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Wednesday, January 16

What Are We Doing Today?​

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Workshop

  • Syllabus/Major Assignments Questions

  • Homework 

Today's Goals

Learning Outcomes

  • Identify how their views of writing have changed as a result of the work they have done in the course.

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

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Habits of Mind

  • Openness is fostered when writers are encouraged to examine their own perspectives to find connections with the perspectives of others 

  • Responsibility is fostered when writers are encouraged to recognize their own role in learning.

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Key Terms

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

  • Reflection, metacognition, transfer/expansion

Warm Up 

Be sure you have your Online Folder and running documents submitted to the Blackboard Discussion Forum. 

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On your running document for Warm Up's, write a response to the following: 

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  • What are you interested in?

  • What are you passionate about?

  • What pisses you off? 

  • What are you interested in researching this semester?​

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If you are not sure to answer some of these, do not worry! That is why we are working on the Discovery Log in class. Try your best to see what information you have. 

Workshop

For today's class, you will be working on your first Discovery Log entry. Head to Blackboard>Readings and Templates>Templates>Discovery Log Template. 

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Copy and past the template 2x on your Discovery Log running document (in your online folder). 

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Leave the first entry blank. Start with the second pasted template. Use the Warm Up entry from today and begin filling out the log. Take your time and just go line by line. You can use which ever resources from the Internet that you like. Be sure to find a couple of sources. 

Homework

A) Read

Text: Naming What We Know

  • Preface: First two paragraphs, pages ix-x

  • Last paragraph on page 2, beginning with "Threshold concepts are . . . "

  • "Metaconcept," page 15-16

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B) For Friday's class

  • Read class syllabus and class webpage​

  • Create online folder using the screencast I emailed to your Islander email!

  • Do the reading for Friday's class (see point A)

  • If you can, start introductory letter!

  • Reading Response #1 (due 1/20 by midnight)

  • ​Discovery Log #1 (due 1/20 by midnight)​

  • Introductory Letter draft (due 1/25 by class time)

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