Contexts of writing, rhetorical triangle, generative writing for first assignment.

2. WRITE:
In your own
words,
summarize the
main points
made in the
introduction of
Opening
Conversations
OPENING CONVERSATIONS

3. Write your
summary of
Opening
Conversations
as a text
message. Once
you’re done,
send it!
OPENING CONVERSATIONS

4. CONTEXTS

5. CONTEXTS IN “SPLINTERED LITERACIES”
What contexts shape Amanda Hayes’ writing?
What different audiences does she write for, and
how does that change how she writes?
What does she define as a text, or as literacy?
In her life, what kinds of literacies are valued where,
and why?
What does her story help you understand about your
own contexts and experiences with writing and
literacy?

6. UNIT 1: SELF AS WRITER
Your first essay will explore the ways you have been
and currently are a writer. By working through a series
of generative writing exercises, you will produce an
essay targeted toward a personal audience—our
class—that is focused on one or two moments
illustrating the ways you have been a writer in one or
more contexts. You should write a personal, descriptive
essay exploring a central idea about who you are as a
writer, asking yourself: how does the specific writing
situation or context shape and influence what we write
and how we define ourselves as writers?

8. List all the
contexts that
shape your
writing (personal,
cultural, familial,
spiritual,
academic, etc.)

9. List specific
moments of
writing you
remember from
your past

10. List places where
you write or have
written

11. List audiences
you have written
for

12. • Look at your list
of contexts,
moments, places,
audiences
• Choose one item
on your list to
write about in
more detail
• Free-write about it
for five minutes
GENERATIVE WRITING

13. GENERATIVE WRITING
Share what you wrote about in groups of 2-3. Discuss
strategies for drafting Unit 1:
• What elements of your generative writing stand out to
you?
• What do you plan to use, or expand upon?
• Did you write about anything that you could use as
inspiration for your homework? Do you still possess any of
the actual pieces of past writing that you listed during
generative writing?
• Where will you go from here?