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Monday, September 30

What Are We Doing Today?

Conferences today! Please check the Google doc in Blackboard and meet me in my office in FC 134A!

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

Homework

A) Read (for Wednesday 10.9)

  • Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

  • Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

  • Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 5.2 "Metacognition is not Cognition" 

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B) Looking Ahead:

  • Work on your Discovery Logs!?

    • Why am I asking you to do this? 

  • Work on revising your Portfolio Practices

    • Why am I asking you to do this? ​

  • Portfolio Practice #4: due by class on Friday, 10.11

  • FINAL DRAFT OF THE IA IS DUE ON OCTOBER 7TH BY 2PM IN WRITING & RHETORIC'S BLACKBOARD!

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C) For Monday, October 7th: I have jury duty. Yay!!! Therefore, I will not be on campus that day. Please work on your IA: Connecting the Past and the Present. Also, get a head start on the PP#4 since we will not be doing that in class on Friday. 

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D) 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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