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

• Demonstrate their ability to collaborate effectively as members of diverse teams/groups of writers

Habits of Mind

• Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to find meanings new to them or build on existing meanings as a result of new connections

• Creativity is fostered when writers are encouraged to take risks by exploring questions, topics, and ideas that are new to them

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 warmups document:

By focusing on Naming What We Know concept 2.0, "Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms," reflect on the following:

-"It is through genre that we recognize the kinds of messages a document may contain, the kind of situation it is part of and it might migrate to, the kinds of roles and relations of writers and readers, and the kinds of actions realized in the document" (Bazerman 36).

     -How does this quote speak to your particular position in the Intersections project?

     -How does this quote demonstrate your understanding of the deeper choices you need to make, especially in terms of drafting the 1st Genre?

     -What are you hoping to achieve with drafting the 1st Genre?

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I invite you to think seriously about this warm up! Be sure to integrate the textual evidence.

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Exam II Mind Mapping

Pick an essay question from your Exam II study guide that you have not worked on in either Seminar or on your own (or that you think you need to revisit).

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Map out the essay. Make a mind map or outline. This is just the first step - can you write the entire essay from your outline?

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Tips:

-Using that mind map, write the entire essay in, say 30-40 minutes. How far did you get? What information are you lacking?

-Using different colors of highlighters, go through the draft and highlight locations in your essay where the lecture notes are present, where the reading content is located, etc. Using different colors of highlighting will help you visualize your information better and find "gaps" that need to be filled.

-Share with a friend/classmate. Go see Dr. Wooster or Professor Hartman. Our LC wants you to be successful! Seek out help 

Dr. Wooster FC 269

Professor Hartman FC 128

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Intersections: Situations and Genres Workshop

Work on one of the following for the remainder of class:

• Discovery Log 9 - follow the template, find all the information.

• Genre 1 Planning - 

  • Mindmapping, outlining, pre-writing. However you pre-write and organize your information and thoughts so that you can better write, do it​.

  • If you are not a pre-writer, prepare to become one - your notes and planning should be included in your Final Portfolio to show evidence of revision and metacognition.

  • If you do not have a system of pre-writing established for yourself, I recommend:

    • Make a list/note-taking column for each audience you want to address.​

    • First, list the genres by which you can most effectively reach this audience (based on your Discovery Log findings from last week)

    • Then, begin listing the information you think is most important for this audience to know.

    • Find ways you can put this information into categories to organize it for your drafting your genre

Here's a sample mind map based on the heuristic worksheet I gave you in class on Friday (I have extra copies if you weren't here):

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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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Homework

Read/Resources for Success:

What is a Scholarly Source?

Evaluating Online Sources

 

Write:

Discovery Log 9 due Sunday at midnight 

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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