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Drafting the Reflective Essay
Today, you will draft your Reflective Essay for the Post/er Project. You’ll write independently in response to the following prompts: Be aware that a COMPLETE Reflective Essay should also: HOMEWORK Complete the Post/er Project by December 15th!!! Your final project should be deliver AS A NEW PAGE to your WordPress site (the one that is linked in the right hand margin) and should include your post or poster and your reflective essay on a single page. I will be holding extra office hours on TUES 12/12 & THURS 12/14 from 10:45a-12p in Klapper 612.
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12/5: Peer Review of Post/er Project
In small groups of 2-3, access the Post/er Project assignment and do the following: HOMEWORK POST BLOG POST 8! Post your responses to point #3 above; these are your revision notes for your Post/er Project. This will be your last blog post of the semester. NEXT CLASS IS OUR FINAL CLASS! We will begin drafting your reflective essay in class next time.
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11/30: Crafting the Post/er Project
Recall what we learned from Cushman’s article “Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change” last class; Cushman’s work focuses on the power of “day-to-day interactions” (12) in activism. She understand the acts of helping individuals on writing for job and apartment applications as social activism because these seemingly small gestures impact people’s lives in significant ways. Building on Cushman’s understanding of day-to-day interactions, I’d like to hear from you about what kind of specific advocacy work your post/er can do. We’ll look at Jane Hu’s article “The Second Act of Social Media Activism,” in which the author considers “the link between activism, the Internet, and material action.” Hu introduces the term…
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11/28: Brainstorming the Poster Project (continued)
You began brainstorming towards your poster project in your last blog post that is due today. We will continue this work in class, beginning with Cushman’s article “The Rhetorician as Agent of Social Change.” We’ll look at pages 13 and 12, in that order, in Cushman’s text to begin thinking about how we, as rhetors of the Poster Project, can be agents of social change. After reading together, take a few minutes to answer the following questions: HOMEWORK READ Hu’s “Second Act of Social Media Activism.” Be ready to work with materials next class! We’re having an arts and craft day on Thursday, 11/30!
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11/21: Introducing the Poster Project
In preparation for the Poster Project, we looked together at this poster from Visualizing Palestine and a poster from Kidnapped from Israel. We will take some time in class writing quietly and individually about a social issue you care about. This will be a draft of Blog Post 7. HOMEWORK READ Cushman’s “The Rhetorician as an Agent of Social Change,” available on Blackboard. WRITE Blog Post 7, DUE NEXT CLASS 11/28. Brainstorming the Poster Project: Identify a problem that matters to you by focusing on exigence and audience: Exigence Audience Finally, in this post, I invite you to tell me if you’d like to work individually on this final project…
