criteria; compose draft of that genre for your project; post and link to personal page bring 3 copies to class. || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 04/09 || //Peer review Genre 5// || Revise Genre 5

Prepare for Literature Circles pt. 4 on 4/13

How will you present to our class? What will you be looking for as you watch presentations? As you read other projects? Post to new page, link to personal page, come prepared to discuss || Update process journal
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 04/11 || //Smart moves Genre 5// || Revise Genre 5

Prepare for Literature Circles pt. 4 on 4/13

How will you present to our class? What will you be looking for as you watch presentations? As you read other projects? Post to new page, link to personal page, come prepared to discuss || Post to new page linked to your personal page
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 04/13 || //Literature Circles pt. 4// || Prepare portfolio synthesis for peer review 4/16

Prepare for gallery walk 4/18

Projects due 4/20 || 
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * M 04/16 || //Peer review: Portfolio synthesis// || Prepare for gallery walk 4/18

Prepare for presentations 4/20

Projects due 4/20 || 
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * W 04/18 || Gallery walk || Prepare for presentations

Projects due 4/20

Meet in MCHS 3234 on 4/20 (Note: on Friday, we'll be working on making your projects available to people outside our class through BOLT. In case you need to upload them separately, please bring with you electronic copies of all of your genres. I recommend that you bring your work on a laptop or a flashdrive).

Info to be entered in the "Description" field in BOLT when you're uploading stuff for your portfolio:

WHAT: I chose a topic to research for the semester. For a particular purpose and audience, I composed seven different genres on this topic and linked these genres together into a coherent whole (for example, my project on ­­­­­_ included a ___,__ _, and ___; these were packaged with other genres as a__ _).

HOW: After introduction to the project and to rhetorical analysis, we chose topics and did library research. Then we composed and peer reviewed one genre/week for five weeks. For each genre, I found three models (e.g., three journal articles, three brochures) and used these to derive characteristics (what must be included in this genre?) and criteria (what makes a good one?) before creating my own. Peers and my instructor reviewed drafts of each genre. I also gave a 10-minute presentation on my topic at end of semester, adapting my project for the class audience and time constraint.

WHY: Researching and presenting a topic via multiple genres provides different perspectives on that topic, and thus a richer understanding. This process also requires students to think about which genres are appropriate for their purpose/audience and shows them the affordances and constraints of different genres. The analysis and imitation of models for each genre as a step to composing their own helps prepare students as writers to use the same process when faced with other professional/disciplinary writing tasks their instructor cannot anticipate. ||
 * **Date** (back to top) || **Lesson** || **Assignment** ||
 * F 04/20 || Meet in MCHS 3234

Upload portfolio links/artifacts to BOLT

Info to be entered in the "Description" field in BOLT when you're uploading stuff for your portfolio:

WHAT: I chose a topic to research for the semester. For a particular purpose and audience, I composed seven different genres on this topic and linked these genres together into a coherent whole (for example, my project on ­­­­­_ included a ___,__ _, and ___; these were packaged with other genres as a__ _).

HOW: After introduction to the project and to rhetorical analysis, we chose topics and did library research. Then we composed and peer reviewed one genre/week for five weeks. For each genre, I found three models (e.g., three journal articles, three brochures) and used these to derive characteristics (what must be included in this genre?) and criteria (what makes a good one?) before creating my own. Peers and my instructor reviewed drafts of each genre. I also gave a 10-minute presentation on my topic at end of semester, adapting my project for the class audience and time constraint.

WHY: Researching and presenting a topic via multiple genres provides different perspectives on that topic, and thus a richer understanding. This process also requires students to think about which genres are appropriate for their purpose/audience and shows them the affordances and constraints of different genres. The analysis and imitation of models for each genre as a step to composing their own helps prepare students as writers to use the same process when faced with other professional/disciplinary writing tasks their instructor cannot anticipate. || Prepare for presentations; Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Use your process journal and the stages of your project saved on your personal page as you reflect on what you've learned: --about your topic? what surprised you? --about writing? what steps of this process were especially difficult or rewarding for you? --about your major? do you see yourself using multiple genres in your future career? why or why not? Please post your reflection at the top of your personal page. || Course evals || Have a great spring! Keep in touch! ||
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 * M 04/23 || //Presentations// || Prepare for presentations;
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 * W 04/25 || //Presentations// || Prepare for presentations;
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 * F 04/27 || //Presentations// || Prepare for presentations;
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 * M 04/30 || //Presentations// || Prepare for presentations;
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 * W 05/02 || //Presentations// || Prepare for presentations;
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 * F 05/04 || //Presentations//


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 * Finals week || //Saying goodbye// || Have a great spring! Keep in touch! ||