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Defending Society

Reflections on the Class

Over the last semester we have read a variety of sources, from Sidney’s Defense of Poesy to Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. They all respond in some way to the course theme of “Defending Society.” We began our class Read more…

By dori, 3 days ago April 16, 2018
Defending Society

Keyword Generation: Fahrenheit 451

Last session, we focused on a Fahrenheit 451 passage in which Montag and Faber discuss why people struggle with unhappiness in their seemingly post-scarcity economy. We decided that the following keywords best characterize the themes of the Read more…

By dori, 2 weeks ago April 8, 2018
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Peer Review Guidelines, Short Paper 2

Read your partners’ papers and answer the following questions. What is the argument? What feedback can you offer regarding the clarity and persuasiveness of the argument? What evidence do they use to support the argument? What Read more…

By dori, 1 month ago March 14, 2018
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Draft for Bartholomew Fair online resource

The draft for our class project is up! You can find it at: http://ben-jonson.gitlab.io/outline/ The page uses angular, d3-force (the graph), ngx-charts (pie charts), ngx-md (parsing and showing markdown text), and vmware clarity (overall styling and Read more…

By dori, 1 month ago March 12, 2018
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Character map 1

An example of a character map for the first two acts of Bartholomew Fair 

By dori, 2 months ago February 28, 2018
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Peer review workshop guidelines

Peer Review Guidelines for Short Paper 1 Instructions: A. Read the paper in full one time without stopping to ask for clarification. Respond as a reader in the author’s target audience (not as if you Read more…

By dori, 2 months ago February 6, 2018
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Partitioning the Defense of Poesy

I’ve synthesized below the parts of Defense of Poesy we identified in group work: Exordium: Story about horses and name-dropping a famous riding master (page 3) Narratio Poesy is under attack! (starting page 4) Propositio Read more…

By dori, 2 months ago February 6, 2018
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Defense of Poesy collaborative study guide

Questions: 1) How does Sidney use the term idea in today’s reading? Intangible concepts, beyond the realm of appearances; poets can access them; people who read can learn how or why a maker made something Poesy Read more…

By dori, 3 months ago January 28, 2018
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Tips for the Reflective Essay

Put a few keywords in the first paragraph that relate to the skill you are arguing improved. For example, if you are arguing that you got better at making improvements across multiple drafts in response Read more…

By dori, 5 months ago November 29, 2017
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Focus Group Planning

To ensure that you meet the assignment’s assessment criteria, plan a focus group on your project. Ask the focus group questions that will help you make sure your project does the following things: Meets group Read more…

By dori, 5 months ago November 8, 2017

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