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Friday, February 1

What Are We Doing Today?

  • ​Today's Goals

  • Portfolio Practice #1 Workshop

  • Discovery Log 

    • Questions? ​

    • Keywords/Questions 

  • Homework

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Today's Goals

English 1302 Outcomes:

  • Demonstrate their ability to analyze different rhetorical situations (in academic, workplace, or civic contexts)

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Habits of Mind

  • Openness is fostered when writers are encouraged to​ practice different ways of gathering, investigating, developing, and presenting information

  • Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to grapple with challenging ideas, texts, processes, or projects

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Key Terms

  • Rhetorical Situation: audience, purpose, context, exigency

  • Research as Learning / Information Literacy

Portfolio Practice #1

Let's work on your first Portfolio Practice. 

  • How does this affect the Midterm Reflective Overview?

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Head over to the Portfolios button and find the Process steps at the very bottom of the page. The Process steps is what will constitute your an entry for the Portfolio Practice. 

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Submit the link to Blackboard Discussion forum: Portfolio Practices. 

Discovery Log #3

Let's work on your 3rd Discovery Log entry. 

  • What are some questions you have about this? 

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Be sure to use the template provided for the log. Put it on the same document as Discovery Log #2. Be sure to correctly title and number the entries.

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Struggling on what to research? Or finding information? Here are some sites that might help you...

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Pew Research Center

I Side With

Discovery Log Tips

  • Use keywords that will help you find information. However, if you are not finding information, then try different key words/phrases. 

  • You should try to find more than one source per session. 

  • Following the last point, next to each note (bullet point), in parentheses, write the source name or author. 

  • You should be researching to learn at this stage

Homework

A) Read (for 2/4)

  • NWWK TC 3.0 (p. 48-50)

  • "Framework for Information Literacy" Authority is Constructed and Contextual (p. 4)

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Be sure that you are taking notes on all your readings. You can use what you read, take note of, or discussed in class when writing your response.  

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B) Looking Ahead

  • Reading Response #3 (due 2/3 by midnight)-Put this entry on the same running document for RR #2. 

  • Discovery Log #3 (due 2/3 by midnight)-Put this entry on the same running document for DL #2. 

  • Portfolio Practice #1 (due 2/3 by midnight)​

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C) Be sure that you are labeling documents in your Online Folder!

You can edit the titles to have it organized and clear.

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D) Need help? Come see me or talk to me!

What happens if you don't know my office hours, Writing Center hours, or email?

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