Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• Intersections: Situations & Genres Workshop

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Demonstrate your ability to locate, read, evaluate, select and use (integrate) effectively information from appropriate sources with their own ideas

• Explain what they have learned from being a novice in new writing situations, and describe how these experiences, which might include failure, contribute to their willingness to accept new challenges as a 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

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

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

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

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

• According to Bickmore, "understanding the genres operating in any setting will also help you to understand better what happens in that setting-how people work together, how they solve problems, how they communicate, certainly, but also how they get work done" (p.6).​

• Based on Genre #1 and any research you have done so far, in which ways have you come to better understand the settings in which you are writing in?

• Do you think your writing and/or communication skills have improved this semester? Why or why not? ​

• Be sure to include textual evidence from "Genre in the Wild."

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Intersections: Situations and Genres

Workshop

Write the following Genre Justification and put in the appropriate place in your Online Folder. 

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We are going to start Genre Justification #1 today. However, you should/can be working on your genres throughout the rest of the semester. If you feel as though you are not sure how to answer a question or you are not ready to, you can still come back to it at a later time. 

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Genre #1 Justification

• What is your first genre?

  • ​When you discuss the genre/recognizable form you are choosing explain why you are choosing this genre? what does it do for you and your audience? How does it help you achieve your advocacy goals. Furthermore, what are the conventions of the genre and how do you plan on using them. 

• Who is your audience for this genre? Why do they matter?

  • ​When you say who your audience is explain as much about them as you can. How old are they? how do they get their information on a daily basis? what is their prior knowledge? What will you have to do to understand this group of people in order to communicate with them effectively.

• What is the delivery system for this genre?

• Are you able to provide research in your genre? Discuss research that you used from your DL's to support your Genre #1. Be sure to include ​​textual evidence from a few sources. 

  • ​Also, give a summary of the information you would like to share with this group and why you feel they need to know it? Why is it significant? And, what can your audience do about it.

• What about this genre demonstrates courage, conviction, and composition? 

• How are you advocating for change?

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Work on this for about 10-15 mins then work on revising your Genre #1 based on the peer review from Friday or drafting your Genre #2.

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Be sure you are clearly labeling your genres in the appropriate folder. 

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Looking Ahead:

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Discovery Log #10

Find a podcast episode or documentary episode relating to your issue or ideas you are exploring for your Intersections project!

-Use this entry to find information you may be lacking/needing for your 1st 2 Genres. You can also either explore a source that you have not been able to log. Remember, you should be finding multiple sources for each log from here on out.

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Additionally, make sure you are searching for any information you need in order to compile the information necessary for communicating with your audiences.

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Portfolio Practice 2.2

Choose a learning outcome from 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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Homework

Work on your Discovery Log 10

Work on your FYS genre and other two genres

Go through daily class plans since October 12 (midterm) and make sure that your folders contain the assignments we have worked on in class, including Warm Ups, Discovery Logs, 

 

Write:

Discovery Log 10 due Sunday at midnight 

Portfolio Practice 2.2 due Sunday at midnight

Fill in the Situations and Genres Spreadsheet with your plan

 

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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