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Insignificant Wranglings
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R&G Week 3 Class One / Dali and Surrealism
Reaching Back to Thursday To revisit something: “it’s just about football.” Yes and no. I think this gets at the difference between “plot” and “theme.” When I approach a show from an aesthetic perspective, I am often looking to interrogate … Continue reading
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New Media Production Week 2
Things to do: Apologize for Blue Host charging for a three year commitment (that is not a commitment) up front Talk about working on the web and .zip files Have people attempt to .zip and send me their MEmorial assignment … Continue reading
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R&G Week 2 / Class 2: Art and Identification, Ethos and Nationalism
Today I want to: Play This!: Bad Paper Talk about Tolstoy Talk about art, nationalism, ethos, and identification (and its ugly counterpart, “orientalism”) Set up SuperBetter Tolstoy For our last class, I asked you to read excerpts from Tolstoy’s 1896 … Continue reading
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R&G Week 2 / Class 1: Aristotle’s Poetics
Our discussion of Aristotle will center around two key terms: mimesis and catharsis. Mimesis The stock definition of the ancient Greek term memesis is “imitation,” though the more precise philosophical sense, attributed to Plato and Aristotle, is often “representation.” As … Continue reading
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New Media Production Week 1
Welcome! Syllabus! Project One Make me a MEmorial that is not a memorial. Media/Requirements: HTML and CSS. Multiple pages. Images (probably altered with Photoshop). Perhaps video clips. Links. Scraps. Quirkiness. ATH. Abject. Due Date: Sept. 19th / We will view/traverse/experience … Continue reading
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Rhetoric & Gaming Week 1 / Class 2
Today we need to: Twitter 101 Talk about Ebert Talk about games and the Canon Provide preface to Aristotle’s Poetics Introduce Google Docs for the Gaming Journal Twitter 101 The #, the @, and the DM Ebert: Focusing on his … Continue reading
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A Basic Introduction to Twitter
If you are reading this, then you are likely signed up for one of my courses in USF’s undergraduate Professional Writing, Rhetoric, and Technology major. I am requiring you to use Twitter for the semester in some fashion. I want … Continue reading
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Rhetoric & Gaming – Introduction
Week One / Class One Look, we’re in the news! Let’s go over the syllabus. Let’s talk about video games a bit. And let’s introduce the first project. I will do this by asking something(s) that has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Speculative Rhetorics CCCC’s Proposal
Below is a copy of a CCCC’s panel proposal by David Grant, Brooke Rollins, Nathaniel Rivers, and myself. I share this here specifically for my upcoming New Media Production seminar, to show them how digital pedagogy can be developed and … Continue reading
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Expository Writing: Peer Review
Today I’ll be asking you to read and respond to each other’s work. You will be working in pairs of two. I want you to provide constructive feedback to author’s as they revise their paper. So, for each paper, please: … Continue reading
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