Athletics & Writing
taking what you already know
to get you where you need to go
Auburn 03-04 Football
Sample Catcher signals
UNG Basketball
UNG Basketball
drawn by Coach Faulkner
UNG Basketball
drawn by a student-athlete
So what's going on here?
All images show a person using language to communicate
All images show a person communicating to a specific AUDIENCE in response to a specific EXIGENCE
aND...
All images show a person trying to anticipate the actions of an opponent
All images are taught by one person and modeled and mimicked and studied and learned by another.
All images are really similar to what you do in academic writing
Long history
This ain't new.
Gorgias wrote a handbook on public speaking AND on wrestling
He gave tips how to trip the opponent
Isocrates thought you needed training in gymnastics and philosophy to be a good member of society
Now...
Not so much.
Either a student
or an athlete
being both doesn't make sense for a lot of people
Remember Myron Rolle?
So our class?
The goal of FYC =
give you writing skills you can transfer to future writing contexts
just like goal of practice =
give you skills you can transfer to future games
Transfer
Bunch of smart people who study WRITING TRANSFER say PRIOR KNOWLEDGE is really critical to learning new things
but has got to be the right kind of PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
pRIOR kNOWLEDGE
athletics as prior knowledge
explicitly thinking about how you learn your sport and how that might help you with academic writing
key terms
focusing on key terms during a semester also helps WRITING TRANSFER
eight of them
eventually = your theory of academic writing based on your understanding of these eight key terms
finally
gotta be intentional
don't give me the Iverson practice crap
