Learned and Remembered

Blog Prompt #10

Joshua C. Cook English 1001 (006)

• identify, respond to, and write effectively for various rhetorical situations

In our reading and discussions of the work Bitzer and Bazerman has done in defining terms like rhetorical situations, speech acts, and genres has helped me identify/respond to these situations. The ideas that was present are built upon and expanded throughout the whole course and there are ideas that help use write effectively for these situations from the entirety of our reading.

• create sustained writing projects that integrate and account for multiple perspectives

A sustained writing project would be the blog posts and discussions that we participate in. The multiple perspectives come from the array of authors we are assigned to read as well as from our fellow students that we write with.

• analyze argument strategies and persuasive appeals and employ them in their own writing

We have done this on occasion but we haven’t been assigned to do much persuasive writing. We analyzed argument strategies of the authors that we have read like Kathleen Yancey, but we haven’t employed the strategies as much.

• develop clear arguments that incorporate ideas and evidence from sources, juxtaposing, integrating, and citing them appropriately

citation and evidence from sources is used in a lot of our writing the major assignments, the blogs, and the discussions all have this. Clear arguments that incorporate our ideas haven’t been done yet so I think that is something that is coming down the line.

• produce successive thesis-driven drafts of increasing quality through drafting, revising, and editing

The major assignments are what is used to reach this goal.

• provide and use constructive feedback on writing

This is done on the peer reviews and by reading the reviews on our own work

• reflect on their rhetorical choices and connect this learning to other writing situations

there is a lot of reflection that is done mostly the assignment that require reflection like the discussion prompts and the prompts that are just for reflection.

• use complex and varied sentence structures and exhibit a writing style appropriate to differing rhetorical situations

This should be demonstrated throughout the coursed within the various different writing tasks assigned such as the blog posts, research papers, peer reviews, and discussion posts.

• demonstrate syntax and grammar control

Syntax and grammar control is demonstrated by the writing that is assigned

• quote, paraphrase, summarize, document, and cite sources accurately

MLA is used and that was taught in middle school, is apparent throughout most of the assignments.

• locate and evaluate print and electronic source material

We do this when ever reading the assigned texts and writing about them in the blog posts and discussions, or when looking for resources for major assignments.

• use electronic media to compose and publish

We do this with our WordPress sites that were setup at the beginning of the course.