Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• First Year Symposium Workshop

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Demonstrate your ability to use your analyses of rhetorical situations to identify options and to make appropriate choices that will enable you to use writing to achieve specific purposes

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

Habits of Mind

• Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to act upon the new knowledge that they have discovered

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to engage and incorporate the ideas of others, giving credit to those ideas by using appropriate attribution.

Key Terms

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

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

• Genre and genre conventions

• Research as Learning/Information Literacy

​

Warm Up

Today for your Warm Up, I want you to engage in a bit of reflection on the process of developing your First Year Symposium project. Consider the following questions in using writing to reflect and respond:

1. This is a structured assignment - describe how the constraints of the assignment has impacted your ability to create your project. Have you felt limited? Has it been easier to complete because you have explicit instructions?

2. Describe your experiences working with your group. 

3. In what ways has the work we have done for class (both in class and in your homework) helped prepare you for completing your First Year Symposium project?

4. How have you managed your workload for drafting your FYS project?​

 

First Year Symposium Time Sign-Up

Professor Hartman is here to help facilitate signing up for time slots for the Symposium itself on November 30.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q9NjNmfRUx5NIHsCNH-7V9YPRxl7IjBld31Jf3wkZwc/edit?usp=sharing

​

FINAL PORTFOLIO RO

​

First Year Symposium Group Peer Review and Workshopping

Workshopping...

Within your groups, take a close look at each other's project components and offer a peer review for one classmate's section (make sure every person in the group is reviewed by another person). Your review should be substantive, offering actionable feedback/suggestions for improvement. Use complete sentences to respond to the following questions:

​

1. What is the writer's topic and in what way does it make a historical connection?

2. What is the point the writer is making about the topic? What evidence is used to support their point?

3. What sources does the writer cite to support their point? Are these sources reputable?

4. How does the writer transition between their section of the project and the other group members' sections? Is the transition effective? How could the transition be made better?​

5. Does the writer's work look professional? Does their organization and aesthetic complement that of other group members in the project?

​

Looking Ahead:

​

Update the Situations and Genres Spreadsheet with your plan

You should know what genres you are doing at this point. If you don't, speak with me ASAP. You can email me or come to office hours on Tuesday 12-1, or ask to meet at a different time.

​

Discovery Log #11 - due Sunday at midnight

Due on Sunday, as always. Use the template. Use this week's log to find any other information you need for your First Year Symposium project.

 

Portfolio Practice 2.3 - due Sunday at midnight

Choose a learning outcome from Composition, Seminar or History (look at your syllabi).

Follow the process steps for that outcome.

• Try to find three specific pieces of evidence for that outcome. Thoroughly explain those pieces of evidence.

• What do you need to do going forward to make sure that you are achieving this outcome?

​

First Year Symposium - presentations begin next Wednesday, 11/14

​

Genre 1& 2 for Writing & Rhetoric - Continuous work

You should be actively working on planning and drafting these alongside your work on Symposium presentation.

​

Countdown to the End:

Genre 3 (FYS) Peer Review (11/9)

Portfolio Practice 2.3 (11/11)

Genre 1 & 2 Drafting (all the time)

FYS Presentations (11/14 and 11/16)

FYS (11/30)

Genre Justifications (On-going, turn in with Final Portfolio)

Final Portfolio (12/7)

​

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

​

​

​

​