Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy
Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext
- → reminder: Project 1 Video (19-Sep) and Summary (20-Sep) due
Week 5
M 9/21 Discuss: Project 1 outcomes, Unit 2 goals, Webtext project
- focus: insights from video about belief-story mode (for reflection blog entry);
about public/social genre/mode — audience — circulation (publish to site/social media?) - new unit topic In-class writing — sketch of your major/field (initial/current view of discipline, information, specialized discourse)
Blog Entry 2: Project 1 Reflection
- 200 words, informal; due T 9/22
— no classmate comment required this time - suggested: share your video online (your choice) for more specific discussions of public/social conventions, audience, circulation
W 9/23 hybrid work :
watch Unit Overview Video- share initial “Field Sketch” (brief list + media)
and online source in/for your discipline (find + follow)
— classmate comment optional
- preparation for Friday (use time Wed): identify representative/recent reading & assignment from your major (another course) — to bring/reference in discussion next class
F 9/25 Discuss: Ouellette, “Veni, Vidi, Wiki: Expertise as Knowledge and a Technocratic Generation” Reconstruction 10.2 (2010)
- Focus: “expertise,” rhetorical conventions, & “information” of (your) field
— use/reference major-course reading/book and assignment as examples
- looking ahead: begin compiling/browsing (research) for Annotated Bibliography (due 10/03) — first exercise/component of Project 2
- see more series/channels by PBS Digital Studios
» Initial “Field Sketch” (W 9/23)
Field:
Discipline/Major/Focus:
→ sketch/map in brief comment (2 sentences, or in fragments) + media,
inventory any of the following:
“Information” (how defined, what counts, how used?)
Institutions (general & specific; “sites” of knowledge, like in college and “out in” profession)
Figures/“Faces” (people past & present)
Voices/Publications (books/journals, websites, official / informal)
Images / Avatars? (personal association or popular circulation/imagination)
(example sketch — “mapping” field I am ‘in’…)
Field: Academia
Discpline: Writing & Rhetoric (?)
Institutions: university/college, College of Arts & Sciences — Program for Writing & Rhetoric (UC-Boulder); Association of American Universities, Modern Language Association, university press (book publishing), National Council of Teachers of English ?
voices — (journals): College Composition and Communication, Computers & Composition, Kairos, Enculturation;
annual Computers & Writing Conference, Biennial Rhetoric Society of America Conference
online forums: MLA Commons, listservs, individual blogs, #teamrhetoric (Twitter)
“information”: academic writing / “research” (journal articles, books); reports…?
images: Google Drive/Docs, D2L, email (Inbox, notification, compose); library databases; and
Field: Law
Discipline/Major/Focus: Intellectual Property
“Information” (how defined, what counts, how used?): copyright, trademark, patents, “filings,” purchases (of companies holding patents); statutes/ordinances, cases & rulings (precedents)
Institutions (general & specific; “sites” of knowledge, like in college and “out in” profession): firms, state/federal/international IP laws (patent, trademark), register @ United States Patent & Trademark Office
Figures/“Faces” (people past & present): attorney, individuals corporations…?
Voices/Publications (books/journals, websites, official / informal)
Images / Avatars? (personal association or popular circulation/imagination):
Field: Craft Brewing
Discipline/Major/Focus: Microbrewery, sour/wild, aging/blending
“Information” (how defined, what counts, how used?): chemistry (e.g. pH), microbiology (e.g. fermentation by mixed “cultures” of bacteria & yeasts); plus “sensory program” notes by cellar manager / brewer
Institutions (general & specific): marketplace (supply/demand); World Beer Cup (international competition); Siebel Institute of Technology & World Brewing Academy; programs/certificates in brewing at universities…
Figures/“Faces” (people past & present): Peter Bouckaert, Eric and Lauren Salazar (New Belgium); Paul Cantillon (founder, Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon, 1900);
Voices/Publications (books/journals, websites, official / informal): Brewers Association publication, BeerAdvocate magazine & forums; annual Craft Brewers Conference
Images / Avatars? (personal association or popular circulation/imagination):
(microbes like “wild yeast” are invisible, but they’re everywhere; including on beards…)
Professional Field: Biological research/ medicine
Discipline: Developmental Biology
Information: Peer-reviewed articles, published text, ongoing research, used to teach and practice in fertility/ genetic treatments
Institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, College of Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Molecular, Cellular, & Developmental Biology (Undergraduate studies & graduate and professional research)
Figures: Walter J. Gehring, among other researchers (many of which are based out of CU)
Publications: Elsevier Journal, Society for Developmental Biology, Gilbert. Developmental Biology
Images: http://cmg.soton.ac.uk/assets/categories/embryo.medium.jpg
Online Source (information & communication):
Society of Developmental Biology: http://www.sdbonline.org/
My example: Early Embryo discussion / detailed drawing assignment
Field: counseling
major: psychology
Information: gather information through research studies
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU boulder college of arts & sciences
Figures: Sigmund Freud, Albert Bandura, Carl Jung
publications: the APA, online, newspapers, magazines, etc.
