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Paradigm Rhetoric

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Unit III: Experience – Affect – Electracy 

Project 3: Screen Self Portrait

» Part 1 (mul­ti­modal web­pages) due 24-Apr
— Part 2 (Poet­ics & Reflec­tion) due 25-Apr (Mon­day night)
 


Week 16

M 25-Apr Dis­cuss: Project 3 out­comes and in­sights

  • Part 2: Sum­mary & Reflec­tion — due Mon­day night
     


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




W 27-Apr hy­brid work  Blog En­try + Dis­cus­sion

  • due class time: blog en­try (200 words, infor­mal dis­cus­sion; me­dia, any form); 
    → see prompts be­low (choose 1)
     
  • Dur­ing class time: in com­ments be­low, post link; read classmate(s) en­try and dis­cuss
     
  • op­tional par­tic­i­pa­tion: com­pose 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 29-Apr 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 04/30): Port­fo­lio Re­flec­tion
— post doc (or link to screen­cast) in D2L
 







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Publish Webtext

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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)



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



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Composing Analytic Webtext

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Unit II: Proof – Argument – Literacy 

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

    due dates:
  • 3/11 Draft for Peer Re­view
  • 3/14 Com­pleted for Work­shop — fi­nal­ize Web­text De­sign
  • 3/15 Sum­mary & Re­flec­tion


Week 9


M 07-Mar Project Work­shop:

  • prepa­ra­tion: sources fi­nal­ized; notes on all cat­e­gories — use Google Doc Guide / Work­sheet
    (make a copy and com­plete)
     
    → cre­ate out­line (essay/webtext sec­tions) & be­gin draft­ing
     
  • re­view: objec­tives, top­ics, strate­gies — an­a­lytic writ­ing for pur­pose & au­di­ence
     
  • Activity/focus: orga­ni­za­tion, arrangement/sections, out­line
    — Pur­due OWL — Out­lines
     
    next steps: out­line top­ics; be­gin draft­ing — for Peer Re­view Fri­day




W 09-Mar hy­brid work

  • Draft Project Sec­tions (web­text pages)
     
  • dur­ing class time: Post in dis­cus­sion thread be­low “sta­tus up­date” & class­mate re­ply (see de­tailed prompts)
     
    » rhetor­i­cal & com­pos­ing strate­gies for draft — espe­cially sections/topics (ratio­nale), address­ing imag­ined audi­ence, help­ful re­sources con­sulted, etc.
     
  • for Fri­day, con­sult the De­sign Guide in­struc­tion page
    — be­gin con­sid­er­ing form (web­text with vi­sual me­dia), if not yet de­sign­ing
     




F 11-Mar  Project Work­shop:

  • Peer Re­view ac­tiv­ity — draft due

  • fo­cus: arrange­ment, ana­lytic writ­ing style, audi­ence con­sid­er­a­tions
     
    » Peer Re­view Guide — Google Doc
     
  • in­tro: project de­sign (text + me­dia, pages); sites (Wee­bly, Google Sites, Word­Press); strate­gies & dig­i­tal me­dia (im­ages, an­no­ta­tions, screen­cast)
     
    *look­ing ahead: cre­ate web­text project (for Mon­day work­shop) — fi­nal ver­sion due 3/14 PM
     








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Reach (Scale?)

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“Which ulti­mately does more good—an arti­cle or mono­graph that is read by 20 or 30 peo­ple in a very nar­row field, or a blog post on a topic of inter­est to many (such as grad­ing stan­dards or tenure require­ments) that is read by 200,000?

What if the post spurs hun­dreds of com­ments, is de­bated pub­licly in fac­ulty lounges and class­rooms, and gets picked up by news­pa­pers and Web sites across the country—in other words, it helps to shape the na­tional de­bate over some hot-button is­sue? What is it worth then?”