Writing Two @ UCSB

Writing 2: Academic Writing. Given that academic writing composes knowledge, we will work with a broad understanding of academic writing that includes composing knowledge in a variety of contexts-- in and outside of universities. Course Details: Writing 2, section 4000 Enroll code 57042 Time: 11am-12:50pm Location: HSSB 1210 Professor: Dr. Patricia Fancher Office: South Hall 1516 Email: pfancher at writing.ucsb.edu Office Hours: T/Th 3:30-5:30 Sign up for a meeting here

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Portfolio Instructions

For the cover letter, reflect on what you have learned about writing in this course. This should include: 

How would you define good writing?

Explain

Support with personal examples or experience with writing. This can be writing in the class and can include writing outside of this class. 

Rubric for portfolio:

Cover letter: 

1 - Thoughtful discussion of what makes good writing. 

2 - Support with personal examples

Revisions:

1 - Address major points of feedback

2 - Demonstrate that you can improve the overall quality of your writing, especially its rhetorical effectiveness. 

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Tuesday To Do

Submit your revision plan on tumblr. 

1 - What projects will you revise?

  2 - For both projects, what do you feel confident about?

  3 - For both projects, what do you know needs improvement?

4 - Create a detailed list of things that you want/need to change, revise, improve, add, or alter.

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terms from class discussion

Terms from the semester:

genre conventions, discourse community, ethos - credibility, logos - reasonable logical, pathos - emotion. epistemic framework, inductive - every day way of reasoning. deductive - scientific. Toulmin - evidence - claim, warrant, backing, rebuttal, qualifiers (express limitation: “on of’ ‘part of’ verbal qualifiers: suggest, indicates, assumes, correlates, In some case,)

  Kinds of sentences:

simple sentences, complex and compound(2 subjects and 2 predicates),

passive (to be verb) and active (active verbs)

  Kinds of citation:

citation style -

links or not,

format: parenthetical, footnotes, endnotes.

use the citation as evidence -

indirect vs direct citation -

paraphrase and quote

rhetorical forms: metaphor, analogy, simile

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Thursday To Do

What do you feel confident about regarding WP3?

What do you feel unsure about regarding WP3?

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Tuesday To do

You have two things do today:

1 - A blog post in which you create a Toulmin diagram of the argument found in your article for a general audience. 

2 - Your PB 3.2 is due today. The instructions for this can be found on the project description. Feel free to ask me any questions. I prefer this to be submitted via email. 

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Tuesday To Do

Post the two articles that you will analyze for WP3. This should be one scholarly/research article and one article for general audiences. 

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Thursday To Do

Group activity:

Goal: based on writing, what can you learn about how knowledge is produced and shared?

  Question 1 - What is the ‘they say” and what is the “I say”

Question 2 - What discipline is this from/for?

Question 3 - What counts as a fact or evidence for this field?

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Announcement: New Due Dates

Writing Project 2 will be due on Tuesday 11/18. That class will be dedicated to finishing your projects. I will update the schedule accordingly. 

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Due Thursday

Nothing! You lucky ducks. Keep working on your projects

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Groups for Editing WP

Group 1 - Chumach history to SB  http://www.nps.gov/chis/historyculture/nativeinhabitants.htm

2 - Spanish Colonial Revival to Architecture of SB

http://www.architect.com/spanish_revival.html

3 - Santa Barbara History

http://www.independent.com/news/community/history-101/?page=1

http://www.independent.com/news/2010/oct/26/carrillo-family/

4 - SB architecture

http://www.independent.com/news/2006/may/18/pearl-chases-legacy/ 

http://www.independent.com/news/2009/oct/07/history-santa-barbaras-building-heights/

5 - Museums section of SB

art museum: http://www.sbmuseart.org/information/about.web

contemporary gallery http://www.mcasantabarbara.org/history-and-staff

6 - Funk zone added to BS neighborhoods, history or use this to revise culture section

http://www.independent.com/news/2011/oct/06/history-funk/

7- The court house history

http://www.independent.com/news/2006/aug/22/q-what-is-the-history-of-santa/

8 - IV History of Halloween

history of Halloween

http://dailynexus.com/2014-10-30/history-of-halloween-in-i-v/

http://dailynexus.com/2010-10-25/biggest-college-party-california-history-isla-vistas-halloween/

9 - Feminist hist of iv

http://dailynexus.com/2014-05-30/a-forgotten-critical-feminist-history-at-ucsb-and-why-its-still-important/

10 - Burning Down the Bank of America

http://dailynexus.com/2005-02-23/burning-down-the-isla-vista-bank-of-america/

http://dailynexus.com/2002-02-25/this-week-in-history/

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Tuesday To Do

For both of your genres, post your list of main rhetorical choices. In addition, post the purpose or goal that you want to achieve for each of the rhetorical choices. 

Tip: this does not have to be in a table since Tumbr doesn't allow easily for tables. 

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Due Friday before Midnight

Project Builder 2.1 – Annotated Bibliography

 After looking over several sources, select 3-5 sources for your Wikipedia project that will be most useful. These must be sources that will be considered reliable evidence for Wikipedia. 

Compose an annotated bibliography of these sources. For each of your sources write:

1- MLA citation of the source

2 – Summary of the source’s content/argument 

3 – Explanation of how the source contributes to the Wikipedia article. 

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Thursday To Do

1 - links to your sources

2 -  link to the article that you are going to edit in Wikipedia

3 - what is your ethos number

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Tuesday To Do

For your blog tonight, you need to do this tutorial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students

Complete the entire tutorial. Take a screen shot of the final screen when you have finished. This is a really important training for Wikipedia. And it will take about an hour. 

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Use this link to find WikiProjects. These will often list articles that need more content. 

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Check out this recent article on Wikipedia's coverage of Ebola.