Annotated Readings, due 1/16/19

Adler-Kassner & Wardle: Naming What We Know 1: (Writing is a Social & Rhetorical Activity): 6th reading

>We are always writing to someone anytime we write

>“Writing puts the writer in contact with other people”

>“The act of creating ideas, not finding them, is at the heart of significant writing”

>Kassner and Warle talk about the rhetorical triangle, which is: writer, audience, and text

>Physical writing is often important to how people act and interract with one another

>Writing is methodical and thought out often, and often times very far from how normal speech is

>What is "good writing"?

>“A book is a machine to think with”

Murray: Writing as a Process, not Product: 7th reading

> Murray starts by saying that, “conscientious, doggedly responsible, repetitive autopsying doesn't give birth to live

writing”

> The process of discovery through language

> Main steps: Prewriting, Writing, Rewriting, Re-everything

> Murray says Prewriting often is 85% of the process time as well.

> Murray lists 10 implications:

> Implication #1: text of the writing course is the student's own writing

> Implication #2: student finds his own subject

> Implication #3: student uses his own language

> Implication #4: students should have the opportunity to write as many drafts as he wants

> Implication #5: students are encouraged to attempt any form of writing

> Implication #6: mechanics come last

> Implication #7: there must be ample time for the process

> Implication #8: papers are examined to see what other choices the writer might make

> Implication #9: students must explore in their own time/way

> Implication #10: no rules, no absolutes

Layered Literacies: A Theoretical Fram for Technical Communication Pedagogy(Cook): 8th Reading

>Cook makes the arguement for the necessity of technical writing/communication course. It turns out some schools were churning out engineers that were illiterate, so there was a refocus on technical writing for engineers.

>Cook introduces the idea and important of literacy in this case, where we wanted people to know the "basics" reading and writing

>However, nowadays since litearcy is more widespread, literacy became more than just the rules and the foundations, it became more about understanding writing and clarity.

>Then Cook goes on to name 6 important literacies worth mentioning first.

>Cook argues that these literacies while are not all the possible types, are the ones that can encompass and fit a majority of frameworks

>They are: basic, rhetorical, social, technological, ethical, and critical.

>Since the world is more globalized, there are multiple literacies we have to employ in a multitude of ways

>Cook brings up a good idea of an assignment they employ, which is a mock interview process.

>There are readings, videos, and weird questions. Cook makes the point that students need the literacy to understand what interviewers are asking them in certain cases, and if that is appropriate or not(ethical), and then responding appropriately(Social).