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Friday, February 8

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

    • Portfolio Practice Peer Review #1​

  • Portfolio Practice #2

  • Homework

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

Warm Up

I will assign you a person to peer review! Take a look at their Portfolio Practice #1. When reading their work, consider the following questions: 

 

  1. Where does the student answer the checklist questions? 

  2. Where does the student explain the Learning Outcome?

  3. Where does the student offer examples to support their explanation? Does the student demonstrate how they have worked towards, struggled with, or accomplished the LO?

  4. Are these examples appropriate for the audience? 

  5. Where does the student offer textual evidence for their interpretation of the texts LO and reading concepts (NWWK and Framework)? 

  6. Where does the student explain how their textual evidence supports their interpretation? Does the writer explain the process of evidence and why or how it connects to the LO?

  7. What can the student write in order to fulfill the above requirements? 

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After you read their work, with these questions in mind, offer the student 2-3 pieces of feedback by replying to their thread in Blackboard. In the Subject line, type "Portfolio Practice #1 PR." Your feedback should be specific and actionable.

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Moreover, your feedback should include a "because clause," meaning you should always offer a clear reason for your suggestions/feedback. Feedback should focus on "higher-order" issues such as structure, developing examples, making connections to prior knowledge, meeting the requirements of a standard response as is broken down by the 7 questions above.

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Your feedback should help the author expand and explain their attempts to make meaning from the texts. Avoid commenting on grammar and spelling, and avoid non-actionable comments like "make this clearer," or "This is good/bad," etc. 

Portfolio Practice #2

On the same running document for Portfolio Practices, write your PP #2. Title and date your second entry!

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Go to the Portfolios page. Copy and paste the process checklist (if you need to) and work on the practice. 

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Use this time wisely!

Homework

A) Read for Monday (2/11)

  • NWWK TC 4.0 (p. 59-61)

  • "Framework for Information Literacy" Searching as Strategic Exploration (p. 9)

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B) Looking Ahead:

  • Reading Response #4 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Discovery Log #4 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Portfolio Practice #2 due this Sunday by midnight.

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C) Need help? Come see me!

I have both Writing Center and Office Hour times we can meet. Let me know if you want to come by or how to make an appointment for the Writing Center!

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