Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• First Year Symposium 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 you to use writing to achieve specific purposes

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

Habits of Mind

• Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to act upon the new knowledge that they have discovered

• 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

• Genre and genre conventions

• Research as Learning/Information Literacy

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Warm Up

We are going to start Genre Justification #2 today. (If you haven't done this for the first genre, do it for that instead. You will have to do this for both of the genres you are producing for Writing and Rhetoric). 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 #2 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 get in your FYS groups and work on your project.

 

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First Year Symposium Group Workshopping

Workshopping...

Where are you at with your projects? You should be well into the drafting phase at this point...if you are not, consider upcoming deadlines and how you can manage your time. 

Presentations begin a week from today (11/14)!!

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Looking Ahead:

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Fill in the Situations and Genres Spreadsheet with your plan

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Discovery Log #11 - due Sunday at midnight

Due on Sunday, as always. Use the template. Use this week's log to find any other information you need for your First Year Symposium project.

 

Portfolio Practice 2.3 - due Sunday at midnight

Choose a learning outcome from Composition, 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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First Year Symposium - presentations begin next Wednesday, 11/14

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Genre 1& 2 for Writing & Rhetoric - Continuous work

You should be actively working on planning and drafting these alongside your work on Symposium presentation.

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Countdown to the End:

Genre 3 (FYS) Peer Review (11/9)

Portfolio Practice 2.3 (11/11)

Genre 1 & 2 Drafting (all the time)

FYS Presentations (11/14 and 11/16)

FYS (11/30)

Genre Justifications (On-going, turn in with Final Portfolio)

Final Portfolio (12/7)

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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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