Reading Yourself Reading Others Negotiating Difference Agenda for week 3 class 1: 1/27/09

Goals for today Note the updates to our class website: note revised due date! Drawing Upon Last Class: Negotiation with Community Organizations: Brief reports on first meetings Drawing upon your homework: Reading Yourselves Reflect on our rhetoric for writing in the public interest Assign Homework: Review the template and assignment for the genre analysis. Bring artifacts from first meeting with organizations to class next time!

Group Work Negotiation will happen in at least three different sites with this work: Organization Within Group Class & Ellen

Group Work cont.’ Trustworthiness is created over time as partners (from Module 4): –Give value and worth to each other's feelings, needs, thoughts, ideas, wishes and preferences –Fulfill their agreed upon responsibilities –Interact in open ways without hidden agendas –Show their belief in and caring for the partnership

Group Work cont.’ Identify the resources that they bring to the partnership Identify their needs (i.e., what they individually seek to gain from the partnership) Identify the partnership needs (i.e., what they collectively seek from the partnership) Share the resources to meet individual and collective needs

Reading Ourselves Identify the privileges you enjoy (take out your homework from chapter 3 page 136 Box 12) –What challenges and opportunities might these present? –What privilege (including knowledge and skills) don’t you have that might help you to meet your goals?

Activity As a group building exercise: –Use the points from the previous slide to outline your reports from your first meeting. –What resources do they bring to the partnership? –What types of professional writing are they asking for? –How do they understand your role in the partnership? –What are you positioned to offer? –What do you know and what do you need to know?

Brief Reports: TCI Team TCI

Brief Reports Team TCI Team UV Team CB Team AIC

Brief Reports: Team UV Team UV

Brief Reports: Team CB Team CB

Brief Reports: Team AIC Team AIC

Writing in the Public Interest: Our Rhetoric So Far

Homework Bring an artifact from your organization to class Make sure to read the genre assessment assignment Download, print and begin to work on the genre assessment template Reminder: A draft of your paper is due on 2/3.