1. Wrt 105: practices of academic writing
Dr. Rusty Bartels
Wednesday, August 29th, 2018
Week 1, Day 2

2. Overview Review Assignments Reading Response Assignment Packet
Freewrite
Reading
Mini-lecture
Small group work
Wrap-up

3. Review Assignments
Reading Response
Assignment #1

4. Freewrite What does literacy mean to you?
What does it mean to be literate?
What are some of your literacies?
Share with a neighbor or two
Ask for at least 3 voices to share with the whole class

5. Reading – What’s Literacy?
Purpose – introduce key terms & concepts that
Reflect the conversations happening with the field of writing studies, rhetoric, and composition
Give us some tools to discuss literacy
Two Key Ideas (page 3)
There is a relationship between language & power
Literacy is situated

6. Reading – What’s Literacy?
What this means for me, for us:
We each have our own individual backgrounds, experiences, identities, interests, etc. that inform who we are
As we carry these as authors, so too do our audiences
Literacy, in part, is about navigating these relationships between author/audience, and part of that is knowing where yourself, as an author, is socioculturally located

7. Reading – Key Terms 6 Small Groups Each group will: Define the term
Use an example not included in the text to discuss the term
Present their information to the whole class
Group 1: Purpose
Group 2: Audience
Group 3: Persona
Group 4: Medium
Group 5: Genre
Group 6: Context

8. Wrap-up Today we: Reviewed Reading Response & Assignment #1
Began discussion of literacy
Next time:
Linguistic diversity, then and now
Reading: Students Right to their Own Language
Questions to be thinking about:
How does this text get at the relationship between language and power?
What has your own English education looked like?
What similarities and differences exist between this s discussion and your experiences today?