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Blog Prompt #10
The final blog post–hooray! As the semester comes to a close, consider the following…
Reflect on your thinking, learning, and work throughout the semester. What are you most proud of? What could you have improved upon?
What are your next steps? What should you work on for the future?
How has this class helped you? How has it hindered you?
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 4/26/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words or the multimodal equivalent.
Blog Prompt #9
After reading George Orwell’s “Why I Write” consider the following…
Why do you write?
Is your writing more “public-centered” or private?
Orwell says, “All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.” What does he mean by this?
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 4/19/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words or the multimodal equivalent.
Blog Prompt #8
After reading “Why Procrastinators Procrastinate” by Tim Urban, consider the following questions:
Are you a procrastinator or a planner? Is your brain more dominated by the “rational thinker” or the “instant gratification monkey”?
What have been your experiences with what Urban calls “The Dark Playground” and “The Panic Monster”? How would you describe your process for getting things done?
If you are a big procrastinator, how has it influenced you since starting college? Do you think it is possible for you to improve and no longer procrastinate? Why or why not?
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 4/10/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words (or the multimodal equivalent).
Blog Prompt #7
After reading “Reading Games” by Karen Rosenberg, consider the following questions:
Do you have any strategies for reading? What struggles do you have with reading longer or more “academic” texts?
What does Rosenberg mean by “joining/entering the conversation”?
How do you think these strategies may help your reading or writing?
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 4/3/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words (or the multimodal equivalent).
Blog Prompt #6
What do you think makes a presentation good? What do you think makes a presentation bad? How do you usually prepare for public speaking? Do you have any anxieties when it comes to speaking in front of people?
Bonus: For this post, include a “reaction gif” that describes how you feel about giving presentations.
--- This post is due to your blog by class time on 3/6/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words (or the multimodal equivalent).
Blog Prompt #5
After reading “Meme Warfare” by Douglas Haddow, consider the following questions:
What are the benefits and limitations of memes?
How do memes change the way we communicate?
Do you think memes have power or are they just for fun?
Bonus: Include your most recent favorite meme.
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 2/22/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words (or the multimodal equivalent).
Blog Prompt #4
After reading Kamenetz’ “Learning to Spot Fake News,” consider the following questions:
What is media literacy? Do you consider yourself literate in the “media” or “internet”?
Why is it important to think like “fact checkers” as students?
What is the problem with “fake news”? Why is it important to consider our emotions when determining if something is real or fake?
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This post is due to your blog by class time on 2/15/18. Your post should be at least 250+ words (or the multimodal equivalent).
Blog post #3
Anne Lamott has an interesting and even comical standpoint on how to write a paper, but it all actually makes sense and even can give perspective to someone, including myself, on how to better their strategies. As an example, the way i write my papers is usually through revising. Usually, I will start a paper about a week in advance, to give myself tons of time to work with. I will start the first day off by just going to town on the prompt, answering all the questions and hitting all the key points I need to until I am bored of writing, then I will put it away. The next time i come back to it, though, i will read over what i wrote in the previous period and revise what i wrote. Then, i will write a little more and put it away. This goes on until the paper is finished, and i have read over the final copy about a million times. This gets rid of all the anxieties and stresses that comes with writing long scholastic papers. It is somewhat just a recheck of everything i have worked up to until i start writing again. I would say it is an unconventional way of writing papers, but it works for me and i believe it to be the most helpful. The one thing i probably should change about my writing process is in the pre-writing category. I feel if i allowed myself more time in this area, i would spend a great quantity of time less revising the previous days work. Maybe just an outline of some sort would help, but i guess i’ll only know if i ever try it. I assume it will help abundantly for this class if i adapt some pre-writing skills because this class seems writing heavy (i.e. writing and rhetoric) and it can only help.
