Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up

  • Threshold Concepts in Action

• Reading Discussion

• Research Discussion for IA1: Writing to Shape History

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

• Demonstrate your ability to analyze different rhetorical situations (in academic, workplace, or civic contexts)

• Demonstrate your ability to use your analyses of diverse situations to identify options and to make appropriate choices that will enable you to use writing to achieve specific purposes.

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

Habits of Mind

• Curiosity is fostered when writers are encouraged to seek relevant authoritative information and recognize the meaning and value of that information.

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

Key Terms

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

• Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

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Warm Up

You'll present your Threshold Concepts in Action Meme Activity to the class.

 

Reading Discussion

Since last class you should have read revisited all five x.0 Threshold Concepts from Naming What We Know and read from the Framework for Information Literacy "Information Creation as a Process" and finished GENRE in the WILD. Today for our discussion, we are going to focus on the Framework for Information Literacy and cover "Information Creation as a Process" as well as our readings from last Friday, "Research as Inquiry" and "Scholarship as a Conversation."

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Group 1: Framework - "Information Creation as a Process" Intro paragraphs

Group 2: Framework - "Information Creation as a Process" Knowledge Practices & Dispositions

Group 3: Framework - "Research as Inquiry" Intro paragraphs

Group 4: Framework - "Research as Inquiry" Knowledge Practices & Dispositions

Group 5: Framework - "Scholarship as a Conversation" Intro Paragraphs

Group 6: Framework - "Scholarship as a Conversation" Knowledge Practices & Dispositions

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Each group needs to discuss the importance of their assigned sections. Pick at least one quote to discuss with the class. Add group notes to the Google running document (kept by your scribe)

 

Research Brainstorming

This Friday we will have class in the computer lab on the first floor of the library. The purpose of this visit is to familiarize yourself with the library databases and get valuable information from a librarian on how best to utilize library resources.

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In order to get the most out of this visit, we need to do some preparation.

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First, in your groups, consider the primary sources you have read so far in Dr. Wooster's History class. Each group will be assigned a source to use writing to answer the following questions in a new GoogleDoc titled "In-Class Discovery 9/14":

Why do you think this reading was selected?

What events does the reading refer to?

What genre would you describe this document as?

If you consider this document as a reader, how does it contribute to your understanding of the events it describes?

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Next, consider the following questions and come up with a list of potential focuses for your library search on Friday

What other events from the period are you interested in?

Which events from class are you interested in exploring in more depth?

Is the focus you are interested in too broad? Why or why not? Too narrow? Why or why not? Practice justifying why these topics are important for students to study.

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Homework

Read:

Naming What We Know:

1.1 - Writing is a Knowledge-Making Activity

1.5 - Writing Mediates Activity

 

Looking Ahead:

Library visit this Friday, 9/21

Discovery Log 4 - due 9/23

Reading Response 4 over Week 4 readings is due Sunday, 9/23

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