Before our next class (Thursday–remember, Tuesday follows a Monday schedule), post a comment to this blog post of at least 250 words summarizing your reading and today’s lecture. Since this was a formidable reading with advanced vocabulary, you can include some of the words and their definitions that many of you reported looking up during our discussion today.
Since we have a break before meeting again, use this time to catch up with all after-class writing assignments and post them on OpenLab. After we return on Thursday, all after-class assignments must be submitted on-time for full credit.
During our next class, we will talk about Walter Ong’s essay in our next class and practice using the library databases for your research project proposal and paper. In the meantime, consider your list of technologies and their relationship to language. Choose a technology to research that you think specifically influences how we use LANGUAGE (not simply how we communicate–look back at Fromkin for guidance on what we mean by language). Also, I would recommend choosing a technology that might have some utility for your career or for demonstrating your thinking about a technology that has a great deal of interest to you. Look at the Research Project link above for additional information about the proposal due in a few weeks.