Analysis and Argument in First-Year Writing and Beyond

Analysis and Argument in First-Year Writing and Beyond

A Functional Perspective

Gomez-Laich, Dr. Maria Pia; Mitchell, Thomas D.; Pessoa, Silvia

The University of Michigan Press

10/2024

166

Mole

9780472039777

15 a 20 dias

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Table of Contents
Preface

Chapter 1. Theoretical Principles for Scaffolding Argumentative Writing
1. Systemic Functional Linguistics and Genre
2. The 3x3 Toolkit for conceptualizing argumentative writing
3. Understanding the 3x3 through analysis of history arguments: The importance of interpersonal meanings
4. The 3x3 for diagnosing challenges with argumentation: Challenges with interpersonal meanings
5. Applying the 3x3 to unpack the process of analysis: The importance of ideational meanings
6. Applying the 3x3 to scaffolding first-year writing
7. How to use the 3x3 for scaffolding argumentative writing
8. The Teaching and Learning Cycle

Chapter 2. The Onion Model: A resource to help students to move from knowledge display to knowledge transformation
1. What's the expectation and what is the challenge for students?
2. What does the challenge look like in first-year writing and in writing in the disciplines?
3. What resource can we use to address the problem?
4. Lessons
5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 3: Writing effective claims: Key words, evaluations, and causal relations
1. What's the expectation and what is the challenge for students?
2. What does the challenge look like in first-year writing and in writing in the disciplines?
3. What tools can we use to address the problem?
4. Lessons
5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 4. I Know, I See, I Conclude: Resources to help students adopt effective patterns of analytical writing
1. What is the expectation and what is the challenge?
2. What does the challenge look like in first-year writing and in writing in the disciplines?
3. How can we help students with this challenge?
4. Lessons
5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 5. ENGAGEMENT: Resources to help students align the reader toward the writer's perspective
1. What is the expectation and what is the challenge?
2. What does the challenge look like in first-year writing and in writing in the disciplines?
3. How can we help students with this challenge?
4. Lessons
5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 6. Justification: Resources for justifying a position among alternatives
1. What's the expectation and what is the challenge for students?
2. What does the challenge look like in first-year writing and in writing in the disciplines?
3. What resources can we use to address the challenge?
4. Lessons
5. Concluding remarks

Chapter 7. Tips for assigning and assessing argumentative writing
1. Overview
2. The importance of designing assignment guidelines and prompts that align with pedagogical expectations
3. The importance of word choice in prompts and guidelines
4. The importance of avoiding question sets that are meant to be considered holistically
5. The importance of having consistent parts in (first-year writing) assignment guidelines
6. Making language expectations explicit in assessment rubrics
7. Applying the Teaching Learning Cycle: Drafting, feedback, and negotiated construction
8. Concluding remarks
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