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Week 10: Ending Unit 2 & Starting Unit 3

Class Info

  • Dates: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 (then Spring Break, Wednesday, April 5-Thursday, April 13) and Tuesday, April 18, 2023
  • Meeting Info: Tuesdays and Thursdays 10:00-11:15am in room N618

Objectives

  • To draft Project 2 and submit it before Spring Break or after (with proposal for revised due date)
  • To complete any unfinished work, especially Project 1: Discourse Communities.
  • To rest and recharge during Spring Break! Or to catch up during Spring Break to be in good shape for the rest of the semester!
  • To consider multimodal texts and learn about Project 3

Week 10, Part 1

Week 10, Part 2

For Tuesday, 4/13

Reading

Writing

  • Finish Project 2

In Class Tuesday, 4/18

  • Project 2 Reflection
  • Introducing Project 3
  • What is a multimodal text?
  • Examples

For Tuesday, 4/13

Reading

  • Film: Passing (2021), directed by Rebecca Hall

Writing

  • Finish Project 2

In Class Tuesday, 4/18

  • Project 2 Reflection
  • Introducing Project 3
  • What is a multimodal text?
    • what multimodal texts do we already compose in?
    • texts/instagram thread/twitter thread/discord/reddit with images, videos, gifs, memes
    • video with some text like TikTok
    • blog post with images etc
    • linking vs embedding (issues with copyright, size, etc)
    • what multimodal texts do we consume?
    • YouTube video–because it it includes video, text at least in the form of a transcript/subtitles
    • TED Talk: video plus slides with visuals
    • (visuals: photos, charts, graphs, data visualization, animation, plus words)
    • podcasts