HR: asked Major Garriott how the ideas presented looked CONNOR DONLAN

The Code:

“the composing behavior exhibited by the student and charting each behavior on a continuum” (620)

Behaviors:

Specific ways writers continually write and ways that they write.

Specific behaviors:

Fluency, editing, prewriting, writing

Fluency:

The measure of knowledge of a topic.

Editing:

Revision process of writing

Prewriting:

When given the opportunity but not told to do so prewriting was ill planned. Prewriting is brainstorming ideas before writing out the whole essay.

Writing:

The process of developing and manipulating an argument

WINSOR

Written Models:

ideas that are meant to teach a student, seen as unsuccessful because they need to be supplemented with more analysis

Genres:

“a solution to a common rhetorical problem in an area” (644)

I have been reading various things and working on applying the skills I have learned on multiple papers in order to enforce the knowledge I need in later writing situations.

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Think about your own background (cultural, religious, regional, etc.) and community contexts. How do you think these contexts have affected your attitudes toward literacy?

HR: copied the prompt from the syllabus and the names mahiri and sablo

Connor Donlan

My background as a white roman catholic that has gone to Catholic School for my whole life has positively affected my attitude towards literacy. I have a desire to learn and increase my literacy in all subjects; this comes form a supporting family that wants me to succeed.

the conference started at 0850 and I had class at 0900

1. VMI is trying to develop leadership literacies and academic literacies.
2. Experts have power over the novices and can control what the novices due. The class system is the best example of the power dynamics within the corps.
3. My role is a novice and the only power I have is to strain. I know this from the rules set in place by experts, the general committee.
4. The knowledge that is being produced is the ability to endure hardship and integrity.
5. I am a consumer of the knowledge but also a producer every time that I strain hard.
6. Being a rat dynamically changes all literacies because it restructures how you think and act.

Homework: In “The Joy of Reading and Writing: Superman and Me,” Alexie discusses the role Superman comic books played in his literacy. What texts and event were central to your learning—both positive and negative?

I had to go to a reading program at my school for slow readers when I was in elementary school. That positively affected my literacy because it gave me a desire to read. My mom also made me read for an hour pretty often in order to help me read faster.

Malcolm X gained power by taking power away from the “white man” because he knew his past. Malcolm X says he gained power through the knowledge of his history. His literacy gave him the power to communicate formally with others.

Help Received: copied the prompt from the syllabus

Knowledge enables people to think freely, thus giving them power. Literacy and access to literacy gives the ability to gain knowledge, which gives power. Currently the “white man” has power because history is written about them. I have the ability to gain power and read. The power that I currently have is my experiences. These experiences help to define my literacy narrative.