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Composing Analytic Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

    due dates:
  • 3/11 Draft for Peer Re­view
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop — fi­nal­ize Web­text De­sign
  • 3/15 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 9


M 07-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: sources fi­nal­ized; notes on all cat­e­gories — use Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
    (make a copy and com­plete)
     
    → cre­ate out­line (essay/webtext sec­tions) & be­gin draft­ing
     
  • re­view: objec­tives, top­ics, strate­gies — an­a­lytic writ­ing for pur­pose & au­di­ence
     
  • Activity/focus: orga­ni­za­tion, arrangement/sections, out­line
    — Pur­due OWL — Out­lines
     
    next steps: out­line top­ics; be­gin draft­ing — for Peer Re­view Fri­day




W 09-Mar hy­brid work

  • Draft Project Sec­tions (web­text pages)
     
  • dur­ing class time: Post in dis­cus­sion thread be­low “sta­tus up­date” & class­mate re­ply (see de­tailed prompts)
     
    » rhetor­i­cal & com­pos­ing strate­gies for draft — espe­cially sections/topics (ratio­nale), address­ing imag­ined audi­ence, help­ful re­sources con­sulted, etc.
     
  • for Fri­day, con­sult the De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
    — be­gin con­sid­er­ing form (web­text with vi­sual me­dia), if not yet de­sign­ing
     




F 11-Mar  Project Work­shop:

  • Peer Re­view ac­tiv­ity — draft due

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment, ana­lytic writ­ing style, audi­ence con­sid­er­a­tions
     
    » Peer Re­view Guide — Google Doc
     
  • in­tro: project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast)
     
    *look­ing ahead: cre­ate web­text project (for Mon­day work­shop) — fi­nal ver­sion due 3/14 PM
     








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Information Paradigm

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up ex­er­cise:
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ex­er­cise due Sat 27-Feb


Week 8


M 29-Feb  read/discuss: chap­ter from Day (2001), The Mod­ern Inven­tion of Infor­ma­tion (pp. 7–36) PDF in D2L

→ Quotes Doc be­low

  • focus/discuss: de­vel­op­ing ideas from/beyond Rhet Analy­sis to­ward Project
     
  • Con­tinue re­search — finding/choosing rep­re­sen­ta­tive ex­am­ples, sources schol­arly (ar­ti­cles & books) and on­line (share/consult info, com­mu­ni­cate in dis­ci­pline, etc.)




W 02-Mar hy­brid work — com­ment & re­ply in thread be­low — see Dis­cus­sion Prompts:

  • dis­cuss Day Chap­ter 2 (cont’d) + your project/topic
     
    Vaid­hyanathan (2011): “The Googliza­tion of Knowl­edge: The Fu­ture of Books” (149−73) PDF in D2L
     
  • watch video: Brain­Craft — “What is a Fact?” PBS Dig­i­tal Stu­dios (2015)


→ All week: con­tinue se­lect­ing sources and devel­op­ing ideas for project, notes & exam­ples for each issue/category…

    spe­cial­ized dis­course of your field/discipline in “Infor­ma­tion Par­a­digm” —
    Infor­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Exper­tise, Re­search, Argu­ment, Evidence/Proof,
    Dis­course com­mu­ni­ties, and com­mu­ni­ca­tion con­ven­tions (rhetorical/written).



F 04-Mar  Ac­tiv­ity: project warm-up → iden­tify top­ics of spe­cial­ized dis­course of your field/discipline

  • dis­cuss ex­am­ples from Day & Vaid­hyanathan read­ings
    + from     your se­lected sources
     
  • fo­cus: top­ics for project → cre­ate out­line
     
    » Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
     
     
    *look­ing ahead: gen­er­ate notes (com­plete “work­sheet” guide) & cre­ate out­line; if pos­si­ble, be­gin draft­ing sec­tion of project (for Mon­day work­shop)
     





Rhetorical Analysis

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up ex­er­cises:
  • An­no­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy due 21-Feb (in D2L)
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ex­er­cise due Sat 27-Feb


Week 7


M 22-Feb  Ac­tiv­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of se­lected article/source (from A-Bib)

  • fo­cus: gen­er­at­ing in­sights and ideas for Project 2 through analy­sis
    → see guide PDF & page @ Silva Rhetor­i­cae
     
    *use ar­ti­cle from A-Bib, or choose an­other for ex­er­cise
     
  • dis­cuss: stages/steps, process, time­line for Project
    → be­gin­ning with an­a­lyz­ing one schol­arly ar­ti­cle for ob­ser­va­tions & ideas
     
