Week 2 – June 13, 2018 (Wednesday) English 1301 Week 2 – June 13, 2018 (Wednesday)

Reminders 1.) By midnight, get your first draft of the Mediated Values Essay in. Don’t wait last minute.

Peer Feedback Respond to the two classmates who posted immediately before you. If you were the first student to post your draft, you should respond to the last two drafts posted on time (by 11:59 PM on Wednesday, June 13). If you were the second student to post your draft, you should respond to the first draft posted (the one immediately before yours) and to the last draft posted on time. If you post late (or not at all), you might not receive feedback, but you are still expected to give feedback to two classmates. FEEDBACK due by Friday, June 15, 11:59:59 p.m. As you read the draft, ask yourself: Does this draft discuss a specific piece of media important to the writer? Does this draft discuss a specific value the writer holds that this piece of media has helped to shape? Does the draft use specific details, including personal experiences, to explore the relationship between the media and the value? Does this draft show some analysis? It doesn't just describe, but rather reflects on and analyzes the writer's experiences or the media? In your feedback to your classmate, use the Describe-Evaluate-Suggest model to find two places in the essay where you have suggestions for improvement. 

Minimum Essay Expectations & Requirements • Be a minimum of 500 words • Be written in a readable, 11–12 pt. font • Have a title that is inviting to your readers (your classmates) • Identify and discuss a specific piece of media important to you • Identify and discuss a specific value you hold that this media has helped to shape • Use specific details, including personal experiences, to explore the relationship between this media and this value • Show a degree of analysis (that is, it does not just describe, but reflects on and analyzes your experiences or the media you’re discussing) • Be effectively organized, use clear language, and be carefully edited This essay will be evaluated on a pass/fail basis. On-time submission of a satisfactory essay that meets the above guidelines will result in an A.

Today’s Topics Freewriting, Introduce Summary & Synthesis (Unit II), Critical Reading, Practice Summary/Paraphrase

Freewriting The article we read talked about rhetoric, purpose, audience, and situation when reading/analyzing a text. Why is it important to figure out the audience and purpose of an article, advertisement, or any other type of media? What are some good ways to determine the audience and purpose of something you read/watch?

“From Reading as a Writer to Writing as a Reader” (Blackboard)

Introduction to Unit II: Reading the Conversations Summary & Synthesis Essay Instructions found in Unit II folder

Introduction to Unit II: Reading the Conversations Things we will cover today and next week: Audience Purpose Summarizing Paraphrasing

Let’s Talk about Project 2 … This assignment has 4 steps: Step 1: Synthesis Paragraph Step 2: Summary #1 of article you chose. Step 3: Summary #2 of article you chose. Step 4: Writer’s Memo.

Step 2 & 3:

So what? Like all things, video games and the controversies surrounding them are a conversation.

We will need to “listen” to the conversation that people are already engaged in about that topic or issue. Some conversations have been ongoing for a long time. Before participating in that conversation, then, you need to understand what others are saying. To do so, you need to be able to effectively read the conversation and understand both the arguments of others and the contexts in which they were produced.

Step 1: Synthesis Paragraph: Write a paragraph synthesizing the conversation around your two articles and the theme. For example, Prensky, Marc. “Games Are NOT the Enemy” and Gee, James Paul. “Learning and Identity: What Does It Mean to be a Half-Elf?” are in direct conversation with each other. If you choose both of these articles, for example, your paragraph will discuss how these authors have different perspectives on the same conversation. What is the conversation they are engaging in? What are the various viewpoints of these authors? How do they differ? How are they similar? What is at stake?

Step 4: Writer’s Memo: To accompany this essay, you will write a memo to your instructor explaining at least three choices you made in writing your summaries. In this memo, you should identify three specific choices you made as you wrote this essay and explain why you made those decisions. As you write the essay, you will make many decisions regarding paraphrasing, inclusion of ideas or concepts from the original, organization of content, style and phrasing, inclusion of quotations, and more. Select three of these and thoroughly explain why you made these choices and why they’re effective choices. This memo should be at least 300 words and provide a well-developed paragraph for each of these three choices.

Always Read Instructions on Blackboard

If you do not follow instructions and forget to include a part of the assignment, do not expect a passing grade. Assignment instructions also include guidelines and minimum criteria you will have to meet.

ANY QUESTIONS?

What is Rhetoric?

What is Rhetoric? Rhetoric: The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other persuasive techniques.

What is Rhetoric? Facts themselves do not persuade. Values, emotions, and pathos do. (We will learn more about rhetorical appeals/choices throughout the semester.)

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Practicing rhetoric, audience, purpose Who is the audience? What is the purpose? What are some rhetorical choices/rhetorical appeals that the ad makers used to persuade the audience?

To determine a specific audience, ask yourself the following: 1.) What KIND of readers/viewers does the text/piece attract? 2.) How much would the audience know about the subject matter presented in the text/piece? 3.) What is the level of language being used in the text? (Does it appeal to a specialized group or is it written in accessible terms?) 4.) What attitude would the audience have towards the topic and why? (Would they agree or disagree? Would they be neutral?)

UNIT II: Reading the Conversations Over the next few weeks, we will be reading four texts that are in explicit or implicit conversation with each other in our theme. You will need to select two of these texts to include in your essay Prensky, Marc. “Games Are NOT the Enemy.” Don’t Bother Me Mom—I’m Learning: How Computer and Video Games Are Preparing Your Kids for 21st Century Success— and How You Can Help! Paragon House, 2006, pp. 1-15. Gee, James Paul. “Learning and Identity: What Does It Mean to be a Half-Elf?” What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy. Revised and updated ed., Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. 45-69. Ramanan, Chella. “The Video Game Industry has a Diversity Problem—But It Can Be Fixed.” The Guardian, 15 Mar. 2017, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/15/video-gameindustry- diversity-problem-women-non-white-people “Video Games Have a Diversity Problem That Runs Deeper Than Race or Gender.” The Guardian, 10 Sept. 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/10/video-games- diversityproblem-runs-deeper-than-race-gender

What’s Next?