English300Goals&Objectives
Published on Nov 21, 2015
Introduction to English 300
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English 300
You should have a 4X6 card for asking questions. I will provide.
You should also have a way to write: paper/pen, phone app, desktop.
You should also have a way to write: paper/pen, phone app, desktop.
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What are we doing together?
OK, what are we doing together?
Write it down. Share it around.
Write it down. Share it around.
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reading
What kind of stuff will we be reading together?
What do you want to read together? BE general and specific.
What do you want to read together? BE general and specific.
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research skills
English 300 should give students adequate instruction in finding, evaluating, collecting, citing,
and synthesizing appropriate scholarly sources and should include instruction in the appropriate
use of sources as support for original arguments.
What are you curious about in your discipline? in your life? in others' lives?
and synthesizing appropriate scholarly sources and should include instruction in the appropriate
use of sources as support for original arguments.
What are you curious about in your discipline? in your life? in others' lives?
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WRITING
What kinds of writing objects do you think we will be making?
What kind do you want to make?
Is it OK to be unsure? Why or why not?
What kind do you want to make?
Is it OK to be unsure? Why or why not?
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Questions so far. You should have a card for writing questions down as you go.
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Work Plans & Reflections
"Plan your work, work your plan, rinse and repeat"
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play?
My most recent take on play: http://rhetcompnow.com/responding/479/
www.youtube.com/embed/f6HWeeHKfjk
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www.youtube.com/embed/f6HWeeHKfjk
http://zeega.com/169349
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Diverse reading
Reading assignments should come from a variety of disciplines and should stress how and why authors make rhetorical choices that are appropriate to
writing in particular disciplines
.
writing in particular disciplines
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- close reading
- active reading
- scholarly reading
- Summarizing/critiquing/analyzing/synthesizinging academic texts
A lot of this will depend on what you decide you want to do and how well you do it.
Passion, persistence, curiosity will out.
Strategery works, too, but it is playing a finite game where winning the "A" is the point.
I prefer the infinite game where you play with others to keep play going.
Passion, persistence, curiosity will out.
Strategery works, too, but it is playing a finite game where winning the "A" is the point.
I prefer the infinite game where you play with others to keep play going.
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Diverse writing
Because English
300 is a course about writing
and reading
in the disciplines, students should receive
instruction
on how to read and write disciplinary research.
But there are new forms of writing and new forms to "read" that are coming into being all the time that beg to be known and done. We are here for that, too.
300 is a course about writing
and reading
in the disciplines, students should receive
instruction
on how to read and write disciplinary research.
But there are new forms of writing and new forms to "read" that are coming into being all the time that beg to be known and done. We are here for that, too.
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informal
You have your own informal ways of finding knowledge, sharing what you know, asking questions, giving answers.
What are they?
What are they?
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journals/blogs
OMG, the world online and off is outrageously full, but it is like a maple tree in that you have to stick a tap in it, gather the rush of liquid, and then boil it down. These are just two of the tools in the SeekSenseShare model.
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hodie quid egisti?
[translated: what have you done?]
You must tap what you have done, yes, but what will you do in this class that is worth more than just sticking it into a drawer or a shredder.
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sum up
Oh boy, dim sum. Yum. Oh, wrong summing up.
You sum up on your card.
You sum up on your card.
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synthesize
In the end you need to start making sense of a question or problem in your field of study. What will that be?
But I do believe that sometimes you need to stop making sense, too. You need to explore without an end in mind. You need to go with your gut. You need pay heed to what tugs you from the future. Really. There is a power out there that wants you to be something or do something or act some way. You can characterize this power any way you wish--fate, God, the Muse, a presence--but however you think of it
But I do believe that sometimes you need to stop making sense, too. You need to explore without an end in mind. You need to go with your gut. You need pay heed to what tugs you from the future. Really. There is a power out there that wants you to be something or do something or act some way. You can characterize this power any way you wish--fate, God, the Muse, a presence--but however you think of it
lots of sources
You need lots of raw material. Processing lots of ...stuff. And by stuff I mean text and pictures and data and charts and observations and scholarly crap and videos and podcasts and visualizations and this and that and whathaveyou. Again. Really. Fer sher. You must become expert within the limits of the semester, but you can.
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in your major
I assume that your major chose you. Do you know what I mean by that? Do you know what the big questions, the essential questions of your discipline are?
How much?
What does teacher dude expect from you in terms of writing?Reading? Etc?
Let me flip the question. What does student dude expect from herself or himself in terms of reading, writing and etc?
Let me flip the question. What does student dude expect from herself or himself in terms of reading, writing and etc?
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Traditionally...in other words departmental expectations or what I have expected in the past.
Perhaps not this time. Perhaps we will contract for a grade.
Perhaps not this time. Perhaps we will contract for a grade.
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1 PAPER>3K
Strategic students only need read or listen here.
PURPOSE?
You need to know why you write any piece or create any piece. This purpose might change as you proceed, but you need some kind of focus even if is only general at first.
This is one of the essential questions of my discipline--teaching writing and reading. How much purpose does one need?
This is one of the essential questions of my discipline--teaching writing and reading. How much purpose does one need?
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ARGUMENT
[with support]
Our department asks that we create arguments with support.
OK, pretty vague, but that just means we have a lot of leeway, yes. It's kind of like "Pirates of the Caribbean" when they discuss how the pirates code be only guidelines, arrrrrrr. Right, matey.
OK, pretty vague, but that just means we have a lot of leeway, yes. It's kind of like "Pirates of the Caribbean" when they discuss how the pirates code be only guidelines, arrrrrrr. Right, matey.
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citation
Rules of the tribe. You gotta know them in order to play the game and to be accepted. It's called 'convention'. You are probably used to the answer to this question:why do we do it that way? Because that is the way we do it. There is usually a reason underneath that crappy answer, but often it is just one way among many to do the same thing.
appropriate
[voice, tone, format, structure, usage]
Also, under rules of the tribe.
collaborate
Can you collaborate on the creation of something for this class? What do you think about collaboration?
presentation
You will need to do a few of these. But better than you have in the past. I consider honing this skill as important as writing a paper or doing an annotated bibliography.
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an example of presentation
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one of the greatest presenters of yours and my generation.
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a strangely effective and low tech presenter
May , 2021
We will stop at some point. This point in point of fact. May 15. The Ides of May (if there is such a thing).
Write for me what you imagine you have done by this day looking back on the semester.
Write for me what you imagine you have done by this day looking back on the semester.
Best Luck to You
Luck is where opportunity and preparation meet. Will you be at that crossroads?
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