Monday, November 6th -- T.C. 3.4 & 3.5 and Drafting Day
When your professor tells you that your topic for symposium is really good...
Reminders
Wednesday, November 8th -- Mock Up Due in Seminar
Monday, November 13th -- In-class Seminar Canceled
Wednesday, November 15th -- Compinar for Mock Symposium
Monday, November 20th -- Compinar Play Day
Wednesday, November 22nd-Sunday, November 26th -- Thanksgiving Break
Wednesday, November 29th -- Exam 3 & Online Day for ENGL 1302
Friday, December 1st -- First Year Symposium Presentations
To Do List
10 minute Warm Up
How is your symposium presentation going?
NWWK Threshold Concepts 3.4 & 3.5 Discussion
Get into your own chosen groups and discuss how the reading went this weekend.
What questions do you have?
How did these readings relate to the First Year Symposium?
How can we use these two readings to help us achieve our ENGL 1302 goals?
Does writing impact our professional identities?
How does having multiple identities and ideologies impact, and help, our writing?
Drafting & Research Day
Here are your options...
Redraft your proposal
Work on your First Year Symposium Mock Up
Work on your research -- if you are convinced you have hit a dead end, you need to start looking at current events. Where is this being discussed right now? Remember -- you're wanting to continually enter into conversations. Those current events are your conversations!
Proposal Draft Notes
Too broad of a topic -- Don’t want – “My research is on Jane Austen”. I want “My research is on the impact of the seawall, as a type of island, upon the characters in Jane Austen’s novel Persuasion.”
Needing to bring something new to the table and NOT just regurgitate what’s already out there.
Way too basic in the third section of how this impacts your identity as a writer and what you’re hoping to get out of the process.
Click here for the speech outline. (Due for Seminar on BB November 13th).
When you're reminded that the mock symposium is in less than two weeks so you decide that it's time to start eating your feelings...
Homework
Read Threshold Concepts 5.0 and 5.2 and complete the following Reading Response. Make sure you're fully answering the questions, using your own language, and using textual evidence to back up your argument. (Due Wednesday, November 8th)
Questions, comments, and overall concerns about this reading?
Define "cognition"
Define "metacognition"
What's the difference between the two -- generally speaking.
What's the difference between the two -- when discussing our writing.
How does this threshold concept (writing is cognitive) relate to the four other threshold concepts? Explain.
Redraft your proposals. (Due Friday, November 10th)
The "Getting to Know You" Blog Post for this week is "Study Habits". Make it uniquely you. Your one requirement is that I want you to discuss your own study habits at the beginning of the semester, versus now. IF they have changed discuss that. If they haven't, then discuss why. It could be that it just what you're doing now is perfect for you, or maybe you are struggling and just haven't made a change yet, but know you need to. (Due Monday, November 13th)
Mock symposium presentations (Due Wednesday, November 15th)
Things To Do
