Tasks Due Today from Week 7

  • Review Week 7 Agenda
  • Review The Medium is the Message / Social Media is the Message
  • Post your Research Essay – Stereotype in Advertising
  • Submit Week 7 Homework Checklist

This Week’s Topics

Check-in (10 min)

Fall 2024 Playlist

Freewrite – The Art of Noticing (15 min)

Prompt: In your language of choice, write continuously in your notebook for 10 minutes about what you noticed this week when completing the task. Don’t edit, or correct, don’t stop, just write. Feel free to share or not.

This week’s task brought to you by Patty:

Be a Local Tourist

Visit a tourist location in your neighborhood or somewhere in the NYC area that you’ve never visited before. Some examples might be a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, visit Brooklyn Bridge Park, a walk on the Highline, visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art, take the Staten Island or Goverors Island Ferry, walk around Grand Central Terminal (look up!), go to Little Island, visit the main reading room at the New York Public Library- Midtown, walk around Times Square… Notice the tourists and their energy and excitement.

ART OF NOTICING

Next Week’s Prompt by Ten :

Count with the numbers your find

Find numbers in urban landscape and start “counting” – and see how far you get. Look for a 1, then a 2, then a 3 and keep going!

ART OF NOTICING

This looks fun!

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brAInchild: A collection of essays from the students at Ottawa University

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Activities

Below, find the information covered in this session. Complete all of the following activities, videos, and assignments.

1. Research Project Presentation Overview (10 min)

This week, we will take a look at the Research Project Presentation guidelines and begin to define our project topic and outline.

A couple of examples from last semester:

The following will help with the development of your Outline.

You can use your Research Project Presentation to bring awareness to the issues that matter to you as an individual, as a global citizen, as a designer.

2. Library Prof. Monica Berger – Workshop

The Zoom recording is posted here for reference. If you missed the class or need a refresher on how to navigate to the databases presented in the workshop, take some time to go back through the recording.

Passcode: VC42L5h^

Reach out to Prof. Monica Berger or any of the librarians for research help, or visit Ask a Librarian on the City Tech Library website.

3. Preparing your Research Project Presentation Proposal (15 min)

After reviewing the Research Project Presentation guidelines, and doing some initial research, create an outline in a Google Doc with the following content. Come prepared next week to present your outline to the class. You will continue to add to your document and turn it into a final proposal.

Introduction
In one or two sentences, define your research question or thesis.

Background/Review of the Sources
Explain in detail the topic you are examining. Include a summary of the background information learned from your initial review of sources/readings/references.

Rationale
Explain why your research topic is culturally, socially, or politically significant. Include a description of the questions you are examining and why you are exploring this topic. Why is it meaningful to you?

Method and Design
Demonstrate how you plan to present the information in your presentation. Outline each section of your presentation with cited sources to support each of the ideas you are presenting. Make sure your research question/statement is clearly presented in the introduction, then outline your research-supported arguments/claims and relevant subtopics, and end with the conclusion. Include images and videos to support your ideas, as needed.

References/Resources
List the resources and references you have found so far by using the Library Databases or Google Scholar. Include all references in MLA style. In addition to referencing our assigned readings, you should cite at least ten library sources with proper citation information in an annotated bibliography in MLA format. Create your annotated bibliography as you do your research.

4. Peer-Review: Research Essay – Stereotype in Advertising

This week you will be reading and providing comments on your partner’s Research Essay. Providing feedback is a great way to become a better writer!

Follow the steps below:

  1. Locate your partner’s Research Essay post on the course site. Navigate to Student Posts > Essays
  2. Make sure your partner has set their Google Doc Share to “Anyone with link can comment” so you can add comments. (See this video how-to)
  3. Before reading, review the essay assignment guidelines Decoding Stereotype in Advertising to make sure you are evaluating the essay based on the original assignment specifications.
  4. Also review these two Peer Review Checklist/Rubrics. Depending on the progress your classmate has made on their essay, choose one or the other as a guide while you are reading the essay.
  5. As you read the essay, use the Commenting feature in Google Docs to provide inline comments and give your partner feedback to help them improve their essay. For example:
    • If a sentence needs to be restructured for clarity, highlight that sentence and add a comment to let them know.
    • If you like a particular phrase, source or example, highlight it and add a comment to let them know.
    • If the flow of the essay is confusing or needs to be restructured identify those areas with a comment.

Week 8 Homework Checklist

Below are all of the tasks, big and small, for this week. The due date is Wednesday, 11:59 pm before our next Thursday class. Timely completion of these tasks will contribute to your success in this course.

If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to reach out.

Tasks from the Week 8 Agenda
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