In Class Writing Prompts – Writing as Action Fall 2018, Section I

Peer Review and Blog Reflection, 11/26/18

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Peer Review: Strategy Project First, read through each others’ statement of purpose and design plan. Then, show your group members your project, or have them read through it or listen to it. Give each person in your group a few minute to present their project before you discuss it as a group. For authors: Discuss the challenges you faced/are still facing while completing this project. What do you still need help with? What are you most concerned about? For reviewers:…

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This is the End: Guidelines for the Rest of the Semester

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Oral Presentations Here is a link to the Oral Presentation schedule for 12/3 and 12/5. As you think about your presentation, keep these guidelines in mind: Your presentation should take about 5-7 minutes. Make sure you have enough content to fill that time without going over the limit. These presentations are informal, so no PowerPoints or notecards are required. If having a PowerPoint helps keep your presentation organized, however, go for it! As you explain your final project to your audience,…

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11/12/18 Peer Review: Strategy Project Statement of Purpose and Design Plan

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Exchange drafts with your assigned partner. Read over your partner’s draft, and respond to the following questions from Wysocki and Lynch’s chapter: Statement of Purpose Does the author have a clear statement of purpose? Does the statement clearly show the project’s purpose, audience, and context? Does the statement show how the project’s purpose is tied to the audience and context of communication? Is the author’s purpose reflecting a goal related to something beyond themselves or their immediate group of peers?…

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Multimodal Composing Exercise, 11/7/18

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Directions for Remix/Remediate Exercise: We’ll be using some of the concepts discussed in the Wysocki and Lynch chapter you were assigned for homework. Get into groups of four. Choose someone to be the spokesperson, and someone to be the recorder. Your task will be to remix or remediate one of the articles I’ve provided into a multimodal, video-based advertisement or PSA. Remember: Remix = revise a piece to make something new that relies upon the same mode(s) Think of remixes as we…

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Guidelines: Strategy Project (Final Project)

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Deadlines: Draft #1A (Statement of Purpose and Design Plan) – Monday, November 12th Draft #2A (Statement of Purpose and Design Plan) – Wednesday, November 14th Draft #1B (Beginning stages of project) – Monday, November 19th Individual conference – Monday, November 19th and Tuesday, November 20th Draft #2B (Project should be 75% complete) – Monday, November 26th Final Draft (All components) – Wednesday, November 28th This assignment will be based largely on some of the rhetorical considerations found in our reading…

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Plagiarism, Citation, and Source Integration Exercises, 10/29/18

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I. Plagiarism Take a look at this infograph for a comprehensive breakdown of different types of plagiarism and their severity: II. Source Integration Examples This website’s description of integrating sources should be extremely helpful as you begin to work on the first draft of your inquiry project. Additionally, here are some example paragraphs for source integration*: Bad source integration: Black Elk often spoke of the importance of the circle to American Indian culture. “You may have noticed that everything an Indian does…

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MLA and APA In-Text Citation Examples

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In-text citations, otherwise known as parenthetical citations, help your reader see which words and ideas are yours and which ones belong to your sources. In-text citations are important, as they establish your credibility as an ethical writer, they give credit where credit is due, and they help readers understand where they need to look in your bibliography if they want to read more from your sources. In-text citations mirror the listings in your bibliography, creating a kind of roadmap for…

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Paraphrasing and Source Integration, 10/22/18

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First, let’s use this example to find paraphrasing, summarizing, and quotes. Working together, let’s highlight the summaries in pink, the paraphrases in blue, and the direct quotes in green. Next, we’re going to work collaboratively on integrating sources. Here are the articles we’ll be working with: Group #1 Group #2 Group #3 Group #4 Group #5 Group #6 Group #7 As a group, develop a paragraph describing why you agree or disagree with the article. Use quotes and paraphrases – with properly…

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APA Citation Examples

October 22, 2018 admin Comments 0 Comment

For a breakdown of rules for APA formatting, your go-to source is the APA Style Manual. (This is available to borrow through the Centenary library, and should be available at all times at the reference desk, I believe.) As a secondary route, I highly recommend visiting the Purdue OWL’s APA Formatting and Style Guide. This guide provides examples and explanations for many different source types – journal articles, websites with no author names, online videos, tweets, newspaper articles, etc. Here, I’m giving you just…

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MLA (8th edition) Citation Examples

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For a breakdown of rules for MLA formatting, your go-to source is the MLA Style Manual. (This is available to borrow through the Centenary library, and should be available at all times at the reference desk, I believe.) As a secondary route, I highly recommend visiting the Purdue OWL’s MLA Formatting and Style Guide. This guide provides examples and explanations for many different source types – journal articles, websites with no author names, online videos, tweets, newspaper articles, etc. Here, I’m giving you just the basics so…

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Guidelines: Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review

