Inquiry 1: Heroism
Students will complete the following brainstorming strategies through the pre-writing process:
Questioning Strategy
Three Perspectives Guide
Writer/Reader Positioning
Genre Analysis
Focus
Modal Plan
Peer Review
We will workshop these strategies with peers in the class workshops, and the instructor will provide feedback in the margins. Revise and develop, but do not delete anything you have written in the process (i.e., start over). Keep everything! This writing may be used to form your first final writing draft. This document will be posted to turnitin.com, so please be sure to write original thoughts from your mind. If you do include outside source material, please be sure to quote and reference.
Questioning Strategy (Write as much as you possibly can! There are no right or wrong answers for now. Everything you think, write it without censoring yourself.)
Remember that good invention starts with a reading/conversation/video. Use the first two class meetings (and everything we covered) and the reading assigned and videos (and even sources assigned in CORE 1010) to inspire your freewriting. Do not feel you have to write to please me, but rather to explore your ideas and thoughts about what heroism means and your own heroic journey. There is no word count, but with freewriting, the more you write, the better. Write in complete sentences as much as you possibly can to practice your grammar. What you write here will help you formulate your ideas for the draft.
If you can't figure out how to get started on this freewriting, then perhaps critically re-consider the quote we discussed in class:
“[The study of] Histories make men wise [learned judgment]; poets, witty [intellectual capacity]; the mathematics, subtle [clever, innovative]; natural philosophy, deep [penetrating]; moral, grave [dignified]; logic and rhetoric, able to contend [struggle to survive]” –Francis Bacon
Topic: Hero/Heroism
List out several sub-areas related to personal heroism that you would like to explore.
Ex. My heroic journey to study at AUC.
Select one or two possible topics which interest you. What is the background story on this topic, and why is it important to you? (write about 100 words)
Take one of your preferred topics and explore your experience, values, cultural sources, and dissonance in the chart below. Identify at least three specific experiences related to your topic. Explore the values, cultural sources, and dissonance present in each. Write 100 words
Experiences
Values
Cultural Sources
Dissonance
Discuss how you might write about this topic in different contexts:
Personal/Family/Friends:
Social/public:
Academic:
Professional:
In relation to the dissonance chart, what possible unresolved issues exist related to your chosen topic?
Write a list of possible questions related to this issue which may frame your inquiry. (Questions that I want to answer)
Select one question that will frame your inquiry and revise according to peer/instructor feedback. (My choice of question/focus question)
Inquiry Question: PEER REVIEW INSTRUCTION AND REFLECTIONS: (Peers should feel free to comment in the margins and provide feedback orally to the writer. Writers should reflect on this feedback from their peers and instructor and write a short paragraph below on redirection of their project based on feedback.
II. Three Perspectives Guide Activity (write as much as possible--at least 100 words for each perspective=300 words total).
My Question for inquiry:
Describe and Distinguish (Write everything you know about the question in the present).
Important aspects or elements of the topic:
Images and experiences:
Perspectives (yours and what you think are others’ perspectives):
Perspectives: PEER REVIEW INSTRUCTION AND REFLECTIONS: (Peers should feel free to comment in the margins and provide feedback orally to the writer. Writers should reflect on this feedback from their peers and instructor and write a short paragraph below on redirection of their project based on feedback.
B. Relative (Examine this topic in relation to other things).
Categories/classifications:
Comparisons/contrasts:
Cultural Stereotypes:
Metaphors/Similes/Analogies:
C. Dynamic (Discuss moves and changes in relation to this issue)
Changes in your experience or attitudes toward the topic over time:
Changes in the actual issue (how others represent or view the issue):
Causes and Effects (consider what factors have led to this event or its impacts):
III. Writer/Reader Positioning (Please write as much as you possibly can but at least 100 words)
What does “position” mean to you?
Positioning myself (what positions are available to me in this context?)
Positions I will take in this topic:
Reader Positioning (write all the possible readers for this context and considerations for each).
Selected reader position and analysis:
IV.Analysing Possible Genres in Context
Review the Genres chart in the Readings folder. Consider which genres may align with your specific inquiry, your readers, and your writer position.
Which three genres might work best for this inquiry? Write some notes in the space provided in the chart analyzing each genre possibility and then answer the questions below:
Possible Genre
Practical Considerations
Development
Format/
Organization
Formality
Range of Variation
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B. What is your choice of genre for this inquiry and what should you consider for your writing based on the genre you have selected? (100 words)
Writer/Reader Positioning and Genre Selection: PEER REVIEW INSTRUCTION AND REFLECTIONS: (Peers should feel free to comment in the margins and provide feedback orally to the writer. Writers should reflect on this feedback from their peers and instructor and write a short paragraph below on redirection of their project based on feedback.
V. Focusing
My revised inquiry question:
What is your purpose? (are you writing to inform, create awareness, or persuade? What considerations should you have related to your reader and purpose?)
My focus (using subject + point of significance format, write a single statement that answers the inquiry question):
Revised Focus:
VI. Organizational modes
What modal forms could you use to structure your writing? (grouping, parts of the whole, evaluation, time) Discuss each possibility based on your material and focus.
Which modal plan/organization structure have you selected?
Introduction: How will you engage the reader? How will you establish credibility? What background information is needed? How will you define the issue? How will you state your focus?
Body: Outline three or more main points based on your mode of organization.
Point 1:
Point 2:
Point 3:
Conclusion: (What are the implications of accepting your claim? What do you want the reader to take away? What questions remain? Could you revisit the introduction in a way that closes the loop?)
Focus/Modal Plan: PEER REVIEW INSTRUCTION AND REFLECTIONS: (Peers should feel free to comment in the margins and provide feedback orally to the writer. Writers should reflect on this feedback from their peers and instructor and write a short paragraph below on redirection of their project based on feedback.