reading with pen in hand: mark up the readings for today with
- words to look up
- questions about what you don’t understand
- follow-up questions to ask the author
- things you agreed with
- things you disagreed with
- what you understood
Category: Class Notes
Class Notes 10/10
- Cover letters for Project #2
- 2 readings for Project #3
- Colson Whitehead, “The Way We Live Now: 11-11-01; Lost and Found”; , Patrick Sisson, “How better photos can help you document, and shape, your neighborhood”
- Focused
Final review of Project #2
How can you organize Project #2?
Introduction
Question 1
Question 2
Question 3
Question 4
Question 5
Images/media throughout
Do not center the text for all of your answers!
What to include in the introduction? Whose voice are you … Read More...
Project #2 peer review and assignment clarification
Revising our interviews:
- find a new partner to work with
- ask questions and follow-up questions to get them to include details or explain things you don’t understand from their drafts, and TAKE NOTES
- encourage opportunity-oriented language (eg change “not good
Class Notes : working on Project #2 Drafts
Write one or two paragraphs in which you describe your avatar well enough that your readers need not look at it to know what it looks like, call attention to specific details in the image, and explain how the image … Read More...
Class Notes: Reading Avatars
In your group, review the reading about choosing an avatar. What advice can we take from it to develop a list of criteria for choosing an avatar?
Read it on your own, and then come together to mark up the … Read More...
Class Notes 9/17: Writing and revising processes
What is your writing process?
Think about when you write something that you want to share with other people, or that you want to do a good job with. What do you do? What are your methods? How do you … Read More...
Class notes for 9/12: Project #2 and the role of the artist
Update about what we’re doing for Project #2: As we draft, you will develop answers to many of the questions we brainstormed. Ultimately, you will produce an interview with an introduction, much like the format of Ksenya Samarskaya’s interview with … 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 … 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
