Class:COM375 - Section 9 - Fall 2007/Homework
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Lesson Plans and HOMEWORK
Current Homework
Final Major Assignment
Research and Writing in a Communication Subfield
Due in-class and in the Course Wiki December 13.
Wikiday Schedule
We will meet in the computer lab: Nov 8, Nov 29, and Dec 13
Make-up Work
Some chances to earn back some of those crucial baseline points!
Week Fifteen: December 11 and 13
Week Fourteen: December 4 and 6
Week Thirteen (photos: group construction of knowledge)
As a group, we considered how to establish the intellectual boundaries of a given research topic based on the two pedagogic models emphasized all semester: the rhetorical situation, and the semiotic method.
Week Twelve: November 27 & 29
blogpost: "connected by a single gun," pop quiz: "hints of connected dialogue," extra credit, blogpost: "hints of connected dialogue," blogpost: "everhopeful (Annapolis)," wikiteamwork, blogpost: "technicalities," Revisiting Adler ("The Classroom is Changing" - extra credit), applying concepts and creating knowledge (from bibliographies/literature review to intellectual conceptualizing and writing).
Week Eleven: November 13, 15 and 20
Annotated Bibliographies posted. Viewing the rest/end of Babel, blogpost: "capturing a moment," resumes, blogpost: "the sordid process of nation creation and occupation"
Week Ten: November 6 and 8
more research sources, view The Larson Case, blogpost: questions about your research topic/issue, blogpost: "Here we go...", blogpost: "validity, credibility, and other problems with communication," blogpost: "we are all researching to fight for something," wikiteamwork.
Week Nine: October 30 and November 1
The Reading of Reading (Adler), blogpost: "reading proportionately," feedback on Civic/Political Action Letters, letters to Honors students, Grammar Matters (or not?!), research sources.
Week Eight: October 23 and 25
Portfolios - Civic/Political Action Letters, revisit Wired's jingo (levels of meaning), crucial role of the right questions, introducing the Annotated Bibliography assignment, blog: "positioning students for written interaction", selecting a cultural text (research focus), desired effect, frames, semiotic elements...more on context, content, function, media, more on transmission and ritual models of communication, problems with the transmission model, how the ritual model is different, more on the rhetorical situation (how will you define yours?), blogpost: "Writing as Communication as Culture."
Week Seven: Rhetorical Situation, Civic Letters, learning through critical reading/writing (second WikiDay)
Week Six: Frames of Reference, Transmission and Ritual models, argument analysis
Week Five: Forms of Argument, Rhetorical Situation, First WikiDay
Week Four: Quiz, Babel, 1st Grades, Penguin
Week Three: Wired, Peer Review, jingo analysis, debrief PRs
Week Two: Semiotics and Will Power, Inc.
Week One: Introductions, Blogs, Overview, Babel
The Writing Center
The Writing Center in the Learning Commons of DuBois Library can be one of your best friends. Make their acquaintance!
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Thur, 10:00-7:00
Grading
Final drafts will be graded according to the quality, clarity, and thoroughness of applied semiotic analysis, based on the textbook's description of this interpretive process in the section called The Classroom Connection.
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