| Lec # | Topics | key dates |
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Unit One: First Essay - Writing Focus: Living In the Age of the Image; Close Textual Reading |
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1 |
Introduction to the Class as a Writing Community And to the Academic Study of Mass Media |
Distribute writer's letter assignment Distribute reader/writer notebook assignment |
2 |
Image Culture and Media Artifacts Advertising, Media Literacy and Close Reading Discussion: Notebook Assignment |
Distribute essay 1 Distribute exercise 1.1 Distribute "Reading Print Advertisements" Handout Writer's letter due |
3 |
Writing as Process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising Advertising: A Case Study of Mass Media |
Exercise 1.1 due: small groups |
4 |
Strategies of Close Reading: Ads as Representative Texts: Finding Patterns |
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5 |
Strategies of Close Reading: Constructing Arguments About Advertising Texts Living in Consumer Culture Theories of Social Control and Social Reflection |
Essay 1 introduction due (3 copies) Small group workshops: introductions due Essay 1 draft due one day after Lec 5 |
6 |
Writing Workshop: Peer Review of Drafts |
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7 |
Using Secondary Sources: Library Workshop |
Description of choice of interview subject by email to the instructor |
Unit Two: Second Essay - Writing Focus: Working with Primary and Secondary Sources; Crafting Individual and Group Identities in the Age of Mass Media and Consumer Culture |
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8 |
The Individual in the TV Age: Working With Primary Source Data: Interviews, Letters, etc. The Art of Interviewing |
Essay 1 revision due (2 copies with revision cover letter) |
9 |
The Individual in the Media Age: Growing Up on TV (cont.) |
Distribute essay 2 Distribute exercise 2.1 Notebook assignment due |
10 |
The Individual in the Media Age: The Interview Transcript as Primary Source Identifying Key Passages |
Exercise 2.1 due: small groups Prewriting strategies due |
11 |
The Individual in the Age of Television and Mass Media: Interpreting Interview Material Within the Context of Secondary Sources |
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12 |
The Individual in the "Digital Revolution" Discuss: Assigned Readings Managing and Citing Sources Issues of Structure Bookending: Intros and Conclusion |
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13 |
Generating Hypotheses from Case Studies: From Individual Lives to Social Patterns Hypothesis Exercise Television Analyses |
Essay 2 draft due |
14 |
Workshop, Draft, Essay 2 |
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Unit Three: Writing Focus: Comparative Analysis: Print Into Film |
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15 |
From Print to Film: Thinking Critically About the Potentialities of Different Media for Storytelling Literature, Film and the Depiction of Madness |
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16 |
From Print to Film: Questions of Comparative Analysis Discuss: Susanna Kaysen. Girl, Interrupted |
Distribute "Reading Films Critically" Handout Distribute essay 3 assignment sheet Distribute exercise 3.1 Essay 2 revision due |
17 |
Film Showing: Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999) |
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18 |
From Print to Film Discuss: Novel and Film, Girl, Interrupted |
Exercise 3.1 due: small groups |
19 |
Writing About Film Film as Language Discuss: "Reading Films Critically" |
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20 |
Incorporating Secondary Sources on Film and Print-to-film Adaptation Types of Writing About Film Small Groups: Scene Analysis Exercise |
Essay 3 draft due one day after Lec 20 (2 copies) |
21 |
Workshop: Draft, Essay 3 Revision Strategies |
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22 |
Advanced Revision: The Potential of Publication Discuss: Assigned Readings |
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23 |
Course Evaluations Portfolio Preparation |
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24 |
Advanced Revision Workshop: Essay 1, Essay 2 |
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25 |
Student Readings Course Overview |
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26 |
Final Class Student Readings Submission of Portfolios |
Essay 3 revision due (with final portfolio) |