Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

Project 2: Analytic Webtext
— “Rhetoric of [Discipline]”

due dates:
• 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop
• 3/15 Fi­nal­ized / Pub­lished as Web­text
• 3/16 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion

Week 10

M 14-Mar Project Work­shop:

• prepa­ra­tion: en­tire es­say com­posed; web de­sign started (pages + me­dia)
   
• focus/activity: peer feed­back — dig­i­tal rhetoric for in­tended au­di­ence
   
  → project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast); trou­bleshoot­ing
  re­source: De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
   
• fo­cus / look­ing ahead: completing/finalizing web­text
  → Due 3/15: post link on Project 2 Page of your blog 

W 16-Mar In­di­vid­ual Con­fer­ences — by ap­point­ment

» Due 3/16: Part 2 (Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion) — Page on your blog

F 18-Mar  Blog En­try 3 (prompt be­low)

• read: Wieseltier­jan, “Among the Dis­rupted” (7 Jan 2015) The New York Times
• view “Ul­mer Tapes” videos (2010) — watch:
  2.04 | 2.05 | 2.06
  op­tional: 2.07 | 4.08 | 4.09 | 5.04
  “Elec­tracy: Writ­ing to Avatar” (2009)

*over Spring Break: op­tional Blog En­try and op­tional Ex­er­cise — prompts be­low

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» Blog En­try 3

200 words + me­dia, infor­mal: dis­cuss what is priv­i­leged and ex­cluded by forms of knowl­edge in Belief/Story Par­a­digm (Unit 1) and Information/Proof Par­a­digm (Unit 2).
In­clude me­dia to con­vey the “mood of thought” evoked for each par­a­digm (2 min­i­mum, any forms, embed­ded in post)
— class­mate re­ply op­tional (bonus par­tic­i­pa­tion)

Spring Break

» Op­tional Blog En­try (bonus credit)

200 words (min­i­mum), dis­cussing “Human­ism, Sci­ence, and the Rad­i­cal Expan­sion of the Pos­si­ble” by Mar­i­lynne Robin­son The Nation​.com (22-Oct 2015)

» Op­tional Exer­cise (ex­tra credit): Cross Par­a­digm

• 500 words (min­i­mum); post on your blog (by S 27-Mar)
• objective/experiment Trans­for­ma­tion: Belief-Story into In­for­ma­tion
  –or– Info/Argument into Story
  — use con­tent from projects/units 1 and 2, or other ideas 
• Instruc­tions Page