
Wednesday, October 23
What Are We Doing Today?
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Today's Goals
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What to do if your topic is still too broad?
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Reading Discussion
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ENGL 1302 Topic Spreadsheet & Conferences?
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Homework

Today's Goals
Learning Outcomes​
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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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Demonstrate their ability to collaborate effectively as members of diverse teams / groups of writers
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Habits of Mind
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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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Creativity is fostered when writers are encouraged to take risks by exploring questions, topics, and ideas that are new to them
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Key Terms
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Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting
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Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency
Reading Discussion
Readings:
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Naming What We Know
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Writing is Linked to Identity (p. 50)
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Framework for Information Literacy
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Research as Inquiry (p. 7)​
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Groups:
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Each group needs to the quote provided, a connection to what you all are researching so far.
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Add group notes to the Google running document!​
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Group A: NWWK
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"Through writing, writers come to develop and perform identities in relation to the interests, beliefs, and values of the communities they engage with, understanding the possibilities for selfhood available in those communities." (p. 30)​
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Group B: NWWK
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"The act of writing, then, is not so much about using a particular set of skills as it is about becoming a particular kind of person, about developing a sense of who we are."​ (p. 31)
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Group C: FIL
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"Novice learners acquire strategic perspectives on inquiry and a greater repertoire of investigative methods." (p. 7)
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Group D: FIL
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"The spectrum of inquiry ranges from asking simple questions that depend on basic recapitulation of knowledge to increasingly sophisticated abilities to refine research questions, use more advanced research methods, and explore more diverse disciplinary perspectives." (p. 7)
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Group E:
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Knowledge Practice: formulate questions for research based on information gaps or on reexamination of existing, possibly conflicting, information​​
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Disposition: demonstrate intellectual humility (i.e. recognize their own intellectual or experiential limitations)
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Think of how this connects to our previous reading discussions...
ENGL 1302 Topic Spreadsheet & Conferences
A. Topic Spreadsheet
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Let's work on adding to this spreadsheet. We will use this to work out what we are doing for the Semester/Integrated Project.
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B. Conferences...
Instead of meeting in class on Monday, I would like for us to do conferences to discuss where you are and what you are thinking of doing for the historical connection (FYS)
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Would people be able to meet times outside of 8-8:50am? What times could you all meet? Ideally, that Monday or Tuesday...
Homework
A) ​Read (for Wednesday, October 30th)​
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Framework for Information Literacy
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Searching as Strategic Exploration (p.9)
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Information Has Value (p. 6)
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B) Due Sunday, October 27th
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Reading Response #3
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Discovery Log #5
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C) If you need help, email me or come by and see me!