1. MAPS & CRAP Reading Artifacts
Agenda for week 3 class 2:
1/29/09

2. Goals for today Survey what you know about Reading Artifacts MAPS CRAP
Analyzing your artifacts: Gathering Ideas
Assign Homework: Draft of your genre assessment paper due on 2/3; 3-5 pages plus the artifact

3. Reading Artifacts What is a literacy artifact?
What might these tell us about your organizations?
How do you suspect professional writers can use these to help them learn about organizations?

4. A Cultural Artifact
These meeting agendas and minutes are part of this university as an organization.
Model an analysis of this literacy artifact.
MAPS/CRAP

5. MAPSC: Corbett & Connors
Our thoughts here
Mode
Audience
Purpose
Situation
Culture

6. CRAP (Robin Williams)
Our thoughts here

7. Your Literacy Artifacts
Using either MAPS or CRAP begin an
analysis of the literacy artifact from your organization in your notes.

8. Writing in the Public Interest: Our Rhetoric So Far
Triangulate: Define
How can we triangulate our initial genre assessments?

9. Homework Bring an artifact from your organization to class
A draft of your paper 3-5 pages is due on 2/3.
Print one copy and photocopy or print out a page of the genre you’re studying for your reviewer.