Images: therapy room, lab, MRI machine
Source of information: published studies
Field: Anthropology&Leadership Studies
Discipline: Cultural Anthropology
Information–
Institutions– American Anthropological Association, CU-Boulder
Figures/Faces– Franz Boaz, Bronislaw Malinowski, Margaret Mead
Voices/Publications– AAA
Images / Avatars–
American Anthropological Association
http://www.aaanet.org
Information– Study of human beings
Professional Field: Corporate Law
Discipline: Political Science, fundamentals of business, LSAT, ABA
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences – Political Science, Mini Law School
Information: Business fundamentals, history of law; contracts
Voices: Fletcher vs. Peck; Dartmouth College vs. Woodward
http://lawlibrary.colorado.edu/SubjectsPlus/subjects/guide.php?subject=Second
Readings I am currently doing are the federalist papers and the Constitution.
An assignment I am currently doing is about the Institutions of the U.S. government; which ones are more relevant/ needed.
Professional Field: Social Work
Discipline: Sociology
Institutions: CU Boulder-Arts and Sciences
Information: Almost everything! There are stipulations like ethics and sampling for validity. Published studies aren’t always reliable. The world population’s actions are information.
Important Voices: Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Comte
Circulation: Published articles (internet and books)
American Sociological Association is a source to get known information and read important posts
http://www.asanet.org/about/sociology.cfm
This is one of my recent sociological assignments for a written essay…
“Based on the readings and your informed opinion, would you say that mass incarceration is mainly a result of changes in 1) culture, 2) politics, or 3) social structure? Choose one topic to focus on, and describe/demonstrate how changes (or lack of change?) in this topic led to mass incarceration and our current system of crime control.”
Professional Field: Financial Advisor
Discipline: Economics
Information– Acquired date from public studies
Institutions– Department of Econ. Cu Boulder
Figures/Faces– Adam Smith, Ben Bernanke
Voices/Publications-The Economist
Images / Avatars– The model of Supply and Demand
http://www.economics-ejournal.org/ (The open access, open assessment e-journal)
My example assignment is a print out titled “P-set 3″. It includes word problems that pertain to consuming certain amounts of ‘goods’.…
Professional Field: Psychiatry/Medicine
Academic Discipline: Neuroscience
Institutions: CU Boulder, Arts and Sciences
Information: Published, peer reviewed research studies; data and texts from biological and chemical sciences, as well
Faces/figures: Santiago Ramon y Cajal; Ben Carson (retired neurosurgeon and current republican presidential candidate); Joseph C. Maroon (neurosurgeon)
Voices/Publications: Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry, Nature Neuroscience
Online Forums: Neurology Forum (doctorslounge.com), NeuroTalk Support Groups (neurotalk.psychcentral.com)
Images: Brain, Neuron
Source of information http://www.jneurosci.org/
–Assignment: Final from Introduction to Neuroscience (NRSC 2100)
Field: Business
Discipline: Marketing and management
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences– Communication & minor in Business & Leadership
Information: successful communication, Business Essentials & leadership skills
Voices: Wall Street Journal, successful business people
Circulation: Published business Articles
Source for info or communicating: Wall Street Journal
Example: http://www.wsj.com
A reading about Business (pricing and advertising) named “Groupon “flaw” in the Business”
Pro Field: Education
Discipline: English language and Literature
Information: As far as theory and analysis goes– anything published in academia and maybe at the lowest level– a thesis paper that has been peer reviewed and approved. But also, opinions that can be backed by close reading analysis and textual evidence. As far as Literature goes: anything that fits within the canon, “high” art.
Institutions: Modern Language Association, University Press
Voices: Professors, PhD’s, teachers, theorists
One on-line source for accessing info in my field is the Modern Language Association International Bibliography: https://www.mla.org/bibliography
The assignment that I brought in is a a scholarly article on Literary Theory, “The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People and Significant Otherness” by Donna Haraway.
Professional Field: Computer Programming
Major: Computer Science
Institutions: Comp. Sci. BA at CU Boulder, College of A&S, and Russian Language Minor
Information: Data is a major form of information in computer science. Information can also be communicated through “pseudocode”, which outlays the conceptual framework behind a program.
