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Monday, March 4

What Are We Doing Today?

  • Today's Goals

  • Warm Up

  • Plan for the rest of the semester?

  • Significance of Your Work

  • Research Proposal Workshop

  • Homework 

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Today's Goals

​Learning Outcome(s)

  • ​Demonstrate their ability to locate, read, evaluate, select and use (integrate) effectively information from appropriate sources with their own ideas

  • Demonstrate control of situation-appropriate conventions of writing,

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Habit(s) of Mind

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

  • Persistence is fostered when writers are encouraged to follow through, over time, to complete tasks, processes, or projects

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Key Term(s)

  • Research as Learning / Information Literacy

  • Composing Processes: planning, researching, drafting, sharing and responding, revising, editing, publishing, reflecting

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Warm Up

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

  1. What was your experience with the Midterm portfolio like? 

  2. Were you successful? Did you struggle?​

  3. What are a couple of things you need to work on for the 2nd half of the  semester?

  4. Based on what you can do to improve, what are some goals you can set yourself to be successful in the 2nd half of the semester?

Plan for the Rest of the Semester

The grade breakdown grid...

  • Midterm Portfolio grades & resubmissions

  • How does the research proposal relate to the 2nd half of the semester?

  • Library Visit & I-Create Visit

    • Library Visit ​3/6 in Computer Lab I

    • I-Create Visit in the library

  • Questions about the Intersections Project?

    • Genre Workshops

  • Integrated Assignment- 3rd Genre

    • For the IA Assignment Description, go to the Intersections tab and scroll down to Integrate Assignment.

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. 

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

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

  3. 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?

  4. 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___________.

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By looking at __________, we can see that___________, this is significant because ___________________.

Homework

A) ​Read (for Monday, March 18)

  • "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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B) Looking Ahead​​

  • Research Proposal is due on March 11th by 11:59pm

  • Discovery Log #8 is due on March 10th by 11:59pm

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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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