January 2021

Navigating Genres

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page Dirk, Kerry. Navigating Genres. 
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words In Navigating Genres by Kerry Dirk, the author writes about how genre is nothing more than a specific category and also says that they go far beyond just fitting into a particular class or type. Each genre is unique and has its own characteristics and categories. Knowing what genre to use is important in your writing because it helps deliver what a writer is intending to convey.  Throughout the essay, Dirk introduces students to genres as rhetorical responses to similar situations. Dirk uses humor to poke fun at these situations to make the point that rhetorical circumstances must be taken into account. 
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. “And more importantly, I noticed that the writer did not talk as an authoritative figure but as a coach”.
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 So far We haven’t really read anything that connects to this essay.  
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. Can you have more than one genre in an essay?

Critical Thinking In College Writing

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Title of Article + Proper MLA Citation for Works Cited page DasBender, Gita. Critical Thinking in College Writing: From the Personal to the Academic. 
Summarize the article — include your reaction, thoughts, anything to help you remember its claims. 100 to 150 words In the article, Critical Thinking In College Writing, the author has very useful tips for students on how to conduct textual analysis. The author breaks down the process into simple steps making it easier for the reader. The author calls for the reader to read the article attentively with an open mind.  She says that the reader has to list the main ideas, keep track of important terms and summarize important quotes. Then, the reader has to write a personal response on how they feel about the essay while using the quotes they have summarized. The writer has to make an academic connection to his or her personal response. Then the writer has to craft the essay, since academic writing requires him to be more critical.  It also tells the student to look at essays of peers or earlier students who receive high grades.
Define new terms and concepts by quoting or paraphrasing the original author. accustomed to reading and responding to difficult texts

provocative essay that pulls the reader into the argument and forces a reaction
How does this reading connect to other articles from class and/or your own research?

 

 We haven’t really read anything yet that connects to this article. 
Based on the reading, craft one question to act as a springboard for class discussion. When do you conduct textual analysis?

Discourse Communities

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In discourse communities the focus is on texts and language, the genres that enable members throughout the world to maintain their goals, regulate their membership, and communicate effectively with one another. As students engage with discipline, as they move from exposure to experience, they begin to understand that the different communities on campus are quite distinct, that apparently common terms have different meanings, apparently shared tools have different uses, apparently related objects have different interpretations, as they work in a particular community they start to understand both it’s particularities and what joining takes, as these involve language, practice, culture and conceptual universe, not just mountains of facts. People are born or taken involuntarily by their families and cultures, into some communities of practice. These first culture communities may be religious, tribal, social, or economic, and they may be central to an individuals daily life experiences. Academic communities are selected and voluntary. Discourse communities can also be professional. Every major profession has it’s organizations, practices, textual conventions, and it’s genres.. Active community members also carry on informal exchanges at conferences through email interest groups, in memos, hakway discussions at the office, in laboratories and elsewhere, the results of which may be woven intertextually into public, published texts. 

  1. Email i wrote yesterday
  2. Poem i wrote in middle school
  3. Country music playlist
  4. The prison guard
  5. My nurse
  6. Support groups
  7. Teachers 
  8. Chick fil-a
  9. ESPN
  10. Medical researcher

Article exercise 1/22

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  1. How have you generally started your own writing assignments? What worked and didn’t work for you? Are there any ideas you have for invention in writing that are not in this chapter that you would like to add? What are they, and do you think they could help other students? I usually start by choosing a topic that I am very passionate about. More times than not the more interested in a topic you are, the better you are at writing about it and the more thought you put into it.
  2. Out of the new invention strategies you have learned in this chapter, which do you think would be most helpful as you transition into writing in higher education? Why do you think the invention strategy you choose would work well and in what way do you see yourself using it? Use the speaking voice to influence your writing. when I think of this I think of not letting any other outside voices control how you write. You write how you write and that’s the best way to do it.