Threshold concepts
a space where they move back and forth between clarity and confusion, where they start to get a handle on the ideas, then realize they don’t really have a handle on them.
What is a liminal space?
COAS 201.06 Monday-Friday 9-9:50 and 11-12:50
What are her office hours?
Types of texts have recognizable names because they are kinds of writing that recur, happening over and over because they facilitate regularly occurring functions in life.
What is a genre?
Texts say what they say because their writers are motivated by a variety of purposes. If you’ve written a resume, you already know this: Your choices in what to include and how to design and edit the resume are motivated by your desire to impress a potential employer in order to get the job.
What are writers motives?
Information that the reader already understands
What is context
threshold concepts — ideas that are so central to understanding a particular subject that a learner can’t move forward in that area without grasping them.
What is a threshold concept?
Discovery drafts have a 24 hour grace period, and reading logs need to be turned in on time.
What is the stance on late work?
Writers start to find ways to respond to the current situation that work pretty well and other writers just tweak them.
How do genres emerge?
It means that readers make sense of the text by, Readers do so by blending the words they encounter on the page with what they already know or think; they also use their understanding of the contexts in which the text was originally written and in which they’re reading it, and their knowledge of who’s talking in the text, and why they created the text to begin with
What does it mean for readers to construct?
the need or reason for a given act of communication. In conversational inquiry, the exigence for a text is usually that there’s something we don’t know and need to, and writing and reading the text will help more people fill in that missing knowledge.
What is exigence?
they involve adapting our language and meaning to account for the needs, values, and expectations of those with whom we’re interacting.
What is the definition of Rhetorical?
Reading logs
What work can you not turn in late?
Sets of genres set to achive an overarching function within an activity system
What is a genre system?
You should consider both the writers motives and the writers exigence to fully understand the text.
What should you consider when reading a text?
Exigence
Context what else in a good writing?
Multimodality refers to texts that combine multiple modes, such as alphabetic, visual, and aural. Technically, all texts are multimodal because there are no texts that use just one mode.
What is a multimodal text?
A bunch of people with a bunch of posters everywhere and people are like going around and asking you questions about it
What is a symposium?
Genres are not reliable because they are always changing and have different answers to them
Why are genres not reliable?
A rhetorical perspective on reading (or a rhetorical way of reading) emphasizes readers’ and writers’ motives, the need shared by readers and writers which called for the text to begin with, the specific contexts and moments in which the text was written and is read, and the values and expectations that readers bring to the text.
Conversational inquiry
what is a form of social interaction where individuals engage in dialogue to understand another.
Writing scholars want to know things like how we learn to write, how we can teach writing well, how technologies affect our writing processes, why some styles of writing are seen as more valuable than others, how we use writing to accomplish our goals, communicate, and persuade one another.
What do writing scholars want to know?
Do not use ChatGPT unless for things like grammar and writing mistakes
What is the stance on ChatGPT?
Situational elements, Substantive characteristics, styalisrc characteristics, Organizing principals
According to Sonja Foss what are four kinds of questions?
Exigence is distinct from a writer’s motives, though exigence and motives can overlap. In this example, the motives of the writer of the spaceflight article might be (1) to show what the writer knows about spaceflight, (2) to write a really nicely done article on spaceflight, and (3) to make Wikipedia more complete. There are interesting gaps between the way the situation calls the article into being and the writer’s motives for “answering” that call.
How does a writers motives and exigence work together?
Various factors within an environment that can affect behaviors, decisions, and interactions.
What are contextual elements?