UNCW English 303-001

Fri 25 Apr 2008

April 25 Daily Agenda

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General questions.
Work on Project 3.
Homework: Finish Project 3. Monday will be a Project 3 open house.

Thu 24 Apr 2008

April 23 Daily Agenda

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General questions.
Work on Project 3.
Homework: Work on Project 3. On Friday we will have another peer review, this time with a draft design justification.

Mon 21 Apr 2008

April 21 Daily Agenda

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General questions.
Project 3 peer review.
Homework: Work on Project 3. On Friday we will have another peer review, this time with a draft design justification.
Design justification: A design justification is an explanation (rhetorical analysis) of your project in which you explain why you made the choices you made. You might want to begin by explaining your goal/purpose (that is, what your argument is–a good place to discuss your enthymeme, your major points/reasons upon which you build your argument, your counter arguments should you have any, etc.), who you envision your audience as, and the context of your argument (what issue you are responding to, where it might be seen, etc.). This introductory material will likely require a number of paragraphs. You’ll then want to explain your project: you’ve chosen to include a number of images, videos, audio files, sound, and text, and you’ve organized them. Your goal is to explain why you made the choices you’ve made. Why, for instance, do you begin with a title screen and how does that particular title work towards developing your argument? (Conversely, if you chose not to include a title screen, why did you choose not to do so?) Why did you choose the song or audio file that you did (how does it develop your argument) and why did you chose to just use that one song through your whole project? (Or, conversely, if you use a number of audio tracks, why do you use each of them and why do you place them where you do? Why does image X follow image Y followed by image Z? (Why not, for instance, image Z followed by image Y followed by image X?) Why do you include textual information in your project, why do you include the information that you do, and why do you place it where you do? (Or, conversely, why do you not use text in your project?) In other words, you want to go through and justify the choices you’ve made by explaining how they develop/support your argument, and this includes what you chose not to do as well as what you chose to do. Making references to Gage’s text (things like “I chose to include these statistics to add logical appeals (logos) to my project to support the emotional appeals (pathos) created by the images”)l.

Sun 20 Apr 2008

April 18 Daily Agenda

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General questions.
In-class work.
Homework: Work on Project 3. We will have a peer-review on Monday.

Wed 16 Apr 2008

April 16 Daily Agenda

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General questions.
In-class work.
Homework: Work on Project 3 and submit a Project Memo 3. While I’ve been informal about the memos until now, it would actually be a good idea for you all to practice writing formal memos. If you’re not sure how to write a formal memo, please see Memo Writing (Purdue’s OWL) and/or Writing Business Memos (Writing@CSU).

Fri 11 Apr 2008