Kickin' it with Ritzenberg and Mendelsohn
HELP! (I need somebody)
Mighty Writerly Moves
U-dub G.O.A.T.
100
Ch. 9, "Feedback," describes these two different types of Feedback Styles. Our course embraces one of them, and eschews the other.
What are Prescriptive and Descriptive?
100
This is something you can do in order to test out your Reader-Based prose.
What is find a new reader?
100
A tension, dissonance, or gap in understanding that, when made sense of, advances our understanding.
What is a Scholarly Problem?
100
Our first essay assignment is called a "_____-_____ Analysis" essay.
What is Single-Text?
200
This skill refers to one's understanding of the conventions of a given genre.
What is Genre Awareness?
200
These small locational phrases and words will help a reader understand the Structure of your essay.
What is signposting?
200
Theorized by Mikhail Epstein, this concept combines the surprising and the provable.
What is The Interesting?
200
This is the number of unexcused absences allowed before affecting one's course grade.
What is 2 unexcused absences?
300
In his book Ignorance, ______ _______ theorizes the term "Knowledgable Ignorance."
Who is Stuart Firestein?
300
Finish the following quote by Nabokov: "A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a ______."
(This skill is a great way to develop complex analyses, counterarguments, and provable Claims).
What is rereader?
300
These are the three components of a Scholarly Problem.
What are Status Quo, Destabilizer, Driving Questions
300
Someone Prof. Anderson has called "the goat" of Writing Studies, in 1981 this researcher theorized reasons why traditional feedback took away the agency of student writers.
Who is Nancy Sommers.
400
Every chapter begins with a story of a scholar working in their field. These opening sections of each chapter are called "___________."
What is Scholar's Story?
400
Where to go to sign up for Prof Anderson's office hours.
What is the courseworks front page?
400
Theorized by Linda Flower, this prose style involves metacognition on a deep level, in which writers place themselves in the shoes of their reader.
What is Reader-Based Prose?
400
Professor Anderson owns this breed of dog.
500
In Ch. 4, "Claims," this swashbuckling, famous 19th century author is compared to V from V for Vendetta.
Who is Oscar Wilde?
500
These are two "tests" a writer can deploy in order to test their draft/paragraphs for Complexity.
What are the Shuffle Test and the Transitions Test?
500
Finish the quote: "being an expert isn't in knowing all the answers, but in ________________________."
What is asking compelling questions?
500
In my alphebatized class roster, these two student's names are the first and last entries.
11:40: Friday Acuna + Angel Yu
2:40: Ethan All + Gil Yarsky
5:40: Daniel Bloch + Jaden Zhu