Recurring occasion: • When is this particular genre type used as an appropriate form of communication? Content: • What do people say in this genre? • What type of evidence do they use? Structure: • How would it be structured or organized? Style: • How should it sound? • How formal or i

Write a brief story about a time when you were frustrated with writing. • What were the circumstances? Why were you frustrated? To what extent do you feel that you do not need to learn to write? In other words, where do you place yourself on the continuum of novice to expert writer? Locate your

Do you think there are such things as “general writing skills”? Let’s use sports as a comparison. Is there such thing as “general sports skills”? In College Writing and Beyond (2007), Anne Beaufort says, “It is as if there were a course in general ball handling that were intended to teach skills

• Where would you put the writing skills and strategies we’ve learned, in terms of a writer’s knowledge domains? • Which area do you need to spend the most time self-assessing for learning as we progress? What will be your specific process for doing so while writing this upcoming paper? Anne Be

When you post on a social media account and then switch over to sending a text, you have to adapt to the new communicative mode. Perhaps you use more abbreviations in text. Other types of writing are no different - they require that we adapt to the mode of communication. How have you had to ada

A genre is a type of communication that comes from a particular recurring occasion and is used to respond to that same or a similar occasion. For example, one writes emails at work to communicate about problems and progress on business developments, generally. We write texts to stay in contact wi

What specific problems do you anticipate coming across while writing this task, and how will you work to address those problems? What strategies will you use and when? How have you addressed similar problems in past writing tasks? What approaches were particularly effective or ineffective? Why?

Writing takes practice, just like playing an instrument, or learning to cook. In fact, any kind of expertise takes not only a level of knowledge, but the ability to adapt that knowledge in lots of different ways. Consider the following metaphor: “If knowledge is just items in a mental filing ca

FREEWRITE, PART 1: On your own, take a few minutes and write about your experience in ENG-101 last semester: • What was good about it? What did you “succeed” at? • What was not so good about it? What did you “fail” at? • What would you do differently if you had the opportunity to do it over a