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Monday, March 18

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Housekeeping

  • Reading Discussion 

  • IA Grouping-8am

  • 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,

  • 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

On your running document for Warm Up's, respond to the following:

  • How was your Spring Break?

  • What did you do with your week off? 

  • What are you looking forward to in the next couple of weeks? 

  • What is one goal you have for the rest of the semester?

Housekeeping 

A. This Week

  • Wednesday's Class

  • Friday's Class

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B. Midterm Grades

  • resubmission

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C. This Week's Homework

  • Genre Mindmap

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E. Plan for the Rest of the Semester

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Reading Discussion

Readings: 

  • "Bickmore's "Genre in the Wild: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (EcoSystems)"

    • "The Genre Does Not Stand Alone: Genre Sets and Systems" ​

  • Naming What We Know 

    • Threshold Concept 2.1 "Writing Represents the World, Events, Ideas, and Feelings"​ (p.37)

  • Framework for Information Literacy "Information Creation as a Process" (p. 5)

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Group Discussion: Get into your reading groups and discuss the section you are assigned. Do the following for your section: 

  • Speaker

  • Writer

  • Researcher

  • Support

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  1. In your groups, take time to write down at least one sentence from the text that you found confusing. 

  2. As a group, try and break down the sentence into smaller parts and try restating the sentences as a questions. Also, find a connection to either the IA #1 or the Intersections research proposal. 

  3. Once you have a question for your question, try discussing and answering the questions. 

  4. Make sure your note taker writes down the questions and the answers you all come up with in the Google doc. 

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  • Group A: Genre in the Wild

  • Group B: Genre in the Wild

  • Group C: NWWK TC 2.1

  • Group D: FIL Knowledge Practices (How to practice concept)

  • Group E: FIL Dispositions (Mental awareness when practicing concept)

Homework

A)Be sure to be in the I-Create lab in the Library for class on Wednesday! 

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B) Be sure you are signed up for Conference times this Friday!

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C) Looking Ahead:

  • Discovery Log #9 (due this Sunday by midnight 3/24)

  • Genre Mind Map (due by class time on Monday 3/25)

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B) Coming Up (this is a TENTATIVE schedule for the rest of the semester)...​

  • I-Create Lab Visit (3/20)

  • Conferences (3/22)

  • Genre #1 Drafting (3/25)

  • Genre #1 Peer Review (3/27)

  • Portfolio Practice #5 drafting (3/29)

  • Genre #2 Drafting (4/1)

  • Genre #2 Peer Review (4/3)

  • Portfolio Practice #6 drafting (4/5)

  • Genre #3 (IA) drafting (4/8)

  • Genre #3 Peer Review ( 4/10)

  • Portfolio Practice #7 drafting (4/12)

  • Seeing the World Complexly (IA) Presentations (4/15; 4/17; 4/19)​​​​​

  • Week 14: Revisions/Editing & Final Portfolio RO

  • Portfolio Practice #8 drafting (4/26)

  • Final RO Peer Review (4/29)

  • Final Portfolio (5/1)

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