Teresa Tran’s Project 3 was also exceptional. Notice how she augments this presentation by superimposing arrows and text over the particular parts of the ad she is discussing. 

For those of you revising Project 3, you might take a look at Mark Collins’ submission, which represents a good blend of alternative media, academic analysis and integrated research. 

I hope you have enjoyed this semester. I certainly have. This week, I will be wrapping up final grades. I am in the middle of grading your Project 3 papers, and I will have those back to you no later than Tuesday night. 

Your revisions for Projects 2 and 3 must be turned in no later than Friday night, as that is the last day of exam week. Beyond that, I will posting your final grades to BlackBoard this weekend. As I make changes to BlackBoard during the course of this week, I will keep you updated so you can check to make sure all of your work is accounted for.

Please feel free to email me with any questions. 

Ryan

The method will be the same as before. Below are the instructions with a few relevant link updates. Peer Reviews must be returned no later than Wednesday, April 21.

usf-englsh:

Go to the page where you submitted your drafts here. Locate the paper submitted beneath your own and click it. Once the paper is called up, copy all the text and paste it into a new email message addressed to the student who wrote the paper. (You can find all the class emails here.)

From within Gmail, you can read the paper, and make suggestions and comments using the text formatting functions that are available. For instance, you might make all of your comments bright blue to distinguish them from your classmate’s.

Please use this rubric as a guide for making your comments.

Once you’ve made your comments, email it back to the student and CC me so that I know it is complete.

redmolly250:

Kind of thought this article this morning was interesting considering some of the work we’ve been examining. ;-)

Indeed. Thank you for sharing.

For all the communication that has ever transpired on the Internet, whether puerile or innocent, cannot be erased from the Internet. The adorable “LOLcats” were spot on in saying “what has been seen cannot be unseen” (or something like that).

Good point here by milkymalk. While technically untrue (all the data on the internet exists physically somewhere and is subject to eradication), in theory the things we say and do here really do seem to persist. If you’ve ever given your Facebook profile a “haircut” in advance of a job interview or a first date, you’re part of a generation that will periodically have to reconsider how much of its online persona it wants to reveal or conceal.

I’ve read through your abstracts, and I am really excited about them. This is one of my favorite projects, because students wind up digging up a good deal of really fascinating advertisements. For reasons totally unrelated to this class, I was browsing through the archives of LIFE Magazine (hosted by Google Books) and I came across this ad. I won’t say much about it. It sort of speaks for itself. Talk about rhetoric…

egaip:

If anyone was interested in using a website for Project 3 Weebly is a great place to start. It’s completely free, easy to use (like drag and drop to add videos, files or photos). You can customize you page and make it totally personal. I just used this website for a Social Psychology project, and I found it very resourceful.

Thanks!

Thought you might find this interesting in the wake of your e-book vs. traditional book analyses from a few weeks ago.