#compstudies

For this post, you are going to create a threshold concept similar to what you read throughout the book, Naming What We Know.

Please follow *all* of these guidelines:

(1) Use the lens of “naming what you know.”

(2) Create an actual threshold concept, this literally means beginning the post with a title such as “Reflection is Critical for a Writer’s Development.”

(3) Create a concept that you believe is important to know, understand, and master within the field of composition studies. This furthers our thinking from where we began the course (in one of the opening posts, you defined what composition studies is/means).

(4) Use at least 3 of the readings (you can include this book, of course, but it doesn’t have to be one of them) from the course to ground and evidence your concept.

(5) Be reflective, think about what we’ve been reading and discussing for the last six weeks. Don’t be afraid to “theorize” a bit (my philosophers might really like that! :-).

(6) Be critical, what do you believe is important in composition studies and why? That’s a good place to start.

(7) Be creative, composing/composition isn’t just about being critical and that’s it, there is an element of creativity that lies within the threads of this field.

Good luck! I look forward to seeing what you can come up with!

Tuesday’s readings present us with two sides of the same coin as both wonder what should be taught in composition classes (and really how they should be taught). One reading is from a scholar in the field of rhet/comp while the other is someone who, while has been in the field, is also *not* in the field (if you get what I mean) . Fish provides his own context in his second part. 

As you begin to dig deeper into comp theory -- definitions, understandings, and the like -- you are going to do a response-based opinion piece to either Fish or Bizzell. Using Yancey, your own initial research into comp theory/comp studies/composing, our class discussions, and your own personal experiences/knowledges, please evidence your opinion with several different points of evidence from across these areas. 

You’ll notice that in a genre such as this one, you don’t have to fully agree or disagree with what is being said to create an effective piece of rhetoric. 

Please post this in your CompNotebooks and please follow the genre conventions of an opinion piece. It should be as long as it needs to be to get your argument across.