Week 5

Plans for Today:

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

Friendly Reminder:

• If you are having trouble understanding the readings, make sure you ask questions in class. If you would rather ask me one-on-one, come see me in my office, just make sure to send me an email if you would like to set up a specific time to meet.
• I make this reminder because I know from experience some people have a hard time asking for help, but it's better to ask for help and understand concepts than struggle throughout the semester and have it impact your work negatively.
• I will be looking at your research journals over the next few days.

Warm up:

• Today is a quick warm up. Write down what you found most interesting about the concept "Writing Speaks to Situations through Recognizable forms" and tell me why you found it interesting.

Group Up, Share, and Discuss:

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

• Read "The Rhetorical Situation" https://openenglishatslcc.pressbooks.com/chapter/the-rhetorical-situation/ by Wednesday. You don't need to write on this, it'll be a part of our warm up in class.
• 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.
• Review the Article on Podcasts I asked you to read over the weekend. Think about how this reading relates to genres.

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" and Article on Podcasts.

Note: I will be offering comments on more of your writing soon, but I've been looking through folders and some people are missing assignments. Check your folder and make sure you are caught up. Keep an eye on the schedule for when assignments are due.

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)

Discussion on Article on Podcasts

• What is going on in this article?
• How might this article relate to the rhetorical situation?
• What makes a podcast a genre?
• Think back to what we talked about on Monday. How does this kind of writing show recognizable forms?

Homework for Friday...

Be prepared to discuss your research progress in class!

Plans for Today:

• "This is a Lecture" Discussion (see writing)
• Research Progress Workshop

Discussion:

Look at the piece of writing I have provided and think about the following questions:

• What is the writer talking about?
• Who is their audience?
• What are they critiquing?
• Genre/Rhetorical Situation?

Research Progress Workshop

• Use this time to share with another class mate the research you are focusing on for this class. You may also use this time to begin researching for your topic and get a start on the RJ for next week (or this week if you haven't started it yet).
• I will be around to answer any questions you have and I will be asking you about what you have chosen to research.

Homework for next week...

Read:

• Naming What We Know Threshold Concept 1.9 "Writing is a Technology Through Which Writers Create and Recreate Meaning"
• ACRL "Scholarship as a Conversation"

Write:

• CT_5 (respond to 1.9)
• RJ_3 (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.) In the reflective summary section, talk about how the ACRL "Scholarship as a Conversation" relates to your research.

Also, you may want to glance over the assignment description for the midterm portfolio. We will talk about this in class next week, but if you are curious and want to get a head start, you can find the information on the portfolio page.