Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• Genre 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 them to use writing to achieve specific purposes

• Evaluate the ways in which they 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

• Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to grapple with challenging ideas, texts, processes, or projects

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

On your running document for Warm Ups, respond to the following:

• According to Hart-Davidson, "in writing studies, though, the stabilization of formal elements by which we recognize genres is seen as the visible effects of human action, routinized to the point of habit in specific cultural conditions" (p. 39).

  • What does this mean in your own words?​

  • What is an example from your Genre #1 drafting or planning which demonstrates what the quotation is saying? Be specific and integrate textual evidence from Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 2.2

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Intersections: Situations and Genres

For the remainder of class, work on planning/drafting one of your genres. I will come around and discuss your approach and the genres you are considering.

ACTION: Please open this spreadsheet and fill in what you are planning to do for your two Genres. I have filled in the first row with a hypothetical example so that you can see the baseline expectation for your response. Must be done by Monday. 

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Looking Ahead:

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Discovery Log #9

This 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 (synthesis).

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Additionally, make sure you are searching for any information you need in order to compile the information necessary for communicating with your audiences.

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Portfolio Practice 2.1

Choose a learning outcome from Seminar or History (look at your syllabi), or choose one from your midterm portfolio that you want to revise.

If choosing a new learning outcome: 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?

If choosing to revise a learning outcome from the midterm portfolio:

• Follow the process steps again

• Include three pieces of evidence. You may re-use one piece of evidence you used on the midterm. Find two additional pieces of evidence.

• How does each piece of evidence show work toward achieving the learning outcome?

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Homework

Read/Resources for Success:

What is a Scholarly Source?

Evaluating Online Sources

 

Write:

Discovery Log 9 due Sunday at midnight 

Portfolio Practice 2.1 due Sunday at midnight

Fill in the Situations and Genres Spreadsheet with your plan

 

No reading response this week - as such, your Discovery Log needs to be longer. Your priority should be making sure you have the information you need to successfully produce your genres.

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

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