Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up

  • The Good Stuff

• Introducing Situations + Genres - Research Proposal

• Portfolio Practice 2 Workshop

• 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.

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

Key Terms

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

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

Explain how you are actively applying the concepts outlined in the Frameworks for Information Literacy to your work in your Discovery Logs. If you are not applying those concepts, how can you do so moving forward?

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Intersections: Situations and Genres Project - Research Proposal

As part of your midterm portfolio, you will be completing a Research Proposal in which you will outline what you propose to research in your Discovery Logs for the rest of the semester as you work on your Situations and Genres project over the same topic.

Let's do some brainstorming...

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In your groups, read through the Assignment Description page for the Situations and Genres project.  Create a list of questions you have about the assignment.

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Now, think about the assignment in relation to the research topic you are pursuing. Draw a mind map or create a notes document 

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Portfolio Practice 2 Peer Reviewing

When offering feedback, you should be giving your classmate actionable suggestions - things that they can do to improve their writing. Make suggestions for where they can clarify or elaborate on their explanations or evidence.

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Create a new document in Engagement and Learning called "Portfolio Practice 2 Peer Review" and share that document with the classmate whose portfolio practice you are reviewing.

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Answer the following questions (in complete sentences) with reference to your classmate's portfolio practice:

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1. In what ways did the writer meet the expectations of the assignment? Be specific.

2. What evidence did the writer provide for meeting or approaching the Learning Outcome chosen? How many pieces of evidence? Does the evidence relate to the student learning outcome?

3. How were Habits of Mind utilized in the writer's explanation? What other Habits of Mind might relate to the writer's evidence?

4. Write at least one question you have regarding the writer's explanation or evidence.

5. What is one explanation or quality that is working well in the writer's Portfolio Practice? What needs to be explained further?

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Homework

Read:

Threshold Concept 4.1: Text is an Object Outside of Oneself That Can Be Improved and Developed

Threshold Concept 4.4: Revision is Central to Developing Writing

 

Write:

Integrated Assignment 1 - Writing to Shape History

Research Proposal - due with Midterm Portfolio

Discovery Log 5 - due 9/30

No Reading Response for this week - use this time to work on IA1 and catch up on any assignments you've missed.

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