CHATegories
Writing Program Terms
GWRJ Articles
Genre Descriptions
AJ Fun Facts
100

A way people can investigate how people participate in the activity of writing "over time with various tools, producing particular kinds of texts for particular goals in particular writing situations."

What is CHAT?

100

The term that describes things that are "typified responses to recurring social situations."

What is genres?

100

Which volume of the GWRJ is "Recreating a Taste of India: Authentic Food, Research, and Literate Activity" by Saima Afreen from?

What is GWRJ 16.1 (the current issue)?

100

An auditory genre that is paired with music and lyrics.

What is a song?

100

The place where AJ was born and raised.

What is Georgia?

200

The term the Writing Program uses "to investigate all of the complex practices people do as writers create texts." Ex: Getting up and walking around while writing a paper.

What is Activity?
200

The term that describes "the activity we do or experience as we take up new ideas, terms, and/or practice."

What is Uptake?

200

What did our final reading of the semester "I Read It from (Back) Cover to Cover" use to talk about Literate Activity?

What is Manga?
200

A written genre with pages with only words written on them. They often have a cover, with a title on the front and a blurb/accolades on the back.

What is a book?

200

The major that AJ is in. (Bonus points if you can recall the focus!)

What is English with a focus in Literary and Cultural Studies?

300

The CHAT term that may be used if someone was unable to write due to the fact they were unable to afford to purchase a computer to write on.

What is Ecology?

300

A term that "describe[s] the complex activity involved in people producing and using texts across spaces and times, in ways that are shaped by our histories, tools, social interactions, resources, bodies, emotions, and relationships with the world

What is Literate Activity?

300

The Writing Program topic that "She Kills You in the End" by Abby Uphoff was about.

What is Genre and Literate Activity?
300

A visual genre that are often around two hours long, with actors in front of a camera.

What is a movie?

300

A particular style of show that AJ likes.

What is anime?

400

The term the Writing Program uses "to investigate how people and institutions interact as texts are produced, distributed, and used." Ex: how society views bullying in schools.

What is socialization?

400

The term that "describes how human communication always relies on more than one singular mode to make meaning."

What is multimodality?

400

The movie normally played around Halloween that “Tonight, My Unconventional Conventionists, You Are to Witness a New Breakthrough” by Cassandra Karn covers in their article.

What is Rocky Horror Picture Show?

400

A written and visual genre that transmits information about upcoming events or cautionary information. Most often, they have a date on them.

What is a flyer/poster?

400

One of AJ's research interests.

What is Social Justice?
500

What CHAT stands for.

What is Cultural Historical Activity Theory?
500

The term that describes "a way of understanding how people communicate across languages and cultural-linguistic situations, relying on our multiple language repertoires and evolving language practices."

What is translingualism?

500

The first GWRJ article we read for the semester, about what CHAT is and why it is important. 

What is CHAT and Literate Activity: Research and Writing Tools for the Complexities You Didn't Call For by Dr. Rachel Gramer and Dr. Joyce Walker?

500

A genre that holds hot liquids. They are most often ceramic and have designs on the outside of them.

What is a mug?

500

One of the two songs AJ added to the playlist at the beginning of the semester that was written by Ricky Montgomery.

What is Cabo?