Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• Working and Workshopping

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Identify how their views of writing have changed as a result of the work they have done in the course

• Explain what you have learned from being a novice in new writing situations, and describe how these experiences, which might include failure, contribute to your willingness to accept new challenges as a writer.

• Evaluate the ways in which you have become a more reflective (mindful, self-aware, thoughtful) writer.

Habits of Mind

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize their own role in learning.

• Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to reflect on the texts that they have produced in a variety of contexts.

Key Terms

• Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

How is work on your Midterm Portfolio Reflective Overview progressing? Reflect on what this experience is showing you about the amount of work and research you have done over the semester. What do you think you need to do to be successful going forward?

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Threshold Concept Reading Discussion

Last week you should have read Threshold Concepts 4.1 and 4.4 from Naming What We Know. Let's discuss those concepts today!

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Group 1: 4.1 First two paragraphs

Group 2: 4.1 Last two paragraphs

Group 3: 4.4 First paragraph

Group 4: 4.4 Second paragraph

Group 5: 4.4 Third paragraph

Group 6: 4.4 Last paragraph

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Independent Work

Please use the remainder of class time to work on the assignments you have due this Friday.

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Other Important Links:

IA 1 - Writing to Shape History - Rubric - For your info - this is how your assignment will be assessed by the Learning Community instructors

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Portfolio Reflective Overview - This document is due this Friday at midnight. Unlike other assignments, which have been "soft" deadlines, this is a hard deadline.

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Research Proposal Template - You should have begun your research proposal at this point

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Homework

Read:

No reading homework this week - you have plenty of writing to do.

 

Write:

Research Proposal - due with Midterm Portfolio on October 12

Midterm Portfolio Reflective Overview - due on October 12

Integrated Assignment 1: Writing to Shape History - due on October 12

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