20% of final course grade
You will be offering three presentations this
semester, one with a partner (comparing and
contrasting two different disciplines), one with
a group of your peers (on Mike Rose’s The Mind
at Work) and one by yourself or with a partner
(a comparison of the points of contact found
between school literacies and those beyond the
school—much more on this below).
Field Project
(10% of final course grade): You are responsible
for understanding and presenting the literacy
requirements of TWO disciplines (or three if you
are working in groups of three). This entire
project will be completed and presented in your
Writing Group
within the first month of the semester.
Occupational
Literacies (5% of final course grade):
In order to gain an even more productive
understanding of what we mean by occupational
discourse communities and—eventually—what this
exploration may have to do with writing for
college, I would like for us to spend some time
unpacking these literacies via the various
occupations examined in Rose’s study, The
Mind at Work. Each group will be
assigned a chapter from Rose’s book to review.
Some will analyze plumbing, some the work of
hair stylists, some the work of the electrician.
Rose’s study focused on manual and service work,
so this exploration may or may not bring up
things you will discover yourself as you
generate plans for WA4. It will, however, offer
a productive analysis of Rose’s major claims,
which we can then work from in your fourth
writing assignment.
Comparing
Familiar with Academic Literacies (5% of
final course grade): (1) I would like for you to
research a very familiar literacy that is not
school-based. (2) I would like for you to
develop a list of at least five “strategies”
literate users employ in that particular
discourse community (in order to be considered
“literate). From these, (3) articulate at least
three “points of contact” between the literate
practices of the discourse community studied and
those considered typical of the academic
discourse community. (4) Finally, identify at
least one area of conflict between these two
literacies (“points of dissonance”). |
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