General Knowledge
What does a community need to be a community?
People
Both not only present evidence, but also explain the relevance of the evidence to the claim.
What is outlining?
Outlining is the process of laying out the main ideas, key concepts, supporting details, and evidence to be included in the paper.
What is your guiding question?
How do members of a community interact within or around their community, and what knowledge is beneficial to ensuring that communication is effective?
True or False: Communities are composed of people, not places or things.
True
Can communities benefit others outside the community?
Yes
Why do we quote?
The main reason to quote material in your speech is to reinforce your words. A quotation offers a second voice that echoes your thoughts, beliefs, and claims.
False, but Finley likes you so much that he has given you sooooooo many resources and templates to help you if you need outlining inspiration.
After picking your community, what will you be doing in the first part of the essay?
Start by describing the community you’re analyzing - what are its characteristics, who are its members, what skills, attributes or technologies are required if any, where is it located, and what happens in this community?
How do you provide evidence for your claims?
When describing or making claims about the community and their writing, look for opportunities to illustrate examples in detail and discuss the rhetorical significance. For example, can you tell that a piece of writing is written for a particular audience, or can you evaluate the probable rhetorical situation around a written genre?
What is a sub-genre, and how does it relate to community?
A smaller and more specific genre within a broader genre/ community.
You have just used a quote in your essay. What now?
1. Explain quote in your own words
2. Connect the quote and explanation to the overall goal of your paper
True or False: You can outline after you have written your essay.
True, it's called reverse outlining. Why do we do this?
After discussing components of your community, what will the next part of the essay be addressing?
Analyze the writing that occurs in this community.
How do you analyze in depth?
Point out the obvious, but look below the surface. The writing examples in your community might seem like common practice, or might not need to be explained in extensive detail in your opinion. But you can’t have too much analysis. Be sure you’re looking beyond the surface and examining the rhetorical strategies behind the writing. When you analyze, you provide your readers/audience with insights into how and why certain decisions were made or a particular move is made by a writer.
Why did you write your project proposal?
A project proposal concisely describes what your project hopes to accomplish, why those objectives are important, and how you intend to achieve them. In more general terms, it makes a case for what you plan to do.
What style are we writing our essay in?
MLA (What does MLA stand for?)
True or False: There is a specific outlining method we want you to use for P2.5.
False
How will you be analyzing the writing which occurs in this community?
Examples (How many examples should you be using?)
True or False: Revisions from the P2 Rough Draft and the Final Draft deal mostly with grammar, and we only have to make a couple of changes.
False
What is your specific community and at least one example of writing you will be analyzing from the community?
IDK, its not my essay!
Where can we find resources on MLA formatting and templates (which module and which day)?
Week 7, Wednesday, 10/5- What is a Project Proposal?
What questions do you have about outlining?
If you asked a question you get 500 points!
How long will your P2 essay be?
5-7 pages (single spaced, which is about 2500-3000 words)
What are the requirements for the reflection for the P2 essay?
2- to 3-page reflection piece to accompany your analytical essay as a way of conveying your thinking and your rhetorical choices made in the analysis. (More info is forthcoming.)