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ENG 301 11.M: Community Engagement Projects

Today’s Plan: Extra Credit Opportunity Community Engagement Projects Below I lay out 4 different project options. We will be working on these projects for the next three weeks. That gives us this week to do preliminary research, next week to … Continue reading

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ENG 225 10.M: Paraphrasing and Working with Secondary Sources

Today’s Plan: Purdue University Guide to Paraphrasing Paraphrasing Secondary Material Introducing and Contextualizing Sources I want to spend time today on working with sources. First, we’re going to think about how to condense longer direct quotes into short, efficient paraphrases. … Continue reading

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ENG 229 9.W: Maira Kalman and Electracy

Today’s Plan: A little history: Technoadherents and Technoskeptics A little ontology: Orality, Literacy, and Electracy Maira Kalman What Is/n’t The Kalman Project A Little History: Technoadherent and Technoskeptics “I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions … Continue reading

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ENG 225 9.M: Work Logs, Paragraph Structure

Today’s Plan: Work Logs Let’s Talk Writing: Paragraph Structure Work Logs Starting this week, you’ll see a Work Log assignment in Canvas. These will be due on Friday. A work log is a 3-4 sentence description of the labor you … Continue reading

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ENG 229 7.M: Sharing Proposal Ideas

Today’s Plan: Think and Freewrite Share Share Again Proposal Project On Friday I introduced the Proposal Project and shared a link to the template. We’ll spend today’s class working on ideas for the proposal. I’ve got a short proposal pre-writing … Continue reading

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ENG 301 6.F: Social Media Crash Course

Today’s Plan: Reading Response Update Elements of a Social Media Concise Writing Social Media Contest Elements of Social Media Management Peer Organization Research Social Media Follower Exercise Social Media Content Calendars Social Media Content Generation Twitter’s Default Advice #1 Twitter’s … Continue reading

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ENG 225 6.F: The Proposal Project (And Surveys)

Today’s Plan: Sharing the Proposal Template Let’s Talk Surveys (And Qualitative Research Principles) Introducing the Proposal Template Here’s a link to the proposal. In Monday’s class, I’ll ask you to meet up with your folks and share initial project ideas. … Continue reading

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ENG 301 6.W: Design Crash Course

Today’s Plan: Golumbiski and Hagen, Design Sins Robin Williams, The Basic C.R.A.P. Golumbiski and Hagen, Works Every Time Layout Golumbiski and Hagen’s Design Sins Let’s talk about what *not* to do. Here’s a link to G+H’s White Space book. Marc: … Continue reading

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ENG 229 6.W: Work List #5 and (Looking Ahead) Work List #6

Today’s Plan: Work List #5: Editing Go West Film Festival Footage This week we are going to start working concurrently on two projects. Today we will start editing footage from last year’s film festival. As that project wraps up, everyone … Continue reading

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ENG 229 6.M: Real Talk and Proposal Assignment

Today’s Plan: Real Talk A Few Thoughts Real Talk According to the syllabus, we are supposed to move on to proposals this week. However, only 8 of 16 students have completed the third worknet (which were due last Friday) and … Continue reading

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