Annotated Readings, due 2/20/19

Naming What We Know Section 2 Pt 1 (Dani):

● 2.0

○ Writing has fewer opportunities for social clues/setting the proper context than speech

■ “With writing, the need for understanding the rhetorical situation is even greater than in speaking because there are fewer material clues with which to locate ourselves spontaneously.”

○ Recognition of situation happens through genre

○ “People often take school-based assumptions with them long after they leave school, [...] and finding their main motives to be avoiding correction and getting a good grade.”

● 2.1

○ “...we think the world and the meaning of our ideas are more robust than the words we choose”

○ “...most of what we consider knowledge comes from the representation of the world and events in texts.”

● 2.2

○ Genres are enacted/a social action

○ “...genres are habitual responses to recurring socially bounded situations.”

○ “Genres are constructions of groups, over time, usually with the implicit or explicit sanction of organizational or institutional power.”

■ No single text is a genre

■ Genres are only relatively stable

2.3 Writing is a Way of Enacting Disciplinarity(Lerner)

>The relationship between disciplinary knowledge making and the ways writing and other communicative practices create and communicate that knowledge are at the heart of what defines particular disciplines.

>The way certain disciplines cite things show what they deem important( ex APA=requires date, so timeline is relevant), (ex2 MLA= just last name shows reference is timeless)

>They way certain fields write or have been formed to write their material is significant of what they value. You would never get a scientific report and a short story confused.

2.4 All Writing is Multimodal(Ball Charlton)

>The New London Group (NLG) outlines five modes through which meaning is made: linguistic, aural, visual, gestural, and spatial.

>a mode is not simply words, but also sound, texture, movement, and all other communicative acts that contribute to the making of meaning

>This understanding can be traced from classical rhetorical studies of effective speech design including body and hand gestures to current concerns with info-graphics and visual rhetorics.

>There is no such thing as monomodal, it is a dream word of the past

2.5 Writing is Performative (Lunsford)

>Writing is a performance.

>Words often cause action or do the act upon which they speak of("I now pronounce you husband and wife").

>Writing can make things happen

>Writing has the possibility to also be epistemic.

>Writing not only records, but it can also create

2.6 Texts get their Meaning from Other Texts (Roozen)

>Texts draw from many other texts. Almost like a network.

>terms for this network: "landscapes, sets, systems, ecologies, assemblages, repertoires, and intertexts"

>Text is never stand alone. Text refers to a multiple amount of things that go on day to day life.

>Winnie the Pooh might rely on the fact that the character is visually well known

>A grocery list is most likely based on the last list, as well as the visual of the coupons that one might have.