If you attend one session and write a one-page, double-spaced report on who you heard speak and what you learned from the discussion, you can earn credit for one daily writing assignment or if you have done all of the daily writing assignments, you will earn bonus credit for the daily writing assignment portion of your grade. The schedule for the symposium is here:https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/sciencefictionatcitytech/.

Research Paper Outline Suggestion

I.                           Introduction (establish a problem or an issue regarding the relationship between your selected technology and language. State your paper’s argument regarding that relationship. For example: I argue that Instagram’s reliance on visual language is detracting from our verbal literacy, because Instagram users must skill-up in visual literacy over verbal literacy. I assert that Twitter is tending to make people write more briefly, because it makes its users think more about how to write succinctly. Road map sentence. In the following paper, I describe the technology, discuss how it affects language in this way, in that way, in another way, and finally, conclude with a compelling reason why this is important.

II.                      Paragraph on the technology.

III.                 Example that supports your argument. Begins with a topic sentence about this specific example. Support your example with detailed discussion written by you and quoted material from your research. Keep each example paragraph focused on a single topic.

IV.                Another example on another topic.

V.                     Another example.

VI.                Another example.

VII.            Another example.

VIII.       Conclusion (Restate your argument and supporting evidence in a sentence or two to begin. THEN, answer this question: So what?

We’ve worked through the first half of the reading list on the syllabus. Now, you have an opportunity to show me what you have learned and remember.

Write your name on the front of the blue book that I have given you and turn off your computer monitors and put away everything except a pen/pencil and your one-sheet study guide. Make sure your name is on your study guide and turn it in with your quiz.

In essay form, tell me about what you have read and learned from the readings so far this semester. Write in complete sentences and include author’s names and essay/story titles. Each reading deserves at least 1-2 sentences, but more is certainly permissible.

When you are done, bring your blue book and one-sheet study guide to me. When everyone is done or no more than 45 minutes has passed, we will begin the second half of class, during which time we will do research on your project.