OUR DISCOURSE COMMUNITY VALUES
Welcome to our discourse community web page. In this course, I invite you to view our discourse community as a social network that frames the ethics, expectations, and exigencies of writers who use situated languages and genres to bond with others and to make meaning. To deepen our collective understanding of such a discourse community, please review the following:
We refer to our discourse community values as The Seven Cs. Throughout the semester, I encourage you to review The Seven Cs to 1) inform your participation in our community, 2) contribute suggestions to revise or add to these values, and 3) enact your own meaning-making processes.
The Seven Cs:
Each of these enacted values can evoke "writing-as-travel" experiences that manifest author-self interactions with material and immaterial writing activities. Curious to learn how discourse communities, writing-as-travel, and author-self interactions shape our learning in this course? Curiosity is a good place to start. Let’s explore further in class...and in text...
The Seven Cs:
- Cultivate joy in the being (emotion), doing (processes), and knowing (meta-cognitive) of writing
- Connect past, present, and future writing histories and knowledges
- Clarify meaning for oneself
- Communicate purposed messages to specific audiences
- Compose in multiple genres, modes, and media to meet the moments of 21st century rhetorical situations
- Create reiterative writing processes to generate and revise ideas
- Construct a writer’s identity to interact with the authorial choices of self and of others
Each of these enacted values can evoke "writing-as-travel" experiences that manifest author-self interactions with material and immaterial writing activities. Curious to learn how discourse communities, writing-as-travel, and author-self interactions shape our learning in this course? Curiosity is a good place to start. Let’s explore further in class...and in text...