Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• FYS Best Practices

• FYS 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)

• Evaluate the ways in which you have become a more reflective (mindful, self-aware, thoughtful) writer

Habits of Mind

• Creativity is fostered when writers are encouraged to represent what they have learned in a variety of ways

• 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​

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

• Genre and genre conventions

• Research as Learning/Information Literacy

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Warm Up

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

-In what ways are you constructing your authority for the FYS presentation?

     -How are you doing this?

-How is your authority contextual? How are you determining the information need and the level of authority being required?

 

First Year Symposium Best Practices

• Take deep breaths.

• Write a script for your presentation. Beginning to end for your parts. This definitely does help with understanding how much time you will take to say your part but also that you are addressing what you need to.

• You are having a conversation with your audience! Do just that...have a conversation.

• Be sure your titles are on your boards!

• Be sure that you are focusing on this historical context...

• The way you are connecting to your group members is through the theme.

• Practice! Practice! Practice!

• Write out your notes on notecards. Type up your part on a word document and print it out. Cut the section and paste to a notecard.

• Smile!

• Arrive early and prepared. Do not walk into the classroom late if another group is presenting and do not leave class while a presentation is in progress. If you are late, wait until the group presenting finishes before entering the classroom.

• PUT ALL PHONES AWAY. DO NOT PLAY ON YOUR PHONE WHILE SOMEONE IS PRESENTING. THIS IS RUDE.

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First Year Symposium Group Peer Review from Friday

Workshopping...If you did not complete a peer review of a classmate's work on Friday, this needs to be completed and included in your folder. If not completed before Monday night at midnight (to give group members time to look at your feedback and consider implementing it) and in your folder, you will not receive credit for this peer review in your Final Portfolio grade.

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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:

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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?

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First Year Symposium Workshopping

Use any remaining class time to work with your group on your First Year Symposium presentations. If you have finished putting together the presentation, practice delivering your parts to your group members.

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Looking Ahead:

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FINAL PORTFOLIO RO

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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.

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Discovery Log #12 - 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 Genres

 

Portfolio Practice 2.4 - 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?

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

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Genre 1& 2 for Writing & Rhetoric - Continuous work

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

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Countdown to the End:

FYS Workshopping and Peer Reviewing - 11/12

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)

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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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