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author | Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev> | 2020-12-02 12:52:56 -0500 |
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committer | Holden Rohrer <hr@hrhr.dev> | 2020-12-02 12:52:56 -0500 |
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wrote versions of everything
cover essay is very partial (needs 1200 words) and the reading response
essays are limited in the analysis
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diff --git a/markley/portfolio/01_cover_essay.html b/markley/portfolio/01_cover_essay.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f27a370 --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/portfolio/01_cover_essay.html @@ -0,0 +1,113 @@ +<!--Title: Cover Essay--> +<p>This English 1102 course asked students to consider how health functions +as a social ideal and regulates our actions based on the norms, +attitudes, and ideas that prevail in our culture. +In addition to this course-specific theme, there is a <a href="https:// +sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common -policies-fall +-2020/">set of common objectives</a> that this course was designed to +teach, developing a Writing Process with revision, synthesis, and +drafting and rhetorically effective presentation for distinct audiences +and contexts. +Revision and research play a large role in developing ideas and +arguments and making the arguments robust. +While this recursive, iterative process played a role in every +assignment, the digital reading journal is the primary source of process +documents.</p> +<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/" width=800 +height=400 frameborder=0></iframe> +<p>Assigned prompts in the reading journal correspond to class readings +and ask students to develop arguments and ideas based on course +material. +Sourcing and eventual finetuning of these ideas both play a role in the +journal: in most entries, we were asked to use quotes and references +from both class material and pop culture or general research. +This is especially visible in the final post ("Medical Devices, the +DMCA, and the corporate profit motive"), where I used links to other +websites to make it a better document to refer back to later. +Images and analysis also emphasized the role of the digital reading +journal as a process document for my analysis of specific works or +the overall health theme. +But each entry also marks my progress in the general skills of analysis +and rhetoric, especially. +The electronic form factor has unique norms and options to elaborate, +like a less formalistic style and heavy image presence, and these can +change the rhetorical strategy I use when sectioning and emphasis are +much more fluent than an essay. +</p> +<p> +The use of images actually enhances my analysis, too, because I'm +responding to the ideas that another work provides, and if I can +directly include that work, it becomes much easier to speak about since +the audience is meant to refer back to it and familiarize themselves. +When the audience is me, this anchors my ideas to a specific factual +reference, like the timeline in "HeLa and Henrietta." +</p> +<iframe src="https://classblogs20.iac.gatech.edu/holdenr/2020/10/23/ +hela-and-henrietta/" width=800 height=400 frameborder=0></iframe> +<p> +Quotes and the use of photos to highlight what's important is particular +to the electronic medium, and it's particularly valuable when creating a +personal reference piece. +This is one example of shifting language and presentation towards the +desired audience and situation, which is one of the major points of the +<a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common +-policies-fall-2020">Rhetoric Learning Outcome.</a> +</p> +<table> +<thead><tr> + <td width=158><p><strong>Category</strong></p> + <td width=158><p><strong>Outcomes by the USG Board of Regents</strong></p> + <td width=158><p><strong>Outcomes by the Council of Writing Program + Administrators</strong></p> + <td width=158><p><strong>Additional Expectations of the GTWCP + </strong></p> +</tr></thead> +<tbody><tr> +<td width="158" valign="top"> +<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Rhetoric</strong></p> +<p style="text-align: left;">Rhetoric focuses on available means of +persuasion, considering the synergy of factors such as context, +audience, purpose, role, argument, organization, design, visuals, and +conventions of language.</p> +</td> +<td width="158" valign="top"> +<ul> +<li style="text-align: left;">Adapt communication to circumstances and +audience.</li> +<li style="text-align: left;">Produce communication that is +stylistically appropriate and mature.</li> +<li style="text-align: left;">Communicate in standard English for +academic and professional contexts.</li> +<li style="text-align: left;">Sustain a consistent purpose and point of +view.</li> +</ul> +</td> +<td style="text-align: left;" width="158" valign="top"> +<ul> + <li>Use a variety of technologies to address a range of + audiences.</li> + <li>Learn common formats for different kinds of texts.</li> + <li>Develop knowledge of genre conventions ranging from structure + and paragraphing to tone and mechanics.</li> + <li>Control such surface features as syntax, grammar, punctuation, + and spelling.</li> +</ul> +</td> +<td width="158" valign="top"> +<ul> + +<li style="text-align: left;">Create artifacts that demonstrate the +synergy of rhetorical elements.</li> +<li style="text-align: left; background-color: yellow">Demonstrate +adaptation of register, language, and conventions for specific contexts +and audiences.</li> +<li style="text-align: left;">Apply strategies for communication in and +across both academic disciplines and cultural contexts in the community +and the workplace.</li> +</ul> +</td> +</tr> +</tbody> +</table> + + |