Some notes from today:
There are some conventions in digital writing that are different than in writing for print:
- We use serif fonts for body text — Georgia, say — and sans serif for subject headings
- We don’t indent the first sentence in new paragraphs
- But we do provide white space between paragraphs
- Lines of text contain 11-13 words for readability
- We use blue and underlined links, because that’s what the internet was invented for (we can talk about the blue/underlined part next Tuesday)
Portfolio checklist:
- Reflective Essay Theorizing Myself as a Writer
- Summary/Précis page: one summary and five Rhetorical Précis
- Rhetorical Analysis page: three drafts; annotated article photo; peer review — both given & received
- Op-Ed/Persuasive Essay page: three drafts; PIE paragraphs; phenomenological audio peer review; Letter to the Editor
- Remix Project: worksheet + “draft” + final remix materials + manual (optional) + SoGC
Here’s Bruni’s essay on Joan Didion: “The Magic and Moral of Joan Didion”
Here’s Didion’s 1961 essay in Vogue on “Self-Respect: Its Source, Its Power”
