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
This is the "so what" of a Claim — how it matters in the real world.
What is Stakes?
100
This is what happens when caught using AI on a Final Essay of a draft, according to our syllabus/department.
What is a meeting with Prof Anderson, a 59/100 on that assignment, and a conduct report with CSSI?
200
This skill refers to one's understanding of the conventions of a given genre.
What is Genre Awareness?
200
This is the document you can return to in order to better understand the expectations of the assignment.
What is the prompt?
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
Finish the quote: "being an expert isn't in knowing all the answers, but in ________________________."
What is asking compelling questions?
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
These small locational phrases and words will help a reader understand the Structure of your essay.
What is signposting?
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