#sorapure

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Mirror

Charlotte Sorapure

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Self-Portrait.

Charlotte Sorapure

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Gabriel.

Charlotte Sorapure

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Rosa Mundi.

Charlotte Sorapure

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Week Two Notes: January 21, 2020

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Sorapure quotes someone describing an examination of online diaries as “‘an archaeological study, bearing witness to a world that has disappeared’” (267). This is exactly how it feels to be reading articles that highlight Facebook as a new or relevant social media site, which today goes largely unused by Millennials and Gen Z. It made me think of this meme, although there’s something like irony in using a Twitter formatted meme to highlight how outdated Facebook is, when the slow/outdated user is using Twitter 🤔

Sorapure, Madeleine. "Autobiography Scholarship 2.0?: Understanding New Forms of Online Life Writing." Biography, vol. 38 no. 2, 2015, p. 267-272. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/bio.2015.0011.

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Response/Common Culture: Reading + Writing about American Popular Culture/Petracca + Sorapure

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Summary/Common Culture: Reading + Writing about American Popular Culture/Petracca + Sorapure

The introduction reading for the course is an analysis of reading and writing techniques used when examining and responding to various types of texts. Using three selected writings about Barbie, Petracca and Sorapure outline 4 steps that will allow readers to actively engage the work.

Preparing to Read

Reading and Annotating

Re-reading

Reviewing

Preparing to read involves gathering background information about the subject, author and time it was written. The process of annotation is used to call out various literary and argumentative techniques authors use to produce various effects or arguments.  Re-reading is beneficial in understanding the entire structure of the work, after analyzing specific parts one can see how they all fit together.  Reviewing a piece involves looking at the "why" of the piece, knowing what is being said and how it is being said why is the author doing what they are doing?

Writing is described as a process that starts generalized and unorganized and gradually gets more specific and structured. It involve

Prewriting

Free writing

Clustering (visualizing the structure of the argument through diagram)

Outlining

Drafting

Thesis

Opening paragraph

Support Paragraph

Evidence

Conclusion

Finalizing

Distancing

Revising

By writing in this way, breaking the process into stages where ideas become more refined and supported, the argument or idea being presented in your thesis will become better developed.

Michael Petracca & Madeleine Sorapure, Common Culture: Reading and Writing about American Popular Culture (Prentice Hall, 2006): 6-38.