Figures: Alan Turing; Steve Jobs; Mark Zuckerberg
Publications: Can’t think of any right now, most computer science publications are online
Online Forums: StackOverflow (a great site for troubleshooting code), language databases (dictionaries for programming languages)
Images: Binary, Video Games
Assignment: https://drive.google.com/a/colorado.edu/file/d/0B07DRf5cv-LFT2laX0tvN25TQVk/view
Field: Criminal Justice
Discipline: Sociology and Business
Institutions: CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences and minor in Business
Information: Social skills, learning social work and people, Business skills
Voices: Lawyers, The Week Magazine
Circulation: News on TV
Scholary Article on Children of the American Prison Generation by John Hagan and Holly Foster:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540–5893.2012.00472.x/abstract
They get their information from data collected of real evidence
A reading about Student and School Spillover Effects of Incarcerating Mothers
Professional Field: Management & Operations
Discipline: Economics
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences-Economics
Information: The study of money and the markets of supply and demand. Also the trends of how people spend their money with budgets and constraints.
Voices: Honorable Tony Clement(President of the Treasury Board)
Images: Money, Goods&Services, and Markets
Problem Set 2Solutions
1.Suppose the demand for lychees is given by the following equation:Qd= 4000 –100P+ 500PM,where Pis the price of lychees and PMis the price of mangoes.a.What happens to the demand for lychees when the price of mangoes goes up? Are lychees and mangoes substitutes or complements?
To follow the economy many economists follow the stock market
http://money.cnn.com/data/markets/
Professional Field: Conflict Resolution
Discipline: International Affairs
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder — College of Arts and Sciences with major in International affairs, minor in Political Science and certificate in Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Information: historical studies, public opinion studies, effective and successful communication, theory of conflict and war, human psychology
Voices: Politicians, World Leaders, Mediators
Images: Conflict Resolution Conference Models, World Government and Domestic Government Modes, Resource Allocation
Circulation: World Conflict
Professional Field: Broadcast News
Discipline: Mass Communications
Institutions: CU Boulder-Arts and Sciences
Information: Optimal communication skills, knowledge of current affairs, mastery of spoken language/public speaking.
Important Voices: The Today Show, 20/20, CNN, Fox News, NBC, Operah Winfrey
Circulation: Television news stations, internet news sites, the radio
Field: Classical studies
Discipline: Latin Language
Institution(s): CU Boulder (undergraduate), College of Arts and Sciences
Information: the reading and understanding of manuscripts and translations; published texts are also used, but are not very common
Voices: teachers, professors
Images: papyrus scroll, mythological figures/monsters, et cetera…
Example: Apocolocyntosis, Seneca (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics)
Professional Field: Public Relations/ Broadcast Journalist
Discipline: Communications/ Journalism
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences
Information: Communications is the study of human interaction. Public Relations is the practice of focusing that study to managing the spread of information (ex. from an organization to the public)
Voices: Elliot Schrage, VP communications/public policy at Facebook
Images: Faces, fame, money
1. I will be looking for the source of where Public Relations Representations read for current information in their field
/ Broadcast Journalists
(I will reply with a follow up post upon finding the source(s))
2. From a book, “The Changing Family” by Sharon Hays (2005). Reading 5, titled “The Mommy Wars, Ambivalence, Ideological Work, and the Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood”
Field: Audiology and Speech Pathology
Discipline: Speech Language and Hearing Science
Institutions: Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts and Sciences– SLHS program
Information: The study of rehabilitation for those with receptive and expressive obstacles with using and hearing communicative systems of language
Figures: Noam Chomsky, ASHA, NSSLHA
Images: Ear, Voice, Language
Professional Field: Education and Psychology
Discipline: Early Childhood Development
Institutions:Undergraduate at CU Boulder, College of Arts & Sciences, Elementary Teacher Licensure Program
Information: The study of how to become an Elementary School teacher by learning adequate ways to teach students that will promote growth and development.
Voices:Ashley Cartun, Joel Klien
Images: Teachers, Students, Professors
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
– this is a site where teachers collaborate with one another and give each other different resources.
Reading: “Language Development from Theory to Practice” Chapter 2, pages 41–72
Assignment: Create a lesson plan for a read aloud, read to a group of kids, and debrief.
