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 went through for this assignment differ from (or seem similar to) other writing you’ve done this semester, either in this class or other classes?
• What aspect of your writing did you try to focus on most in this project? Why? How did you go about working on it? What do you think you accomplished?

(Finish early? Take a look at this quiz by the folks at the University of Puget Sound Writing Center. What are your results? How did you see that coming through in your approach to this assignment? Add this as an extra credit response in your reflective writing document in your shared folder. Please respond thoroughly to the questions above first!)

 

Part II. Visualizations and Bias

 

I asked you to find some examples of online texts that used quantitative data. Turn to the person next to you, and take a moment to think about the text you chose. Show your partner the piece; discuss the main idea. Then discuss the following, taking notes to be able to report back to the rest of the class:

• What visualizations do they use?
• Why did the author choose the visualization they did? What is the rhetorical purpose behind it?
• What biases are exemplified in the visualizations? Or, besides informing you of the statistics, what seems to be the purpose or argument of the visualizations?

 

 

• Empirical Research Project – Quantitative Data Component
• Guidelines: Writing in the Disciplines Project

Categories: In Class Writing and Exercises

Tags: empirical research, in class writing, observations, reflective writing