| What We Learned About the Practice of College Writing | What We Learned About Literacies and Reading and Writing Practices as Socio-Technical and Cultural Phenomena |
| Group 1
Paragraphs: focus Brainstorming useful to help us form ideas and choose the best one Revision process [ is awesome!!!!!!] Can help you flesh out your ideas more |
Literacy is everywhere
Reading and writing is more important than just reading and writing: It is a way to communicate with the world around us It may happen that your relationship to literacy changes, but it will remain important |
| Group 2
Brainstorming helped us formed ideas and helped us in the essay writing process “Inspiration”/Reading what you wrote is important: Reading passages outloud and |
Friends and family are important to literacy practices; giving someone else something you wrote will help you better understand what you are doing and trying to say
For some people, networked technologies and videos have greatly facilitated the writing and reading process |
| Group 3
Learned about the process of writing; drafting; organizing; the revision process For many peopele, ach paragraph should have a topic sentence and Types of paragraphs: narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive Always have supporting ideas and focus and a point for each paragraph: use evidence!!!!!! |
How English has evolved and changed and this is significant because in the 21st century we use a language unique to our time
Technologies have had some negative impacts because it can be distracting; reading a book is different online and in print |
| Group 4
Understood reading and writing as a two way street: when it comes to reading and writing, you have to be clear to yourself and your audience Even though the narrative essay was about ourselves, it still required focus and structure |
Technologies have had a negative impact for some.
Big words are not always “big words,” i.e., the answer! |
| Group 5
The importance of audience and how structure and organization relates to audience concerns Instead of just telling a story from a purely informational perspective, you are telling a story that has to make sense to your reader Building critical thinking skills is part of writing; this time we thought about our audience and therefore the process was different. Thinking rhetorically was transformative. |
Culture matters: when we were doing the peer review: how we read is determined by how we have learned to read and interpret |
