Week 4

Plans for Today:

• Warm Up
• Group Discussion on "Authority is Constructed and Contextual"

In my office today if you want to stop by and talk about your writing so far. I did offer comments on your Reading Responses today and made comments to let you know if you are not caught up on other assignments. My office hours are from 3-4:30, but I will be in the office right after class today as well (at 2) if you want to come earlier.

Warm up:

Take a few minutes and write down what you think this ACRL means. Also, be specific if you have any confusions about what this ACRL means.

Group up, share, discuss:

In groups of three you will discuss this ACRL concept. One speaker, one note-taker, one researcher.

Examine the following quotes and break them down into simpler terms to describe what they mean. Use personal examples or examples you can think of from media, school, books, etc.

• "Experts understand that authority is a type of influence recognized or exerted within a community"
• “Experts understand the need to determine the validity of the information created by different authorities and to acknowledge biases that privilege some sources of authority over others, especially in terms of others’ worldviews, gender, sexual orientation, and cultural orientations”
• “novice learners come to respect the expertise that authority represents while remaining skeptical of the systems that have elevated that authority and the information created by it”
• After that choose two knowledge practices and two dispositions to explore and relate to personal experiences.

Homework for Wednesday, February 6

We will discuss Naming What We Know 3.0 “Writing Enacts and creates Identities and Ideologies” and 3.2 “Writers’ Histories, processes, and Identities Vary” over Wednesday and Friday's classes depending on how much time they take to discuss. Review these concepts before class and make sure you have started working on CT_3.

Class Plans for Today:

• Discuss Threshold Concept 3.0, "Writing Enacts and Creates Identities and Ideologies" and 3.2 "Writers’ Histories, Processes, and Identities Vary”
• Examples of Reading Responses on blackboard.

Discussion:

GROUP A:

Write what you think it means that writing enacts and creates identities and ideologies. Use the following quotes to explain.

• "Writing is always ideological because discourses and instances of language use do not exist independently from culture and their ideologies" (p. 48)
• "Writers are not separate from their writing and they don't just quickly and seamlessly adapt to new situations. Rather, writers are socialized, changed, through their writing in new environments, and these changes can have deep implications" (p. 49)
• "When lawyers write effective briefs, or engineers write technical reports, the genres, conventions, and vocabularies they use reflect the ideologies of their professions and settings" (p. 49)

GROUP B:

In threshold concept 3.2, “Writers’ histories, processes, and identities vary”, Yancey (2016) states the following:

“each writer begins a lifelong process of balancing individual perspectives and processes with the opportunities, demands, constraints, and genres of specific rhetorical situations and contexts of the larger culture. The ways in which individual writers do this, however, are influenced by their individual histories, processes, and identities” (p. 52)

• What does Yancey mean by “constraints, and genres of specific rhetorical situations and contexts of the larger culture”?
• How are individual histories, processes, and identities important?
• What is your understanding of genres?
• How is this concept troublesome? Hint, it’s in the book.

Reading Response Examples ...If time permits...

When looking at these reading responses, let's think about the following:

• Does the writer introduce the concept?
• Does the writer implement quotes or paraphrasing from the text?
• Do they introduce and explain the quotes?
• Does the writer explain the concept in a way that makes sense to you as a reader?

Homework for Friday, February 8

Because of Author's Day, they need our classrooms for demo sessions. This means WE WILL NOT BE MEETING FACE-TO-FACE. However, what I want you to do in place of class time will be to get started on your second Research Journal Assignment. Before Friday I will post examples of previous RJ's that did a very good job following the template and will send an email asking you to look over these examples and to start working on your RJ_2 following this template.

I will be in my office during our regular class time (I'll only be out of the office from about 10-11:30) so stop by if you would like help with this assignment.

No face-to-face class today.

Instead, look at Blackboard under "Writing Examples" and click on the link "RJ Examples." Look over the examples and use them as motivation for your own Research Journal.

Make sure you finish the homework due this Sunday according to the schedule.

Homework for next week...

Read:

• Naming What We Know 2.0 "Writing Speaks to Situations Through Recognizable Forms" & 1.3 "Writing Expresses and Shares Meaning to be Reconstructed by the Reader."
• Article on Podcast (You don't need to write on this separately but you should take notes as you read so that you are prepared to discuss this in class. We will be talking about how this article can be applied to threshold concepts 2.0 and 1.3.)

Write:

• CT_4 (respond to 2.0 and 1.3).
• RJ_2. (see Research Journal assignment page for specifics on this assignment. Use the template, copy and paste it into your google document and fill in the information provided on the template based on your research session.)