Monthly Archives: March 2016

Advanced Comp 12.2: Using Quotations

Today’s plan: Review Timeline and Expectations Using Quotations Homework

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Advanced Composition 12.1: Summarizing Research

Today’s Plan: A few heuristics Summarize an article Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 12.1: Using Piktochart

Today’s Plan: Make Piktochart.com accounts Follow the Intro .pdf Homework

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Visual Rhetoric 11 (Friday): Infographic Project and Book Production Presentations

Today’s Plan: Introduce Infographic Project Introduce (Briefly) the Final Project Book Production Presentations Homework Infographic Project For our third project, we will be creating infographics. I want to share two short articles, “What is an Infographic?” and “11 Best Infographic … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 11.2: Research Tools

Today’s Plan: Review Proposal Assignment Proposal Conference Sign Up Research Tools Canvas Assignment Homework Proposal Revisited Your paper proposals are due next Tuesday, March 29th. The proposals should look like this: A 2 page (double-spaced) introduction that lays out the … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 11.2: Infographic Project

Today’s Plan: Finish Book Production Presentations Introduce Infographic Project Introduce (Briefly) the Final Project Homework Infographic Project For our third project, we will be creating infographics. In preparation for today’s class, I had you read two short articles, “What is … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 11.1: Working with Booth

Today’s plan: Working with Booth Developing a paper proposal Working with Booth Over the break I asked you to read an excerpt from Wayne Booth’s The Craft of Research. The purpose of the excerpt was to help us begin to … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric Week 9 (Friday): Book Production Presentation

Today’s Plan : Book Cover and Jacket Book Production Presentation Book Production Project Rubric Garr Reynolds and Presentation Zen Design Canvas assignment: Make a Zen Presentation Hand back posters Work Time Homework Book Cover and Jacket Today I wanted to … Continue reading

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Visual Rhetoric 9.2: Book Production Presentation

Today’s plan: Book Production Presentation Details Presentation Zen Guidelines Book Production Presentation As I mentioned last class, the final component of our second project is to develop a presentation that “pitches” your book design. The hypothetical scenario here is that … Continue reading

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Advanced Composition 9.1: Giroux

Today’s Plan: What did you make of Giroux? Toward a Problem Homework Giroux I am interesting in hearing about what passages you focused on in your blogs, and what you had to say. Toward a Problem I have put the … Continue reading

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