From our class notes today — possible topics for your course portfolio:
“A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself”
– Arthur Miller, 1961
Contextual analysis: the ability to contextualize: review checklist; being your own research filter for knowledge and for information — discuss the wide, carefully selected sources in your project, how you assessed their credibility, and thoughtfully integrated a judicious selection from books, scholarly sources, trade publications, and internet sites. Show how your range of sources fairly represents the stakeholders in your contextual-analysis map. Think about the contextual-analysis method as a meaning-making activity — what does this mean? How does it mean that? — and how your analysis brings something new to the table.
Writing process: topics, drafts (3), revising, editing, proofreading, peer reviews
- Rhetorical précis
- OED
- No BS: believing in what you write; caring what you write about; taking risks and allowing for perplexity; no BS-ing the teacher
- Conventions: academic, professional, creative, community
- Ideology: see esp, sense #4: “A systematic scheme of ideas …”
- * Editorial peer reviews: your thoughtful uses of St. Martin’s 4b: Reviewing peer writers
- Op-Eds: both reading & writing
- Letters to the Editor: both reading & writing
- “Page One”: the NYT documentary
- One-on-one conferences
- Editing: visual and logistical coherence
- Digication: print & digital literacies
- Mid-term reflection
- Purpose of college: what is college for?
- Daily reading of the NYT; making personal and professional connections
- Professional development
- Obama’s Barnard Commencement speech
- Bill O’Connell’s visit
- Three sides to every story
- Critical thinking & Epictetus: “neither desire nor aversion”
- Class discussions — making meaning together
- Vitamin water
- Memes
- Problem-solving