Thursday, September 5

What Are We Doing Today?

• Today's Goals

• Warm Up

• Reading Response-Quick Discussion

• Portfolio Practice #1

• Homework

Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes

• Evaluate the ways in which they have become a more reflective (mindful, self-aware, thoughtful) writer.

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

​

Habits of Mind

• ​Curiosity is fostered when writers are encouraged to conduct research using methods for investigating questions appropriate to the discipline

• Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to find meanings new to them or build on existing meanings as a result of new connections

​

Key Terms:

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

• Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

Warm Up

​

Reading Response-Quick Discussion

• How can we make the Reading Response description clearer? 

  • What can we do to make the page easier to understand the goal of Reading Responses?

    • What is the goal of Reading Responses?

Portfolio Practice #1

• Let's work on your first Portfolio Practice. 

  • How does this affect the Midterm Reflective Overview?

  • Why the heck should we be doing this now? 

  • Do we want to see some previous class examples?

• ​Head over to the Assignments &Due Dates tab>Portfolios button and find the Process steps at the very bottom of the page. The Process steps is what will constitute your an entry for the Portfolio Practice. ​

• Submit the link to Blackboard Discussion forum: Portfolio Practices. 

Homework 

a) Read (by 9.10)

1. "Naming What We Know" Threshold Concept 2.0​

2. Genre in the Wild 

• This can be found in Blackboard>Readings & Templates>Readings>Genre​ in the Wild

• We are going to be reading a certain section based on reading groups

  • What is a Genre​

    • "The term genre..." to "Individual writers in institutional settings usually have somewhat limited choices when it comes to genre.

      • Group _A__​

    • "Still, writers who are really at home in a particular setting..." to "But even in your writing course, you should start to become more aware of the genres..."

      •  Group _B__

  • The genre does not stand alone: genre sets and systems

    • Group __C_

  • How do people learn about the genres in a particular setting?

    • Group _D__​

  • So am I just a robot?

    • Group _E__​

b) Looking Ahead ​​​​

• Reading Response #2  (due 9.8 by midnight)

• ​Discovery Log #1 (due 9.8 by midnight)​

• Portfolio Practice #1 (due 9.8 by midnight)

• Read for next Tuesday (see point A)