
Thursday, September 5
What Are We Doing Today?
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Today's Goals
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Warm Up
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Reading Response-Quick Discussion
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Portfolio Practice #1
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Homework

Today's Goals
Learning Outcomes
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Evaluate the ways in which they have become a more reflective (mindful, self-aware, thoughtful) writer.
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Demonstrate their ability to analyze different rhetorical situations (in academic, workplace, or civic contexts),
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Habits of Mind
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​Curiosity is fostered when writers are encouraged to conduct research using methods for investigating questions appropriate to the discipline
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Engagement is fostered when writers are encouraged to find meanings new to them or build on existing meanings as a result of new connections
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Key Terms:
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Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting
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Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency
Warm Up
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Reading Response-Quick Discussion
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How can we make the Reading Response description clearer?
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What can we do to make the page easier to understand the goal of Reading Responses?
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What is the goal of Reading Responses?
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Portfolio Practice #1
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Let's work on your first Portfolio Practice.
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How does this affect the Midterm Reflective Overview?
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Why the heck should we be doing this now?
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Do we want to see some previous class examples?
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​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. ​
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Submit the link to Blackboard Discussion forum: Portfolio Practices.
Homework
a) Read (by 9.10)
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"Naming What We Know" Threshold Concept 2.0​
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Genre in the Wild
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This can be found in Blackboard>Readings & Templates>Readings>Genre​ in the Wild
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We are going to be reading a certain section based on reading groups
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What is a Genre​
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"The term genre..." to "Individual writers in institutional settings usually have somewhat limited choices when it comes to genre.
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Group _A__​
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"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..."
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Group _B__
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The genre does not stand alone: genre sets and systems
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Group __C_
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How do people learn about the genres in a particular setting?
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Group _D__​
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So am I just a robot?
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Group _E__​
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b) Looking Ahead ​​​​
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Reading Response #2 (due 9.8 by midnight)
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​Discovery Log #1 (due 9.8 by midnight)​
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Portfolio Practice #1 (due 9.8 by midnight)
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Read for next Tuesday (see point A)