Meta Comment: Making the Transition from school to the workplace starts in college
This thread focuses on the article “Moving Beyond the Academic Community: Transitional Stages in Professional Writing,” and covers the discussion started by Anne Reznicek.
Jennifer Norman
Meta-Comment
This thread focuses on how the article “Virtual Realities: Transitions from University to Workplace Writing” relates to ENGL 306 and the reality of getting into the workforce.
A excerpt from Chris Anson and L. Lee Forsberg’s article “”Moving Beyond the Academic Community” presents the main point of this week’s readings: “Our research shows that becoming a successful writer is much more a matter of developing strategies for social and intellectual adaptions to different professional communities than acquiring a set of generic skills, such as learning the difference between the passive and active voice” (Peeples 389). Each article addresses the changing demands that accompany the transition from academic environment to the workplace.
The article 'Virtual Realities: Transitions from University to Workplace Writing' was interesting to me on two levels. First, I feel that some of the information towards the beginning reflects upon what we have been doing in this class over the course of the semester. Second, I can relate to some of the experiences, both internship and workplace-related and have firsthand knowledge of some documents that were discussed in the article. I will begin by discussing the article's relation to English 306.
Anne Reznicek's Launch Post - Making the Transition from school to the workplace starts in college
Launch Post
Sam Schneider - Team Protagoras
Virtual Realities: Transitions from University to Workplace Writing
"The holocaust may not be so much a breach of the Platonic wall of Virtue, an aberration of Western culture, as an outgrowth of it, the final development and manifestation of something deeper and more problematic in Western civilization itself"--Steven B. Katz
"The relationship between rationalization and the excesses of political power is evident. And we should not need to wait for bureaucracy or concentration camps to recognize the existence of such relations."--Michel Foucault
Meta-comment, Week 13
Rhetoric and ethics surfaced as the major themes of discussion from the week thirteen reading assignment. Although four out of five of the launch posts created by the members of team Gorgias concentrated on the same Cezar Ornatowski article entitled, “Between Efficiency and Politics: Rhetoric and Ethics in Technical Writing,” each thread produced different ideas and focal points. This meta-comment will make an effort to summarize the topics of conversation in each thread, and to identify major points and concepts brought up throughout each discussion.
Are values and language use inextricably bound? According to James Porter in “Framing Postmodern Commitment and Solidarity,” this is the case (Peeples 202). If one believes values to be intrinsic to man, then perhaps Porter’s argument is right.
Cezar M. Ornatowski discusses “rhetoric and ethics in technical writing” (172). Ornatowski describes how other professionals explain rhetoric and ethics, comparing the classroom setting to the real world. In his teaching he noticed a large difference between the working students and full-time students.