ENGL 245: Writing and Money

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Freewrite: What are the most important questions, in your opinion, that we should be asking about the economy? What aspects of the economy do you want to understand better? (For example: Do you want to understand economic inequality? How people make money?) What aspects of economic activity do you think should most be changed? How do you understand your own life and goals within the frameworks of the economy? In other words, what motivates you to understand “writing and money”?

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In a group, discuss one of these texts in light of Shipka’s theory of activity-based multimodal composing. Some questions you might consider are:

• What would you describe the genre to be? What are the features of that genre?

• How is “rigorous” thinking and argumentation displayed in this genre?

• How does this argumentation compare to the kind of argumentation allowed in traditional academic essays? What does this genre allow them to do? How does it restrict them?

• 2.

https://twitter.com/cjp_still/status/934291194976391169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chronicle.com%2Farticle%2FShould-Laptops-Be-Banned-in%2F241878

For some context: https://www.chronicle.com/article/Should-Laptops-Be-Banned-in/241878

• 3

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What does it mean to analyze a text rhetorically? 

Get together with a group of three or four. Pick one artifact to focus on. On one blog (with everyone’s names listed somewhere) through through the question: what does it mean to analyze this artifact rhetorically? What does it mean to think of this as a rhetorical text? How is this different than how you would analyze the text in a literature course, or a film or art history course?

In a small group or individually, choose one of the cultural artifacts that was discussed in the question of the day. Think about what might be involved in a rhetorical analysis of this cultural artifact. What would you focus on for the textual analysis? What kinds of research about contexts (or communicative chains) would you have to do to complete your analysis? Do you have a hunch of where this analysis might lead you? How would it help you understand the artifact better?

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