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Wednesday,September 11

What Are We Doing Today?

  • ​Today's Goals

  • Reading Quiz #1

  • Student Hours & let's sign up for the Writing Center! 

    • Take out your phones and we'll walk through this process ​

  • Rhetorical Situation -Connecting the Past to the Present 

  • Reminders

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Today's Goals

  • Reflect and integrate learning from learning community courses, including development of critical thinking skills, social and/or personal responsibility.

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  • Interact with faculty and peers about substantive matters through daily activities and discussions

Reading Quiz #1

You will have the first 10-15 mins of class to do your reading quiz...

  • please take your time to read the questions

Rhetorical Situation-Connecting the Past to the Present Discussion 

Let's talk about the Integrated Assignment  by applying some of the concepts we have read so far.

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  • Section 246: Frethorne

  • Section 247: Habit of Self Rule 

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1. How does writing speak to situations?

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2. What do we mean by situations?

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3. What is the situation of the IA?

  • Purpose: learning how to analyze the historical significance in primary source documents & to trying to convince the audience why or why not the primary source needs to be part of the course readings for Wooster's class

  • Audience: Dr. Wooster, Professor Dre, & myself

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4. Knowing the audience, what should you be doing in the letter? 

  • why should there be evidence? 

  • Why does the audience need that particular evidence?

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5. "Their writing knowledge, knowledge of situations, and sense of genres becomes deeply tacit and less accessible to conscious reflection. However, bringing such things to reflective attention through the concepts of rhetorical situation, genre, and activity systems is a necessary step to understanding their writing and making deeper choices" (Bazerman 37). 

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Meeting with Wooster! (9.16-9.20)

Communicating and interacting with professors is an important part of college success. To encourage you to do this and perhaps remove some of the anxieties involved (I had these too!!!), sometime between next Monday (9.16) and Friday (9.20) you will (in groups of 4-5 and no larger/NO EXCEPTIONS) be going to visit Dr. Wooster in his office.

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Office/Student hours are for students- with no appointments required. Faculty are available to visit with you and address any issues or concerns you may have. That being said, please do not get on your cell phone to avoid conversation. You are an adult and capable of having a conversation! Break through the awkwardness!

  • As I assigned this and recognize that it will cause you to mesh several schedules, you are not required to come and visit me. However, just as with any part of this semester, if you want to come and see me, I will be more than happy to chat with you! I am like a piece of furniture in this place, I am always there!​

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So, what is the purpose?

  • The goal is to meet your professor and learn a little about more about him. Look around his office and ask some questions. These questions can be about class, college, the upcoming quiz/exam, or anything that interests you (i.e. sports team, favorite historical figure, field of study, whatever).​

  • Where/ when can you find Dr. Wooster?

  • Office location: Faculty Center 269

  • Student Hours: Monday 9-9:45 am, 11-11:45 am, and 4-5:15 pm Wednesday 9-9:45 am, and 12:30- 2pm, Friday 9-9:45 am, and 11-11:45 am​

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Post- Visit Reflection

  • After your visits, answer the following questions below that describes your visit.

  • What was his office like? (clean, messy, artwork, pleasant, dark, layout, etc.)?

  • What did you/your group ask him? What were his responses?

  • Do you think this experience made it any easier to go see a professor if you need/want to? Why or why not?

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This assignment must be complete and turned in at the beginning of Seminar on Monday, September 23rd. This will be due in the Blackboard Discussion forum: Meeting with Wooster! â€‹

  • Hint: After I have given you credit for this activity, keep a copy of this assignment, you might want to use it for your Learning Community E portfolios which we will discuss later. :)

Reminders...

  • Blue Books are due by September 16th! Please be sure to give these to me...

  • Read: What should you be reading for Friday's History lecture?​

  • What is coming up on the calendar?

  • What do you have to do for Writing & Rhetoric?

  • Email me or come by and see me if you have any questions! My email is bernadette.flores@tamucc.edu. Where can you find my Student Visiting Hours or Writing Center hours?

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