P-CHAT

Practice P-CHAT (ISU Writing Program’s pedagogical version of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory) as a tool to make visible complex genre conventions, to research everyday genre writing practices, and to trace how particular genres change over time

Language Difference

Describe how and why you see writers using different language(s)–and using language differently–as a norm across genres that people produce everyday within and beyond the US

Multimodality

Produce and experiment with making texts in different modes and genres that show your evolving knowledge of genre conventions (adhering to them, adapting them, subverting them) in familiar and new-to-you genres

Antecedent Knowledge

Describe your antecedent knowledge and experiences with writing in specific genres that influence how you understand what genres are, what genres do, and how we write in everyday genres to accomplish social goals

Cultures and Communities

Identify genre conventions–both visible textual features and the complex social goals texts in specific genres accomplish–and the complex relationships between writing, genres, and people’s social goals for producing genres everyday within, for, about, and across specific cultures and communities

Discourse Communities

Identify how writers produce texts in particular genres in ways that both make possible and limit people’s participation in specific discourse communities in different writing situations over time