Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• Intersections: Situations & Genres Due Dates and Workshop

  • Mindmapping the project​

  • Drafting Genre #1?

  • Discover Logs 7 & 8

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Demonstrate your ability to analyze different rhetorical situations (in academic, workplace, or civic contexts)

• Demonstrate control of situation-appropriate conventions of writing

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 examine processes they use to think and write in a variety of disciplines and contexts

Key Terms

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

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

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Warm Up

Why did you pick the audiences you have included in Discovery Log #7? How do they benefit your advocacy? What goal or action can you attempt to accomplish through your genre?

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Intersections: Situations & Genres Due Dates Discussion & Workshop

Let's look at the calendar and plan some due dates

3 Genres Drafts

Peer Review Sessions

Research

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Discovery Logs 7 & 8

This week, we will have two discovery logs due on Sunday! Today you will get a head start on Discovery Log #8

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Workshop

For the remainder of class, work on one of the following:

1. Discovery Log 7 & 8

2. Mind Mapping - should be completed before you begin drafting your genres.

3. Discovery Log #9

Next week's discovery log will follow the conversation you cite in Discovery Log 8 - Find a source cited in the scholarly source you chose. In your scholarly source, find quotations from another source. How is your DL #8 using the other source? What does it say?

Take notes from the new source, connecting it to the first source.

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What is a Scholarly Source?

Evaluating Online Sources

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Homework

Read:

Evaluating Online Sources - Watch video and read

Bickmore's "GENRE in the WILD" - "The Genre Does Not Stand Alone: Genre Sets and Systems"

Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 2.1: Writing Represents the World, Events, Ideas, and Feelings

Framework for Information Literacy - Information Creation as a Process

 

Write:

Discovery Logs 7 & 8 due Sunday at midnight

Begin thinking about Genre #1 - what kind of audience will you be addressing. What types of writing do they see/encounter/pay attention to? What can YOU create to reach that audience?

-Ask questions about this now, don't wait until the day before a due date or deadline.

Reading Response 8 is due Sunday @ midnight

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