Thursday, October 18th (.210)

We are back in business, ladies and gentlemen. Today we will dive head-first into our Intersections Project by identifying potential audiences for our genres. We will also have a slightly more formalized discussion of research and finding credible and scholarly sources. Let's go!

Hulk likes credible sources and we like Hulk!

Reminders

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Today

• Audience

• Think about our Intersections Project, the ideas we discussed at your conferences, and those you included in your Research Proposals.

• Begin by listing specific audiences you could target with your "writing" for the Intersections Project. What type of people are interested in your purpose? Who needs to hear/use the information that you are planning on putting out into the world?

• Now, below your original list, choose your top three potential audiences. ​

• Do not be general and say Americans. Pinpoint specific groups you want to target. Why do you want to target them? What types of writing are they exposed to?

• ​Why did you pick these audience(s)? How would they benefit from engaging with your work?​

• If you get stuck, do a little research. You aren't going to magically know the answers to all of these questions, but you can find them.

• Credible vs. Scholarly

• Credible implies that the article is well researched and relatively unbiased.

• You can help determine the credibility of a source by using the The CRAAP Test.

• You can find many different types of credible sources online, but it is important to review them to make sure you are getting legitimate information.

• Scholarly implies that the article is for use within an academic field and has been peer-reviewed by other scholars with expertise on the subject.

• ​One way of limiting your online search to scholarly sources only, is to select the "peer-reviewed" limiter on your document search in the library databased.

• Why should you care?

• Research and knowledge has value...you have done some reading about that, yeah?

• Proof of labor. The quality of your sources can literally SHOW your audience the amount of work you put into a project.

• Huh, audience, also a kind of important concept.

Homework

• Read

• "Bickmore's "Genre in the Wild: Understanding Genre Within Rhetorical (EcoSystems)"

• "The Genre Does Not Stand Alone: Genre Sets and Systems" ​

• Naming What We Know

• Threshold Concept 2.1 "Writing Represents the World, Events, Ideas, and Feelings"​ (p.37)

• Write

• ​You are in process with your Discover Logs and GDDs.

• This Discovery Log and all those after it, should be focused on research that could assist with the Intersections Project.

• ​The overall format and requirements should remain the same. You are just conducting more focused research with an emphasis on credible and scholarly sources.