Hi class,

Thanks for your hard work today.  As I said, I will return your Rhetorical Analysis essays, as well as your midterms, next week.

For homework…

1. Read + Annotate Shirky, “Is The Internet Making Us Smarter?” (45 mins-1 hr). Scan or take a picture of any two pages from the essay, with your annotations in the margins.  Include the page where you think Shirky states his thesis.  Submit here by 10 am on Monday, March 27.

2. Blog Post #5: Due Monday at 10 am.  Write about how either Shirky or Carr showed you something about the Internet that you wouldn’t otherwise see.  Make specific reference to one of their concepts. Use this opportunity to practice the writing principles we have discussed in class: guiding the reader, shaping within a sentence, and shaping your language between sentences.   Never underestimate the value of using connecting words like “However,” “In addition,” or “Therefore”!
3.  Bring Carr, Shirky, AND an article on a potential exhibit to class on Monday 3/27. I’ve included definitions of lens and exhibit below for your reference.

Lens: a concept, key term, or critical framework that has explanatory power.

Exhibit: an object of analysis, for which you need a lens.

best,

Professor Kwong