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Wednesday, February 20

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Intersections Discussion: Why?

  • Homework

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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

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

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Habits of Mind

  • Creativity is fostered when writers are encouraged to take risks by exploring questions, topics, and ideas that are new to them

  • Curiosity is fostered when writers are encouraged to use inquiry as a process to develop questions relevant for authentic audiences within a variety of disciplines

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Key Terms

  • Genre and genre conventions

  • Discourse Communities and / or Activity Systems

Warm Up

Write a response to the following on your running document for Warm Up's:

Based on your Discovery Log research:

  • In a sentence or two, can you put the change you are wanting to effect in the world?

  • What large questions remain unanswered by the great minds of your field (topic)?  

The Significance of Your Work

Part A

Watch this video.

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The work you do is significant to understanding Who We Are as Americans and as Citizens of our Communities. We owe each other the truth, verifiable facts and a different perspective. 

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Adapted from Amanda Marquez.

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The work you put out in the world, you should be proud of. It represents your identities and ideologies and shows who you are as a person. 

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If you think, "this class is pointless, this class is boring/meaningless." Then it will be just that. But if you change the way you approach this work and the work you do as a student in a positive way, you change the outcome. 

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Part B

In your reading groups, let's break down what we are researching by doing a mind map. 

  • In the middle, write out a change you think you could advocate for or the topic you are researching so far. 

  • Pass the paper around your group. Every person in the group needs to comment on each mind map. 

  • Possible areas to comment on (use Google if you need to): 

    • What are some possible audiences in this field? Provide a "because" clause.​​

    • What are some possible types of writing these audiences encounter? Provide a "because" clause.

    • Based on what the writer is identifying as a need for change, what are some ideas of what the they can try to achieve? (change accomplishes something...)

    • If the writer is not identifying a need for change yet, can you provide ideas for them?

    • What are some realistic ways the writer can impact change in this topic?

  • Keep passing around the mind maps and commenting on each. Look at what others have said and think how you can build on what other's have said. 

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Think: “I want readers//listeners, viewers to DO __________: because___________.

Homework

A) Read for Monday (2/25)​

  • "Framework for Information Literacy" Scholarship as a Conversation (p. 8)

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B) Looking Ahead:

  • Reading Response #6 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Discovery Log #6 is due this Sunday by midnight.

  • Portfolio Practice #4 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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