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Syllabus Revision

aderosa — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:07:24 -0500

Alright, so after talking with Sam, here's a possible syllabus revision.

Week 1 Diagnostic Writing
Week 2 RR1 – adver-gaming
Week 3 Day 1 Off
Week 4 RR2 – group advertising
Week 5
Week 6 Paper 1
Week 7 RR3 – Multimodal Narrative
Week 8 RR4 – Source Evaluation
Week 9 Visual Rhetoric
Week 10 SPRING BREAK
Week 11
Week 12 Paper 2
Week 13 Abstract
Week 14 Annotated Bib
Week 15 Research Paper
Week 16 Presentation

Digital Assignments: MovieMaker

aderosa — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:37:03 -0500

One of the ways to integrate MovieMaker into the classroom is to have them open the program on their own, insert a single song and some pictures, save it, and bring it to class. Then you can go through some of them, talk about the images used, when they appear in the chosen song (are there pictures of water when the song talks about the ocean?) and make a class movie. Then converse about the rhetorical effectiveness.

Not very innovative, but potentially fun and interesting.

My Political Assignments

aderosa — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:52:14 -0400

As promised, here are the political assignments I'm going to be using for the final few assignments.

It's my prerogative

aderosa — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 00:04:55 -0400

"New Kids" in the hiz-ouse!
Sometimes I disappoint myself. Anyway, so here's how I think I'm structuring the final 3 basic assignments (RR4, Paper 2, Research paper).

All of this is based out of a shift to the political in class.

RR4: Very simply put, they'll be writing an Op-Ed piece on a subject of their choosing. They'll have to pick a relevant and recent news article and respond to the issue using whatever strategy they think works best (ethos/pathos/logos).

On Paper 2

aderosa — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 08:09:42 -0400

If we do the same assignment for Paper 2 where we assign them the task of picking a topic, how do we prevent them from choosing the same topics again? Anyway have suggestions on limitations? Paper 1 for me was focused on the Purdue/Lafayette area. Should Paper 2 be national? Right now I'm leaning towards politics.

On Newkirk

aderosa — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:56:52 -0400

To read Newkirk in conjunction with the Harris article, we’re left with a very interesting dilemma about the role of teachers in a one-on-one conference. Whereas Harris draws distinctions between in-class peer review and the tutoring that goes on in the Writing Center, so too must we draw a distinction between the teacher in the classroom and the teacher in conference.