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In order to be successful in ENG 122 and 123, you have to demonstrate apprentice-level fluency in the essential saying/writing, doing, believing, valuing, and being combinations that make up Academic Discourse. To acquire this fluency, Gee explains that you have to practice these combinations with the help of masters of the Discourse (7).
In our class, besides interacting with me and your Writing Lab tutor, you have access to a wide variety of expert performances of Academic Discourse in the assigned readings by Gee and Delpit, as well as texts like Habits of the Creative Mind and They Say/I Say that help you acquire the metaknowledge necessary to rapidly work your way into the Academic Discourse community.
So what precisely are the ways of doing/writing/saying that lead to the valuing, believing, being that qualify you for membership in Academic Discourse? So far, you have been introduced to (and invited to practice) these social practices:
- Embracing the 8 Habits of the Creative Mind in all of your work
- Using and evolving signal phrase templates and signal verbs to introduce quotations and paraphrases
- Using paraphrase to avoid patchwriting
- Framing quoted or paraphrased passages using TRIAC or Barclay’s Formula
- Using sources in the 5 ways experienced writers do
- Previewing and Annotating texts
- Robust Writing Process: Prewriting<–>Drafting<–>Peer Review<–>Revision<–>Editing<–>Polishing<–>Publishing
