Academic Spaces in Digital ArchivesIn Class: Wednesday, September 27, 2017. May Sarton's The Small Room (1961) is a novel about the college experience from a professor's perspective. Sarton taught at Wellesley College from 1960-1964. Today we will investigate what the college was like in Sarton's time by searching Wellesley's digital repository. Working in small groups, you will pair at least one article, image, or advertisement from the newspapers with at least one quotation from the novel, drawing conclusions about why their similarities or differences matter. Paste your findings and record your observations in a Google Doc. We will share our responses at the end of class. You might discuss instances in which Sarton is mentioned or aspects of the novel of interest to you. Include a link to the issue that you cite as well as its date and publication information. What does browsing through the college newspaper teach you about the time period? How does it change your sense of the novel? What light does the novel shed on your navigation of the newspapers? These are questions you can consider as you browse and respond to your selections.
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Issue Six InfographicsIn Class: Monday, September 25 Working in small groups, make an infographic about the research methods in Issue Six of Understanding Rhetoric using Piktochart.com. Each group will focus on 1/5 of the chapter. Divide up the tasks among your group members. Group members can work on the design, mine the text, and determine how best to present the information. With ten minutes left in the class session, email the finished product to the instructor who will display it for the class. College PressuresMuch has changed since William Zinsser's wrote "College Pressures." You will spend 25-30 minutes writing a paragraph that argues why at least one aspect of Zinsser's essay continues to speak to us. In structure, your paragraph will resemble the sample paragraph on page 164 in Issue Four of Understanding Rhetoric, analyzing at least one quotation from Zinsser's essay. Consult the format for incorporating quotations in MLA style in Purdue Owl. Compose your paragraph in a Google Document. We will discuss your responses. College Pressures SnapchatWorking in small groups, create a snapchat post combining text, images, and/or video about college pressures, including lines from William Zinsser's essay. You can make a new account for today’s exercise. Share your post with the instructor. Dramatizing Logos, Ethos, Pathos, and Kairos In Four Teams: 1. Logos 2. Ethos 3. Pathos 4. Kairos Review the explanation of your term in Issue One of Understanding Rhetoric. Spend 10 minutes preparing a 1 minute dramatization of your concept for the class. Then each group will present. Interpreting NYIT Advertisements
Working in small groups, select at least one NYIT advertisement here and discuss how it makes visual arguments and the significance of the arguments it makes. As you do so, pair your commercial with a frame from Understanding Rhetoric. After 15-20 minutes you will introduce the class to the arguments that your commercial makes and the connection you made to Understanding Rhetoric. |
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