Field: Neuroscience/Biological Sciences
Discipline/Major/Focus: Genetics
Information: The Human Genome, gene mapping, experiments, journals
Institutions: CU Boulder research labs, other university research labs, Genetics Society of America
Figures/“Faces”: Gregor Mendel– studied trait inheritance, Charles Darwin, James Watson and Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins
Voices/Publications: http://www.genetics.org/ for journals, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genome/guide/human/ and http://www.genome.gov/ about the human genome, Journal of Human Genetics
Images / Avatars? Double helix structure
Source: Specialists in the field get information from their own experiments and discussing with other scientists and researchers about their findings. Sometimes there are conferences and societies like the Genetics Society of America where people discuss their information.
Example reading/assignment: Reading and associated online quiz from book “Molecular Biology.”
Field: Real Estate
Discipline: Communications and Business
Information: The real estate market country wide private and commercial
Institutions: REMAX
Figures: David Paterson, David Jackson are a few big names in New York Real Estate
Publications: http://observer.com/2008/05/the-100-most-powerful-people-in-new-york-real-estate/
Professional Field: Geography
Discipline: Social/human Geographer
Institutions: CU Boulder, college of arts and sciences, school of geography
Information: Analyzing spatial relationships and patterns in populations, landscapes and built environs.
Figures: Lewis and Clark, Magellan, Carl Ritter
Voices: news agencies, social media, Google, World Health Organization, political leaders, militaries, normal people…
Images: Map, GPS/phone/computer screen, public information displays and flyers
Publications: print and digital media, United States geological survey
Online: http://www.usgs.gov/ , Google, many others online
Other sources: university libraries, federal archives, museums
Forum for communicating: World Health Organization conferences, USGS field offices, local offices, national and regional conferences.
Reading: Reimagining Global Health, by Farmer,Kim,Kleinman an Basilico — Read a chapter on the lasting effects of colonial health policy and how those policies still shape the health care systems in Africa.
Assignment: GIS assignment, I had to determine what portions of an old growth forest was on private land versus BLM land.
Field: Research
Discipline: Psychology
Institutions: University of Colorado Boulder, Stanford University, Yale University.
Information: Peer review articles, academic journals, DSM 5
Faces: Freud (unfortunately), John B. Watson, Pavlov, B.F. Skinner
Publications: Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Psychological Science, Psychological Bulletin
Images: The brain, Ψ.
This is the DSM 5, the diagnostic and statistical manual version 5. Funnily enough the website is down http://www.dsm5.org/
People will contact each others through the various publications and the peer review process.
A reading i had to do was Ajzen and Madden 1986, on their Theory of Planned Behavior. Its rather easy to find, my copy was on d2l.
I had to start a paper on an aspect of the TPB, namely on the effect of norms amd self-efficacy on intentions to exercise.
Field: Language Educator, Translator, Computational linguist
Discpline: Linguistics and Spanish & Portuguese
Institutions: CU Boulder College of Arts & Sciences — Linguistics and Spanish,
Information: The deepened study of languages and/or cultures. With linguistics, you can study Phonology, Semantics, and/or morphology and Syntax.
Figures: Noam Chompsky,
Images: IPA, verb charts, Dictionaries, Translation databases,
Professional field: Psychology and Leadership
Discipline: sports psychology & coaching
Information: Experiments and data collection of case studies
Institutions: Psychology therapists/motivators on professional teams as well as for Collegiate athletes such as Chris Bader here at CU.
Publication: http://breakingmuscle.com/sports-psychology/the-science-and-psychology-of-motivation-for-athletes
Source: They communicate through the DSM and that’s the latest form of diagnosing a patient. I need to look into more where they look on the web to actually talk to each other and read other work.
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2015/09/22/is-depression-treatable-with-a-mobile-phone-app?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region
My assignment was actually for Gen Psych and it was a research paper on the an article “Are Adolescents less mature than adults”.
Professional Field: Chemistry
Academic Discipline: Organic, physical
Institutions: CU Boulder, Arts and Sciences, scripts (San Diego), Pfizer among many others
Information: Published, peer reviewed research studies; data and texts from research labs all over the world, many publications here at CU from many research professors.
Faces/figures: Anyone with a reaction named after them, such as clayson, birch etc.
Voices/Publications: American chemical society is big in the states, everything published can be found through them.
Online Forums: Scifinder.com, ACS.org. And every research lab group has their own group page with their publications and interest.
Images: Periodic table. Explosions. Chemical developments, like medicine etc.
wonder how many people think Heisenberg was a chemist.… #smh
Many chemist look at publications from the American chemical society, and they hold conferences in various places to move the concepts that research has proven. And example of this is something that can be used is the following link. http://pubs.acs.org/#/doi/full/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b00578
Assignments in my field often deal with hypothetical situations. For example in lab we are told the objective and we either design an experiment ourselves, or we follow a procedure that is given to us. Either way, the procedure comes from ACS, and we try to obtain the same results.
