| Unit One: First Essay - Writing Focus: Living In the Age of the Image; Close Textual Reading |
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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 |
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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 |
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Writing as Process: Prewriting, Drafting, Revising Advertising: A Case Study of Mass Media |
Exercise 1.1 due: small groups |
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Strategies of Close Reading: Ads as Representative Texts: Finding Patterns |
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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 |
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Writing Workshop: Peer Review of Drafts |
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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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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) |
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The Individual in the Media Age: Growing Up on TV (cont.) |
Distribute essay 2
Distribute exercise 2.1
Notebook assignment due |
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The Individual in the Media Age: The Interview Transcript as Primary Source
Identifying Key Passages |
Exercise 2.1 due: small groups
Prewriting strategies due |
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The Individual in the Age of Television and Mass Media: Interpreting Interview Material Within the Context of Secondary Sources |
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The Individual in the "Digital Revolution"
Discuss: Assigned Readings
Managing and Citing Sources
Issues of Structure
Bookending: Intros and Conclusion |
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Generating Hypotheses from Case Studies: From Individual Lives to Social Patterns
Hypothesis Exercise
Television Analyses |
Essay 2 draft due |
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Workshop, Draft, Essay 2 |
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| Unit Three: Writing Focus: Comparative Analysis: Print Into Film |
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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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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 |
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Film Showing: Girl, Interrupted (James Mangold, 1999) |
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From Print to Film
Discuss: Novel and Film, Girl, Interrupted |
Exercise 3.1 due: small groups |
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Writing About Film
Film as Language
Discuss: "Reading Films Critically" |
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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) |
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Workshop: Draft, Essay 3
Revision Strategies |
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Advanced Revision: The Potential of Publication
Discuss: Assigned Readings |
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Course Evaluations
Portfolio Preparation |
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Advanced Revision Workshop: Essay 1, Essay 2 |
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Student Readings
Course Overview |
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Final Class
Student Readings
Submission of Portfolios |
Essay 3 revision due (with final portfolio) |