May 2010
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This Bud's for you. →
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.
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This is it.
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...
April 2010
13 posts
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“Writers use ‘rhetorical’ devices, not ‘rhetoric’...”
– Ryan
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Agenda: Week 15. →
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Agenda: Week 14. →
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Peer Review for Project 3.
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...
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Facebook Fairytales. →
redmolly250:
Kind of thought this article this morning was interesting considering some of the work we’ve been examining. ;-)
Indeed. Thank you for sharing.
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What has been seen... →
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...
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Agenda: Week 13. →
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'We're in the business of selling cigarettes.' →
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...
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Have a look at Weebly. →
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!
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Agenda: Week 12. →
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How green is my e-book? →
Thought you might find this interesting in the wake of your e-book vs. traditional book analyses from a few weeks ago.
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“Reminder: Project 2 should hit my inbox no later than 11:59pm Monday night....”
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You and I.
This weekend Joseph emailed me about using the pronoun I in academic papers. After sending my response, I thought it might be useful to post it up to the blog for all to read, as it’s a fairly common question. See below.
That’s a good question. I think using the pronoun “I” depends on the context of the paper you are writing, but in general it’s fine. You should avoid...
March 2010
11 posts
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Project 2 Drafts (retry).
Sorry for all the confusion. I am not sure what happened. Post your links to your drafts below, and try to get them back to your classmates as soon as possible. Let’s try again, shall we?
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Agenda: Week 11. →
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Link Collection 2. →
Please fill out the form by clicking the above link.
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“Please tag your response to Uncle Bobby’s Wedding like this: englsh uncle...”
– Thanks to Daniel for pointing out the oversight!
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Agenda: Week 10. →
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Peer Review for Project 2.
The method will be the same as Project 1. Below are the instructions with a few relevant updates. Peer Reviews must be returned no later than Wednesday, March 31.
usf-englsh:
First, go to the page where you submitted the permalink to your draft 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...
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Finished your draft for Project 2?
Post it below as a publicly viewable Google Document…
(If you need assistance with this, please see this quick video tutorial.)
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Run Wrake. →
For those interested in Run Wrake’s other work.
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Not your mother's Mother Goose...
I’ve been asking students to respond to this Run Wrake animation for close to 6 years now. I look forward to it each semester because it seems to genuinely affect people who watch it. It’s disturbing, bizarre, absurd and loaded with rhetoric. Below are a few select quotes from this week’s assignment I thought were particularly insightful.
Definitely not your archetypal Mother...
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Agenda: Week 9. →
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Agenda: Week 8. →
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How to conduct Peer Review.
First, go to the page where you submitted the permalink to your draft 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...
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How to format your Works Cited page. →
Don’t lose silly points. Following MLA Style is not difficult giving the wealth of resources available on the web. The OWL has a sample of what a Works Cited page should look like (Just click the title of this post). Make yours look like this, and you’ll be in good shape.
If you are finding formatting the page difficult, check out http://www.easybib.com. Think of EasyBib as a friendly internet...
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How to format your paper in MLA Style. →
Hi, folks. Use this resource as a guide to formatting your final draft. It’s pretty straightforward.
February 2010
21 posts
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Agenda: Week 7. →
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Finished your draft?
Post it below as a publicly viewable Google Document…
(If you need assistance with this, please see this quick video tutorial.)
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Pencils, pixels and everything in between.
In a 2-3 minute podcast, consider your own feelings about the writing technologies you rely on. With which technologies do you feel most creative? Most productive? Most human? Do you draw any distinctions between simple technologies, like pens and pencils, and modern writing technologies, like laptops and cell phones?
This is a reflection piece, so feel free to ignore my prompts above if you...
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Scholarly Articles.
Reading through your research plans this week, I’ve noticed that several people have listed newspapers or magazines for their sources. While it is not inappropriate to use some information derived from periodicals for your papers, please note that newspapers, magazines and general-interest web sites do no qualify as “indisputably academic” sources.
If you haven’t yet...
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Agenda: Week 6. →
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Collect your links.
Periodically this semester, I will ask you to collect permalinks to your past assignments into one blog post so I can cross-check your work against what I have recorded in my gradebook thus far.
Week 2 (Role of Wikipedia; Say Hello.) Week 3 (Kairos; Examples of Ethos, Logos and Pathos.) Week 4 (Dan McCarthy’s Art) Week 5 (Podcast 1:Look at your own face(book))
Your post will wind up...
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“Indisputably academic means that the source is derived from a peer-reviewed...”
– For more info on what constitutes “academic sources,” please review this short web page from Mid Michigan Community College (link).
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Regarding your podcasts.
I enjoyed listening to them. I will say that the ones that were most successful were the ones that were “written” or “scripted.” Podcasts thats employ a stream-of-consciousness approach can be difficult to follow and tend to be overly long.
If you believe that podcasts that are scripted tend to feel overly formal, you might employ a hybrid approach next time: Create an...
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Agenda: Week 5. →
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Make the web more readable. →
This is not an assignment or a requirement. Installing the “Readability” bookmarklet is just a good idea if you find yourself doing a lot of reading online.
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The Circle of Life.
marshabarsha:
This artwork clearly represents the circle of life; from death comes new life (the flowers), which nourishes another form of life (the birds), who will soon die to nourish another (the cats).
The symbiotic ways in which we interact with our surrounding ecosystem is another prevalent theme in Dan McCarthy’s work.
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Wool's gold.
egaip:
I chuckled a little when I saw this printing. Its sense of humor is what glued my eyes to this particular picture.
I agree with your sentiments here. Dan McCarthy’s paintings generally tread the line between cold logic and playful absurdity.
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Look at your own face(book) in the mirror.
Source: State Library of New South Wales (link)
Podcast #1
Length: 2-3 minutes Specifications: Must contain your recorded voice AND another piece of music or sound effect. Submission Instructions: Upload as an audio post on Tumblr. Tag this submission “englsh podcast 1.” Prompt: Having seen Demetri Martin’s humorous take on social networking, it’s time to turn the lens inward. Consider one of...
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WatchAn oldie but goodie.
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Agenda: Week 4. →
January 2010
19 posts
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Rhetorical appeals.
Lots of good examples this week. These three stood out.
Pathos.
Logos.
Ethos.