January 2021

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.  Kenny Dirk, “ Navigating Genres,” 2010
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	He starts off with a joke that gets into his main topic, genres. He basically talks about how genres are categories that are specific. In his opening, he gives the joke that would only register if you listened to country music. He goes on to quote Devitt. “genres have the power to help or hurt human interaction, to ease communication or to deceive, to enable someone to speak or to discourage someone from saying something different.” He talks about how specific characteristics determine genres.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.	none
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	Because it helps to distinguish and categorize genres. This is a writing class so we will deal with many different genres.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	What is your favorite genre?

 

 

Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page	Author(s). “Title of Article.” Title of Journal, Volume, Issue, Year, pages.  Gita DasBender. “Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic.” 2011, 37-51
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words	I feel like the article is explaining how to think critically and analyze a piece of work and turn it into writing. I felt like it was a good analysis and I really liked the story of how we as humans should be the weasel and live instinctively in the moment. The story alone kept me intrigued and made me keep wanting to get further into the breakdown. It gave steps like, listing important ideas, notices key terms and summarizing important quotes, writing a personal response: looking inward, and so on. It was really intriguing and gave me a new insight.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?	It connects because it gives us writing tips.
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion.	List an important idea on something we read.

Ann M Johns, ” Discourse Communities and Communities of Practice,” discusses the different ways you can be in discourse communities. Her first topic is “Communities and Membership.” Here she talks about the social, political, and recreational communities.  As we are born, we may be put into communities involuntarily. With this, you have to learn to the discourse within these communities This includes religious, tribal, social, and economic. To me, this is saying how we are put into many clubs and organizations because of who we are and where we are born. The next topic she talks about is professional communities. Within professional communities, there are modes of discourse that must be learned. There are both formal and informal means of communication. For example, small talk during conventions or emails won’t be the same discourse you use in a meeting with your boss. Although in some instances, it can be intertwined. She uses written discourse as an example. Musicians are the example she uses. Academic communities are examples that are used. This is a discourse between students. Students have many ways of discourse from text messages to class discussion. They analyze how different they talk between the two. She then talks about Language, text, and values. It discusses how text must be explicit and word choice should be chosen carefully, and citation must be cited carefully. They then discuss how the topic should be introduced early on in the introduction. Next writers should in a way predict what comes next by relating their content. This provides a sort of roadmap for their writing. They next talk about how it shouldn’t be in the first person and create a distance between the writer and the text. Next, they talk about how you should detach feelings and emotions from the writing to decrease bias.

 

 

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