Using Six Word Stories (or “Sixers”), answer the following reflective questions about your experiences with the WiD Analysis project. Be creative, and have fun with your responses. (Sixers often abstract their subject matter with humor or other emotion.) When you’ve finished, choose one sixer to expand upon in a full paragraph. Upload your responses to your shared folder for this class when you’re finished. In regards to content or subject matter, […]
Get out your notes from the last class you had in your major (could have been something from last week, last semester – whatever. Take a moment to think about how you would start to explain the goals, ideas, and theories of that lecture or lesson to someone else in your major who wasn’t taking the class. Write that explanation in 25 words – no more, no less. Then, do […]
For our exercise today, work with a partner who shares your major. Choose one of the professional genres from our previous class. After reading through the scenario below, respond using one of those genres. Think about the type of document you’d need to respond as a professional in your field. For instance, what would a report written by a police officer regarding this event sound like? What would a vet’s […]
Part I. The Genre Project As we start thinking about what it means to compose and communicate in our majors, I’d like to turn us back briefly to the idea of genres. UNC has a great, developing resource to help us think about what types of papers you’ll often be assigned to write in classes for different majors, as well as genres you’ll need to work with professionally. Take a minute to […]
Part I. Reflective Writing We’ll take about 20 minutes to thoroughly respond to the following questions. Please answer in paragraph form. What insights did you gain into your communication habits as you took on your observations of digital discourse communities? How do you see your relationship to your discourse community differently, now that you’ve spent a concentrated period of time observing and analyzing it? How does the writing process you […]
Here is an example of a student’s quantitative data analysis. (And here is another.) What are they missing? What do they do well? What does the use of quantitative data do for the claims they are making? (Note: Remember that this student was working on a different assignment than the ERP we are doing in this class.) Part I. – Reading and Analyzing Before I ask you to think about […]
Part I. In-Class Writing Take about 10 minutes to respond to these questions in paragraph form in your in class writing folder: Where do we see qualitative research being employed in our everyday interactions? What genres do we interact with which typically make use of qualitative methodology? Give an example, and explain why qualitative methods are effective for that particular context. (Or, why you don’t find them to be so.) […]
Get into the same peer review groups we worked in last time (we’ll have new groups for our first draft peer review next week). Read through the proposal. Circle the place in the proposal that best describes the purpose of, and motivation behind, what the author will be doing. (You’re looking not necessarily for a thesis statement but rather for the statements that tell you what the author is trying to […]
Part I. Example Ethnography Discussion Get into groups according to the reading you were assigned. Together, discuss the following questions. Take notes in your in-class writing folder in order to help us generate discussion when we report back to the whole class. What did you notice first when you began reading the piece? What appealed to you as a reader? What didn’t work for you? What rhetorical choices do you see […]
We’ll be reflecting on each of our assignments this semester in order to gain a better idea of our writing processes. Please take 20 minutes (writing the entire time) to respond in paragraph form to the following questions: Take another look at the guidelines for this assignment. Where did you struggle to understand the assignment? How did you end up interpreting that section of the guidelines? Do you think your […]
