Intention for the first two sessions of Core II:
To leave each and every one of you with access to distinguishing as the initial steps of researching any rhetorical artifact:
--the inventory you always already begin from,
--research questions,
--Controlling and counter ideas,
--Networks of controlling values (topics),
--Audience roles to play in relation to any given rhetorical artifact.
Draft of Inventory due January 26th.
Drafting the Vision/Mission Statement (due February 2nd)
Discuss: Jensen, Seitz, Rabinowitz
Intention for the first two sessions of Core II:
To leave each and every one of you with access to distinguishing as the initial steps of researching any rhetorical artifact:
--the inventory you always already begin from,
--research questions,
--Controlling and counter ideas,
--Networks of controlling values (topics),
--Audience roles to play in relation to any given rhetorical artifact.
Vision/Mission Statement due February 2nd.
Drafting the Exploratory Plan: initial draft due Feb 9th, and developed draft due Feb 16th.
Discuss: Bitzer, Vatz, Consigny
Reading Responses: McKee and Gallop, Jensen, Seitz, Rabinowitz
Intention for tonight's class:
To leave each and every one of you present to a new relationship to the fundamental topic of writing and research: Integrity and Receptivity.
Draft of initial draft of Exploratory plan due February 9th. (Developed draft due Feb 16th).
Discuss: Spinosa, Flores, and Dreyfus (Introduction and Chapter 1 of Disclosing New Worlds)
Suggested reading: Culler.
Reading Responses: Bitzer, Vatz, Consigny
To leave each and every one of you present to your role as a discloser of history for yourself and others, and present to the moment by moment choice you are then responsible for as a discloser of history.
Group conferences
Developed draft of Exploratory plan due Feb 16th.
Introduce Annotated Bibliography and Research Journal
Reading Responses: Disclosing New Worlds, Intro and Chapter 1
Intention: To leave each and every one of you seeing for yourself the constraints that impair your ability to dwell in a new relationship to inquiry and the ebb and flow of research and writing freely given by the context and purpose of your vision/mission.
"We learn how to see as we learn how to talk about what we see. The order of words orders the things we talk about" --Martin Packer The Science of Qualitative Research 2nd Edition 37.
“…when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as it appears within a dimension of assessment” --Stanley Fish How to Write a Sentence.
"The world we have made, as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far, creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them."
Conducting Research
Conducting Research
Conducting Research
Conducting Research: summary and response workshop
Sharing progress Group 1
Conducting Research: summary and response workshop
Sharing progress Group 2
Conducting Research: summary and response workshop
Sharing progress Group 3
Conducting Research: summary and response workshop
Workshop Prospectus (conferences)
Prospectus due (along with Annotated Bibliography and Research Journal)