Welcome to Spring 2024: Week 1 (Wed, Fri)
We will primarily use this platform as our class space. I will post entries as a combination of what to read and what we spoke about in class.
By Monday, January 29, this should be the primary place for us to engage. I will use ELMS for student email as well as the ELMS calendar to prompt you on assignments.
Ideas we will discuss this first week including:
- critical thinking frames
- writing craft skills and choices
- audience-centered writing
- strategic redundancy
- peer revision / drafting
- labor grading
Tools will we use include
- GoogleMeet, compared to Zoom
- Squarespace and this class journal
- Eli Review (you will buy a subscription that is about 20 dollars; Not until week 2)
- Padlet
More on Friday. Most Fridays, I offer a little lesson on science visualization. Enjoy this clip from Twitter->
Find her Science Pusheen series here. Hope this makes you happier. Did you find your field? Or one of the classes you are now taking represented here?
Marybeth Shea
Happy Friday. Ice cream at the Terp shop, anyone? I would.
Today, we demonstrate a few things about how the course works. But first, we loop back (this is a teaching/learning strategy) and
- pick up things not fully explored, as well as
- review things that are complex or important (strategic redundancy).
Counting out is a good way to remember things. Here, looping back has two critical thinking/remembering aspects. Why the characters from Dr. Suess?
New items for thought-->
We will look at some slides (MbS slides linked on SS (nickname for Squarespace)that pick up on the logos/ pathos/ethos rhetorical triangle from classical rhetoric. Go Aristotle! We will look these slides next week, too. Expect to learn about-->
- Audience/Context/Purpose (another triangle from Aristotle).
- Booth's integration of Logos/Pathos/Ethos and Audience/Context/Purpose triangles.
- Burke's use of dramatism in thinking about how to address a rhetorical situation (Shakespeare makes a brief appearance)
- The five canons -- not cannons -- of rhetoric.
- Stasis theory, or how to divide and conquor complexity.
Knitting up (another way to say looping back), let's chat -->
- Labor grading respects the time you must invest in reading. Reading makes good writing possible in so many ways. I give you a grade for doing this reading. Your effort and labor. matter to me.
- Document design is your friend for reading efficiency and recall of idease.
- This Class Journal is a mentor text for you to imitate and adapt for your uses.
Reading expectation for Monday: Please read this reading stratgies guide. The Google doc is layered, with links. Explore those links. You can skim this document due to document design as well as my teaching goal for most our reading: learn the special languages of thinking and writing. We DO NOT HAVE QUIZES to ensure that you reading. Instead, I assume you will read. And, i give you labor grades for the effort.
