9/13 | FALL2019

Friday, September 13

English 1302 Outcomes:

Demonstrate their ability to analyze different rhetorical situations (in academic, workplace, or civic contexts)

Habits of Mind

Openness is fostered when writers are encouraged to practice different ways of gathering, investigating, developing, and presenting information
Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to grapple with challenging ideas, texts, processes, or projects

Key Terms

Let's work on your first Portfolio Practice.
- How does this affect the Midterm Reflective Overview?
- Why the heck should we be doing this now?
- Do we want to see some previous class examples?
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.
Submit the link to Blackboard Discussion forum: Portfolio Practices.

Use keywords that will help you find information. However, if you are not finding information, then try different key words/phrases.
You should be researching to learn at this stage

Advice to Students thinking about the research...

what types of different key words do you think you could use? Maybe try to think complexly about the issue by thinking of other keywords to use alongside "colonies" or "British Loyalists"
1. social relations, gossip and fashions; agricultural practices, observations on native plants and animals and domestic economy; diseases and cures; and the family ties and responsibilities of single women in the eighteenth century.
If you were to tell Wooster, today, that you have found all that there is to know about this primary source, what do you think he would say? Im not asking this question to be mean, but rather, I am wanting to see how you are thinking of the types of information, sources, research you need to do for that audience. How are you going to construct your authority in that situation? Scholars have dedicated their time to studying her letters to understand British Loyalists in the colonies...Think of how they see the complexities of the situation and how you can apply this to your research.

A. Looking Ahead

Read (for 9.18)
- Framework for Information Literacy's "Scholarship as a Conversation"
Discovery Log #2 (due 9.15 by midnight)-Put this entry on the same running document for DL #1.
Portfolio Practice #1 (due 9.15 by midnight)

B. Be sure that you are labeling documents in your Online Folder!

You can edit the titles to have it organized and clear.

C.Need help? Come see me or talk to me!

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