Weekly Notes and Advice |
This week we complete students' arguments for an academic audience and introduce the argument for a public audience. Be sure to provide students with options for the publication they will target and spend enough time discussing the use of visual rhetoric as this can be one of the biggest challenges for this argument. You will also want to emphasize making choices based on a new writing situation (particularly audience).
Please remember to provide lesson and course connections each class day and to introduce and conclude your lessons along with providing transitions between activities. |
Connection to Course Goals |
This argument draws on all the skills we have worked on this semester and reinforces the course goal that writing is a series of choices. Like Portfolio 1's letter to the editor, students will take their academic arguments and revise them to meet the expectations/limitations of a different context/writing situation: an audience of a publication of their choice. |
Goals for this Week |
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Activity Ideas: Academic Audience Workshop |
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Activity Ideas: Introducing Argument for a Public Audience |
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Activity Ideas: Introducing Visual Rhetoric |
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Required Readings and Assignments |
Assign the following to students this week:
Additional Teaching ResourcesYou can utilize the Writing Studio's Analyzing a Target Publication (located under the toolbar's "Activities and Guides" and then "Writing Activities") to help students analyze their publications this week. |