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Umbrella or BridgeDiscourse communities as the centerpiece of FYC Chris Friend / @chris_friend / University of Central Florida

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Umbrella or BridgeDiscourse communities as the centerpiece of FYC Chris Friend / @chris_friend / University of Central Florida

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The Scenario

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✤ Flexibility of writing process ✤ Strategies for responding to rhetorical situations ✤ Skills for reading complex textsThe ✤ Understanding how conventions, lexia, &Curriculum genres are situated w/in discourse communities

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High-School Precedent✤ Transactional✤ Unknown audience✤ Goal: Test-passing✤ Artificial & high-stakes

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The Assignments✤ Process Analysis✤ Rhetorical Analysis✤ Discourse Community Ethnography

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The Problem

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Duplication

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“The staff at therestaurant where I work is a discourse community.” ×25 per class. Every semester.

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Missing Expectations

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Students identified adiscourse community butdid nothing with that info. We wanted analysis/ extension/conclusions.

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The Task Force

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Our Mission

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We were tasked withfinding a new approach to DCs that could helpstudents apply, not juststate, their knowledge.

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The Dirty Work

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We decided to create asequence of assignmentsand evaluation rubrics— helpful, but overkill. And hard.

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The Solution

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Course Sequence Major Units Major Units Writing Process Rhetorical Analysis Definitions CharacteristicsDiscourse Community DC Ethnography Authority Genres Writing Process Rhetorical Analysis

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Course Timing Major Units weeks 1–4 Writing Process weeks 5–6 Definitions7 weeks? week 7 Characteristics Are you DC nuts? weeks 8–9 Authority weeks 10–11 Genres weeks 12–15 Rhetorical Analysis

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The PhilosophiesUmbrella and Bridge

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We see DCs as bridgingother units together and as umbrellas, containing several concepts within.

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Assessment

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Definitions Evaluates term’s function to✤ Purpose: Understand A show knowledge construction specialized language & its use in academic Illustrates how specialized B definition enhances meaning conversations✤ Supporting text: None Explains differences in C definitions from book; students look up specialized definitions D States that definitions differ

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Characteristics Evaluates how characteristics A form group identity✤ Purpose: Understand what a DC is & how it Illustrates hierarchy of B characteristics w/in the group functions✤ Supporting text: “The Explains (w/ examples) how C group meets characteristics Concept of Discourse Community” by Swales D States that group is a DC

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Authority✤ Purpose: Understand how & Evaluates how authors’ use of why authors adjust writing for A authority is appropriate for each different audiences audience✤ Supporting texts: Illustrates how citation & ✤ “Learning to Serve” by B authority work as negotiation Mirabelli ✤ “Reading & Writing Without Explains (w/ examples) styles of Authority” by Penrose & C citation, quoting, and Geisler establishing authority ✤ “Identity, Authority, & States difference in authority Learning to Write in New D between articles Workplaces” by Wardle

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Genre✤ Purpose: Identify the Evaluates how DC uses genre in A “furtherance of its aims” origins, use, affordances, & constraints Illustrates intertextuality w/in B genre samples✤ Supporting texts: ✤ “Generalizing about Genre” by Devitt C Explains scene of genre’s use ✤ “Intertextuality & the States genre is used in specific DC” by Porter D scenario

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Assessment Goals✤ Clarity✤ Flexibility✤ Simplicity✤ Focus

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The Application

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Confidence

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Students comfortablyand competently usedthe vocabulary of DCs.

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Repetition/Redundancy

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Repetition/Redundancy Major Units✤ Repetition: Writing Process Characteristics include lexis and genre Definitions Characteristics✤ Redundancy: DC Authority requires Authority rhetorical analysis Genres Rhetorical Analysis

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Audience

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Students wrote to anartificial audience—me.Still needs to be fixed.

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Thank you. Chris FriendTwitter: @chris_friendEmail: friend@ucf.edu

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Gratitude: Visual Credits✤ Color scheme (You are beautiful) ✤ Stormtroopers by JD Hancock by Sanguine on colourlovers on Flickr✤ Umbrella and bridge title images ✤ Luke Alike courtesy Microsoft ✤ Maybe He Won’t Notice✤ Old schoolhouse by ✤ Stupid Garbage Compactor… WarzauWynn on Flickr ✤ Guard inspection by Defence✤ Bullseye from Rob Ellis on Flickr Images (UK Ministry of Defence)✤ Rocket failure by jurvetson on on Flickr Flickr ✤ Teacher’s apple by Forty Two on✤ Thumbs-up by wynner3 on Flickr Flickr