Author Archives: Professor Sean Scanlan

Annotated Bibliography Peer Review: PeerReview-Ann-BibEssay-2014 copy Research Essay Peer Review: PeerReviewResearchEssay-fall2014   Remember that you must turn in Essay 3 on Wednesday. Proofing Advice: 1. Buy a friend a cup of coffee and have them read over your essay and … Continue reading →

Hi Class, The portfolio is a chance for you to reflect on your writing progress this semester. First, select three freewrites that you like, three that exemplify your freewriting process. Second,  photocopy (or type them up if they are hard to read) … Continue reading →

Hi Class, 1. Student Sample: Essay and Annotated Bibliography Student-Sample-Essay3-2014 2. Peer Review for Annotated Bibliography PeerReview-Ann-BibEssay-2014 3. December Calendar December-Calendar-E3-2014

Hi Class, For Essay 3, I recommend making use of an interview. You may find an interview that has already been published, or you may conduct your own interview with a person connected to your site/subject. In either case, the … Continue reading →

Hi Students, A reminder: we will have Quiz 3 on Wednesday, November 26th over three things: comma rules, citations, and “Reading Lucy” by Jennifer Egan And here is a student sample of an actual Annotated Bibliography for this research paper (from … Continue reading →

Hi all, For Monday’s Journal #5, follow these directions. 1. Now that you’ve selected a place to research, let’s begin with this process of engaging with scholarly material. Spend one hour reading about your site/place. I recommend reading from three … Continue reading →

Hi Class, I hope that your photo taking and photo reading is going well. Here is the Sontag essay for our October 15th quiz. The quiz will be a reading quiz over the terms of photography plus the Sontag and … Continue reading →

Hi Class…lot’s of information today! Homework for Wednesday: 1. Read Parla and Anastasio. 2. Post a photograph (make sure that the image size is under 1 Mb) that you have taken to OpenLab then describe it under the photo in … Continue reading →

Henri Cartier Bresson, Derriere la gare de Saint Lazare, 1932  

Hi Class, 1. What is a photograph? 2. Why do we take, keep, share, and discard photographs? 3. How should we make sense of photographs? The French sociologist and critic Roland Barthes wrote about photography, and he came up with … Continue reading →