An Example of Asking the Reading-Writing Pathfinder for Help Through a 5-Step Process

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Paul A's Question : Can you help me move toward essay writing?

Reading-Writing Pathfinder with Paul A's edits:

Welcome to the Reading Writing Pathway! I’m here to guide you through a structured process that involves pasting text, writing, and revising in the left panel. There are five steps in this process, and you’ll be using several different Writing Partners along the way.

Let’s start with the first step:

Step 1: Collect Your Comments

To begin, I’m going to show you how to sort, highlight, and copy all of your comments from a document. Here’s how:

1. In a new tab, open a document where you have previously written comments and replies about a video, image, or text.
2. Click the Sorted button in the top right corner of this document, in the light-blue menu, and sort by First Name.
3. Scroll down the alphabetical list of names until you find your name.
4. Highlight your Name and all of the comments under it that are yours. Stop when you come to another name.
5. Copy these comments.
6. Come back to this page and hit the Add to Document button, which is at the bottom of your text and under the More tab.
7. When you see the New Content page, paste your comments into the text box that appears.
8. Add a title and hit the Upload button at the bottom.

Your comments will now appear in the left pane. You are collecting together all of your comments so that you can read through all of them and find how they group together into particular areas of interest to you.

Once all comments are copied in the left pane, come back to this conversation and hit “Reply with AI” to ask the Read Write Pathfinder to continue with the next set of instructions.

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Paul A's Question : I did this. I'm ready for step two

Reading-Writing Pathfinder with Paul A's edits:

It looks like you’re ready to move on to the next step. Let’s proceed to:

Step 2: Use AI to Analyze Your Comments

Now that you have all of your comments in the left pane, please follow these steps:

1. Go back up to General Document Comments in the interface.
2. Hit the AI button on the right side of your screen.
3. Select the Annotations Transformer Writing Partner.
4. Ask this Writing Partner to read and analyze all of your comments and to list five inquiry questions that you seem to be emphasizing in your comments.
5. Make sure to Reply with AI at least three more times to explore all the possibilities.

Once you have a list of inquiry questions, come back to this conversation and hit “Reply with AI” to ask the Read Write Pathfinder to continue with the next set of instructions.

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Paul A's Question : I'm ready to choose now.

Reading-Writing Pathfinder with Paul A's edits:

It looks like you’re ready to move on to the next step. Let’s proceed to:

Step 3: Choose an Inquiry Question

Now that you have a list of inquiry questions, here’s what you need to do:

1. Read these questions carefully and take note of the quotes from your comments that the Writing Partner has copied under each question.
2. Consider which of these questions you might want to explore further in thinking and writing.
3. Choose one inquiry question and copy that question along with the related quotes into the bottom part of a Reply box.
4. In the top box, write why this question is important to you.
5. Hit Save Reply to add this to your conversation.

Once you have chosen an Inquiry question, come back to this conversation, hit “Reply with AI” to ask the Read Write Pathfinder to continue with the next set of instructions.

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Paul A's Question : Okay I have a question.

Reading-Writing Pathfinder with Paul A's edits:

It looks like you’re ready to move on to the next step. Let’s proceed to:

Step 4: Dialogue with your Author Simulator

Now it’s time to check in with a simulator of the author of the text you were reading if this exists. Follow these steps:

1. Go to the reply where you pasted your chosen Inquiry Question.
2. Hit Reply with AI.
3. This time find the simulator of the author of your text and ask the author if they agree that this is an important question.
4. Read the response carefully, and choose a path to follow when you are given choices.
5. Add your choice in another Reply with AI and continue three more times, at least. Have several back and forths with the simulator about the text.

Once you have dialogued with the simulator of your author, come back to this conversation, hit “Reply with AI” to ask the Read Write Pathfinder to continue with the next set of instructions.

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Paul A's Question : Wow... now I know what I want to write about.

Reading-Writing Pathfinder with Paul A's edits:

It looks like you’re ready to move on to the final step. Let’s proceed to:

Step 5: Organize a Plan for Your Writing with the Outlining Tool

There is one more important step to complete your pathway. In this step, you’ll use the Outlining Tool Writing Partner to organize your writing. Here’s how:

1. Hit Reply with AI under the last reply from the Author Simulator.
2. Be specific about the genre or form of writing that you want to do.
3. Ask the Outlining Tool to help you consider how to organize your writing.

Remember: Revise or edit your writing right now. If this is your document, click on a sentence or a paragraph number in the left panel, then hit Edit, make your changes, and hit Update. You can also hit Suggest Revision on a document that you have been invited to. Another option is to hit Add to Document, and then you can add New Content f

DMU Timestamp: November 06, 2024 03:33

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