Advanced Composition: Remixing Academic Writing

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Using McLuhan Study Questions, pp. 94-160, read The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 124-131, 132-137, and138-141.
• Watch the following Marshall McLuhan Speaks videos:
  • “1960: TV as a depth medium.”
  • “1966: TV as an involving medium.”
  • “1968: TV as an inner trip.”
  • “1978: TV as an acoustic medium.”
• Read ““Mosaic Man and ‘All-at-Onceness’” and “Classifying Media: Hot and Cool.”
• Drawing from the study questions, the videos on TV, and the “Mosaic Man and All-at-Onceness,” write a 1-2 page summary of McLuhan’s theories of TV as it relates to pages 124-131.
• In pages 132-137 of The Medium Is the Massage, McLuhan is making an argument about art. Drawing from the study questions; what McLuhan has said about art on pages 56-57,  page 68, and page 88; and the connections to Happenings and the Fluxus movement (which was known for making use of happenings), explain McLuhan’s argument regarding the role of art today.
• Read “Hot and Cool” at Old Messengers, New Media.
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Using McLuhan Study Questions, pp. 94-160, read The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-123.
• Drawing from the information in the study questions, write a 2-3 page essay explaining the various ideas and connections in The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-97. Your essay should have a thesis.
• Based upon the study questions, write a 1-2 paragraph summary for each of the following sections in The Medium Is the Massage: pp. 101-102, 104-107, 108-109, 110-115, 116-119, 120-121, and 122-123.
• Read “Hot and Cool” at Old Messengers, New Media.
• Watch the following Marshall McLuhan Speaks videos:
  • “1960: TV as a depth medium.”
  • “1966: TV as an involving medium.”
  • “1968: TV as an inner trip.”
  • “1978: TV as an acoustic medium.”
• Read ““Mosaic Man and ‘All-at-Onceness’” and “Classifying Media: Hot and Cool.”
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Using McLuhan Study Questions, pp. 94-160, read The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 94-123.
• Reread The Visions of Students Today: Call for Submissions and watch the video, along with the video at A Submission to “The Visions of Students Today.”
• After watching rereading the post and watching the videos, explore the submissions to The Visions of Students Today project and pick 3-4 you think the class should watch. Email the links to me and I’ll share them with the class.
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Using McLuhan Study Questions, pp. 68-93, read The Medium Is the Massage, pp. 68-93.
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Work on Manifestos.
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Work on Manifestos.
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan.

Homework

• Post manifestos to BlueLine (LESSONS —> ASSIGNMENT DROP BOXES —> MANIFESTOS) by Friday. Rather than a dropbox, you’ll be posting to a blog. Please post your project as an attachment. If you can’t post it as an attachment, please bring an electronic copy to class on Friday.
• Read “Kevin Brooks, Scott McCloud, and the Structure of The Medium is the Massage.”
• Read Old Messengers, New Media “Visual and Acoustic Space.”
• Watch Marshall McLuhan Speaks
  • “1965: My Definition of Technology.”
  • “1968: Global Village.”
  • “1977: Global Village.”
  • “1976: Instantaneous/simultaneous information world.”
  • “1968: Pattern recognition.”
  • “1968: From the visual to the electric age.”
  • “1974: From a Homeric to an acoustic world.”
• Journal entry.

In-Class

• Discuss McLuhan questions.

Homework

• Review McLuhan and come to class prepared to pick up at p. 42.
• Journal entry.