Daily Work

After class, May 3

  • If you presented today, be sure you uploaded your final version of your script / a link to your video (so it can live at the Spring 2017 Revises page for glory and fame… =D
  • Be sure you filled out a Presentation Peer Evaluation  form for each video.
  • If you would, I would appreciate you writing a Final Say paragraph before you peace out. It doesn’t figure into the learning record, so really, say what you like! It’s the place for you to give good advice or say what you wish you had known about this class to help out a future student.
  • Remember, your final portfolio has a rolling deadline between the last day of our class (May 3) and Friday (May 5). Send an email if you need / want an extension. I am happy to oblige. Because of the stress of the last week, it’s okay with me even if you need to email me on Friday saying you need more time. Really, I get it.
  • Thank you, each and every one of you, for being part of this class this semester! 🙂 You each added a special part to our class narrative, and I’m really grateful to have read your writing and learned more about your stories! It was a privilege.

After class, Monday, May 1 (what????)

  • If you presented today, be sure you uploaded your final version of your script / a link to your video (so it can live at the Spring 2017 Revises page for glory and fame… =D
  • Be sure you filled out a Presentation Peer Evaluation  form for each video.
  • Remember, a list of who went today on this Google doc. If you’re coming up next, get ready! 🙂
  • If you would, I would appreciate you writing a Final Say paragraph before you peace out. It doesn’t figure into the learning record, so really, say what you like! It’s the place for you to give good advice or say what you wish you had known about this class to help out a future student.
  • Remember, your final portfolio has a rolling deadline between the last day of our class (May 3) and Friday (May 5). Send an email if you need / want an extension!

After class, April 26

  • Office hours by appointment only for the rest of the semester. I’m VERY happy to meet. Just let me know if you are coming, or if you need to meet at another time.  Thanks! Busy time for all.
  • Need a reminder when your presentation is?
  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QAa815gIk9h-yRQyDT05AGBkNrxF2qEb4MhCKW7gQ38/edit?usp=sharing (Links to an external site.)
  • Continue working on video presentations. Be sure to read directions on Canvas turn-in page carefully.
  • Don’t forget there are sample student presentations on the presentation page on this website!
  • Presentations are due by 9AM on Canvas the day you present. Turn in link to finished video and finished script (with all sources!).
  • Don’t forget about your final portfolio. Rolling deadline: May 3-5. If you want an extension, as always, email 24 hours before the deadline.

After class, April 24

After class, Wednesday, April 19

Don’t forget: your presentation script (SWA #5 is due by midnight).

Bring all the stills, video clips, music files, and recordings of your script to class on Monday!

Here’s the link to a Video Workshop Cheat Sheet 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rxfseejCYkpevvDR5TBClYVkvQQ5Tu8qHJ-UhCnxgA8/edit?usp=sharing

 

After conferences, Monday, April 17

  • Your script (SWA #5) for your final presentation is due Wednesday @ midnight!
  • Curious how to save iMovie projects from computer to computer: see this link! 
  • Have we conferenced yet about your final portfolio / presentation? I’ve got time during my office hours Wednesday.
  • Watch this video about how to get AWESOME SOUND QUALITY AND LOOK AMAZING DOING IT!!!: Best Kept Secret in Radio | Lulu Miller | TEDxCharlottesville – YouTube
  • Search #AriShapiroUnderCoats on Twitter.
  • Bring any digital material (script, files, laptop) you need for our video workshop.

After class, Monday, April 12

  • Turn in Paper 3 Wednesday at midnight.
  • Meet in 1-on-1 conferences (sign-up here) instead of class Monday.
  • Bring any questions about presentation to conference.
  • Read the final portfolio guidelines carefully and bring any questions.
  • Start working on script (Short writing assignment 5).

After class, Monday, April 10

Sign up for conferences

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1G9syKrJvnaEg6WJohFXmSRYWTQR4jzNysrJOC-oToXE/edit

Turn in paper revision on Wednesday

 

After class, Wednesday April 5

Check out the guidelines for the presentation

–Paper 3 Revision due next Wednesday @ midnight

 

—The Art History of the Selfie

–Read Harris, Revising, then respond.

  1. Pick two favorite quotes.
  2. Write three 140 character summaries (tweet-length summaries) after reading.
  3. Relate one of these to your paper  (Email or give to me in class).

After class, Monday, April 3

–SWA #4 due at Midnight.

–Optional draft of paper 3 due Wednesday; bring paper copies for me to look at and mark while you are writing during class. Any I don’t get to I will scan and get to you ASAP.

