• Think about the types of evidence your discourse community values. Consider: What types of evidence does your community value? What will you use? Examples? Quotes? Hypotheticals? Primary research? Secondary research? • Now think about the sources you plan to use for your research argument.

Situation: You are at the end of this course and have completed several writing assignments. Think back to your experiences writing these assignments, several of which overlapped with one another. You were likely more successful with some assignments than others.

Imagine you are now re-shaping your essay into a blog - how would you need to change it? • What adjustments would you make to the content? • How would you organize the content? Be specific. • What stylistic choices and changes would you make? Be specific. Now, choose another medium into whic

Self-review your rough draft using the ADAPT Revision Strategy! Self-assessment is a purposeful tool to help you keep the rhetorical situation in mind. Revision doesn't happen by chance. Expert writers become accustomed to thinking rhetorically about revision; that is, they evaluate drafts of th

You’re using several domains of knowledge to meet the expectations of this assignment and write this paper. For each, how comfortable are you with each on a scale of 1-10 and why (10=high)? For your two lowest rated areas, what resources can you access to improve your knowledge in that area and r

Situation: You have just written a Letter or Inquiry to your target funding organization. Awareness of the rhetorical strategies that you used to write this letter is an important writing skill. Think about how you approached this task. Writing Directions: De

• 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

In “Literacy Assessment: Definitions, Principles, and Practices,” (2018) the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) calls for student engagement as a key assessment practice: Students engage in literacy assessment as self-reflective literacy learners. Literacy reflective practices includ

What tools, skills, knowledge and resources did you use to complete this writing task? Which did you already have and which did you need to acquire (research/learn/discover)? For example, who is your audience in this task and how did you address that audience? Write a letter to a peer in this

What choices did you make as you were writing, based on what you knew or learned? How did you make adjustments because of emotions you encountered (if they were negative), or how did you take advantage of them (if they were positive)? In what ways did you (or in what ways could you have) a

Part 1. “Good communication includes using an appropriate genre.” Explain why. Part 2. How are you going to convey the knowledge that you learned today in your rhetorical analysis? (What previous skills will you use from here or elsewhere?) Where do you think you will put it in your rhetorical

We have been practicing using stasis theory to generate ideas and content for your issue questions. At the same time, we've reflected on the fact that these argument types are all around us in our everyday lives. What is an upcoming opportunity in which you might use one or more of the argument

Think about the process of drafting this writing task. 1. Draft an outline of the steps you used to complete this task. 2. Then, analyze the outline and answer the following questions: • What was challenging? • What seemed to come more easily? • What can you discover now, thinking back, a

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

Before submitting your Final Proposal assignment please write a one-page, multi-paragraph reflection letter that addresses each of the following questions: 1. Person. How does this task illustrate that you have progressed as a writer? How successful were you in compiling this proposal with your f

Situation: You have spent several weeks learning about the genre of grant writing, the important relationship between funders and grant seekers, and the techniques for successful grant research and writing. Think about how the rhetorical situation of this class has impacted you as a writer.

During this project, what were some of the emotions you encountered? Were they generally positive or negative? To what extent did they enable you or hinder your performance? To what extent did you draw on previous knowledge, either from this course or previous courses? Make a list of some of t

Read the sample and answer the following questions based on the assignment criteria: • What stands out to you about the introduction? • Identify the thesis statement. What stands out to you about it? Describe the scope. • What types of evidence are used to support claims? • To what extent d

1. On a scale of 1 – 10, how often do you stop and think about what you need to know before you write something? 2. On a scale of 1 – 10, do you think you have enough knowledge to write this task? 3. What do you know a lot about and what do you know less about? Please name them.

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