Porter's "Intertextuality and the Discourse Community" on Prezi

Call for Discourse Community Activities

During office hours today, I heard Heather and Laura talking about some activities they are doing to help students understand the unit on how communities shape writing. Both activities are fantastic, (one for Wardle and another for Swales) and I'll let Heather and Laura describe those activities in more detail if they so choose. As we move to teach our students about how discourse is linked with identity and shifting rhetorical situations, there is a need to help students connect with some concepts that are sometimes difficult. By tomorrow, I will be posting a new Prezi that covers concepts from James Gee's "Literacy, Discourse, and Linguistics: Introduction". Please post your activities, initiatives, and plans here.

My First Prezi

This is my first try at creating a Prezi for my evaluating sources lecture. I hope to add pictures of websites to show where to look for things like sponsoring organizations, but I don't know when I'll get to that, so I wanted to go ahead and post it.

Evaluating Sources on Prezi

More Prezi Madness

I put together a Prezi that walks students through searching the library catalog and databases. It covers the catalog, JSTOR, ERIC, Google Scholar, and CompPile. Sometimes it seems like students get things in class or in a library instruction session, but then they forget how to do them when they get home. I put this together so that they could refer back. Feel free to borrow!

Searching for Scholarly Sources on Literacy at UCF on Prezi