{"id":519,"date":"2016-09-23T22:12:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/?page_id=519"},"modified":"2016-09-23T22:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-24T02:12:40","slug":"clarifications-corrections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/clarifications-corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Clarifications &#038; Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; line-height: 1.3em; color: #00838f; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">What does the journal requirement have to do with the paper\/s? How are they related?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 120%; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 2px;\">Reason #1: The Journal Helps Fulfill the First Four Course Objectives\u2026<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 50px; font-size: 90%;\">from the <a href=\"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/syllabus\/\">syllabus<\/a>&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"schedule\" style=\"margin-left: 70px; border-left: 2px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 15px; font-style: italic;\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 7px;\">use texts as stimuli to critical thinking through writing;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 7px;\">unpack the arguments in a variety of texts and mediums to reveal their methodologies and purposes;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 7px;\">examine the rhetorical patterns in a variety of texts, genres, and mediums to broaden your writing strategies;<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 1px;\">position your own arguments in the contexts of others;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 120%; padding-left: 20px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-top: 1.5em;\">Reason #2: Looking ahead\u2026<\/div>\n<div class=\"schedule\" style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Third\/last essay asks you to \u201csay something\u201d in the context of a conversation about a topic (or an issue within a community, etc).<\/li>\n<li>You wouldn\u2019t jump into a conversation without listening first.<\/li>\n<li>You wouldn\u2019t start speaking about topics you know very little about.<\/li>\n<li>You wouldn\u2019t talk into the void\/at a wall. (you might, but that\u2019s not rhetorical)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 120%; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 2px; margin-top: 1.5em;\">Reason #3: Journal Overview &amp; Rationale<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 50px; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">from the <a href=\"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/journal\/\">journal<\/a> link&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 70px; border-left: 2px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 15px; font-style: italic;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\">Inquiry demands engagement because exigence doesn\u2019t happen in isolation. Exploring a topic, becoming informed, and finding motivation to think and write happens in cooperation (and conversation) with other voices, ideas, research, and writing. Knowledge (episteme) is negotiated in language\u2013it\u2019s created, extended, and applied in the symbols we use to communicate. For that reason, you should think of language surrounding your topic as a conversation (between thinkers, ideas, positions, etc.).<\/div>\n<div>To motivate and document your engagement in topical conversation, and to explore ideas in writing (and about writing), you will keep a self-directed journal from now until the end of the semester.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; line-height: 1.3em; color: #00838f; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">What is this paper (Essay 1)?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 120%; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 2px;\">Essay 1: Surveying the Conversation (\u201cListening In\u201d) 4\u20135 pgs<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 50px; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">from the <a href=\"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/essay-1-surveying-the-conversation\/\">essay 1<\/a> link&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 70px; border-left: 2px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 15px; font-style: italic;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><strong>Assignment:<\/strong> Write a 4-5 page expository essay that demonstrates a functional literacy of your topic, understanding of the conversation, and your ability to perform broad rhetorical analysis.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Discussion:<\/strong> To do this, you must identify\/explain your (broad) topic, summarize\/synthesize the conversation (including it\u2019s location\/s, and major perspectives, point\/s of debate, approaches to discussion, and rhetorical appeals). In other words, you must not only summarize\/synthesize what is being said, but how it\u2019s being said. In addition to providing exposition, analysis, synthesis, and summary, your essay should also answer the following questions: Who are the stakeholders? What are the stakes? Who cares? Why?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; line-height: 1.3em; color: #00838f; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">Where are we going?<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 120%; padding-left: 20px; padding-bottom: 2px;\">According to the syllabus<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 50px; font-size: 90%; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">from the <a href=\"https:\/\/techrhet.com\/3310\/syllabus\/\">syllabus<\/a> link&#8230;<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 70px; border-left: 2px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 15px; font-style: italic;\">\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><strong>Essay 1: Surveying the Conversation (Listening In)<\/strong>, 4-5 pages: Write a 4-5 page expository essay that demonstrates a functional literacy of your topic, understanding of the conversation, and your ability to perform broad rhetorical analysis.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: 1em;\"><strong>Essay 2: Issues in Conversation<\/strong>, 6-7 pages\u2026????: Pick an issue (important, popular, or divisive) within the conversation on your topic. Write a paper that explains various perspectives on this issue, addressing at least five different sources. Rather than presenting the issue as having two sides (those for or against something), explain more than two points of view, showing the complexity of the issue. At some point in the paper, take your own stand or articulate your own perspective, but be sure the majority of the paper explains the larger conversation surrounding the issue.<\/div>\n<div><strong>Essay 3: Add to the Conversation (Say Something)<\/strong>, 8-10 pages: Write a well-informed[3], smart[4], conference style paper theorizing an aspect of your topic.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; line-height: 1.3em; color: #00838f; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">In the immediate&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"schedule\" style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday, 9\/25 @ 11:59pm \u2013 first two self-directed journal posts due.<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 9\/28. I\u2019ll write an example essay 1. We\u2019ll talk about it (how it fulfills the essay description and assignment guidelines). Begin meeting in CU 122.<\/li>\n<li>Friday, 9\/30. We\u2019ll talk about Cultural Artifacts (starting the middle third of the semester, second essay cycle)<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, 10\/5. \u201cPolished\u201d Draft Due for Peer Review &amp; Workshop<\/li>\n<li>Friday, 10\/7. Revised Draft Due for Instructor Feedback. Continue discussing Cultural Artifacts\/Essay 2.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size: 150%; font-family: 'Roboto Slab'; line-height: 1.3em; color: #00838f; margin-top: 2em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;\">While we&#8217;re at it&#8230;<\/div>\n<div class=\"schedule\" style=\"margin-left: 50px;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Please call me Julia, Dr. Mason, or Professor Mason.<\/li>\n<li>Please don\u2019t ask about excused absences. You get four personal days. Period. (Why?)<\/li>\n<li>Please do not ask \u201cdid I miss anything important?\u201d It&#8217;s insulting.<\/li>\n<li>Please read the materials provided to you.<\/li>\n<li>Please check the website regularly.<\/li>\n<li>Please arrive on time. If you don\u2019t, you need to let me know or else you\u2019ll be counted as absent (accidentally)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does the journal requirement have to do with the paper\/s? How are they related? 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