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Contents 1 In-Class Activities: Day 9, October 2 2 Homework Due 4 October 3 In-Class Activities: Day 10, October 4 4 Homework Due 9 October 5 Homework Due 11 October

In-Class Activities: Day 9, October 2

• Turn in grammar work.

• Any rewrites? (I'm looking for collaborators...both for rewriting, perfecting this assignment and for getting into the nitty-gritty of the CourseWiki design.)

• In groups of four, compare, contrast, confirm and otherwise confer on the argument summaries of Bring Back Flogging. Be prepared to share patterns and conclusions with the class. Each take your own notes (for your Portfolios, i.e., to keep track of your own mind!)

What is the form of an argument?

Are you familiar with rubrics for the rhetorical situation?

• Brainstorm....themes and relationships necessary for analysis - the second major assignment).

Time permitting, same groups; shift to a different cultural text: Marketing in Color. Select a recorder who will post your summaries in their weblog, categorized as COM375: argument summary

• Marketing in Color individual notes (for inclusion in your Portfolio for Unit 2):

What semiotic elements can you draw out of this analysis to use in
constructing an argument about its meaning(s)?

Homework Due 4 October

Class Thursday in Goodell 613!

Final: evaluation of Jacoby's argument in Bring Back Flogging. Please bring in a portfolio with all related work.

Rewrites of "Will Power, Inc." are due in your Weblogs. Properly categorized as COM375: argument summary.

Class Thursday in Goodell 613!

In-Class Activities: Day 10, October 4

We will meet in Goodell 613.

This is a computer lab.
Be prepared to be tested on using the CourseWiki.

Homework Due 9 October

No class this day but please post your copyedited argument summary of Hasak-Lowy's Willpower, Inc. to your Userpage on the CourseWiki. Remember to "sign" it. (By copyedited, I mean fix the grammar errors. If you did a rewrite, post that on your Userpage instead of your original.)

Homework Due 11 October

Identify themes from the handout of Babel posts and comments that have been posted to date in individual, anonymous Wordpress weblogs.

Suggested procedure (prepare these for inclusion in the next portfolio):

1. Read all the instructions so you know what to seek.
2. Skim through the posts quickly without marking anything, in order to get a sense of the flow of potential conversation.
3. Re-read with a highlighter, marking the statements which recur in two or more posts.
4. Using a pen or pencil, writing in the margins or on notebook paper, group similar statements together. Come up with a label for each group: what type of comments are they?
5. Identify one or two statements from each group to use as quotes. These should be clear statements which sharply and accurately illustrate the point of the type.

Now draft an answer to this question:

What relationships are there between the movie, Babel, and the subject matter of this course?

Post this answer in your Wordpress weblog, category: Babel for COM375

Enjoy the long weekend. :-)