A couple people have asked for more details on the “Are Texts That Display Differently Different Texts?” project for weeks 8 and 9, which is one option for your persuasive essay: http://composing.org/wrd104sq2016/persuasive-essay-a-researched-argument/.
Here’s what I’m thinking, and we can make adjustments along the way, based on our conversations and shared interests:
For the purposes of this project, we will need to engage the text as mindful readers —
http://composing.org/wrd104sq2016/dialogic-reading-journals/
We will need to have a shared vocabulary in terms of reading experience and reading issues: 
Reading experience: this is the phenomenological part — what is your experience reading the article in print? Are you interested in the topic? Do you have any prior awareness of it? Did you read straight through, without stopping, or did you pause along the way to think about lunch, or to check your phone, or to daydream about summer, or to look up a word, or to take a nap, or to worry about something that’s still bugging you from high school? “Reading experience” refers to your real, actual genuine experience reading the article. Most of us read in fits and starts — capturing your reading experience includes trying to document your focus, persistence, curiosity, and those fits and starts.
Reading issues: what device issues did you encounter? Was it smooth reading, or were there obstacles? Was there something you wanted to be able to do — annotate, highlight, look up a definition, save, recall, ask a question, share — that you could not, or where you encountered an obstacle?
On Sunday, I’ll choose a NYT article for us, crossing my fingers that we’ll have something with plenty of text, links, images, and animations, and then over the next couple of weeks, we’ll write:
Reading in print: 200 +/- words reading-process description
- Reading experience:
- Reading issues:
Reading via PDF: 200 words +/- reading-process description
- Reading experience:
- Reading issues:
Reading on your phone: 200 words +/- reading-process description
- Reading experience:
- Reading issues:
Reading on your laptop or desktop: 200 words +/- reading-process description
- Reading experience:
- Reading issues:
Conclusion: “Are Texts That Display Differently Different Texts? The Role of the Device in the Making of Meaning.” 200 words.
Let me know if you have any questions or ideas!