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Thursday, October 17

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Watch this?!

  • Sharing Ideas

  • The Significance of Your Work

  • Homework

Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes

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

  • 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

  • Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to use what they learn from reflections on one writing project to improve writing on subsequent projects.

  • 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.

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Key Terms

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

  • Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

Sharing Ideas

Switching gears  to the second half of the semester...

 

Let's break down what we would possibly like to research for the rest of the semester by doing a mind map. 

1.   In the middle, write out a change you think you could advocate for or the topic you wish to research. 

2.   Pass the paper around your group. Every person in the group needs to comment on each mind map. 

3.   Possible areas to comment on (use Google if you need to): 

  • What are some possible audiences in this field? Provide a "because" clause.​​

  • What are some possible types of writing these audiences encounter? Provide a "because" clause.

  • Based on what the writer is identifying as a need for change, what are some ideas of what the they can try to achieve? (change accomplishes something...)

  • If the writer is not identifying a need for change yet, can you provide ideas for them?

  • What are some realistic ways the writer can impact change in this topic?

4.   Keep passing around the mind maps and commenting on each. Look at what others have said and think how you can build on what other's have said. You should have comments from everyone in the room!

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Think: “I want readers//listeners, viewers to DO __________: because___________.

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By looking at __________, we can see that___________, this is significant because ___________________.

The Significance of Your Work?

Watch this video.

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The work you do is significant to understanding Who We Are as Americans and as Citizens of our Communities. We owe each other the truth, verifiable facts and a different perspective. 

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Adapted from Amanda Marquez.

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The work you put out in the world, you should be proud of. It represents your identities and ideologies and shows who you are as a person. 

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If you think, "this class is pointless, this class is boring/meaningless." Then it will be just that. But if you change the way you approach this work and the work you do as a student in a positive way, you change the outcome. 

Homework

A) Read for Monday (2/18)

  • NWWK TC 3.1

    • Writing is Linked to Identity

  • NWWK 3.5

    • Writing Provides a Representation of Ideologies and Identities​

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B) Looking Ahead:​

  • Discovery Log #4 (due by midnight on 10. 20)

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C) Need help? Come see me!

I have both Writing Center and Office Hour times we can meet. Let me know if you want to come by or how to make an appointment for the Writing Center! 

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