8/25/05

Read the short essay in the Mercury Reader "My Body is My Own Business" p.73 In small groups discuss the ways in which you send messages through your dress. How does clothing complement your opinions? In what ways would yoy defend or argue for your body being your own business?

Introduce Unit One: Changing Skin
Discuss Audience, Purpose and Forum

9/1/05


Research Day
Read Jeff Ludwig's essay on "Rhetorics of Subversion and Silence: The Naming of Illinois State's Student Union" p. 241. Post a response on the class blog.

9/6/05
Editorial Committee Review

Exchange the drafts of your Unit I assignment with members of your Editorial Committee. Read and respond to the drafted papers from your Editorial Committee using the Workshopping Guidelines you created.

Work on Further Revision in Class & Discuss Reflective Essays

HOMEWORK: Revise based on Editorial Comments. Complete Unit Due on Thurs. Include every piece of writing you've done thus far, brainstorms, freewrites, editorial comments(both the ones you've written and the ones others have written you).

9/13/05
UNIT ONE DUE

9/15/05

Overview of Research, Information Literacy, Modules Etc.

Complete ISearch Modules One & Three

Complete Research Log on WebCT in class

Discuss Visual Rhetoric
Check out the following sites and discuss in groups your initial reactions. How do text and image work together or against each other? What does the image do that text cannot?
ViSPo
Negative Space
Lakeview Museum
Invisible Culture
Images
Exploratorium
Grand Illusions
Architecture of the Self

Are there images, photographs or film stills that stick out in your mind? Why are these significant? Is it difficult to explain or describe their significance? Why or why not?
 
HOMEWORK: Have Research Log A Completed
Complete Modules Four & Five

9/20/05

Visual Rhetoric continued
Check out: Found Magazine and Post Secret
Play this fun Google Game
How much do you know about Brand Logos?
Introduce Visual Narrative
Explain Library Research and Unit Three

Read the Wolfgang Ammer cartoon on p. 47. Consider what the visual can say that texts can't. How is this more powerful than a text on the same subject would be? Post a Response on the Course Blog. If you don't have your book, find someone who does or do this for homework.

9/22/05
Work on Your Own on Visual Narrative Project

9/27/05

Library Research at Milner
Meet in the Lobby

 9/25

Unit Two Due: Visual Narrative
Introduce Unit Three

In Class Activity: Building a Glossary of Terms
In Groups define and provide examples for 5 of the following terms:

Search more than just Google and Yahoo. Try Meta Search Engines like Dogpile, Mamma and Metacrawler. Once you've defined your terms, search for Visual Rhetoric and create a working definition of visual rhetoric.

10/6/05
Work on Drafts. Email me if you want comments.

HOMEWORK:
Complete Revisions, Finish Reflective Essays, Unit Three is DUE on Tuesday

Work on the Research Agenda/Proposals in class

Email for Approval by the end of the day

10/18/05
Work on Presentation Ideas with your Groups

10/25/05
Presentations Continue