Final Project Overview and Explanation.

Rhetorical Knowledge

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes

Define:
Explain:
Develop facility in responding to a variety of situations and contexts calling for purposeful shifts in voice, tone, level of formality, design, medium, and/or structure

Define:  This means I can differentiate my writing by changing the way I sound and the organization of whatever writing task I am given.

Explain:

Critical Thinking, Reading, and Composing  

Use composing and reading for inquiry, learning, critical thinking, and communicating in various rhetorical contexts

Define:  I can write and read to ask, learn, think, and communicate in different ways.












Locate and evaluate (for credibility, sufficiency, accuracy, timeliness, bias and so on) primary and secondary research materials, including journal articles and essays, books, scholarly and professionally established and maintained databases or archives, and informal electronic networks and internet sources

Define:  I can find research materials and determine if they are appropriate to use for my writing and I can use them in my writing.

Processes

Develop a writing project through multiple drafts

Define: I understand that writing takes many tries.

Develop flexible strategies for reading, drafting, reviewing, collaborating, revising, rewriting, rereading, and editing

Define: I have many ways to complete my writing tasks.


Learn to give and to act on productive feedback to works in progress

Define:  I can work with others and help them complete their writing projects.

Knowledge of Conventions





Develop knowledge of linguistic structures, including grammar, punctuation, and spelling, through practice in composing and revising

Define:  I have practiced over and over and now I can write in SWE.


Practice applying citation conventions systematically in their own work

Define:  I'm able to employ in text and in sentence citation and a works cited.

Practice Entry:

Rhetorical Knowledge;

Gain experience reading and composing in several genres to understand how genre conventions shape and are shaped by readers’ and writers’ practices and purposes

Define:   This means I have read and can write different types of things, and I understand how the rules for those things are created by what other writers do.

Explain: I have read different types of essays in the class, and I’ve also read two novels.  I read Bron’s problem/solution essay, and I’ve read Robert’s rba.  Both of these helped me understand the conventions of those types of essays, but more importantly, I’ve written my own as well, and I know that different writing tasks have different rules.  For example, in my journals, there are no rules, and I often abbreviate or break the rules of grammar, because that writing is just for me.  Here is an example from my Journal:  “……………………………………………..”  What’s more, I have even combined genres in my article essay.  I had to use description, narration, research, and problem/solution, plus a little argument when I wrote, “……………………………………..”   This is an example of description.  In the same essay, when I wrote, “………………………………………………..” this is an example of research.  All of these examples show that I understand that different rules apply to different things.

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