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Contents 1 Wired activity, 1st Peer Reviews (Day 5, Sept 18) 2 Homework Due 20 Sept 3 Jingo analysis, debrief Peer Reviews (Day 6, Sept 20) 4 Homework Due 25 Sept

Wired activity, 1st Peer Reviews (Day 5, Sept 18)

• Collect portfolios; check for completeness. Collect both hard copies of draft Argument Summary.
• Wired Jingo Activity (a quiz, in pairs)

1. Read the one page obituary for WILLIAM O. GOGGINS.
2. Complete the in-class quiz (define and analyze your assigned jingo).

• Peer Feedback (grading criteria, in trios, working on papers not written by anyone in your group):

1. historical surveying and contextualization of Willpower, Inc.
2. comparative associations within Willpower, Inc.
3. analytic distinctions within Willpower, Inc.
4. interpretive conclusions indicated by Willpower, Inc.
5. thesis of Willpower, Inc.

• Share out and discuss (large group) themes, difficulties, similarities, suggestions...
• Write a legible list of constructive feedback to the author to give them before the end of class. As in, Now!

Homework Due 20 Sept

If you did not follow through on links provided in previous outlines, you may wish to
backtrack and do so. Everything I add to the wiki I intend as
a resource for you. For instance,
I have been thinking since last week how I will grade your argument summaries.

1. Compose your final draft of the Argument Summary, summarizing - in a semiotic way - the arguments in Todd Hasak-Lowey's Willpower, Inc.
2. Login to the CourseWiki. Make a conscious decision whether you will be anonymous (private) or public (known) with your Username.
3. Send Steph a message. Click through to my Usertalk page and follow the directions. Be sure to add your own "signature" after you type your message! Use the "your signature with timestamp" button above OR four tildas ~~~~
4. Return to your own User Page (see link at top of page, showing your username)
5. Remove all identifying information from your Argument Summary before you post it!
6. Copy and paste your Argument Summary onto your UserPage. Include your signature!
7. Print and place a hard copy into your (already created) Portfolio with all previous work on this assigment.

Warnings and Notifications:

1. Choose a username according to the amount of anonymity you want.
2. Find your usertalk page. That's where you go to read "new messages" sent to you.
3. Find Steph's usertalk page. This is where you go to send a message to her.
4. Always always always "sign" your work! With four tildas: ~~~~
5. ONLY create pages "in" our class space (unless you sign up with the WikiMaster for other, non-class related projects). ANY TIME you create a new page, include a backslash / as the first symbol in the url. This will keep all of our class-related work "in" the ClassSpace created for us within the (much larger) overall UMassWiki.

Jingo analysis, debrief Peer Reviews (Day 6, Sept 20)

• Collect Portfolio with Final Draft.
• On board: jingo analysis (create a chart) as a learning community.

slogan

three levels (examples and categories)

; ;

jingo (definition)

QUIZ question - coming UP!

• Context, content, media, function...(can we overlay these upon Wired as a cultural text?)

• Move outside?
• Discussion of Peer Reviews of first drafts (conducted in class last Thursday).

1. Has the author adequately previewed the work?
2. Has the author stated the thesis?
3. Is the summary accurate?
4. Does the summary mention all of the chief points?
5. If there are inconsistencies, are they in the summary or in the original selection?
6. Will the summary be clear and helpful to others?

Homework Due 25 Sept

1. Re-read (yes, seriously!) page vii (Preface for Instructors) in the course text, The Critical Method: Semiotics. and review the entire Introduction! What parts of the semiotic method do you still need to learn? Study.
2. Read Marketing in Color by Leon E. Wynter, pages 561-566.
3. Read and comment on two of the first four posts (and their associated comments) concerning "Saying Something with Scissors." Imagine this as a conversation: you are reading what someone else has "said," and responding in order to develop more meaningfulness, more understanding. Recall why we did this assignment? What is the goal? How well has the goal been achieved? What (if anything) is missing? Include at least one link to quoted or paraphrased material and/or supplemental information.