Writin/ Reading as Inquiry
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This document discusses concepts from a chapter about writing and introduces discussion topics for a class. It covers key beliefs about writing from Bruce Ballenger, such as writing is something that can be taught and everyone can write well. Students are asked to reflect on their own writing process. Reading is also discussed as an inquiry process with purposes of exploring, explaining, evaluating and reflecting. Students are prompted to discuss how standardized testing and social media have influenced how they read.
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Writin/ Reading as Inquiry
- 1. Community Building: Partner Introductions
- 2. Journal Q: What did you find most surprising about how writing was described in Ch 1? What was most convincing? Least convincing? Why? How does that match what you’ve learned/ thought about writing?
- 3. Writing and Reading as Inquiry Jackie Hoermann
- 4. What does it mean to inquire?
- 5. What does it mean to inquire? =/ Rant To communicate, to discover “The best essay topics are an itch you need to scratch.” --Bruce Ballenger
- 8. What’s Fastwriting? No rules. Let yourself write badly. Think through writing, not before. Keep your pen moving. … Silence your inner critic. Don’t censor yourself.
- 9. What are Ballenger’s beliefs about writing?
- 10. What are Ballenger’s beliefs about writing? • Allatonceness • The belief that writing is something that can be taught and that everyone can write well. • It’s okay to write badly—that’s how we can get to good ideas. • Thinking happens while you write.
- 11. What are Ballenger’s beliefs about writing?
- 12. What habits of mind do you need to develop? Start with Q’s, not A’s Suspend Judgment Being Willing to Write Badly Searching for Surprise
- 14. The Rhetorical Situation GASP!
- 15. GASP, there are so many!
- 16. The Rhetorical Situation Genre/Medium Audience Subject Purpose Strive for a gasp-worthy reaction on your reader’s face after s/he realizes your handle on the rhetorical situation.
- 17. The Rhetorical Situation When might you use GASP in later college classes? In your future careers?
- 18. Reflecting on the Writing Process
- 19. Reflecting on the Writing Process “In short, the more we understand the writing process, the more control we get over it. Getting control of the process means the product gets better” (Ballenger 16).
- 20. Reflecting on the Writing Process “In short, the more we understand the writing process, the more control we get over it. Getting control of the process means the product gets better” (Ballenger 16). What does your writing process look like?
- 21. Reflecting on the Writing Process “In short, the more we understand the writing process, the more control we get over it. Getting control of the process means the product gets better” (Ballenger 16). What does your writing process look like? Recursive. Flexible.
- 23. Reading as Inquiry Let’s make a class list. Call out key points.
- 24. Reading as Inquiry Discussion: What are your beliefs about reading? Do they ring true to how he described, the assumptions you might have about reading? What were the most important points, in your mind?
- 25. Reading as Inquiry Purposes: explore, explain, evaluate, reflect. Frames: genre, audience (you), subject, purpose. (Ballenger 46).
- 26. Reading as Inquiry How has standardized testing influence how you read? How about social media?
- 27. Reading as Inquiry It’s time to talk back to what you read.
- 28. Reading as Inquiry Later, we’ll do this with double-entry journaling (for the more research-oriented pieces).