IMPORTANT FINAL EXAM DAY CHANGED!!

Students,
There is an error on the syllabus, the final exam is on MONDAY from 5:00-7:30 p.m. (not wednesday!). I apologize for the error. Please change your syllabus.

Visual Argument

In 250-500 words explain (what, how, why) your visual argument project. Identify your claim and how you are attempting to argue your point in a new visual medium. Also, take us through your revision steps and the decision you made regarding appeals to logic, character, and reason. What rhetorical choices did you make and why? 

Specifically:

• remind readers of the context and give an overview of your argument 
• describe what medium you have chosen for the rhetorical revision
• explain in detail the choices you made in turning this into a visual ad for mainstream culture (as opposed to a more academic setting)
• what you learned about the rhetorical process (issues of audience—including visual appeals, etc.) from making these changes
• This journal is due on December 3, 3008 at midnight.

Journal Entry #4

Second Journal Entry, Research Paper/Essay #3

For your journal, write two paragraphs reflecting on your experience researching. You might answer questions like: What was easy? What was difficult? Did you have to change your search to find relevant sources? Did you have to narrow down to be able to manage the sources? or broaden to find enough sources? What advice would you give your classmates or other researchers working in these databases or search engines? Or anything else you want to reflect on.

Then, read and respond to two other classmates' Journal Entry #4. 

Initial posts due by midnight 11/3. Response to peers due by midnight 11/7.

Journal Entry #3

Research Paper, Essay #3

You'll be starting your research process with a topic, question, and rationale. Write a journal entry that introduces your TQR.

• Topic - Remember that the topic needs to be related to technology in some way. In your journal, briefly describe your topic.
• Question – Review the Handbook pp. 112 and “Chapter 13: Writing a research Paper” pp. 672-675 to ensure your question is researchable. In your journal, share your question and why you think it is a researchable question.
• Rationale - Think about why you are interested in this topic. In your journal, reflect on why you want to research this topic (or answer this question), what you hope/want to get out of your research, and how your question matters.
• Then, you will need to read and respond to two class mates (at least a full paragraph. And, you must practice “RESPONSE.”

Journal Entry #3 Postponed

Students,

     I have decided to postpone Journal Entry #3. It will now be due on 10/20/2008. I will post the prompt late in the week.

Journal Entry #2

Mini-ethnography, Essay #2

The main part of this journal assignment is choosing a topic for your Ethnographic Essay. First, make sure your subculture meets the following qualifications:

• it is accessible to you
• its members gather at places you can visit
• it interests you in some way
• it is something you can research online or at the library if you get stuck
• you are not a member of the subculture

Also, you have to ensure that your group meets the definition of a subculture. In order for it to be considered a subculture, the answers to the following questions need to be yes:

• Group Identity: Does the group you want to study feel, at least implicitly, a sense of identification with each other as members? (This doesn't necessarily mean that they all like each other or always get along.)
• Rituals: Do group members share certain behaviors, outlooks, beliefs, or motivations for belonging?
• Language: Do they share a common language? Do they tend to describe things in similar ways, or use words or phrases that have special significance to the group?
• Artifacts: Do they share an interest in certain objects or artifacts? Do they invest these things with similar significance?

Write about how you chose subculture. Describe the subculture, why you chose it, and how it meets the above qualifications (in both sets of questions). 

Setting Your Blog to Private

Students,

Please cut and paste (use the “Edit tab”) the class emails into your blog:

1. Sign-in to your Blogger account
2. go to your dashboard
3. click on “Settings”
4. Click on “Permissions”
5. Scroll down to “Blog Readers”
6. Click on “Only People I choose”
7. Now, click on the blue button “Add Readers”
8. Cut and Paste the class emails into the white box
9. Make sure you have separated the emails with a comma
10. Now, click on the orange invite button

Once you have done this, blogger will send an invite email to those listed. That means you will also be invited to view 20+ blogs. When you receive the invite emails click on the link provided in the email (it means you accept) and then you will be able to access the blog every time. It will only be this complicated while we set up privacy! If you have questions, please email me. Our regular class blog will stay open to all viewers but your personal link will go private once you complete the steps in this email.