Find Your Way
This is where you should look each week to find detailed readings, activities, and homework.
What is Canvas/the weekly roadmap.
Your first major project asks you to explore a significant experience involving literacy, language, communication, and/or composing.
What is the Literacy Autoethnography?
True or false: Every major assignment receives a percentage or letter grade.
Correct response: What is false?
On Wednesday, September 9, the class is required to attend this performance at DPAC.
What is Much Ado About Nothing?
Complete this question you’ll hear throughout the semester: “What _____ I do here?”
What is could?
Most homework is due on Canvas on this day and at this time.
What is Friday at 11:59 p.m.?
Project 2 invites you to choose between these two genres.
What are the Stance in Opposition Argument and the New York Times Magazine–style “Letter of Recommendation”?
These are the three broad areas used to determine your midterm and final course grades.
What are engagement, completion, and learning and growth?
Every student is required to visit this Notre Dame resource at least once during the semester.
What is the Writing Center?
This is our course theme: “Making Meaning: Writing, Rhetoric, and ________.”
What is the Composing Imagination?
You should bring these three things to class every day.
What are a paper notebook, a pen or pencil, and a laptop or tablet?
In addition to writing Project 2, you’ll design one of these and give a three-minute presentation.
What is a material artifact related to your composing process?
You’ll have this many required one-on-one conferences with Prof. Shumake during the semester.
What is three?
The syllabus permits generative AI to serve in this role, but explicitly says it may not serve as the author of work you submit.
What is a documented assistant/collaborator?
Instead of merely recording ideas you already have, the syllabus describes writing as this kind of activity.
What is a mode of inquiry?
This online archive contains exemplary first-year writing that we’ll use as mentor texts.
What is Fresh Writing?
Project 3 asks you to practice observation and rhetorical listening as you participate in this kind of experience.
What is an embodied ethnography of a tabletop gaming experience?
Instead of accumulated point totals, assignments ask you to demonstrate fluency with these.
What are the Student Learning Outcomes?
True or false: Prof. Shumake expects you to be a “good writer” from the first day of class and avoid making mistakes.
What is false?
This helps you perceive relationships that aren’t immediately obvious and consider what your writing might become.
What is the composing imagination?
If none of the available office-hour appointments work for you, this is an appropriate next move.
What is contact Prof. Shumake to arrange another time?
Rather than beginning an entirely new writing project for your final portfolio, you’ll substantially revise one of these.
What is Project 1 or Project 2?
This assessment approach emphasizes flexibility, evidence of growth, multiple attempts at learning, and moving away from the pressure of perfection.
What is universal writing assessment?
You may request this many no-explanation-needed extensions on a major unit assignment, provided you contact Prof. Shumake at least 24 hours before the deadline.
What is one?
Planning, drafting, sharing, responding, revising, and editing are all evidence that writing is this, rather than simply a finished product.
What is a process?