Syllabus
Fall Syllabus
Links, Articles, and Handouts
Ken Robinson- Changing Education Paradigms
PBS Frontline- Digital Nation
Nicholas Carr- What the Internet is doing to our brains- Is Google Making Us Stupid?
Jemele Hill- It’s Time for Black Athletes to Leave White Colleges
If We’re Gonna Have Guns, Let’s Get’em out in the Open–or Else!
Rhetorical Triangle
Projects
Argument Log Description
Argument Log #1- Ethos, Pathos, Logos (10/3)
Argument Log #2- Add Value Assumptions (10/10)
Argument Log #3- Add Reality Assumptions (10/17)
Argument Log #4- Add Ethics (10/31)
Argument Log #5- Add Reasoning (11/12)
Ethics Log (11/7)
Media Log Description
Introduction- Describe your current relationship with media (By 718 am, 11/19)
Week #1- (By 718 am 12/3) A minimum of 2 posts. One post is entirely open (free choice). The second post must address one of the following:
Choose a current topic/story in the news and examine the language being used by 2 different media (news) outlets reporting on the topic/story. Make sure to link to both sources. This post is similar to the proposition activity we did in class.
Keeping in mind the main ideas of “Politics and the English Language”, seek out a piece of political ‘speech’. This can be a recent news editorial about politics (the piece should be a decent length) , recent interview with a politician, a recent speech given by a politician, etc. Using your knowledge of Orwell’s essay, evaluate the piece and describe if it is evidence of “the decay of language” or does it avoid the abuses Orwell outlines in the essay.
Week #2- (By 718 am on 12/10) A minimum of 2 posts and 2 comments. One post is entirely open (free choice). The second post should relate to one of the four topics (they were covered in class) covered in The Persuaders.
Week #3- (By 718 am on 12/17) A minimum of 1 posts and 2 comments. The post is entirely open (free choice).
Week #4- (by 718 am on 1/8) A minimum of 2 posts and 2 comments. Both posts are entirely open (free choice).
Week #5- There are two due dates. MissRep post is due by Sunday (1/12) morning at 8 am. The other post and all comments are due by Wednesday morning at 7:18 am. The first post should reference one or more of the many topics discussed in MissRepresentation. The second post is entirely open (free choice). There are a total of 4 comments this week. Three on any MissRepresentation posts and 1 on any post from the quarter.
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Week #7-
Marketing Analysis Project
Part 1
Part 2