Week 2 PPT from WRA 110.744

4. Entering the Conversation

6. Old School: Writing for the Teacher Writing in college is more than just writing papers for an audience of one. You are writing so that your voice can be heard in the midst of a much larger conversation in which many have participated before you and in which many will participate after you are gone.

8. Old School: Revision is Just Editing Revising a paper does not mean that you simply fix the bad grammar, poor structure, or confusing parts. When you revise in your writing, not only do you fix problematic parts of the paper, but you revise previous ideas, attitudes, and arguments. If I just fix the parts my teacher marked in red, I’ll get an A on this!

10. Old School: A Good Essay Is Always Arranged as a Five Paragraph Theme

12. Old School: Invention is Just Prewriting Coming up with ideas to put into your writing can happen in a variety of ways. There is no set list of techniques for an author to use in order to gather and organize ideas. There are many ways to invent a text. Likewise, there are many ways to invent ideas. Invention is more than just prewriting. A text can use several strategies to invent just as it can invent a variety of strategies. Freewriting! Bubble Graph! Lists! Venn Diagram!

14. Old School: Literacy is Being Able to Read and Write Literacy used to be discussed only in the context of reading and writing. Today literacy is being explored as a more ubiquitous, broad, and diverse topic. Literacy can encompass many forms of communication, personal expression, and interpretation. One can be literate in more than just textual understanding. Literacy! Literacy! Literacy!

16. Old School: The Writing Process is Always Linear Prewriting Rough Draft Revision Editing Final Paper