First Day Jitters
This was the date of the first day of class.
September 27, 2023
"'We're going to have to control your tongue,' the dentist says, pulling out all the metal from my mouth. Silver bits plop and tinkle into the basin. My mouth is a motherlode."
"How to Tame a Wild Tongue"; Gloria Anzaldúa
Engaging in a variety of (re)vision techniques, including (re)brainstorming, (re)drafting, (re)reading, (re)writing, (re)thinking, editing
Outcome 4
Make rhetorically ___________ choices
Effective
The clue I am reading had an example of a shift in this
Tense
This homework assignment was given on the first day of class.
"Introduce Yourself!"
"I get compliments like 'your English is so good' and 'you don't even have an accent.' If those are compliments at all. Here's my question, though: why is it so important for me to speak perfect English? Would it make a difference if I spoke with an accent?"
"Embracing Multilingualism and Eradicating Linguistic Bias"; Karen Leung
Recognizing how different elements of a rhetorical situation matter for the task at hand and affect the options for composing and distributing texts
Outcome 1
Language and _________ are inextricably intertwined.
Its the typographical mark that is missing in the first line of this clue.
Apostrophe
Name three statements from the Icebreaker Bingo activity
Knows how to read tarot.
Is a middle child.
Can curl their tongue.
Hates coffee.
Gardens.
Has lived in another country.
Wears contacts.
Can do a cartwheel.
Has a favorite pen.
Is left-handed.
Has the same birth month as you.
Has a pet other than a cat, dog, or fish.
FREE SPACE
Has had a pen pal.
Met a celebrity.
Has read an entire book series with 5+ books.
Is double jointed.
Is wearing mismatched socks.
Goes all-out on holiday decorating.
Collects something.
Likes pineapple on pizza.
Has been in a parade.
Uses a search engine other than Google.
Has written an online product review.
Prefers thin crust pizza.
"Under a developmental hierarchy, in which some were undeterred by pain and oppression, and others were waylaid by their victimry and subalternity, damage-centered research reifies a settler temporality and helps suppress other understandings of time. Desire-based frameworks, by contrast, look to the past and the future to situate analyses."
"R-Words: Refusing Research - Axiom I"; Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang
Using citation styles appropriate for the genre and context
Outcome 2
Writing is a process of ___________
Discovery
In a sentence, this noun and its verb has - excuse me, have to agree in number
Subject
Rhianna insulted this person in order to make a point.
Chiharu
"The silence is also reproduced in the textbooks and popular writings that are the prime sources on global history for the literate masses in Europe, in the Americas, and in large chunks of the Third World. This corpus has taught generations of readers that the period from 1776 to 1843 should properly be called 'The Age of Revolutions.' At the very same time, this corpus has remained silent on the most radical political revolution of that age."
"An Unthinkable History: The Haitian Revolution as a Non-event"; Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Gathering, evaluating, and marking purposeful use of primary and secondary materials appropriate for the writing goals, audience, genre, and context
Outcome 2
Writing is a __________ process
Recursive
Flout, meaning "to show scorn for," is often confused with this word meaning "to show off"
Flaunt
Rhianna initially claimed the class was about this topic
Hobbies
"In their theories of loops and self-referencing, David Levary and his colleagues explore how words, definitions, and concepts are interrelated. Their research examines lexical networks – which we can, here, in a small way, liken to the aforementioned social systems and cellular networks. Their study shows how distinct semantic ideas remain coherent even when new words are introduced into the network. Levary and his colleagues use etymological data to show that even as new words disrupt and reimagine the broader definitional and conceptual ideas, this is done within a self-referencing system."
"Diachronic loops.deadweight tonnage.bad made measure"; Katherine McKittrick
Designing/organizing with respect to the demands of the genre, situation, audience, and purpose
Outcome 3
As always, __________
let me know if you have any questions (or something to that extent)
8-letter term for a "sentence" error. Found in the present clue.
Fragment