  • con­tin­ued top­ics: iden­ti­fy­ing & defin­ing defin­ing In­for­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Ex­per­tise, “Re­search,” Ar­gu­ment, Evidence/Proof in field/discipline
    → “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties” & rhetorical/written con­ven­tions



W 24-Feb hy­brid work :


→ con­tinue “step 1” of rhetor­i­cal analy­sis through/for Fri­day…



F 26-Feb Ac­tiv­ity: Ex­er­cise warm-up 

  • review/discuss: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis ob­jec­tives and strate­gies
    → tran­si­tion from ideas from analy­sis to pre­sent­ing crit­i­cal points for re­sponse (group/connect top­i­cally, with con­cise ex­am­ples and fram­ing lan­guage).
     
    plus, if time: iden­ti­fy­ing types of ar­gu­ment
  • progress to­ward project: dis­cuss ob­ser­va­tions about con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­nity, type/s of knowl­edge, and “in­for­ma­tion par­a­digm” (world­view)…



    • » due (27-Feb) Ex­er­cise 3: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (of 1 schol­arly ar­ti­cle)

Expert Fields

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    *re­minder: Project 1
    due M 08-Feb: Video (class-time) & Sum­mary (9pm on blog)



Week 5

M 08-Feb Dis­cuss: Project 1 out­comes + Unit 2 top­ics & goals

  • fo­cus: in­sights from video about belief-story mode (for reflec­tion blog en­try);
    about public/social genre/mode — audi­ence — cir­cu­la­tion (pub­lish to site/social me­dia?)
     
  • (new unit topic) Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of Dis­ci­pline Com­mu­ni­ca­tion; Project 2
    —start­ing point: “sketch” of your major/field (initial/current view of dis­ci­pline, infor­ma­tion, spe­cial­ized dis­course)



Blog En­try: Project 1 Re­flec­tion

  • 200 words, infor­mal; due Tues­day 09-Feb (9pm)
  • sug­gested: share your video on­line (your choice) for more spe­cific dis­cus­sions of public/social con­ven­tions, audi­ence, cir­cu­la­tion

» Prompt: re­flect upon Unit 1 & Project 1 and dis­cuss your in­sights from cre­at­ing your video (and con­sid­er­ing pub­lish­ing on­line for pub­lic au­di­ences). Ad­dress any/all top­ics we have dis­cussed: what you’ve learned about the con­nec­tion of be­lief and story (as a par­a­digm and a mode of com­mu­ni­ca­tion); con­ven­tions of nar­ra­tive, par­tic­u­larly as a public/social genre (in terms of language/style) and as a networked/online form (per­haps with un­ex­pected view­ers and cir­cu­la­tion?); how view­ers might re­spond to your video (com­ment, share, tell you a per­sonal story, cre­ate their own) — es­pe­cially con­sid­er­ing how you’ve con­veyed the belief/value through nar­ra­tive and rhetor­i­cal choices for this project. Be sure to note at least one point of “take­away” from the unit, con­cern­ing be­lief as a form of knowl­edge and nar­ra­tion as a dis­tinct mode of com­mu­ni­ca­tion.
 



W 10-Feb hy­brid work:

  • watch Unit Overview Video
     
  • Dis­cus­sion in com­ments be­low:
    share     your ini­tial “Field Sketch” (brief list + me­dia)
    and on­line source in/for your dis­ci­pline (find + fol­low)
    — class­mate re­ply: compare/contrast (points of dis­tinc­tion or sim­i­lar­ity)
     
    *Note: you might ad­di­tion­ally re­ply to a classmmate’s blog en­try, with a short com­ment on their post (op­tional / ex­tra par­tic­i­pa­tion credit)
  • prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day: iden­tify representative/recent read­ing & assign­ment from your ma­jor (an­other course) — to bring/reference in dis­cus­sion next class


F 12-Feb Read for dis­cussion: Ouel­lette, “Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Exper­tise as Knowl­edge and a Tech­no­cratic Gen­er­a­tion” Recon­struc­tion 10.2 (2010)

  • Fo­cus: “exper­tise,” rhetor­i­cal con­ven­tions, & “infor­ma­tion” of (your) field
    — use/reference major-course reading/book and assign­ment as ex­am­ples
     
  • look­ing ahead: be­gin compiling/browsing (re­search) for Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy (due 02/21) — first exercise/component of Project 2