Comp 2: A First-Year Writing Experience
Inquiry into Digital/Discourse Communities
Welcome to the Course!!
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Eric Cody Smothers, Ph.D.,
Hometown: Harrodsburg, KY
I've taught First-Year and Advanced Writing Courses, Business Communication, Digital Rhetoric & Writing, as well as a visual research course focussed on icons.
My Special Research Interests include visual rhetorics, iconography, and digital circulation online related to icons, symbols, I’m interested in visuals and how they are used in marketing and advertising. I have skills with web building, infographics, and researching.
I enjoy rock collecting, fishing, going to national parks, and reading fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
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a 12-24 hour window or sooner.
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There are many ways we use icons in computer-based settings, design, research and everyday use...
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In this course, you will be engaging in:
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IMPORTANT: Please email me BEFORE class to let me know about this absence OR through Canvas Inbox. This helps keep communication open especially for potential make-up work.
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This is an emerging technology we will test and play around with from time to time this semester on projects for the following:
Academic Honesty and Plagiarism Statement:
A.I. Writing Tools will only be used in a brainstorming, idea-building, early drafting capacity. FINAL DRAFTS, should be mostly your work.
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In Summary, Plagiarism is taking another person, thing, or construct's work and claiming it as your own. Avoid this at all costs by:
A.I. Plagiarism can lead to major grade deductions, zeros, academic dishonesty forms, or even failing the course! If in doubt, ASK!
3 Fun Facts about your Yourself (These may include any of the following)
Unit 1: Discourse Communities
- Understanding the skills, rhetoric, and situations that form groups of people and how they are researched and visually represented.
Unit 2: Researching Methods for Discourse Community - What are genres and what kind of spaces does my community occupy? Why is it important to have secondary sources? What are they? Where can I get material to support my research?
Unit 3: Expanding Research Investigations (Genre Analysis)
- How can primary, secondary, and visual/data analysis help the work I do in my research. How can I expand what I know?
Unit 4: CompCON!! - Professional Showcases for Research
- Towards the end of the semester, you'll practice presenting your research, engaging with an audience, and demonstrating where you've come throughout the semester!
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Scaffolded Assignments we Build On:
- Topic Proposal
- Initial Discourse Community Analysis
-Secondary Source Chart, Annotated Bibliography
- Primary Research Investigation
- Rough Drafts and Peer Response
- Infographics, data visuals, etc.
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