–Bring any materials you need to work on your paper to class Wednesday. We will be working on your paper in a guided workshop.

Cool video on Rhetoric you might enjoy watching!

After class, Wednesday, March 29,

  1. Bring your thesis statement for Paper 3 to Monday’s class.
  2. Be writing your SWA #4. Look at media kits / background / history for your app!
  3. On Canvas, I’ve uploaded a bunch of sample (I know!) sample student rhetorical analyses.  Pick (2) to read.*Snap* – Sam DiOrio     [SnapChat]With a Snap of My Finger – Kourtney Brown     [SnapChat]Myself vs. the Selfie –Rachel Greenspan [SnapChat140: the Sum of my Personality – Tim Prier   [Twitter]Worthless Pictures – Chris Assis     [Reddit]The Instagram Screen – Rachel Robertson   [Instagram]Secret Engagment – Yeshin Kwon   [Twitter]Unsocial Media – John Hogan   [Facebook]@pick_norter – Nicholas Porter   [Twitter]Dual Identity –Jacqueline Smith     [Instagram]Instagram: real or nah: Christopher Latour     [Instagram]Second Accounts, Second Lives. Allison Hopkins. [Pinterest

Daily Mix of Me. Ashlee Ferguson. [Spotify]

Soul-Searching in Spotify. Ryan Hoffman. [Spotify]

 

  1. Write 3 aspects you admire about the papers you read and you might borrow.
  2. Write 1 aspect you might revise or improve.
  3. Write 1 idea you had from reading: how you might “Take An Approach” based on these papers.

After class, Monday, March 27,

  • Identify an app (or two) you propose to analyze for your paper 3. Be ready to tell us!
  • Be sure to complete your Midterm experiences blog by April 1.
  • Read: “Big Snow in the Social Media Age.” Ian Crouch. New Yorker. February 11, 2015. (There are social media links embedded in the article, but there’s also a PDF on Canvas).
  • Read Leith: Introduction to Rhetoric, Introduction to Logos, Ethos, and Pathos, AND individual documents for Logos, Ethos, Pathos (Canvas OR Readings page on our WordPress site). They are all short. 🙂
  • https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2015/04/16/advice-students-so-they-dont-sound-silly-emails-essay

After class, Wednesday March 22

 

After class,

  • Paper 2 Draft due tonight by midnight (Canvas).
  • Be working on your  Midterm Reflection and Midterm Experiences Blog! 
  • Remember, the Midterm Reflection  is due Friday, by midnight.
  • Monday’s class after Spring Break we will not meet (please note: I will not be holding my normal office hours either): instead we will have paper conferences. You can meet with me before the break (Thursday) or after (Tuesday)!  Sign up here.  Bring three written revision goals.

After class, Monday, March 6th,

  • Remember, complete draft is due Wednesday. If you want me to mark up mechanics, etc, bring a paper copy to class. Otherwise, I’ll provide more limited feedback on Canvas by the draft due at midnight.
  • Be working on your  Midterm Reflection and Midterm Experiences Blog! 
  • Don’t forget about commenting on your fellow students’ curator work!

After class, March 1

  • SWA 3 (due Wednesday by midnight)
  • Writing Group 1: Read : “The Originality of Borrowing,” Nicholas Porter; “Christopher Nolan: Directing with Magic,” Kevin Cortinas
  • Writing Group 2:“Don Draper: Dying from the Moment He Was Born,” John Hogan; “Gangsters Don’t Have Bar Mizvahs” — Ryan Hoffman
  • Writing Group 3:“Sabermetrics: The Baseball Renaissance”—Tim Prier; Allison Hopkins, “Artificial Intelligence in Person of Interest”
  • Writing Group 4: “The Paradox of Justin Timberlake,” Yeshin Kwon; Bill Dang, “House of Cards and the Influence of the Author’s Identity”
  • Writing Group 5: “Stranger Things” — Kourtney Brown; Maria Carballar, “Forwarding Foucault ft. Black Eyed Peas”

Remember your completed draft of your paper is DUE a week from today! 🙂  Be writing, writing, writing.

Check out Midterm Reflection and Midterm Experiences Blog! 

After class, February 27,

Locate: 6-8 sources for in-class workshop on annotated bibliography for your researched conversation paper. Be sure you have access / information you will need to work on your bibliography in class (author, title, source, link / physical copy). Bring it all!
At least 5 of these sources should be sources found through the library (books, articles, etc).
At least ONE source should be a book-length source.
Consider recency (written in last 5 years?) and credibility of your source /publication in choosing (use our library guide! On our website, under Resources!)

