Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up

  • Work on Portfolio Practice 1

• Portfolio Practice 1 Workshop

• Discovery Log 2 Workshop

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

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

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

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

Habits of Mind

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize their own role in learning.

• Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to consistently take advantage of in-class (peer and instructor responses) and out-of-class (writing or learning center support) opportunities to improve and refine their work.

Key Terms

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

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

Work on your Portfolio Practice from last Friday.

 

Workshop - Portfolio Practice from Friday

In pairs, switch portfolio practices from Friday and peer review your classmate's work. 

 

Remember, our goal is help the writer succeed in achieving the purpose for which they are writing.

As such - when offering feedback, focus less on things like GSP. Instead, offer suggestions for ways the writer can communicate their ideas more effectively.

 

Feedback should be actionable - your comments should contain something that the writer can "do" in order to improve their work. 

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Workshop - Discovery Log #1 & #2

When researching your topic, you should begin by deciding on a question or questions that you would like to be able to answer about your topic. These questions should be open-ended and ideally lead you to more questions.

Example: 

If my topic is "space travel," I might start out with the question "What is the history of space travel in America."

This might lead to the question, "What resources have we as a country put toward space travel in the past? What resources do we currently put toward space travel?"

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If you are unsure what question to ask about your topic, you can always try searching for controversies surrounding your topic. For example, you could search "controversies about space travel" to see what other people's opinions on the topic are, and then investigate the facts that surround those opinions (or find information that counters the opinions).

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In pairs, look at each other's Discovery Logs 1&2 together and determine whether or not the question being explored is clearly defined.

Specific questions to answer about discovery log 2:

Does the student's document fulfill the expectations outlined in the description?

Does the student have a clearly defined topic(s) to explore?

Does the student meet the criteria outlined on the Discovery Log Assignment Description page?

What can the writer do to better meet reader expectations?

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Discuss other questions you might begin to explore in Discovery Log 3 and the direction your opinions are going. Take notes on the parts of the  discussion that relate to your work underneath Discovery Log 2 in the same document.

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Homework

Revisit or re-read:

Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 4.0 

Framework for Information Literacy "Authority is Constructed and Contextual" & "Searching as Strategic Exploration"

 

Write:

Revise your Portfolio Practice based on suggestions from your classmates

Make sure you are taking notes over the readings to help form your reading responses

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Looking Ahead:

Begin your Discovery Log #3 - due 9/16

Reading Response #3 over Week 3 readings is due Sunday, 9/16

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