announcementsSP2011

=Announcements Spring 2011=

Presentation Outlines
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Interview Examples
(4/20/2011) Here is a sample of the Jeffrey Lewis interview written in essay form, incorporating details of character and setting (by me).

Here is an example of the Jesse interview written in essay form, combining summary and paraphrase (by Haylie and Brooke).

Interview Exercise
(4/17/2011) Here is a transcript from the Jeffrey Lewis interview.

[|Jeffrey Lewis on Wikipedia]

Reading for Monday, 4/17
(4/14/2011) [|Fieldwriting 1: From Details to Verbal Portraiture] [|Fieldwriting 2: Dialogue on the Page]

Ethnographic Interview
(4/14/2011) media type="youtube" key="cLKh0V3XoDo" height="390" width="480"

Descriptive Paragraphs
Compare these two versions.

**Metal** (4/7/2011) [|Metal: A Headbanger's Journey] movie

Subcultures
(3/30/2011)
 * softball team
 * Hoosier
 * College Mentors for Kids
 * internet
 * Church of Nazarene
 * judo club
 * hospital volunteers
 * symphony band
 * music majors
 * cyclists
 * Relay for Life
 * Spectrum
 * equestrian team
 * Christian Campus House
 * church
 * basketball team
 * lobby friends
 * Lutheran church
 * Future Veternarians Society
 * hallmates
 * figure skaters
 * mixed martial arts (gym)
 * fraternity
 * facebook friends
 * swim team
 * ballroom dancing club
 * Campus Crusade for Christ (CRU)
 * lacrosse team
 * Ed El majors
 * Student foundations
 * playwriting group
 * painters (theater)
 * job (secretaries)
 * EIL PR committee
 * University Singers
 * Today's Black Women
 * BSU students
 * FCLA
 * drum line
 * duck hunters
 * iron workers
 * gymnastics team
 * jazz band
 * bike polo
 * YMCA
 * traveling friends
 * tennis players
 * volleyball team
 * dance team

Writing Effective Leads
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Writing Project 2
(2/22/2011) I have updated the description of Writing Project 2, which includes a proposal/research review and an essay.

Topic-generating Exercise
(2/15/2011) This exercise is due Friday, 2/18. Write a brief report about your thinking on your topic by following these steps:
 * 1) Decide on a tentative topic. Describe it in one sentence.
 * 2) Write a paragraph (5-10 minutes) on what you already know about the topic and why it seems interesting to you at this moment
 * 3) Look up your topic online by searching the three following places 1) Google, 2) Google Scholar, and 3) Wikipedia
 * 4) Write a paragraph (5-10 minutes) about the most interesting things you learned during your search.
 * 5) Spend 10-15 minutes brainstorming a list of questions about your topic. Write down as many as you can.

Rubric
(1/30/2011) [|Rubric for Grading the Group Presentation]

Slideshare
(1/28/2011) Use [|slideshare] as a place to store and share your presentation.

Presentation presentation
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My paragraph
(1/25/2011)

List of Documentaries
(1/17/2011) By noon on Thursday, email me your top 3 choices from the list below.
 * [|Food, Inc.] - An unflattering look inside America's corporate controlled food industry.
 * [|King Corn] - King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation..
 * [|Good Hair] - Chris Rock explores the wonders of African-American hairstyles.
 * [|Born into Brothels] - Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
 * [|The Cove] - Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, led by renowned dolphin trainer Ric O'Barry, infiltrate a cove near Taijii, Japan to expose both a shocking instance of animal abuse and a serious threat to human health.
 * [|Who Killed the Electric Car?] - A documentary that investigates the birth and death of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in the future.
 * [|Maxed Out] - Maxed Out takes us on a journey deep inside the American debt-style, where everything seems okay as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time.
 * [|Sicko] - A documentary comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations, and HMO horror stories.
 * [|Bowling for Columbine] - Filmmaker [|Michael Moore]  explores the roots of America's predilection for gun violence.
 * [|Taxi to the Dark Side] - An in-depth look at the torture practices of the United States in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, focusing on an innocent taxi driver in Afghanistan who was tortured and killed in 2002.
 * [|No End in Sight] - A comprehensive look at the Bush Administration's conduct of the Iraq war and its occupation of the country.
 * [|Murderball] - A film about paraplegics who play full-contact rugby in Mad Max-style wheelchairs - overcoming unimaginable obstacles to compete in the Paralympic Games in Athens, Greece.
 * [|The Business of Being Born] - Birth: it's a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business.

Commercials
(1/14/2011)
 * [|Sunny D commercial]
 * [|Dyson commercial]
 * [|Dyson Ball commercial]