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

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

3. 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

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. Constraints of Written Genres
Limerick
Haiku
Sonnet
Rhyming Couplets
Prose

7. 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.

8. 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?

9. 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?

10. 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