FYW Curriculum Idea 3: Threshold Concepts plus Declarative and Procedural Knowledge
Incoming knowledge Expectations for A Self-guided learning (e.g., nuances of citation) Revision to increase nuance TCs Go slow to go slow. Academic knowledge is precise. Academic discourses are many. // Writing is not singular. Writing supports thinking. Production and reception are differently productive. Writing is a process. Writing is always a technology Academic writing is academic cultural capital and code-switching (see Navarro) Declarative knowledge Rhetoric Ethos, logos, pathos, kairos Elements of visual rhetoric Discourse? Ethics of attribution "Closed-form" writing features Procedural knowledge Given a end-text reference entry, identify parts that would be included in MLA or APA in-text citation Evaluate the quality of an academic source Revise a thesis Revise topic sentences Integrate evidence (and analysis) in support of a specific claim Evaluate rhetoric Comprehend complex text