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Friday,September 6

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals!

  • Warm Up

  • Discovery Log #1

  • Homework

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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),

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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

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Key Terms:

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

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

Warm Up-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?

Discovery Log #1

A. Be sure to copy and past the NEW Discovery Log template...

  • I made some adjustments to the template.

    • Copy and past the template 2x on your Discovery Log running document (in your online folder). 

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B. Next thing is...​

  • For today's class, you will be working on your first Discovery Log entry. Head to Blackboard>Readings and Templates>Templates>Discovery Log Template. 

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Leave the first entry blank. Start with the second pasted template. For this entry, focus on your primary source for the first major integrated assignment!

  • Section 244: Ann Hulton's "Curse of All Traitors"

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 Take your time and just go line by line. You can use which ever resources from the Internet that you like. Be sure to find a couple of sources. 

Homework

a) Read (for 9.9)

  1. "Naming What We Know" Threshold Concept 3.0​

  2. "Framework for Information Literacy's" "Authority is Constructed and Contextual" 

  3. Watch: 

    1. Onuka-Vidlik

    2. DJ Shub- Indomitable​

b) Looking Ahead ​​​​​

  • Reading Response #2 (due 9.8 by midnight)

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

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c)Come by and see me or email me!

  • Email: bernadette.flores@tamucc.edu

  • Office Hours: ​

    • M 2-3pm

    • T 12-1pm  &  2-3pm

    • R 12-1pm  & 2-3pm

  • Writing Center Hours:

    • Sun 12-6pm

    • Fri 11-2pm

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