agenda for wednesday 11 february 2009

Agenda:

• Prepare grading chart for essay; Discuss grading of portfolio
• Discuss concerns noted in most drafts read
• Submitting the portfolio (digitally or on paper)
  
• Workshop Table

Homework due 2/16:

• Re-read chapter 5 (only pp. 129-134)
• Bring completed Public Space Analysis essay (can be digital or paper)
• Blog your author's note for the new draft of your essay and for your portfolio as a whole

Please remember the changes to blogging requirements that we discussed in class on Monday: no weekly blog comments are required, but blog postings should be more developed (around 2 paragraphs)

agenda for monday 9 february 2009

Agenda:

• Sample workshop of essay on eCollege
• Email draft to workshop group and me
  
• Complete workshop in small groups using workshop questions provided

Homework due 2/11:

• Read workshop feedback and blog about the feedback you received and changes you plan to make
  
• Work on revisions for Public Space Analysis essay
• Bring 1-2 copies of your revised draft
• Think about qualities of an effective Public Space Analysis

prompts for prewriting

List as many of the arguments you saw in your space as you can think of. What is your space trying to prove about itself?

What are the 2-3 central/most interesting/most powerful arguments from that list? Why do those stand out?

Who are the target audiences for those arguments? How do the arguments change based on different target audiences?

From your 2-3 arguments and the audiences, begin to refine the ideas into a single controlling idea for your paper. What is your purpose? Or what do you plan to focus on?

Based on your general controlling idea (which may change over time), choose a moment where that argument(s) was especially clear. Paint a word picture of that moment using sensory details and lots of description.

Organization:

• And Then: chronological or spatial
• Argument -->Inference/Analysis: discuss for each of 2-3 arguments you’re focusing on
• Differences by Audiences: choose major 1-2 arguments and address how that argument and its methods change based varying audiences

V-Day Events at TCU

V-Day is a global movement to end violence against women and girls and raises funds and awareness through benefit productions of Playwright/Founder Eve Ensler’s award winning play The Vagina Monologues. 2008 marked V-Day’s 10 year anniversary. To recognize the occasion, V-Day included two additions to the original play: A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer: Writings on Violence Against Women and Girls, and the V-Day documentary Until The Violence Stops.

To date, the V-Day movement has raised over $50 million and educated millions about the issue of violence against women. In an effort to end violence, the V-Day movement has crafted internationally-focused educational, media, and PSA campaigns, launched the Karama program in the Middle East, reopened shelters, and funded over 5,000 community-based anti-violence programs and safe houses in Kenya, South Dakota, Egypt and Iraq. The 'V' in V-Day stands for Victory, Valentine and Vagina.

This year's events will be happening on February 9-14. Details about V-Day at TCU are available here. No, I'm not giving extra credit for attending these events, but I do strongly encourage you to consider attending some of the very interesting events!

some sample public space analyses

As I'm hunting down an example of this essay from a previous semester, below are some links to several Public Space Analysis posts written by students at another university. These aren't necessarily good examples, but they show how people have approached such an activity:

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

And I'll let you know when I've posted a full sample essay on eCollege.

agenda for wednesday 4 february 2009

Agenda:

• Discuss chapter 9 on Evaluations with examples from your spaces
  
• Pre-Writing for Public Space Analysis, including word pictures, controlling ideas, and organization
• Begin actually writing Public Space Analysis based on prewriting
• Discuss what an Author's Note is
  

Homework due 2/9:

• Read sample essays on eCollege
  
• Bring a digital copy of draft of Public Space Analysis
• Blog your author's note for this draft
  

agenda for monday 2 february 2009

Agenda:

• Discuss chapters 7 & 8
• Briefly review observation and note-taking strategies; discuss observation experiences
• Workshop annotated observation notes in groups of four
• Begin answering Questions for Rhetorical Analysis for your space based on observation notes

Homework due 2/4:

• Read chapter 9 on Evaluations (no sample argument)
• Bring in completed rhetorical analysis questions (digital version is fine)
• Blog about the meaning of your chosen space for the community (its audience)