Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up

  • Reflecting on IA 1

• Peer Review - IA 1 & Portfolio Practice 2

• 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 the most interesting thing you have read in our Learning Community (History, Seminar, Composition)? It can be something you were assigned for class or something you encountered in your discovery logs or research for an assignment.

Why was it interesting? Connect your interest in the writing to Habits of Mind, Frameworks for Information Literacy, and/or Threshold Concepts.

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Peer Reviewing Integrated Assignment 1: Writing to Shape History & Portfolio Practice 2

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 "IA 1 Portfolio Practice 2 Peer Review" and share that document with the classmate whose portfolio practice you are reviewing.

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At the top of your document, label the document

YOURNAME Peer Reviewing WRITERNAME

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Answer the following questions (in complete sentences) with reference to your classmate's IA1: Writing to Shape History:

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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 the expectations of the assignment? How many pieces of evidence? 

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 IA 1? What needs to be explained further?

6. After reading their submission, what other questions would you ask this writer about the primary source document they have chosen or how it fits into Dr. Wooster's class? What other evidence would you need to see to be compelled to include it on a syllabus?

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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:

Research Proposal - due with Midterm Portfolio on October 12

Discovery Log 6 - due 10/7

Reading Response 6 due 10/7

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