To practice giving feedback and meta-revision strategies, make an argument for why the chapters in this book should be presented in a different order.Then, reflect: In your opinion, what is the most important chapter or section from this textbook, and why?

The goal is to make you independent thinkers and learners with various critical choices to make as readers and writers, based on who you are and what you think is important in the world.

recursive

learning that leads to reading, which leads to writing, which leads to research, but that all parts of each process feed into, reflect, and build on each other recursively, or in a more circular way.

Knowing how to summarize effectively and efficiently is a useful tool to have in your writing arsenal, whether in an Annotated Bibliography, or simply to understand any text better by paraphrasing or summarizing sections in your own words

based on similar ideas or claims, or similar categories of ideas.

Yes, you can use Wikipedia…

there is no one perfect source

assume other experts have established the author’s credibility before the source was published.

scholarly sources are generally credible

After reading “Why Historical Thinking is NOT about History,” use evidence from the article to discuss why it is important to carefully evaluate the credibility of a source. What could be some consequences of spreading misinformation?

Did you know that when you do a Google search you might get different results than the person sitting next to you? Google search results are heavily influenced by algorithms, keywords, advertisements, and even social biases.

Here are some additional advanced search techniques to try in Google: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/2466433?hl=en

However, when you reframe the same questions with “How” or “Why,” you will get much richer answers to elicit a more interesting conversation. If you consider the question, “Why is Mickey Mouse the best candidate?,” or “How is Capitalism best?,” then there is something to discuss—a conversation to be had with your authors.

“intrinsic motivation” to research the issue is authentic.

What are some personal experiences you have that relate to larger social issues? 2. Why are these issues important to you? 3. Choose one of these issues to discuss: Why or how would your research of this issue represent an example of “intrinsic motivation” for you?

because they were never taught to read and write

eaningful research involves using the reading and writing strategies we’ve outlined earlier to investigate your own topics that can help you address issues that you and others like you experience, or even think about everyday.

The questions you ask should not be structured in a way that they seek one correct answer, per se, but rather perspectives or experiences of scholars that have come before you

research is about finding answers to a question given to you by your professor. While this may have been true in high school, we would like to propose that a more meaningful research process in college starts somewhere else, in a place far from just finding answers to somebody else’s questions.

MLA (Modern Language Association of America)

Step Two: Consider what you learned from reading your classmates’ drafts or participating in class and include at least one thing you saw in your peers’ draft/s that you will address when you revise.

Middle Order Concerns

Essay Focus—Thesis Statement: does your essay have a clear thesis statement that reflects the assignment’s task? Is your thesis statement sophisticated and clear?  Paragraph Focus—Topic Sentences: do your topic sentences have one topic and your reason for holding this opinion? Do they relate to your thesis statement?Purpose: Audience, Genre, Topic—Why are you writing this paper? Who is your intended audience? What genre are you using to engage them with your thoughts about the topic?Evidence: Do you need to include more evidence to illustrate the topic in your topic sentence (usually three pieces is the magic number to establish a pattern)? Is each piece of evidence unique at illustrating the topic? Might you revise the evidence to make it succinct?Analysis: Do you analyze each piece of evidence, explaining how and why it illustrates your opinion in our topic sentence? Do you need to develop these ideas more so your audience understands your perspective? Is your evidence and analysis balanced, so you have 30% evidence and 70% analysis?Textual Evidence: Does your textual evidence follow the textual evidence sandwich format? Could you paraphrase or summarize the textual evidence or directly quote the source more concisely, so you use more of your words than the author’s?Organization: Essay and Paragraph: Does your essay follow a logical order or do you need to address your points in a different order to make your argument flow and coherent for your audience? Do your paragraphs follow a logical order with one idea leading to and building upon the next one?Framing: Introduction and Conclusion: Does your introduction situate your audience with the topic and purpose of your paper? Does your conclusion continue the discussion by leaving your audience with something to consider or do? Or does your conclusion bring your paper full circle making a connection between your conclusion and introduction?

in ways that you could not imagine

Revision is the real work of writing

careful not to fall in love with your writing

helpful to organize and develop your ideas.

Free yourself from concern of staying on topic or making sense.

set a timer for 30 minutes, remove all distractions (the phone with the alarm on it?!) and write continuously.

first (few) drafts aren’t great.

collecting your ideas

Take breaks to avoid being overwhelmed and losing focus.

Communicating through writing does not go away at a certain point in life.

creating a solid writing process, one that takes time to move through, as all processes do, you may feel the dread fade because you will know which steps to take and understand how each step leads you to your final destination

conduct research when you are in the prewriting step

In at least 100 words, share one helpful and one not helpful experience you have experienced with peer feedback? What would have changed the not helpful experience into a helpful one?(r

Storyline Projects

The Personal Storyline Projec

Read your thesis statement and the body of your paper for this assignment and based on what you have written, write out some ideas about what you might include in your introduction and conclusion in consideration of the assignment and you audience.

