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Wednesday, October 9

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Reading Discussion

  • Midterm Portfolio Workshop

    • Links in the RO?​

    • How do you submit? ​

  • Homework

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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

  • Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to follow through, over time, to complete tasks, processes, or projects

  • Metacognition is fostered when writers are encouraged to connect choices they have made in texts to audiences and purposes for which texts are intended 

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Key Terms

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

  • Research as Learning / Information Literacy

Reading Discussion

Readings:​

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

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Groups:

Each group needs to discuss the importance of their assigned sections.

 

Add group notes to the Google running document!

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Group A: NWWK TC 5.2

  • "...notes in this collection, writers engage in cognition when they reflect on "what they are doing in a particular moment" but display metacognition when they consider "why they made the rhetorical choices they did."' (75)

    • What is the difference between cognition & metacognition?​

    • Connect to either

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

Group B: NWWK TC 5.2

  • "Metacognition is not cognition. Performance, however thoughtful, is not they same as awareness of how that performance came to be." (75)

    • Why is metacognition significant?​

    • Connect to either

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

Group C: NWWK TC 5.2 

  • "Cognition refers to the acquisition and application of knowledge through complex mental processes." (76)

    • How does metacognition allow us to transfer? ​

    • Connect to either

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

Group D: NWWK TC 5.2 

  • "In those cases, metacognition allows writers the assess the skill and knowledge sets apply in these novel situations and which do not." (76)

    • What is it about metacognition that helps us think about our skills?

    • Connect to either

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

Group E: NWWK  TC 5.2 

  •  "In the end, while cognition remains critical to effective writing, it is metacognition that endows writers with a certain control over their work, regardless of the situation in which they operate." (76)​​

    • How does metacognition help us transfer those writing skills??​

    • Connect to either

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.0 "All Writers Have More to Learn"

      • NWWK Threshold Concept 4.2 "Failure Can Be an Important"

Think of how this connects to our previous reading discussions...

Midterm Portfolio 

Submission

  • Turn in 2 links: 

    • Reflective Overview​

    • Online Folder

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To turn in the links, go to Blackboard>Turn in Portfolios Here!>Midterm Portfolio.

  • Click on the Write Submissions box and paste the 2 links in there. 

  • Be sure you are copying and pasting the right links. 

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Links

  • Let's practice how to insert links in the RO!

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Rubrics

If you would like to see the rubrics I will be using, I will post these in Blackboard!

Due Date

  • By October 18th (11:59 pm)​...or sooner if you dare!

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If you need an extension, I understand! Please communicate with me. 

We will be moving on next week but if you need the time, we can work it out. I have a specific deadline I need to meet as well to submit your Midterm grades to the university!

Homework

A. Looking Ahead:​​

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

  • Midterm Reflective Overview draft (due by class on Monday, 10. 14) 

    • submit a link in the Blackboard Discussion forum: Midterm RO Draft​

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