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Friday, October 4

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Midterm Reflective Overview

    • Links ​

    • How to Submit

  • IA Workshop

  • Homework

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Today's Goals

Learning Outcome(s)

  • Demonstrate their ability to locate, read, evaluate, select and use (integrate) effectively information from appropriate sources with their own ideas

  • Explain what they have learned from being a novice in new writing situations, and describe how these experiences, which might include failure, contribute to their willingness to accept new challenges as a writer,

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Habit(s) of Mind

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

  • Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to examine processes they use to think and write in a variety of disciplines and contexts.

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Key Term(s)

  • Research as Learning / Information Literacy

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

Warm Up

What is a song you are feeling right now? What about it do you like?

Midterm Reflective Overview

A. Links

  • In your RO, for any piece of evidence you mention, you will need to link to in your Online Folder. 

    • If it is something you did for another class, it is really easy to upload ​things to your Online Folder. I can show you!

    • Is a piece of evidence you no longer have/do not have access to? Talk to me!

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B. How to Submit?

  • We are going to go through the process of how to submit...

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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