Still a little confused about paraphrasing, summarizing, and quoting? Read this!

Resources (Use what you need!!!)

  • Paraphrasing help. Here. here. here. and here.
  • Quotations help: Here.
  • MLA in-text quotations help: Here.
  • MLA online sources citations help: Here.
  • MLA print sources citations help: Here.
  • Evaluating sources help: Here.
  • AHHHH, what even is EVIDENCE??? Here.

After class, February 22

Write: SWA #2 by midnight Wednesday.

Continue: Researching sources for your paper!

Read: Atlantic: The Secret to Good Writing: Objects, Not Ideas    

Read: Shitty First Drafts  (Canvas)

And, pick one of these last two:

Read: Min Hyoung Song: Some Thoughts on Academic Writing  

OR

Listen: Are Emoji a Language?

After class, February 20

Library guide link

Start writing your Short Writing Assignment #2 (instructions on website under paper 2 and also on Canvas). Email me with any questions.  Remember, you will either 1) FORWARD or 2) COUNTER Barthes, Gaiman, or Foucault (just pick one move to try in your short writing assignment). If you’re curious about how this looks, you can always look at the sample paper 2’s on Canvas. You’ll see a paragraph “forwarding” or “countering” one of these critics in each of their papers.

Read Chapter 3 of Harris’ Rewriting, “Countering.”

Read or Watch: Neil Gaiman’s London Book Fair Keynote Speech (Video & Speech)

(Writing Groups 1-2) Read: Writing in a Dandelion Future

(Writing Groups 3-5) Read: Does Digital Publishing Mean the Death of the Author?

 

After class, February 15

  • MONDAY’S CLASS WILL BE HELD IN THE PCL: MEET IN THE LOBBY–IDEALLY, BE 5 MIN EARLY! 🙂 IF YOU COME TO OUR CLASSROOM WE WILL NOT BE HERE.
  • Catchup weekend. Are you behind on anything in this class (reading, writing, tweeting, commenting on your classmates’ media posts, etc?) Did you forget to write a reading response comment to Foucault or Barthes by the time of each class period? Go back and catch up this weekend, and keep track of your catchup work for your LR. Do a little writing in your personal LR journal (however you are keeping it) on how you plan to keep up with this daily work / the assignments, short and long in the future. Are you going to write / read at a certain time? Make sure you have all the deadlines, moving forward, in your phone, with an alarm?
  • START brainstorming potential lines of conversation to research for paper 2:
    1. First, start by writing down artists, books, movies, movements, characters, etc, that you are passionate about–if you can imagine something as having an audience, a text, and a creator / author, then your passion qualifies!
    2. Those passions are what you’ll bring to the PCL. Maybe all you’ll know is I want to think about Audience and Kanye. Or Scripts and Jane the Virgin/House of Cards/Mad Men. Start there.
    3. Pay attention in class over the next few weeks and think about which theorist about authorship either makes the most sense to you (you’ll forward along their ideas), or drives you the most crazy (you’ll counter their claims). More on this later.
    4. After going through this process, write down a few questions (like the question sheet / idea sheet I passed on in class, or you could modify one of those) that you might want to research.
    5. You should have 2 to 3 options by class in the PCL Monday.

    Feel free to email me or come to office hours and talk it through!

After class, February 13

Read the prompt for Paper Two: start thinking about possible research conversations you’d like to have.
Read: What is the Author,” Foucault (carefully read pp 205-214; 221-222, skim rest) (C)

Want to get a better picture of Foucault?  Here’s a useful video.

  • Read Chapter 2 of Harris’ Rewriting, “Forwarding.”  By writing group, craft a reflection focused on a specific section of Harris’ text and responding to Foucault.
  • Writing Group 1: page 34-38
  • Writing Group 2: page 38-43
  • Writing Group 3: page43-47
  • Writing Group 4: page48-51
  • Writing Group 5: page49-53
  • Respond to Wordpress post the main point(s) of your section, along with one clear quote from the section. Also include (1) question you have from reading Foucault, and (1) way, you see from the text, that it seems like he might be “forwarding” himself.

 

After class, February 8

  • Turn in iNarrative Revision, with revision letter + scanned copy of draft by Friday @ midnight.
  • By Monday, Read: “The Death of the Author,” Barthes (C)
  • Read: Barthes Reading Guide (C)
  • Read: Han Shot First. 
  • Leave a response, detailing (3) questions you have after reading Barthes. Include page numbers / quotes in () when you refer to Barthes specifically.

