From this week’s readings:

The encounter. The gatherer. The designer.

The one who is totally involved

• Web surfer
• Mystorian
• Visual designer
• Blogger
• Virtual flaneur
• Writer

The one who makes writing social. Identity moved from tutorial (student to teacher), solipsistic (student unto herself), or mere just doing the work (student as nothing more than empty category of “student”: one who fulfills the task). A pedagogy of encounter as declaration of identity: alter ego assignment.
Four areas made social: A major idea that has influenced. Popular culture. Major. Personal story.

Encounter of four areas one already works with but not in relationship to one another produces identity already in existence: alter ego.

Encounter with method (research).

Encounter at the point of juxtaposition (McLuhan). The details or noise that one notices (Davis). The play with form/appropriation of form (Ray). Response of one area with the next (Harris). Moment of personal insight via pattern (Ulmer). Creative production (Walker, Corder, Brodkey, Barthes). Underlife - areas that are often not emphasized as dominant (R. Brooke). Meta awareness (Hartwell). Institutional (auto) biography (Miller, Gilyard). Circulation of ideas through various points of delivery (Latour, Trimbur). Rhetoric of hyperbole (Vitanza). Research that moves away from expert model (C. Brooke). Designed in wiki (George). Ideas/research collected (Sirc). Using popular media forms to compose in a new key (Yancey).

Encounter of theory to produce pedagogy (invention).

Encounter with exigence (Bitzer, Vatz): what do I ask students to do? Or in voice of student: what do I do?

Overall outcomes (in addition to what our class readings teach me):

• Exigence (what to respond to)
• Invention (how to respond)
• Research (gathering of material for response)
• Arrangement and organization (putting material together)
• Delivery (presenting material to an audience)

Encounter with (an almost) semester long series of 8010 readings as involvement (letting each idea be involved with the next for invention purposes).

Reinvolve. Reencounter. What else would come out of the mix?