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                   Convo Circles (CC) Subjects

 

 

Some Core Principles:

 

Central to any piece of good writing – as implied in Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) principles -- is an attentiveness to three different standards of accountability and the ways in which one must navigate these standards:

    1. The standards of the particular discipline / field in which you are writing (its core assumptions; its manner of citation/attribution; its disciplinary goals – etc.)  

    2. The standards that inhere to all intelligible writing from any given discipline (grammar; structure; clarity – etc.)

    3. Your own personal standards (e.g., your own personal voice; your personal history and sense of future; your places of disagreement and/or your own personal critical vision–etc.).

 

 

All three standards, it should be obvious, should hold sway, and therefore, our choice of the following CC subjects grow out of an attentiveness to importance of these three standards, considered individually and/or together. Additionally, an ideal for CCs ought to be that each session corresponds to what holds for any conversation in the world – namely a spirit of open, free, inclusive dialogue, but one still steered by the usual questions that may arise within a particular subject field.   

 

 

created by Michael Polesny and Yu-Yun Hsieh

DRAFT: This module has unpublished changes.