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Research Consultations: October 17th – November 2nd First Draft Due: Monday, October 22nd Second Draft Due: Monday, October 29th Individual Conferences: Tuesday, October 30th and Wednesday, October 31st Final Draft Due: Monday, November 5th In a further continuation of your inquiry, this third assignment will ask you to think about the conventions of research writing. Instead of writing a traditional “research paper,” you’ll be developing an annotated bibliography for your final project as well as a brief review of the sources you’ve found. (So when…

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Online class work for 10/10/18

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Remember that your responses to these exercises count as your attendance for Wednesday’s class period. If your responses are not included in your In Class Writing folder, you will be marked absent. I. Collaborative writing and our textbook reading Please respond to the following questions in a blank document in your In Class Writing folder: In Issue 5, “Composing Together,” Losh and Alexander highlight several different types of collaborative composing. Make a list of the different types of collaborations mentioned in…

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“Tell Me I’m Fat” Discussion Questions, 10/3/18

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First, let’s start our discussion with some writing. Let’s practice using evidence to support your claims by responding to the following question: As you listen, notice the moments where you have an emotional response to what you hear. Point to SPECIFIC MOMENTS (give time cues, if you can). What makes you angry? What makes you happy? What annoys you, frustrates you or makes you laugh? Do you expect that everyone who listens to this story would have the same reaction…

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Rhetorical analysis exercise and peer review, 10/1/18

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I. Collaborative Rhetorical Analysis Exercise Let’s all take about 10 minutes to quickly read through this piece quietly. When we’re finished, we’ll walk through the following questions together: What is the title of the article? Who is the author? What is the article about? What is the author’s central claim? How does the author make that claim? Think about the terms of rhetorical analysis that we discussed last week. What other, larger conversations does this article connect to? What is the extended…

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Guidelines: Rhetorical Analysis

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First Draft Due: Monday, October 1st Peer Review: Monday, October 1st Second Draft Due: Monday, October 8th Conferences: NONE. Dr. Andersen will be away 10/4-10/13, and will comment on all drafts in writing. *Please note: Dr. Andersen will be on campus Sunday, October 14th from 12pm until 5pm. If you would like to meet with her that day to discuss Assignment #2, and/or any questions you have about rhetorical analysis or the materials posted online over the past week, please stop by her…

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Exercises: Bridging Summary and Analysis 9/19/18

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We’re going to watch a few video clips from stand-up comedians. Please get into groups of three, and work through the following exercise. We’ll discuss your responses as we go along. Write down notes, marking important details from the jokes and creating a sort of outline Then, in your groups, discuss your individual breakdowns and respond to the following questions: What is the main point or main idea of the joke? This is the comedian’s primary claim. What lines from…

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Discussion questions and revision exercises, 9/17/18

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I. Discussion questions (Losh and Alexander Issue 1) Consider the following questions for our class discussion today. (If we have time, I’ll ask you to do some writing in response to these prompts.) Think of your own rhetorical situations. What kind of identities do you choose – or need – to adopt? What can you change, and what can’t you change? How does the situation help determine the role you adopt or the identity you try on? Describe a “kairotic…

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Directions for Peer Review, 9/12/18

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Copy and paste the questions from this handout to the bottom of your first draft document. Stay in your peer review groups. Open your first draft in Google Docs. Share that document with the members of your group. Do the following for each group member’s draft: Read through the essay, making comments. Make sure that you are using “suggesting mode” in Google Docs. Leave a summative paragraph at the end. Respond to the questions posted at the end of the document about…

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Composing Guidelines

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Here are Sondra Perl’s Composing Guidelines, the exercise we walked through together in class today (9/10/18): If you want to try out the longer version or self-timed version, you can visit this link. One thing I wanted to point out: Throughout the guidelines, Perl mentions “felt sense.” Felt sense is a tricky concept to explain and understand, as it refers to an individual “ah-ha!” moment that we experience when we feel that an idea is right. Focusing on your felt sense…

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In Class Work, 9/5/18

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I. Blog URLs Please post your name and the URL of the homepage of your blog in this Google document. II. Reading Anzaldua rhetorically Get into groups of three. Take a look at the questions Lessner and Craig pose on pp. 130-131. Think back to your reading of Anzaldua, and answer the questions. III. Focused freewriting – What’s Your Problem? Lessner and Craig list “focused freewriting” as one of their writing exercises for invention (or for coming up with ideas). For these…

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Guidelines: Assignment #1, Personal Narrative

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First Draft Due September 12th Second Draft Due September 19th Individual Conferences September 24th and 25th (No class meeting this day!) Final Draft Due September 26th Keep in mind our readings and discussion of speech acts, the Who Am I story, “the personal is political,” and descriptive writing. (Take another look at Ramsdell, Anzaldua, and the speech acts handout if you need to.) Think of a specific institution, moment, identity, issue, circumstance, or community in your life that has impacted you. Tell…

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Navigating Our Course Website

August 29, 2016 admin Comments 0 Comment

It was so great to meet all of you during our first class. I’m really looking forward to our work together this semester! I just want to provide a post to help you navigate this digital space.