Wrt 105: practices of academic writing Dr. Rusty Bartels Wednesday, August 29th, 2018 Week 1, Day 2

Overview Review Assignments Reading Response Assignment Packet Freewrite Reading Mini-lecture Small group work Wrap-up

Review Assignments Reading Response Assignment #1

Freewrite What does literacy mean to you? What does it mean to be literate? What are some of your literacies? Share with a neighbor or two Ask for at least 3 voices to share with the whole class

Reading – What’s Literacy? Purpose – introduce key terms & concepts that Reflect the conversations happening with the field of writing studies, rhetoric, and composition Give us some tools to discuss literacy Two Key Ideas (page 3) There is a relationship between language & power Literacy is situated

Reading – What’s Literacy? What this means for me, for us: We each have our own individual backgrounds, experiences, identities, interests, etc. that inform who we are As we carry these as authors, so too do our audiences Literacy, in part, is about navigating these relationships between author/audience, and part of that is knowing where yourself, as an author, is socioculturally located

Reading – Key Terms 6 Small Groups Each group will: Define the term Use an example not included in the text to discuss the term Present their information to the whole class Group 1: Purpose Group 2: Audience Group 3: Persona Group 4: Medium Group 5: Genre Group 6: Context

Wrap-up Today we: Reviewed Reading Response & Assignment #1 Began discussion of literacy Next time: Linguistic diversity, then and now Reading: Students Right to their Own Language Questions to be thinking about: How does this text get at the relationship between language and power? What has your own English education looked like? What similarities and differences exist between this 1970s discussion and your experiences today?