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

What is one thing you have learned about yourself or one thing that you think has changed about yourself and how you approach learning? Why do you think this change has happened? How did you discover that this change happened?

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Research Proposal Template - Begin working on your Research Proposal for the second half of the semester, which will guide your future Discovery Logs and the development of your Intersections: Situations and Genres project.

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While you work (or workshop other work with your peers), I will speak with you one-on-one and in your groups about the research you have done so far and how you can use that research to guide your future work in our class.

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Homework

Read:

Continue looking at these readings...we will discuss next week:

Threshold Concept 1.3: Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to Be Reconstructed by the 

Threshold Concept 1.5: Writing Mediates Activity

Threshold Concept 1.9: Writing is a Technology through Which Writers Create and Recreate Meanings

 

Write:

Research Proposal - due with Midterm Portfolio on October 12

Discovery Log 6 - due 10/7

Reading Response 5 due 10/7

Begin working on compiling evidence for your Midterm Portfolio!

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