Mentorship Two readings for this week! – The right mentor can change your career. Heres how to find one. – Mentorship: the students’ views Quiz/ Review https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdggPbrEQF4Q7Kv1PWoOp1X9d0nhI7j-40kSQAg7oKrJazL5g/viewform?usp=pp_url Activity 1: Reflection a. Reflect on a time you had a mentor Why did you choose this person? How did this person become your mentor? Did you officially have …
Questioning Ideas: Choose either the Strategic Finance or the NYT article. Write a script where you ask for a raise based on the steps listed in those articles Find a classmate who wrote based on the opposite prompt and compare the differences in your rhetorical approaches. Reading like a reader: Lee & Dyer Messmer Wollan …
Authority v.s Invisibility The struggle of authorial identity for academic writers… Questioning Ideas: Do you use personal pronouns in your academic writing? If so, when and why? Do you think using personal pronouns in academic writing strengthens the writers authority? If so, in what genres of literature? In terms of academic writing, where is the line …
Questioning Ideas: Get out the syllabi from the courses that you’ve taken this semester and look at the readings. In the form of a love letter, write to the assignment strategies employed in these different classes. Feel free to make this a Taylor Swift love letter which has as much dissonance as consonance. Now that …
Questioning Ideas: Writers tend to change the style that they write in depending on their audience. Fomulate a thesis statement on why or why not pineapple belongs on pizza for the following audiences: -Systematic Literature Review -Friends -Newspaper/Magazine Article -Children’s Storybook How does each differ? Why is there a need to change how you write …
Questioning Ideas: For your SLR, fill in the blanks: “I am studying ___________, because I want to find out what/why/how ___________ in order to help my reader understand ___________” and “In recent discussions of ________, a controversial issue has been whether _______. On the one hand, some argue that _________. From this perspective, _________. On the other hand, however, …
