Jody R. Rosen – Page 4 – Ways of Seeing

Homework due 9/17: Project #2 draft, and reading

Answer 4 questions from our list, trying to think about any kind of theme or awareness-raising your work expresses or you want it to express. Aim to write approximately 150 per question. To submit your homework, add a post with your 4 questions and answers, using the title Project #2 First Draft, category ENG1101 Project #2, the tag Drafts and anything else you choose to tag it.

Also, read Nancy Sommers’ “Revision Strategies of Student Writers and Esperienced Adult Writers.” Bring a copy to class, or let me know that you need a copy.… Read More...

Cover Letter for Project #1

Now that you have completed Project #1 and posted your work on the First Year Learning Community site (using the category 2019 Spevack & Rosen), please write a letter to me reflecting on the work and your writing process.

In your letter, try to answer all of these questions–though you don’t need to follow this order.

How did you approach writing this project? What steps did you take or what stages did you work in?

What was different about this writing project? What was familiar?

What did you learn by completing Project #1?

What do you want me to know … Read More...

Project #2 drafting: interview questions

For homework, write a response to one of the interview questions we brainstormed in class. It can be one that your group came up with, or one from someone else. It can be the one you started drafting in class or another. Aim to write approximately 150 words in your answer.

Comment on at least 2 classmates’ responses. Your comment can be directed to them, or it can be more for everyone to address why it’s important for that question to be included in the interview, or connections you’re starting to see across the responses.… Read More...

Beginning Project #2: Brainstorming Interview Questions

If you were asked to participate in an interview about being a 1st year design student for a COMD publication, or for Eye on Design-AIGA, what questions would you want to be asked?

what catches your eye when looking at other people’s work?
what is your dream job in the field of design
what other skills do you want to learn in this program?
how is the community in your major?
what is the schoolwork like in your coursework?
what in the class draws your attention?
where do you think the future of design will take you?
why did you

camp

camp: (noun) 1a : something so outrageously artificial, affected, inappropriate, or out-of-date as to be considered amusing This version of the play is camp: outrageous in concept and wild in its execution with double entendres flying every which way.

b : a style or mode of personal or creative expression that is absurdly exaggerated and often fuses elements of high and popular culture a movie that celebrates camp”

“Camp.” Merriam-Webster Dictionary. m-w.com.

In “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever–and It’s Looking Great,” Emily Gosling quotes Kayley Kemple as saying :

“It would be a … Read More...

Class 2 8/29

three important take-aways from our first commenting assignment:

it’s great to respond to each other
we can write more–and should get a sense of how long our text is
we can enhance our comments using links, media, etc, and adding @ mentions

Working on our first glossary entries:

choose a word you want to add to the glossary, using our course documents (syllabus, grading guidelines, learning outcomes, course site) as the sources for that word
examples: curator, plagiarism, ramifications, prerequisite, syntax, eurocentric, conventional, cross-sensory, consensus, contemporary, exigencies, adequate, typographical, critical, metacognitive, writ, synthesizing, arbitrary, inclusivity, juxtapositions
define it
now put

Emily Gosling, “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great.”

After reading Emily Gosling, “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great,” respond here:

write a comment asking a question about the text by scrolling down to the bottom of all the comments on this post and adding your question to the big Reply box. It could be a question to spark discussion, to think more deeply about something in the text, to connect it to another reading or activity in our learning community or in the outside world, or it can be to seek clarification or help understanding. Refer to specific language in the

Introducing ourselves

Although we introduced ourselves in class briefly, and we’ll introduce ourselves more formally in Project #2, please write introduce yourself here in a comment as a way to help us get to know each other better. Aim to write 250-300 words. This is your chance to say all the things you didn’t get to say in class, or to say again all the things you crafted and said brilliantly. You might add what your academic interests are, what the highlight of your high school experience was, what you hope to find at City Tech, etc.

If you have successfully created

Class 1 T 8/27 Introductions

Introduction interviews:

Q: What do you want to be called?

Q: how did you get here today?

Q: what’s your major?

Q: why did you pick this major?

Q: what are your hobbies?

Q: what high school did you come from?

Q: Where are you from?

Q: Age? what’s your sign? birthday?

Q: What would your superpower be?

first.last@mail.citytech.cuny.edu

password: MMDDYYlast4of EMPL (so 10 digits total)

Homework: Read the instructions in the Introducing Ourselves post.… Read More...

Author: Jody R. Rosen

Homework due 9/17: Project #2 draft, and reading

Cover Letter for Project #1

Project #2 drafting: interview questions

Beginning Project #2: Brainstorming Interview Questions

camp

Class 2 8/29

Emily Gosling, “Today’s Design Grads Are More Woke Than Ever—and It’s Looking Great.”

Introducing ourselves

Class 1 T 8/27 Introductions

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