Field: Chemistry
Discipline/Major/Focus: Education and Forensics
Information: Experiments, Journals
Institutions: CU Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, CU Boulder Research Labs, University Research Labs
Figures: Louis Pasteur, John Dalton, Robert Boyle
Publications/Voices: http://famouschemists.org/
http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/content
1) Source of info: Doing experiments.
2) Assigned reading: Chapter 3 of “Physical Chemistry” book. Then Problems 3.5,3.7,3.10,3.11, 3.12, 3.14, 3.15, 3.20, 3.23, 3.25, and an additional problem online.
Current Majors: Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences (SLHS) and Integrative Physiology (IPHY)
Desired Field: Audiology (Military)
Institutions: American Speech, Language, and Hearing Association (ASHA), CU Boulder (followed by graduate school), college of arts and sciences, SLHS and IPHY departments
Images: the ear and the brain
Voices: Yvgotski, Chomsky, Newton, ASHA NSSLHA
Current View: This job basically entails testing for and diagnosing hearing and balance problems and correcting said problems by fitting people for hearing aids, recommending them as candidates for cochlear implants, or providing them with disability services. I feel like the demand for audiology is not excruciatingly high, but the military is always looking for audiologists because as you can imagine, loud guns, flying high, diving deep, and loud machines leave people with damaged ears.
1. Sources: http://asha.org
There are places to communicate with other SLP or AuD.
2. Reading: Textbook, “The Sense of Hearing” by Christopher J. Plack
Assignment: using Audacity to navigate, decompose, compose, and analyze a sound scape.
Field: Music
Discipline/Major/Focus: Performance
“Information” (how defined, what counts, how used?): music manuscripts, journals/books on history/theory and commentary, usually associated with educational system
Institutions (general & specific; “sites” of knowledge, like in college and “out in” profession): Universities, Colleges, specific orchestras, Popular music industry/labels and production companies
Figures/“Faces” (people past & present): famous composers/artists depending on genre, both past and present
Voices/Publications: books/journals, websites, universities
Images / Avatars: music notation, instruments
Field: Film Production
Discipline: Cinematography
Institutions: C.U. Boulder FILM BFA Program
Information: Framing, composing, and lighting the moving image.
Publications: American Cinematographer, ect.
Faces: Tak Fujimoto, Gregg Toland, Gordon Willis
Images: Cinema cameras, ect.
Basic info resource: Independent film makers who need cast and crew will often turn to friends, academic peers, or competitors to help crew their film.
Sample assigned reading: Russian National Cinema, 3 views, an article on the 3 supposed purposes of early Russian cinema.
Sample assignment: write a 10 page paper on the films of Tarkovskii, Shepitko, and Parajanov, in the context of the Russian thaw.
Field: English, Studio Art
Discipline/Major/Focus: Major English w/ Emphasis of Creative Writing, Minor Studio Art
Information: Visual Poetry, Concrete Poetry, Dadist Poetry, Futurist Poetry, Word Art, Graphics, Collage, Photography, Book Making,
Institutions: CU Boulder Arts & Sciences, Innisfree Bookstore, CU’s Media Archaeology Laboratory
Voices: Steve McCaffrey’s Carnival, Tom Phillips’ A Humument, CU Professor Lori Emerson
Publications: cannot access without permission: google the works of the the above artists.
Field: English
Major: Creative Writing
Information: Fiction, Poetry, Imaginative writing (Short stories, poems, novellas)
Institutions: University of Colorado at Boulder, College of Arts and Sciences
Figures: Anna Wintour, John Steinbeck, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Voices/Publications: Inspirational Blogs, East of Eden, Count of Monte Cristo, Vogue
Link: http://www.writersdigest.com
Reading: “Citizen” by Claudia Rankine
Assignment: “Write something, that when asked if it is fiction, one can only honestly say ‘maybe.’”
Field: Clinical Psychology
Major: Psychology
information: academic articles, research studies
Figures: Frued, Vyga Kaufmann, Ivan Pavlov
Voices and Publications: Recent Behavioral studies on Genetics from professors at CU, Greg Carey, Brett King
online source of info: Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental disorders
Example:http://psych.colorado.edu/~carey/hgss2/pdfiles/Lemonade.pdf
Online Source Information-Forbes.com “Why Communication Is Today’s Most important Skill”
Reading: Introducing Communication Theory