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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 06-Dec
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 07-Dec (Mon­day night)
 
Final assign­ment: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (due 12/12)

 
» Anony­mous Sur­vey / Feed­back Form

 
Week 16

M 12/07   Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and insights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     

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    » look­ing ahead: com­plet­ing revi­sion of project 2 for port­fo­lio (optional)

 
 
W 12/09   hybrid activ­ity   Blog Entry

  • 200 words (infor­mal dis­cus­sion) + media (any form); due 3pm on your blog
    → see prompts below (choose 1)
     
  • optional par­tic­i­pa­tion: reply to classmate’s entry 

 

    → prepa­ra­tion for Fri­day:
    review syl­labus for course goals (and “Inter­est Inven­tory” memo?) + all course work + com­pile links (and screencaps?)

 

F 12/11   Last Class — Salutations!

  • Dis­cuss: Port­fo­lio Reflec­tion (Exer­cise 5)
     
    → tuto­r­ial: con­vert­ing Word­Press site to sta­tic port­fo­lio (optional)
     

 
» optional: revised project + revis­ing memo/summary

    Revi­sion Memo (2−3 para­graphs): iden­tify spe­cific changes and com­pos­ing strate­gies, as well as how improv­ing the effectiveness/outcomes toward the par­tic­u­lar objec­tives — and any insights or self-assessment consequently.
    → post memo file in D2L 

 
» Due (S 12/12): Port­fo­lio Reflection
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 

 
 




 
 

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Rhetorical Analysis

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Rhetorical Analysis Webtext

    warm-up exer­cises:
  • Anno­tated Bib­li­og­ra­phy due Sat 03-Oct
  • Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis exer­cise due Sat 10-Oct

 
Week 7

M 10/05   Activ­ity: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis of selected article/source (from A-Bib)

  • focus: gen­er­at­ing insights and ideas for Project 2 through analysis
    → see guide PDF & page @ Silva Rhetor­i­cae
     
    *use arti­cle from A-Bib, or choose another for exercise
     
  • dis­cuss: stages, process, time­line for Project
     
  • con­tin­ued top­ics: iden­ti­fy­ing & defin­ing defin­ing Infor­ma­tion, Knowl­edge, Exper­tise, “Research,” Argu­ment, Evidence/Proof in field/discipline
    → “dis­course com­mu­ni­ties” & rhetorical/written conventions 

 
 
W 10/07   hybrid work :

 
→ con­tinue “step 1″ of rhetor­i­cal analy­sis through/for Friday…

 
 
F 10/02   Activ­ity: Exer­cise warm-up 

  • review/discuss: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis objec­tives and strategies
    → tran­si­tion from ideas from analy­sis to pre­sent­ing crit­i­cal points for response (group/connect top­i­cally, with con­cise exam­ples and fram­ing language).
     
    plus, if time: iden­ti­fy­ing types of argument 
  • progress toward project: dis­cuss obser­va­tions about con­ven­tions, dis­course com­mu­nity, type/s of knowl­edge, and “infor­ma­tion par­a­digm” (worldview)… 

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    » due (10−10) Exer­cise 3: Rhetor­i­cal Analy­sis (of 1 schol­arly article)