Conversation Model

Published on Aug 19, 2018

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Conversation Model

For Academic Writing
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“Conversation requires absorption of what prior speakers have said, consideration of how earlier comments relate to the responder’s thoughts, and a response framed to the situation and the responder’s purposes.”
Bazerman

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Conversations with Authors

  • Listening
  • Connecting
  • Contributing
Slide 2:
1. listening: Accurately understanding the textual conversation. And Evaluating the claims writers have made.
2. Connecting the text to my own ideas, prior knowledge, emotions, and experiences. And connecting this author's ideas in this text to other texts by this author, other authors' ideas, lectures, other classes, etc.
3. Reacting to both the larger discussion and the text
currently being read.


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“…writing occurs within the context of previous writing and advances the total sum of discourse.”

ACCURATELY UNDERSTAND THE TEXTUAL CONVERSATION

-- What our goal is: to understand the writer’s ideas, content, and purpose.
-- What annotations we write: summaries, notes that connect this author with prior texts we have read
-- What additional notes we write: a summary of the whole text with bulleted list of main points
-- What we mark: the thesis and main points, where the writer situates her or his “take” on what others have said, the writer’s purpose statements

Understand the claims and support

-- What our goal is: to focus on the main claims of an author and all the authors' evidences, examples, and logic.
-- What annotations we write: comments about the claims, connect claims to the author’s purpose; to other texts; to other evidences, examples, or our own experiences and knowledge.
-- What additional notes we write: comments on how well claims are supported by the evidence & examples provided.
-- What we mark: the thesis and main claims; the evidences, examples, logic
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Connect the author's ideas to my world

-- What our goal is: to connect to the text in all four ways: ideas, prior knowledge, emotions, and experiences
-- What annotations we write: how we connect: short notes on our ideas, prior knowledge, emotions, and experiences.
-- What additional notes we write: quote responses.
-- What we mark: sentences that evoke one of these four ways of responding.
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Responding to the conversation

-- What our goal is: to contribute to this text and other that speak on the same issue.
-- What we read: annotations we made, quote responses, and other notes we have made on all texts we are responding to.
-- What notes we write: purpose statement and the frame we want to use for our response.
-- What we write: an original contribution to this discussion.

Barbara Bird

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