Wrt 105: practices of academic writing Dr. Rusty Bartels Wednesday, September 26th, 2018 Week 5, Day 2

Overview Overview Freewrite Group conversation Genres shaping action CCCC “Statement on Multiple Uses of Writing” Wrap-up

Freewrite At the beginning of the essay, Heilker writes how “genres may, in fact, be ways of being in the world,” and that discourses, through their constituent genres, “are ways of being in the world through language.” How do you interpret this? What do you think Heilker means by this? Share with a neighbor 3 voices to share

Heilker On page 20, he talks about needing “to be more than I was” With a neighbor Was there a time when you were asked to produce an assignment that made you feel different? Or asked you to embody a different kind of persona or approach than you would usually?

Describe the Room We’re In In Heilker’s discussion, he identifies “ideologies, values, and ideas” that the desk-chair as a genre, and as a technology, convey. As we describe things around us, what are the assumptions behind both our description, as well as the realization of the thing itself? What kinds of ideologies, knowledges, inform those assumptions?

Constraints of Written Genres Limerick Haiku Sonnet Rhyming Couplets Prose

Haiku & Ways of Being Basho Japanese poet & warrior 17th century Haikus Zen Buddhism Haiku: 3 lines 5 – 7 – 5 syllables in length Example: Spring is passing. The birds cry, and the fishes fill With tears on their eyes.

Constraints of Written Genres Think back to literacy narrative… How would you have approached it differently if I told you that you couldn’t use the first person? Or if you had to cite a course reading? Or do additional research? Would you have chosen a different literacy? Would you have the same relationship to it? The same understanding? Now that you’ve written a narrative… How are you different now than before? Are you?

CCCC “Statement on Multiple Uses of Writing” (p28) 6 groups – 1 for each discourse type Questions to answer: Why might it be important for “x discourse” to be taught? How does “x discourse” require the composer to be? What kind of mindset? What kinds of tools or technologies are required to compose in “x discourse”? Do the skills needed for the discourse change if the technologies change?

Wrap-up Today we: Talked about the concept of genres as “ways of being” How composing in a genre, how a writing process, can influence who we are and how we are Next time: Reading: Dirk Navigating Genres