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Wednesday, September 20

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Warm Up

  • Today's Goals

  • History Exam Outline

  • Homework

When you actually read the exam for the first time...

Today's Goals

Warm Up

Write a response to the following on your Warm Up running document. Title this Warm Up 9/19.

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  • Define Modernization in your own words. 

  • How does the concept of modernity affect us today? Consider the four aspects of family, work, education, and social interaction.

  • Lastly, why do you think you have to do this exam? Why do you think Dr. Blanke is having you do your first exam in this fashion? 

    • He's given you the opportunity of a take home exam.​

    • He's asking for certain things: argument and evidence.

    • He's asking you these questions.

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(When you are done, take a look at the "Key Features of Definitional Arguments" and "Some Tips" in the next section.)

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History Exam Outline

"Definitional arguments don't just appear out of the blue; they evolve out of the occasions and conversations of daily life, both public and private." (Lunsford and Ruszkiewicz 260)

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Key Features of Definitional Arguments 

  • a claim involving a question of definition

  • a general definition of some key concept

  • a careful look at your subject in terms of that general definition

  • evidence for every part of the argument

  • a conclusion drawing out the implications of the argument

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Some Tips...

  • What is your claim, evidence, and connections?

  • In your thesis statement, you should make a claim of definition and state the reasons to support your claim. 

  • Is enough evidence furnished to explain or support the definition?

  • Signal Phrases: lead in's to quotations

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Outlining Your Essay

For the remainder of the class, work on creating an outline, mind map, or a bubble concept map. 

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Please be sure to have your outline when you go to Seminar! If you have Seminar after my class, you can always go to Dr. Blanke's office hours or Professor Ballard's office hours! If you're not sure, ask!

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Homework

A) Work on your group's Meme Essay Review (Due Friday, September 22 by 11:59PM)

  • Be sure to exchange emails and every member should have access to the slides your group is working on.

  • Figure out who is doing what and when.

  • Make sure to explain the significance of the quote you chose.  Go beyond the "It helps improve my writing every day" or "I see this in my writing"

    • Give details and be specific​

  • The memes should use language from the chapter...not just the word "writing"

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B) Work on Discovery Log #2 (Due Friday, September 22 by class time.)

  • Download the outline and begin to fill it in based on the question of "What do proposals do?"

    • Next week, we will be working on our Situation/Intersection Proposal.​

Learning Outcomes

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

  • Demonstrate their ability to use their analyses of rhetorical situations to identify options and to make appropriate choices that will enable them to use writing to achieve specific purposes

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Habits of Mind

  • Flexibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to approach writing assignments in multiple ways, depending on the task and the writer’s purpose and audience

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

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Key Terms

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

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

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