Final blog post. Blog #21 As you reflect on the class’s trajectory of readings in the context of this podcast, what role do you see language playing in your life? Work hard to articulate your relationship with language–the good, the bad, and the ugly. How important has language been to you in the past? How important is it now? What role do you see language playing in your future? In this podcast, the beginning gave the impression that language is…
Blog 20: Revise a paragraph based on Klinkinborg’s advice. Post the before and after. Reflect on what you notice about the changes. Prepare They Say/I Say “Rocket Round.” Don’t forget to bring in 19 copies of your Revision Worksheet. Before: In Writer Jonah Lehrer’s published article called “The Future of Science… is Art?” he says that he wants to close the culture gap between art and sciences. Lehrer explains that the cultural divide is not an academic problem but “rather, it is…
Draft: Multimodal Statement that includes an explanation for your individual multimodal choices as well as your reasoning for where you incorporated your media and how this placement influenced your overall argument. For example, if you choose to include an image, why that image, in particular, and why did you choose to place it where you placed it? How does your image work with your linguistic text to achieve your goal? Your Multimodal Statement will count toward 10% of your paper’s overall…
xt class: Blog 19: After perusing the remaining chapters from They Say/ I Say, choose one to read. Try to base your choice on a problem area that you would like to address. For your blog post, please summarize your choice chapter and explain why you chose to read it. Finally, please put what you learned to work in your revision. Explain what you changed and the impact that it had on your ongoing paper. I chose chapter seventeen in They…
comment: I loved your essay so far, you did a great job introducing your topic and sticking with it throughout your writing. I left some comments at places where you can condense and get rid of things because I know you still need to add more words and you have a lot right now. It is great that you have so much information because it gives you plenty to work with. I really enjoyed your topic because I know many…
Blog post #18: Begin your paper. You can have a brainstorm session: Choose your favorite brainstorming activity (“follow the thread,” clustering, columns, or free write) to help you decide on an angle you want to take when drafting this next paper. Please post evidence of this brainstorming activity into your post. You can begin to draft: If you have already decided what angle you want to argue, feel free to make an outline, including a tentative thesis statement and 3-4 strong claim…
I see the world through my phone, along with everyone else in my generation. This is unchangeable, and though that is the case, it is not necessarily a great thing. Nancy Jo Sales wrote an article called “Tinder and the Dawn of the Dating Apocalypse.” In this article, Sales begins to describe a scene of young adults in a bar, on tinder. It is ironic because all of the groups at the bar are not taking a break to look…
Blog #16: Try writing your own naysayer paragraph. Try to write your paragraph so that you can include it in your free draft. In Yo-yo Ma and Jonah Lehrer’s writing, they pull the reader in to understand and realize what they are saying. Their ideas begin to combine into one big idea. They say that science is missing art, and this is a thought that I agree with. Science is a fantastic way to discover new ideas about the world,…
Don’t forget to fill out your Favorite Strategies Sheet Print, Read, and Annotate Jonah Lehrer’s “The Future of Science…Is Art?” Jonah Lehrer Blog #15 Practice with Paragraphs Please upload an image of 3-5 pages of annotations. Write two paragraphs–one Barclay and one TREAC. Your Barclay can pair Lehrer with Yo-Yo Ma or it can pair Lehrer with a self-to-text, world-to-text “illustration.” Barclay: The pieces of writing by Yo-Yo Ma and Lehrer share similar thoughts about arts involved in science. Yo-Yo…
Print, read, and annotate “Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and Education” By Yo-Yo Ma (Please bring to class on Thursday) Blog # 14 STEP 1) Please upload at least 3-5 pages of your annotations to your Blog and briefly reflect on how you feel you are achieving your annotation goals. (15-25 words) STEP 2) Revisit your notes on active reading and understanding context and do your best to describe each of the three contexts we’ve discussed in class. 1) What is the surrounding context for…
