Today’s Agenda:

• Warm Up​

• Intersections: Situations & Genres Workshop

• Homework

 

Today's Goals:

Learning Outcomes​

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

• Demonstrate control of situation-appropriate conventions of writing

Habits of Mind

• Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to act on the understanding that learning is shared among the writer and others-students, instructors, and the institution, as well as those engaged in the questions and/or fields in which the writer is interested.

• Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to connect choices they have made in texts to audiences and purposes for which texts are intended

Key Terms

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

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

• Genre and genre conventions

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Warm Up

Work on Filling in the Situations and Genres Spreadsheet with your plan.

Look at the feedback I have provided you - if I didn't provide you feedback, it is because you didn't put enough information in the spreadsheet for me to effectively do so :)

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"Powerpoint" by itself is not a genre - it's a software program for making slideshow presentations. A powerpoint serves as part of other genres. For example, your FYS presentation includes a powerpoint, plus trifold, plus transcript of oral presentation = a genre. And because you are already doing that for FYS, you cannot use that genre (A powerpoint presentation with script) for one of your other genres (because each genre must be different). 

 

So for your warmup, the first thing I want you to do is use writing to answer the following question:

What kinds of audiences are powerpoint presentations effective for addressing?

THEN

If you still do not have two genres for your final projects (other than FYS), make a list on your warm up docs of all of the ideas for genres you could produce, or edit the class spreadsheet.

 

Need some inspiration? - Check out this link for a list of a whooooole bunch of genres.

More Genre Inspiration!!

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Intersections: Situations and Genres

Workshop - Work on planning and drafting your second Genre for W&R

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Looking Ahead:

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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