Genres
According to Wardle and Downs, this term refers to recurring types of writing with recognizable features and purposes.
What are genres?
These people wrote Writing about Writing
Who are Elizabeth Warren and Doug Downs?
The act of thinking about what you know and don't know.
What is reflection?
What must you find in the text to construct meaning that reflects the author's intended meaning?
Context
Professor Hejnar is from this state
What is Colorado
A genre that tells true stories about a person’s life, written by that person.
What is autobiography?
Elizabeth warren and Linda Adler-Kasser used this method when researching writing together
What is Conversational Inquiry?
category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
What is a genre?
What is the exigence of the text and why is it important to understand it?
Exigence is the “need or reason for a given act of communication” (Wardle and Downs, 2022, p. 44.) Understanding the exigence of a text is critical, as it allows one to read rhetorically, construct richer meaning, and ultimately understand and comprehend the text on a deeper level.
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What is the College of Art & Science (COAS)
This genre often uses rhyme and meter to express emotions and ideas in a condensed form.
What is Poetry
This topic in the book was discovered by Elizabeth Warren and Linda Adler-Kasser while researching writing in different settings
What are Threshold Concepts
The fundamental human desire to write.
What are writers' motives?
What is one reading strategy you can use to help you in reading Writing about Writing?
1.Leave plenty of time for reading. 2.Consciously connect at least some part of each piece you read to your own experience as a writer. The readings have been chosen specifically to allow you to do that. 3.Read the backstory of each piece, which you’ll find in the “Framing the Reading” sections. 4.These introductions give you background knowledge necessary to understand the pieces themselves more fully. 5.Look in the glossary for definitions of boldfaced words in the chapter introduction or the “Framing the Reading” section. These are specialized terms that you’ll encounter in the readings. 6.Use the “Getting Ready to Read” section to help you focus your reading and develop additional background knowledge to make sense of the texts. 7.Look over the “Questions for Discussion and Journaling,” “Applying and Exploring Ideas,” and “Meta Moments” before you read, so that you can get a further sense of where to focus your attention while you read. This should help you be selective in your attention, rather than trying to read every word in the article in equal depth. Read with your favorite search engine and Wikipedia open so you can get instant definitions and background, and so that you can learn more about the authors by quickly researching them
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What is Ireland
A genre characterized by a serious tone, often involving realistic characters and emotional themes, but is not necessarily fiction or non-fiction.
What is Drama?
Writing scholar Amy Devitt describes what as "Sets of genres interacting to achieve an overarching function within an activity system"
What is a genre system?
The need or demand for writing.
What are exigencies?
What is one of the four kinds of questions writers can consider when looking at a new or unfamiliar genre?
1. Situational element analysis questions: “What conditions (situations) call for the genre? 2. Substantive characteristics/content analysis questions: “What sort of content (substance) is typically contained in this genre? 3. Stylistic characteristics/form analysis questions: “What form does this sort of genre take? 4. Organizing principal analysis questions: “What makes this genre what it is? What are the common denominators of the genre?
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This genre blends scientific facts with imaginative storytelling, often exploring futuristic or speculative concepts.
What is science fiction?
Dr. Smith uses this writing idea to describe his kinesiology research
What is a genre system?
Applying or adapting knowledge in different tasks.
What is far transfer?
When you are in an unfamiliar situation or are asked to write a kind of text you don’t remember writing before, what is one of the questions you can ask yourself to be reflective and meta-aware?
1.What is this like and not like that I have done before? 2.What needs to be different? What examples can help me identify differences and similarities to what I have written previously? 3.What else do I need to learn? 4.Am I flexible about what the writing should be like, or am I “guarding” something that I know how to do and feel unwilling to change?
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