Talk

listen to you talk through your paper

Listing

Venn Diagram

Diagramming

In at least 100 words, please explain the process you go through when you write a paper. What steps do you take to move from beginning, middle, and end of a writing assignment?(required) When writing a paper I go through the TEA method. Before even starting this method I may research the topic. While researching the topic I will annotate and skim through different websites to use. Then, I start with deciding a topic/thesis. Whatever I'm writing about should center around this topic. Then, I move on to evidence where I will back up everything in my topic using the research I gathered at the start. Then, I will move on to analysis. I will show how my evidence backs up the topic I have chosen in the text. Name(required)

The Importance of the Act of Reading by Paulo Freire

strategies you can practice and start to internalize as a critical and active reader should help you learn to overcome various struggles in understanding difficult texts that you are bound to encounter in college, and perhaps this class.

draw mind maps

Schema-building: What does “reading” mean to you? Who are you as a reader? How would you describe your reading process? Reading to me is a form of entertainment and expanding my vocabulary. I can read things pretty fast but to retain information I usually have to go back and reread, unless I am annotating. I am not completely sure what my reading process is yet. I usually will skim and come back and read through making sure I get all the information I can.

real interests and passions

When you start to see reading as a conversation with authors, who have life experiences similar to yours, and for some of whom your life experiences could teach, reading engages you in solving real issues in the world that have meaning for you beyond the page.

not a process where information or knowledge is transferred from the page or screen to the reader, who mechanically memorizes the information and that’s it

multiple ways of reading, and that reading and writing are connected.

After reading Writing in Academic Communities, describe a situation when you found yourself in a new "Discourse Community." How did it feel? Did you feel that you had to conform, or that you could be yourself? What cues, conventions, or standards of that Discourse Community made you feel that way? I found myself in a new discourse community when I started going to the gym. I wanted to be healthy and fit. At first I had no idea what I was doing. I had no idea what tracking macros or what compound movements were. The more I talked and researched the more I got a hold on what I was doing. I was completely myself throughout the experience. The standards of the gym community are hard to fall into so I would say I did not completely fit in but I was myself.

How does the author make moves to appeal to your emotions as a reader? How does the author appeal to the emotions of other intended audiences? The author appeals to the reader by saying, "empathy and foresight in a world of technological acceleration and economic ambition." (Hopi Elder, 2020) It appeals to the readers empathy and how to help people connect to life. It almost makes you want to take a step back and look at life as a whole. They belong to the discourse community that believes all life is important.

that genres are also continually changing.

conversation with a new person, and you pick up on their nonverbal cues, mannerisms, and conventions, reading like a writer involves picking up on the language choices, audience, purpose and main message of the writer, as well as the way in which the writer presents those moves within a particular structure, style, and set of conventions

stand apart

text before you start going in-depth

BEFORE starting to read

heuristic

mind mapping, may work better for visual learners

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There is evidence that an adult’s expression of curiosity can be contagious, such that children will explore more on their own than will those with teachers who seem to lack curiosity

To promote the idea of questioning is to swim against the tide.

(How long will I live? Will I be like my parents?) and then to meet in small groups to find points of overlap among their separate questions. They then repeat the process for questions they have about the world (Why do people hate each other? How did religions evolve?),

“I’ll give you time to experiment at recess. This is time for science.” Engel commented: “Just as the children became interested in formulating and answering their own questions — when curiosity, the mechanism that underlies the best learning — kicked in . . . she stopped them.”

students are rarely asked what they’ve been wondering about.

Deep questions help kids to stay curious,

Every minute they’re forced to spend memorizing the definition of a word (“What does nationalism mean?”) is a minute not spent wrestling with ideas (“What would the world be like if there were no countries?”).

Why do people lie?

The least interesting questions are those with straightforward factual answers.

tendency to avoid questioning and a reluctance to express outrage even about outrageous things.

is a minute not spent wrestling with ideas (“What would the world be like if there were no countries?

Why is it so hard to find a cure for cancer? Do numbers ever end? Why do people lie? Why did we invade Vietnam?

immediatelyunderstandablebyall.

Writingisunlike theseotheractivbecause each act of writingisnoastraightforward repetition f whatyou’vedone before.

what makesforagoodpaperinaliteratureclassdoesn’talways’‘‘make foragoodpaperinahistoryclassor an econclass,orperhapseveninanother literatureclasstaughtbyadifferentrofesso

When professors compose assignmentslikethese, they assume youknow how to use your writing to grapple withagenuine problem,puzzle, or question related toacourse;

(It’salso easy to skim andeasy tograde.)

Take risks by exploring questions, topics, and ideas that are new to [you]

Listen

Curiosity

Tutoring is for everyone

Esther Chan

Queenie could have asked for an extension on any of the assignments and have reasonable excuses for doing so, but she chose not to. To focus and reduce distractions, she made the campus library her study area, spending most of her weekends at the library and never missing an assignment or submitted one late. Even when I offered her extra time to complete her assignments, she kindly refused, holding tightly to her work ethic and explaining that she wanted to be a positive role model for her four younger siblings.

passionate about their subjects

demonstrate enthusiasm

freedom

English is not a fixed language

flexible mindset in college

Literature is not my thing

Panic Zone

logical-mathematical intelligence, musical intelligence, spatial intelligence, and interpersonal intelligence

various skills, assets, and learning styles that may not have been rewarded or stimulated in various parts of your education

multiple learning styles

In Freire’s critical pedagogy, or radically progressive way of teaching, the curriculum is framed around the students’ worlds, involves their real issues, desires, and needs, and the teacher can learn from the multiple literacies of the students’ worlds even as they teach them more traditional literacies in school.

In fact, one premise of this book is that all meaningful reading and writing is personally motivated in some way: motivated by your connections, motivated by your passions and interests as students.

relate to your own experience