Due by midnight (submitted to Canvas for grading), Tuesday, February 20
As an exercise in demonstrating your critical thinking and writing skills this assignment…
How does social media relate to political and social activism? In this blog post, write a 300 word post comparing and contrasting the responses of Gladwell, Walton, and Stephen to the question of how technology influences (or fails to influence) social change. Now what do YOU think? Can “online activism” promote social justice and equity? Why or why not?
Find (and link to) an example of what Joe Harris calls “countering” and offer an explanation of how one author is countering or “suggesting a different way of thinking.” Do they uncover values at play in the discussion of their topic? Do…
The premise of this course is that the best academic writing participates in a larger conversation—that your own research offers a contribution to an on-going debate, dialogue, or discussion of a question/issue. This assignment asks you to practice making such a contribution on a…
For Thursday, respond to the following two prompts, being sure to post by the time that our class meeting begins.
This assignment marks the culmination of all of our semester and provides an opportunity to apply all of the skills you have practiced thus far. Write a research paper on a topic of your choosing that relates to our theme of “digital and non-digital technologies.” (Note: You are…
Do Exercise 1 from Chapter 7 of They Say, I Say (found on pg. 100) using either the Bissell essay “Extra Lives” or the Jane McGonigal TED talk “Gaming Can Make a Better World.” (To be clear: You only need to answer the questions for one of these texts.)
For this blog, practice applying the principles of revision that Harris outlines in the reading for today. Select a paragraph from Draft 1 of your research paper and copy it to start your blog entry. Then, write a revision of that paragraph in which you practice sharpening your point, clarifying…
This assignment asks you to practice effectively and clearly communicating with an audience orally, as opposed to in writing, by giving a presentation based around your research paper. The presentation should be no more than 5 minutes long (with roughly 2 minutes of questions…
In Rewriting, Joseph Harris makes the argument that digital platforms have opened up avenues for writers to reach a wider and more diverse group of readers, and that sometimes taking a draft and “remixing” it (often digitally) has the effect of spurring the project forward toward a new…