After conferences:

-Be revising iNarrative.

-Be sure electronic copy of iNarrative is on Canvas for peer review in class Wednesday!

–scan iNarrative draft with my comments to submit with revision.

–Be keeping notes / track of your revision / process (note relation to LR) as you work on your revision.

After class, February 1

In preparation for conferences, complete your Revising Wish List and write concrete 3 Revision goals (file for Revision Wish List on (C). Work on revision of your personal narrative.

Post your Mad Libs Scene on our website. Consider commenting on your fellow student’s posts, guessing about the scene, words omitted, etc.

Are you engaging with our media account week? Remember, you need to post 10 comments on your fellow student blog posts before the end of the semester, and the midterm blog is coming up!

After class, January 30

Finish draft of iNarrative.

By our next class period, PRINTED copy due in class to me & identical electronic version must also be submitted on Canvas! 🙂  

After class, Wednesday, January 25

Looking for the article about the 5 I’s:

  • http://www.iphonejd.com/iphone_jd/2009/01/the-i-in-iphone.html
  • Comment:  3 Six Word Memoirs by next class period.
  • Finish (by Wednesday at midnight: Short writing assignment 1 (C).
  • Read: “I” narratives written by past students (used with permission): (C)

“Looks Like He Listened,”  Chris Assis, “Bentwater,” Connor Masich  (Writing Group 1)

“The Friend of a Lifetime,” Sam Diorio, “American Dream: Enough is Never Enough,” Kourtney Brown (Writing Group 2)

“Inked,” Jacqueline Smith, “She Faded Away, and We Followed,” Lora Duro (Writing Group 3)

“Red,” Ashlee Ferguson, “Fun at Boot Camp,” Griffin Keegan  (Writing Group 4)

“The Truth Uncovered,” Sean Huang, “Wash Your Hands in Joy,” Folawiyo Babalola (Writing Group 5)

After class, Monday, January 23

We’re going to divide into two teams for next class: Team Apple and Team Google. Read the appropriate article based on your team assignment.

Team Apple (Last names, A-J)

Team Google (Last names, (L-Z)

Your article goes into the backstory of your company, but your group is going to argue from this backstory to make an argument about how we arrived at our current impression of these companies (so 2000s–to present). Use your collective knowledge! Don’t get too bogged down as a group on the phone divide (iPhone v. Android). Try to think more Apple v. Google; get at philosophies, narratives, and personalities driving our conceptions of these brands.  Brands are kind of like people–you know more about them from ads, products, and immersion than you think. Which technology company is more innovative, more useful to you as a person? Have we changed our mind about these companies? Are they the same now, or different? After you consult briefly in class with your team, we’ll have a in-class debate.

  • Read: And Then Steve Said, ‘Let There Be an iPhone’ Fred Vogelstein. (TEAM APPLE) New York Times OCT. 4, 2013 (C)
  • Read “The Day Google Had to ‘Start Over’ on Android.” Fred Vogelstein. The Atlantic. DEC 18, 2013. (TEAM GOOGLE) (C)
  • Finish Initial Learning Record / First Week Checklist (C).
  • Start on #SWA 1–due Wednesday at midnight.

After class, Wednesday, January 18

  • (C) = Canvas
    • Read: “How to Write a ‘Lives” Essay.” Hugo Lindgren. New York Times Magazine March 8, 2012. (C)
    • Read EITHER: “Rules of Engagement,” Nathan Filer. New York Times Nov. 21 2014. OR ‘The Man on Death Row Who Changed Me” Bryan Stevenson. New York Times Magazine. Oct. 24 2014. (C)
    • FIND: Searching through the NY Times Lives, find one “life” in the archive. Be ready to explain in class which life you identified, and why you found it appealing, revealing, or attractive.
    • Complete (over the next week) First Week Checklist (C)
    • Read Chapter 1 of Harris’ Rewriting, “Coming to Terms.”  Post to the open Canvas discussion forum (by Monday) the main point(s) of the section by your assigned writing group number, along with one clear quote from the section. You will present these as groups at the beginning of the next class.
    •       Pgs 13-16: Intro  (Group 1)      Pgs 16-19: Defining the Project of a Writer (Group 2)      Pgs 19-24: Noting Keywords and Passages (Group 3)      Pgs 24-27: Assessing Uses and Limits (Group 4)      Pgs 28-32: Quotation: Some Terms of Art (Group 5)