1. Wrt 205: critical research
Dr. Rusty Bartels
Monday, April 1st, 2019
Week 11, Day 1

2. Overview
Freewrite
Lemberg
Wrap-up

3. Freewrite What are your thoughts of the term “civility”?
How have you heard “civility” be used as a term or concept in recent months/years?
What does “civility” have to do with writing? Ethics? Civic discourse?

4. Lemberg – Round 1 The Twitter Thread as a Genre
How does this genre affect the information presented within it?
What are formatting constraints the author has to consider?
How do you see that affecting Lemberg’s composition?
If you decided to create a twitter thread as your non-essay genre, what kinds of composition choices would you have to make? What would your process look like?

5. Lemberg – Round 2
According to Lemberg, how do civility, politeness, and power connect to each other?
What academic and public conversations does Lemberg draw on to explain the concept?
In what ways do you see “ethics” and “civic discourse” being a part of this conversation?
How do discourses of “civility” appear in your own topics?

6. Wrap-up
Today we:
Used Lemberg’s twitter thread on civility to think about [a] genre constraints in non-essay genres and [b] connections of civility to power, ethics, and civic discourse
Next time:
Reading: 3 links on the course website about web design accessibility
Focus: Exploring Accessibility in Web Design
Due: Short Response #4 (last one!)