Interesting in context of last week's video and Thoreau

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Wednesday, October 26, 2011

CLASS CANCELED MONDAY, OCTOBER 31st...HAPPY HALLOWEEN...all assignments due Wednesday, November 2nd

http://vimeo.com/28066212

Formal Essay #5: Critical Analysis Essay:

Choose any form of multi-media and analyze it for bias (from a gender, cultural, ethnic or soci-economic perspective). Find 3rd party, credible (maybe academic?) sources to back your analysis. Incorporate the 3rd party data into your own opinion (minimum of three pages).

Consider a strucutre in which you provide an anecdotal or experiential introduction. Followed by a paragraph that centers your thesis and main point. Then, synopsize and provide background to the multi-media piece you have chosen. Next, provide the ways in which the piece evinces your thesis. Notch up your opinion by incorporating your research. Cite. Attribute. Write an engaging, anecdotal intro. Write an argumentative, implicit thesis. And incorporate all of the tenets of good writing discussed thus far.

Monday, October 24, 2011

First, read the first two articles attached here and here.

Then, read the two articles attached to the blog below this post. Print and annotate all. Be ready to discuss in class.

Keep reading.

Serena Williams and Marat Safin gave gut-check - 02.07.05 - SI Vault

Serena Williams and Marat Safin gave gut-check - 02.07.05 - SI Vault

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1108512/index.htm

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1108512/index.htm

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Keep reading, my friends...for inspiration...don't forget all of the transcendentalist artists around us...spreading the word.



This weekend...use some of the research techniques or tips (or whatever you got out of it...if anything) to sure up the research you did for the Skube paper.

Also, Journal #7 will be a reaction and response to the article available here.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Just rewrite Skube!

Monday, October 10, 2011 Assignments

READ:

Read the Clarity section of Hacker...this will address many of the types of issues I have been seeing in your writing.


WRITE:

Rewrite of Essay #3

Watch the video embedded below. Journal #6 will be a reaction to it. Respond, criticize, agree or otherwise analyze. Please feel free to compare, contrast with Economy section of Walden.