ENGL 505A blogs

Blog Entry

Maria Granic-White — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:49:36 -0500

I will have my students ask questions concerning their readings. I think I will also ask them to post ideas (not personal but rather ones they read/hear about) related to the upcoming election.

Comparing recruiting and anti-war posters for analyzing visual rhetoric

celder — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:34:31 -0500

Hi all. Leading up to the Visual Rhetoric project, my students and I discussed the war recruitment posters found in the visual rhetoric chapter of CDA. Then we compared these posters to parodies of the same posters, with an anti-war bent. (Huh? I hope that makes sense.) I've attached examples of the paired posters (the originals and the parodies) below. If you want to see more examples of these posters, you can visit www.antiwarposters.com

Peace out,
CE

Proposed Reading List

lslimak — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:41:49 -0500

Here's the way my proposed reading list shook out.

Lou

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

syllabus in progress

dr. b. — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:08:18 -0500

Syllabus

Computer Assignment

Maria Granic-White — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:11:39 -0500

Here is my computer class assignment.
Maria Granic-White

Computer Assignment

1. Class exercise: Have students watch the video “Cry for Help: Stop Mutations in Rift Valley!” on Youtube.com.
2. Discuss with them the rhetorical devices in the video and have them identify the audience of the video.
3. Have them utilize a handout in which they check the appropriate boxes and comment bellow the table:

Questions V SO N
Was the thesis/ main idea of the topic clear?
Was the argument logical?
Did the presenter have good ethos?

OWL Scavenger Hunt

cmcmarti — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:35:19 -0500

Hey guys,

This is a computer lab activity I did early in the semester to familiarize students with Purdue's world famous OWL. The other point of the activity was to teach students about the structure of the paragraph and essay without, you know, actually having to teach it. The first time I assigned it, I had it available on my class web site, students opened it, and they typed their answers in. In the future, I might print it out. While this wastes papers, that will help me avoid students simply copying and pasting their answers into the blanks.

Crissy

Computer Class Ideas From Liz

ehoman — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:33:42 -0500

Hi all,

Suggestion for Group Advocacy

Kmc — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 12:07:55 -0500

I would like to propose moving the group advocacy assignment to the beginning of the semester.

First, I feel like having the students work together from the start will have a positive impact on the collaborative nature of the class by fostering more cooperation and less competition, especially important in activities like peer review. I also hope that other group projects -- perhaps a multi-media or video one (see Liz's blog) -- could be added later in the semester to help maintain this collaborative spirit throughout.

Tech Suggestions

lslimak — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:38:42 -0500

After playing a competitive round of Find It!, we moved on and into a discussion of search engines (which ones to use for what - Google, Google Scholar, Academic Search Premier, JStor, the library book catalog, etc...) how to find full text articles, and how to evaluate credibility in journals, books, web sources, and find an appropriate fit. We took actual prompts from the game - actual "requests" from the patrons - and in groups came up with sources found through a variety of the engines and then discussed their level of utility.