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diff --git a/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html b/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dcf79ee --- /dev/null +++ b/markley/portfolio/04_reading_response.html @@ -0,0 +1,145 @@ +<!--Title: Reading Response Essays and Revision Activities--> +<h2>Introduction</h2> +<p>This artifact includes three reading response essays and revision +activities corresponding to each one on different structural strategies. +The Reading Response Essays assess critical thinking and rhetoric by +asking questions about "health" through the books we read in class. +Health is a set of social ideals generally designed as "preventive +medicine" but deeply influenced by the culture that created them. +The reading response essays (without revision activity updates) are +listed below along with the corresponding revision activities +</p> + +<h3>Reading Response Essay One</h3> +<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> <em>The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. +Hyde</em>, as the title indicates, refers to Dr. Jekyll’s experiments, +behavior, and transformation as "strange." Likewise, The Sign of Four +ends with a chapter entitled "The Strange Story of Jonathan Small." +Explain what "strange" means in these two texts, using direct quotations +from both texts, references to historical context, and ideas we have +discussed about "health" to support your argument.</p> +<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; +border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essayone"></object> +<h3>Uneven-U</h3> +<p>The Uneven U asks me to choose two paragraphs and look at each +sentence to see how "abstracted" it is from a direct quote up to a +general statement about health. +I commented on each sentence and then rewrote both of the paragraphs I +chose to get a desired "somewhat abstract to most concrete to very +abstract" curve.</p> +<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;" +src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/12_revision"> +</iframe> +<h3>Reading Response Essay Two</h3> +<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> Claude Bernard defines the experiment as "an +observation induced with an object of control." Discuss how +experimentation relates to the social ideal of health. Use direct +evidence from The Island of Dr. Moreau and Medical Apartheid, historical +context, and ideas about health to support your argument. You may +include examples from other texts we have read, but your primary focus +should be the readings from the past two weeks.</p> +<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; +border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaytwo"></object> +<h3>Reverse Outline</h3> +<p>This is about creating an outline from what I've already written that +tells the main argument: the main idea and how a given paragraph +advances the central argument is enough to tell when a paragraph's +message is muddled, which is the point of this argument. +I have continued to focus on this cohesiveness within a paragraph in my +writing because of this activity.</p> +<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;" +src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/15_reverse_outline"> +</iframe> + +<h3>Reading Response Essay Three</h3> +<p><strong>Prompt:</strong> In the first lecture on health, I discussed +how new technologies that help to measure and perceive the the "health" +of the human body create new rules, regulations, and norms that govern +"health." Using either "The Yellow Wallpaper" or <em>The Immortal Life +of Henrietta Lacks</em> explain how new technologies, treatments, or +ideas for measuring "health" lead to new rules, regulations, and norms. +I strongly encourage you to refer back to the first lecture to help you +consider this relationship between technology and health.</p> +<object type="application/pdf" style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; +border-width: 0;" data="https://hrhr.dev/markley/essaythree"></object> +<h3>Active Voice Revision Activity</h3> +<p>This revision activity asks students to review their third essay for +sentences written in passive voice and change them to active voice. +This makes the writing more clear and correct. +This one is pretty simple, so I want to keep up avoiding passive voice +in my future writing.</p> +<iframe style="width: 100%; height: 60vh; border-width: 0;" +src="https://git.hrhr.dev/school20/plain/markley/22_active_voice"> +</iframe> +<dl> +<dt>Goals</dt><!--Learning Outcomes: Rhetoric, Critical +Thinking, and Process (reuse language from common policies page)--> + <dd>These assignments ask students to develop a strong academic + argument about how health and other social constructions like + experiments or technology relate. + Developing these ideas is part of the + <a href="https://sites.gatech.edu/wcppolicies/engl-1101-and-1102-common-policies-fall-2020/"> + Critical Thinking learning outcome,</a> in the sense that they + require analysis of the indirect statements literature makes, like + Jonathan Small's "strangeness" referring to his nonconformance with + social norms. + </dd> +<dt>Purpose</dt> + <dd>This assignment asks students to write a formal essay about + health and readings related to ideas about health. + </dd> +<dt>Audience</dt> + <dd>The audience for these is a general academic audience, who is + very familiar with the course material, including the variety of + concepts of health. + Because the audience should already understand the basics I don't + include explanations of health and try to avoid book summaries. + However, niche terms with potentially multiple meanings are defined + if used, like "scientific racism" or "evolutionary Darwinism." + + </dd> + <dd>Dr. Markley or a general academic reader. more formal than blog + posts. designed to be practice with argumentative writing.</dd> +<dt>Design for Medium</dt> + <dd>The essay isn't very "multimodal," squarely occupying the + "Writing" communication mode, and it's formal writing at that. + This requires a fairly consistent structure, in the MLA format and + in the organization. + The MLA format is the 12pt, double-spaced Times New Roman required + of most standard essays, and there is the single MLA8 citation + standard. + This is because the essays lean heavily on direct quotes from the + pieces we're analyzing, so the regimented page number references are + useful to an academic reader wanting more context. + Structurally, these essays fit a pretty standard academic essay---an + introduction, conclusion, and body paragraphs divided up by their + topic. + As the revision activities show, this structure is somewhat flexible + (i.e. can be done poorly), but the organization matters, and I can + improve it by paying attention to whether each paragraph makes a + convincing point towards the central argument. + I usually don't do outlining when I'm writing, but I think I am + going to use the reverse outline to compensate for my rambling + tendencies. + </dd> +<dt>Revision</dt> + <dd>Particularly in the first reading response essay, I struggled + with organizing my ideas. + Despite a coherent thesis that I still believe, I tried to + incorporate different information that did not correspond with my + argument (or at least I didn't develop how it did). + My mention of Holmes's cocaine addiction is not well-addressed or + contextualized in terms of Jonathan Smalls, but it seems to relate + to the idea of health, so I decided to include it. + Ideas like that could probably be trimmed down and replaced. + My paragraphs in the first reading response essay also don't follow + Uneven-U very well. + If I repair the sentence order to fully develop the central argument + about contradiction, they will probably come off as more insightful + than they are now, with a quote (the lowest level of abstraction) + as the second-to-last sentence. + The revision activities helped me to see what exactly "poorly + organized" refers to and how paragraphs can be deliberately + constructed rather than accumulate ideas based on topic. + </dd> +</dl> |