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 …
Food for Thought What’s something you notice when reading when trying to determine whether something is objective or subjective? In academic texts, we’ve discussed how it’s impossible to remove an author’s personal evaluation of the material from their writing, why do you think this is? Reading like a reader: what’s Hyland saying? Stance and Engagement: …
Max Ewing and Kyle Pyykkonen Intro Questions: Did you feel confident in your college admission essays? What were the hardest parts? How did you determine what the standard of writing was? Do you think that high school writing (i.e. SAT essays, writing for AP tests, DBQs) prepared you for college level writing? Where do you …
Warm-Up Brainstorm What do you use your library at home for? What do you use the Michigan library for? What do you think the purpose of an academic library is (or what did you think it was before doing the readings)? Quick Summary Guardian Article- Less formal and more critical of the institutions of publishing …
Questioning Ideas: -In terms of education and academics do you think how we analyze what we read is more essential than what we actually read? – Have you ever had a teacher that taught you to read like a writer in order to enhance your writing? – What are things you have tried in the …
Questioning Ideas What role(s) do you think that humanities studies play in both academia and in society? Do you think their contribution is on par with that of other fields like the sciences, engineering or technology? Informal poll: how many of you believe that studies on language and literature are indispensable to academia? Informal poll …
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, …
