Reading
the circumstances and reasons why something matters
what is exigence?
What is the primary way academics share their research?
What are scholarly, peer-reviewed articles?
What is the main process for ensuring academic writing is credible?
What is peer review?
another, more current, term for discourse communities
what is community of practice?
What is the name of the author and title of the essay?:
“Of course I stole the title for this talk, from George Orwell.”
What is: Joan Didion, "Why I Write" ?
The circumstances surrounding a text's exigence
what is context?
a process of participating in the scholarly
discussion about a subject by seeking answers to open questions
What is conversational inquiry?
"It represents a transformed way of understanding, or interpreting, or viewing something without which the learner cannot progress." What is "it"?
What is a threshold concept?
list three broad categories of discourse communities
What is recreational, political, social, professional, academic?
Who wrote this?
People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate. (And, if they cannot articulate it, they are submerged.)
Who is James Baldwin?
the view of reading that says texts have a single, fixed meaning
What is the informational view of reading?
You walk into a party and listen in on the conversations happening. When you have a good idea of what folks are talking about, you contribute your ideas. What is this called?
What is the Burkean Parlor?
Name two threshold concepts in writing (think back to week 1).
What is.. writing is a field of study?
What is.. writing is a process?
What is... writing is impacted by identity and prior experience
What is... all writers have more to learn?
What is... good writing is contextual?
What is... Writers collaborate to get things done?
list three of the six defining characteristics of a discourse community
What is...
1. broadly agreed set of common goals
2. mechanisms of intercommunication
3. utilizes a particular genre
4. uses participatory mechanisms to provide inof
5. acquired a specific lexis
6. threshold level of members with degree of expertise
"multi-dialectalism and pluralingualism in one speech act, one paper" - what does Vershawn Ashanti Young call this?
What is code meshing?
Name 3 of the 4 ways to establish exigency
1. audience interests/concerns
2. gap in the research
3. reframing the subject matter
4. radical reinterpretation of knowledge or experience
the heart of a research question
What is Curiosity?
discourse analysis focused on the genre functions of texts, discourse, or activities
What is Genre Analysis?
Who did Hoye say is routinely left out of academic conversations?
Who are Students?
Give the name of the article OR the author's name:
"By emphasizing the importance of one type of discourse over another, librarians can reinforce notions of scholarship that exclude or appear to exclude student participation. In particular, a focus on peer-reviewed journal articles as the gold standard in academic discourse unduly prioritizes certain voices in a format that many students do not understand or feel like they can participate in."
Who is Hoye? or What is "Who is left out of the conversation?"
What does Writing About Writing say will determine whether a reader thinks a text is good or not?
What are values?
some kind of itch, discord, or a sense that something's not right (informs a research question)
What is dissonance?
quantitative and qualititative detailed examination of language-in-use, including word counts, word choice, and prose structure
what is discourse analysis?
A student modifying their language use to fit into an academic discourse community is an example of....
What is The Cost of Affiliation?
What is this the definition of?
"Typified rhetorical actions in response to recurrent situations or situation types"
What is genre?