Week one: W Aug 26, F Aug 28
Welcome to English 363W! It is great to meet you.
--Familiarize yourselves with some former 363ers work (all links under "more" tab above right). Let's start with Mirandy Li's work: see her site before Friday.
--Actively read article #70 in our reader, Christine Bacareza Balance's "How It Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American YouTube Performance" (pp 668-677) which talks about Jimmy Wong and others.
--Write a blog post in response to this article. Have it available digitally for Friday's class.
On Friday:
Read blogs in small groups.
Try to identify what the blog posts do that they were supposed to do, what they did that they were not supposed to do.
Identify KEYWORDS: key concepts in the blogs/in the article.
Key concepts that you know about writing.
Freewrite: what is your theory of writing? Or what is writing? Save this and we will return to it and work on your definitions of writing later.
Notes from our actual class session:
freewrite of the day: what is writing/what is your theory of writing? Save this and we will develop and return to it later.
Michael: outline direction focus details content style important but content more imp
Courtney like learning a lang, make your voice prevalent, even if you're writing sth thats been written before
Emily: a form of writ comm that can serve any or no purpose. entertain Gurbani: inform reflect recide ad create remember show emotion
form of expression, stories in written form, artistic or straightforward
We watched the Jimmy Wong video Balance refers to.
what you said about Emily's blog:
writing moves she made:
coherence
personal anecdote
don't be afraid to criticize the author of the article! substantiated
Balance's unqualified argument was problematic: this might be a weakness in academic writing conventions or a weak application of those conventions.
postpone til week 3: For Friday, create a free Weebly site at weebly.com. Choose a template thoughtfully. Call it your name or a phrase with which you will associate yourself. Think about the name or phrase carefully. Make a homepage that will serve as a hub for all of your Eng 363 work this semester.
The following assignment will be postponed until week 3, after labor day:
In class on Friday, add a class blog page, but you may not call it "blog" or "class blog": please give it a bloggish and totally unique name. (What are some good blog names? Bad ones?) In addition to the navigation provided by the template you chose (a navigation bar usually), link the two with hypertext linking (the super easy link icon floating above your text, the one that looks like a chain link). That's right, you have now built redundant navigation. Get used to this, please, because you will not want to do it, but you will.
Now publish the blog entry you wrote for the day. Friday blog of 500 words.
Welcome to English 363W! It is great to meet you.
--Familiarize yourselves with some former 363ers work (all links under "more" tab above right). Let's start with Mirandy Li's work: see her site before Friday.
--Actively read article #70 in our reader, Christine Bacareza Balance's "How It Feels to Be Viral Me: Affective Labor and Asian American YouTube Performance" (pp 668-677) which talks about Jimmy Wong and others.
--Write a blog post in response to this article. Have it available digitally for Friday's class.
On Friday:
Read blogs in small groups.
Try to identify what the blog posts do that they were supposed to do, what they did that they were not supposed to do.
Identify KEYWORDS: key concepts in the blogs/in the article.
Key concepts that you know about writing.
Freewrite: what is your theory of writing? Or what is writing? Save this and we will return to it and work on your definitions of writing later.
Notes from our actual class session:
freewrite of the day: what is writing/what is your theory of writing? Save this and we will develop and return to it later.
Michael: outline direction focus details content style important but content more imp
Courtney like learning a lang, make your voice prevalent, even if you're writing sth thats been written before
Emily: a form of writ comm that can serve any or no purpose. entertain Gurbani: inform reflect recide ad create remember show emotion
form of expression, stories in written form, artistic or straightforward
We watched the Jimmy Wong video Balance refers to.
what you said about Emily's blog:
writing moves she made:
coherence
personal anecdote
don't be afraid to criticize the author of the article! substantiated
Balance's unqualified argument was problematic: this might be a weakness in academic writing conventions or a weak application of those conventions.
postpone til week 3: For Friday, create a free Weebly site at weebly.com. Choose a template thoughtfully. Call it your name or a phrase with which you will associate yourself. Think about the name or phrase carefully. Make a homepage that will serve as a hub for all of your Eng 363 work this semester.
The following assignment will be postponed until week 3, after labor day:
In class on Friday, add a class blog page, but you may not call it "blog" or "class blog": please give it a bloggish and totally unique name. (What are some good blog names? Bad ones?) In addition to the navigation provided by the template you chose (a navigation bar usually), link the two with hypertext linking (the super easy link icon floating above your text, the one that looks like a chain link). That's right, you have now built redundant navigation. Get used to this, please, because you will not want to do it, but you will.
Now publish the blog entry you wrote for the day. Friday blog of 500 words.