Comp Notes

Most colleges and universities are moving into Summer, and many students take a break from their studies at that time.  Comp Notes is doing the same.  This episode outlines where I see the podcast going once I return in two to three months.

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 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This episode looks at the characteristics of multimodality, as well as some strategies for creating multimodal texts.

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Additional resources: 

• Melanie Gagich's "An Introduction to and Strategies for Multimodal Composing"
• Crystal VanKooten's "Thinking Across Modes and Media (and Baking Cake): Two Techniques for Writing with Video, Audio, and Image"
• The New London Group's "A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies: Designing Social Futures"
• CCCC Poster "Multimodality"
• Ann Fillmore's "Multi-Modal Communication: Writing in Five Modes"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This episode looks at some of the choices writers can make that affect our writing style.

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Additional information: (Note: You may also want to check out the links in episode 10: Editing)

• Purdue OWL's "Diction Introduction" and "Levels of Diction"
• Grammarly's "What does 'Connotation' Mean? Definition and Examples"
• Quillbot's "What is Connotation? Definition, Meaning, & Examples"
• Brian Ray's "Style: An Introduction to History, Theory, Research, and Pedagogy"
• Silva Rhetoricae's:
  • "Style"
  • "Levels of Style"
  • "Figures of Speech" (use the links at the top of the page to get to specific examples of tropes and schemes)
• Write to Done's "28 Figure of Speech Examples"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This episode focuses on strategies for acting as a good peer reviewer for your classmates when you offer feedback on their writing.

Transcript available here.

Additional Readings:

• Ron DePeter's "How to Write Meaningful Peer Response Praise"
• Erin Kelly's "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly of Peer Review"
• Purdue OWL's "Giving Feedback for Peer Review"
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Getting Feedback"
• WAC Clearinghouse's "Writing Guide: Engaging in Peer Review"
• Jim Beatty's "Peer Review"
• Emilie Zickel's "Peer Review and Responding to Others' Drafts"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This episode discuss what instructor feedback is and presents some strategies for working with that feedback to improve your writing ability.

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Additional Materials: 

• Jillian Grauman's "What's That Supposed to Mean? Using Feedback on Your Writing"
• Proofreaders' Marks (often used by professors to mark grammatical issues)
• Purdue OWL's "Interpreting Instructor Feedback"
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Getting Feedback"
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Writers Workshop's "Incorporating Peer and Instructor Feedback"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

This episode describes and shares some strategies for reflecting on your writing.

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Additional Resources: 

• Hull Uni Library "Reflective Writing" (video)
• Sandra L. Giles' "Reflective Writing and the Revision Process: What Were You Thinking?"
• Kati Lewis' "Reflection: We're Always Doing It"
• Kristen Gay's "Reflection Essay"
• Skillful Learning's "What is Metacognition and Why Should I Care?" and "Reflecting on Your Thinking" (videos)
• Helpful Professor's "13 Examples of Metacognitive Strategies"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

The last in our series on research, this episode discusses why and when we should cite, as well as some strategies for making citation easier.

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Additional materials: 

• Overview of citation systems (all from Purdue OWL):
  • MLA
  • APA
  • Chicago
  • IEEE
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Plagiarism" and "Why We Cite" (video)
• Purdue OWL's "Using Citation Generators Responsibly"
• Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse's "An Overview of Documentation Systems"
• Anne Canavan's "Citations: Why, When, How?"
• Annika Clark's "Finding the Right Spiderman: An Introduction to Reference and Citation Formats"
• From Choosing & Using Sources:  A Guide to Academic Research
  • "Why Cite Sources?"
  • "Challenges in Citing Sources"
  • "Steps for Citing"
  • "When to Cite"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Fifth in our series on research, this episode focuses on strategies for integrating outside sources into our own writing, including quoting, paraphrasing, and summarizing.

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Additional Materials

• Kyle D. Stedman's "Annoying Ways People Use Sources"
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center's "Quotations"
• Writing Across the Curriculum Clearinghouse's "Integrating Sources"
• From Choosing & Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
  • "Helping Others Follow"
  • "Synthesis of Your Own Ideas"
• From A Guide to Rhetoric, Genre, and Success in First-Year Writing
  • Melanie Gagich's "Quoting"
  • Robin Jeffrey's "Paraphrasing and Summarizing"
  •  John Lanning, Amanda Lloyd, and Emilie Zickel's "Signal Phrases"

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Fourth in this series on research, this episode will focus on strategies for evaluating sources, with a particular focus on Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg's SIFT model.

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Additional Materials

• Mike Caulfield and Sam Wineburg's Verified: How to Think Straight, Get Duped Less, and Make Better Decisions about What to Believe Online (advertisement for book)
• "Evaluating for Relevancy" and "Evaluating for Credibility" from Choosing & Using Sources:  A Guide to Academic Research
• Amanda Lloyd's "Misinformation and Disinformation"
• Mike Caulfield's "SIFT (The Four Moves)"
• Mike Caulfield's "SIFTing through the Pandemic"
• Mike Caulfield's "Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers"
  • This online book presents an older version of SIFT, but it is still effective. 
• CTRL-F's "Verification Skills 2024" (Video playlist)
• Ellen Carillo and Alice Horning's "Effectively and Efficiently Reading the Credibility of Online Sources"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Third in our research series, this episode will discuss strategies for locating sources, specifically keywords and search strings.

Transcript here

Additional Materials

• From Choosing and Using Sources: A Guide to Academic Research
  • "Precision Searching: Main Concepts"
  • "Precision Searching: Related and Alternative Terms"
  • "Precision Searching: Search Statements"
•  McMaster Libraries' "How Library Stuff Works: Boolean Operators (AND OR NOT)" and "How Library Stuff Works: Boolean Modifiers "",*,()" (videos) 
• Robin Jeffrey's "Using Effective Keywords in your Research"
• Prince George's Community College Learning Common's "Generating Keywords" and "Boolean Operators"

 Comp Notes © 2024 by  Mark Sutton  is licensed under  CC BY-NC-SA 4.0