Major Projects and Course Requirements:
ENG 213 will be centered on four major projects — as listed in the table below. Each inquiry is comprised of a number of components, including class activities, shorter writing assignments, drafts, peer responses, proposals, research notes, Writer’s Memo, and a major final paper (or the equivalent) for each inquiry.
Literacies and the Self: 100 points
- Commonplace Response (25 points)
- Literacy Narrtive (75 Points)
Technology and Translatio: 100 points
- Commonplace Response (50 points)
- Literacy Analysis Potter Translatio (100 points)
Researching Translatio: 300 points
- Commonplace Responses (100 points)
- Final Genealogy (200 points)
Participating in Translatio: 300 points
- Commonplace Responses (50 points)
- Multimodal Project (150 points)
- Final Presentation (150 points)
Midterm: 200 points
TOTAL: 1000 points
Digital Commonplace Books
This semester, I will ask you to keep a web account and blog that will serve as a digital commonplace book. Commonplace books, popular in Early Modern Europe, were scrapbooks of sorts where writers could compile quotes, letters, lists, prayers, poems–basically a curated collection of literacy artifacts. Your blog will act as a commonplace book centered around your work for this class. At the beginning of the semester, I will ask you to respond to specific prompts. But, eventually, you’ll be posting your own research. These “commonplace posts” must identify, respond to, and reflect on at least 2 artifacts (blog posts, scholarly articles, videos, tweets, music, images, etc.) relevant to your focal topic and/or current project. You can choose to post artifacts that are shaping your thinking, or perhaps materials that you may want to re-use later. Either way, each of the two artifacts must be in a different genre or medium (you can’t post two video ads for example), and you must write around 500 words of your own commentary and analysis. I will list when blog posts are due on the schedule, but typically you’ll post once a week.
Midterm Exam
The in-class midterm exam will cover the rhetorical terms and theories introduced in the first half of class. The exam will focus on your understanding of the terms and theories as well as your ability to apply and use these them. I will provide a clear study guide and midterm review in class one week prior to the exam.
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