English 111, November 29th, hopefully with images now.

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Today’s plan:

1) Questions & Answers2) More Inquiry 5 free-writing (just one

prompt this time)3) Let’s look at those Tumblrz4) Meanwhile, back at Inquiry 45) Homework

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Questions:

Bearing in mind that we have, after today, one week of meetings and then another several days of work time, what questions are on your minds?

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More for inquiry 5:

One of the things that the inquiry 5 assignment calls for you to do is to create little situating blurbs– or think of them as literal introductions as opposed to essay introductions, to each of your projects this semester.

What I’d like you to do right now is take about 10 minutes (give or take) and craft that piece of text for your Inquiry 1 project.

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Those fun new Tumblrs:

Let’s now move over and take a look at your portfolio Tumblrs. I asked you for today to do something to customize yours. Let’s talk a bit about that, look at what you’ve done, and look at what you could do.

Alt-tab time.

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Inquiry 4 memo:

I hope that you have written parts of this document already, since instead of the usual memo, it’s a reflection on your project.

But there are specific things I want to make sure you hit on while working on it. So I’ve set up yet another freewrite for us that will help you to get those ideas down on in words. You can then weave them into your reflection.

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Prompt 1:

Look at the content you retained from your Inquiry 3 project (be that actual chunks of text, ideas, references… whatever is in Inquiry 4 that was in inquiry 3). Why did you choose to retain the things you chose to retain?

Think rhetorically!

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Prompt 2:

Now think about the new material you either created or obtained to add to your ideas from Inquiry 3. Why, rhetorically, did you choose to add the things you are adding? How do they serve to support– or in some cases, I’m sure, form– your argument?

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Prompt 3:

This might seem like a weird question, but I want you to think about audience, expectation, and reception. In a perfect world, I’m going to look at your project and see your vision. But… imagine that I don’t. Take a moment to tell me what you’re doing with this piece, what the rhetorical moves mean. What SHOULD I be seeing?

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Prompt 4:

Let’s talk about affordances. What were you able to do by switching modes of presentation that you couldn’t do before? How’d you make your argument bigger, faster, stronger, cooler, rad-er?

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Prompt 5:

Did you try to do anything you couldn’t pull off, or that didn’t go the way you wanted it to go? What, and how did you compensate?

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Prompt 6:

How did you spend your time while working on this project? Try as best you can to talk about the time spent on each aspect of creating the final project.

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Prompt 7:

Tell me about your poster. Where’d you put it? Did people see it? Did it stay up for more than a few minutes? Was it effective?

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Prompt 8:

Talk to me specifically about making the poster. How did it feel to work with a visual medium? What were the interesting changes to how you could present your argument?

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Prompt 9:

What did these two projects teach you about how to communicate and the available means of persuasion when modality changes?

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Prompt 10:

In terms of “ambition,” this was the most demanding of the assignments in class. You had to learn to communicate in a different way, had to master new software and means of production, and you created something vastly different from the first three inquiries.

How do you feel about that?

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Homework:

Inquiry 4 is due Tuesday. So… work on that.

Next week we’ll jam through a bit more work on inquiry 5, I have a personally designed in-class end-of-the-semester reflection/evaluation we’ll do on Tuesday.

On Thursday, anyone who would like to is welcome to share their inquiry 4 projects, and we’ll make sure everything is done for the good of the order.