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Friday, October 25

What Are We Doing Today?

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Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes​

  • 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,

  • Demonstrate their ability to collaborate effectively as members of diverse teams / groups of writers​

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Habits 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

  • 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

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

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

First Year Symposium (FYS)

What is the First Year Symposium?

A public display of writing/composing/creation/argument/research by first-year students at the end of their first term. Like a giant science fair, First-Year Symposium requires all first-year students to create something, based on written work, that uses media, technology, and/or creative presentation to display their research projects for a mixed, general, academic audience.

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For photos, click here. 

For more photos, from the College, click here. 

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Let's Practice!

With your group, get out a sheet of paper:

  • Begin Brainstorming How you plan to present for FYS

    • Think about "VISUAL RHETORIC"

      • In what ways can you non-verbally cue your audience?

        • Who is your audience?

        • Why should they care about your presentation?

    • Think about "Creative Illustration"

      • In what ways can you effectively engage your audience?

      • How do you plan to lay out your Tri-Fold Board?

      • What about your video and other visual effects?

The Intersections Project

Let's take a look at a mind map I put together in an attempt to make sense of what will be doing..

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Click here to view the map...

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Reading Session

In order for the work we do to be meaningful, we need to think about how we are doing research...

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A. For the next 15 minutes or so, read the document in Blackboard>Readings &       Templates>Readings>From Questions to Problems...

  • read up to 4.2

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B. Try to fill in the 3 steps at the beginning of the document.

  • its ok if you're not too sure; this part is merely to help you think of the research you are doing so far

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C. If we have time to discuss: 

  • What can we gather from the research process based on this document?

Homework

​A) Reading (due by 10.30 class)***change in reading

  • finish reading the document we started today 

 

B) Due Sunday, October 27th

  • Reading Response #3

  • Discovery Log #5

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C) Fall 2019_FYS Spreadsheet

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D) If you need help, email me or come by and see me!

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