Week 5

Plans for Today:

• Warm up
• Discussion of Naming What We Know, 2.0, "Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms."

Feedback on your Reading Responses and Research Journals:

• Some reading responses are extremely short. The students who do well are implementing quotes from the ACRL concepts and Threshold Concepts. They are making connections between the two and are also using personal examples.
• For research journals, make sure to add a summary at the end. In other words, follow the template. I’ve noticed quite a few of you were NOT following the template, but the template will help you in keeping research organized and easy to find.
• Keep your folders organized.
• If you are missing all of your reading responses/research journals, you should meet with me because that is concerning at this point since we are in week 5 of the semester now. I’m here to help if you are struggling.

Warm up:

In your warm up for today, name it "RESEARCH_QUESTIONS" in your warm up folder. In this document answer the following questions:

• Where do you go to find information on your chosen research topic?
• Have you come across any difficulties or struggles when trying to find info on your topic? If so, please share.

I will be sharing these answers with the librarian so that she will be able to cater her presentation to your specific research needs when you go to the library this Wednesday with Seminar.

Group Up, Share, and Discuss:

Keep your notes in a different document from the warm up today so I can easily find your research concerns and differentiate them from your group activity.

Also, these questions should be challenging enough so that you spend the whole time answering them thoroughly; however, if you think you are finished before I say to stop, move on and answer questions in the other group.

2.0, “Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable Forms”

GROUP A:

“Writing, as well, addresses social situations and audiences organized in social groups and does so through recognizable forms associated with these situations and social groups” (p.35)

• What are “recognizable forms associated with these situations and social groups”? Provide examples.
• How does this threshold concept expand our ideas about the rhetorical situation? Use examples from the text.
• How do they describe genre here? How does genre help us in understanding the purpose of the writer?

GROUP B:

• What does the following quote say to you specifically?
  • “First, much learning of writing is in school, where stylized and repetitive classroom relations and situations, teacher authority, and student display of competence prevail. People often take school-based assumptions with them long after they leave school, associating writing with particular kinds of school assignments and finding their main motives to be avoiding correction and getting a good grade” (p.37)
• What “school-based assumptions” do you experience in your ideas about writing? In this class, in other classes?
• What does the following quote mean? Break each piece down.
  • “to understand the full range of situations a document in a particular genre may be used in and the full set of meanings that might be attributed to it, we also need to understand the activity system it is a part of” (p.37)

Discussion:

Activity Systems on Blackboard

Homework for Wednesday, September 26

• Start writing RJ_4 using the template.
• Read "The Rhetorical Situation" https://openenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/the-rhetorical-situation/ by Wednesday. You don't need to write on this.
• We will discuss Naming What we Know 1.3 "Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to be Reconstructed by the Reader," on Wednesday in connection to the reading above on the rhetorical situation.
• Make sure you are working on your Research Proposal.

Plans for Today:

• Warm up
• Discussion of Naming What We Know, 1.3, "Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to be Reconstructed by the Reader" and "The Rhetorical Situation."

Warm up:

After Monday’s discussion on the rhetorical situation and after reading the information from https://openenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/the-rhetorical-situation/ answer the following:

• How does the rhetorical situation relate to Naming What We Know 1.3, “Writing expresses and shares meaning to be reconstructed by the reader”?

Group up, Share, and Discuss:

Naming What We Know 1.3, “Writing expresses and shares meaning to be reconstructed by the reader.”

• Do you agree or disagree that “writing expresses and shares meaning to be reconstructed by the reader”? What does this mean?
• What does the following quote mean? Break this quote down and point out anything that is confusing or makes sense. Use personal experiences.
  • “meanings do not reside fully in the words of the text nor in the unarticulated minds but only in the dynamic relation of writer, reader and text” (p.22)
• What does the following quote mean to you?
  • “Writers often hesitate to share what they have expressed and may even keep private texts they consider most meaningful. Further, writers may resist the idea that their texts convey to readers something different than what the writers intended” (p.22)

Peer-Review Activity:

Partner up (groups of 2), and read your partner's RR for this week OR CT for this week. Comment using the comment feature in Google Drive. While offering feedback think about the following:

• Where is the writer using quotes from the text? Are they explaining the quotes?
• Where are they using personal examples? Are they effective?
• Overall, are they responding to the prompt effectively? To check see CT or RR assignment descriptions.

Homework for Friday, September 28

• Read the assignment descriptions for the Midterm Portfolio and the Reflective Overview:
  • Mid-Term Portfolio Assignment Description
  • Mid-Term Reflective Overview Template
• Read the explanation of Portfolios at this link http://writingwiki.tamucc.edu/wiki/Courses/ExplanationOfPortfolios.

Plans for Today:

• Discuss ACRL "Scholarship as a Conversation"
• Discussion of Reflective Overview/Mid-term Portfolio

Group up, Share, and Discuss:

After reading the ACRL "Scholarship as a Conversation", answer the following as a group. Make sure someone takes notes:

• How is scholarship a conversation?
• Choose two “knowledge practices” from this concept. Evaluate it and relate it to something you’ve experienced in your life.
• Choose two “dispositions” from this concept. Evaluate it and relate it to something you’ve experienced in your life.
• How does this concept relate to the previous ACRL concept “Authority is Constructed and Contextual”? Refer to the texts (use quotes).
• In the past, how have you engaged in scholarly conversation? How are you engaging in it now?

Discussion of RO and Mid-term Portfolio

In your groups look back over the assignment descriptions I assigned for you to read on Wednesday. Take a few minutes and come up with some questions you have for me about the assignments. We will discuss.

Homework for Monday, October 1

• Draft 1 of Research Proposal should be ready by Monday. We will be peer-reviewing it next week. That doesn't mean the draft has to be perfect, but you should have a draft!
• You may start drafting your RO, but at this point you may just want to brainstorm and think about what you will be using in your RO as evidence.
• Read NWWK and Write CT_5:
  • Naming What we Know: 1.9 “Writing is a Technology Through Which Writers Create and Recreate Meaning”
  • Make sure you've completed RJ_4 this week.