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…
