Welcome back from Spring Break! Hope you have returned rested, energized, and enthusiastic about the second half of the semester. Here is the plan for this week:
- I have shared a description of your Final Project in a separate post. You can also find the description of the assignment in a file in our Google Doc Folder- Setting the Table, which I am linking to HERE. Please read the document carefully, and in a comment on this post, please share one takeaway from the assignment and one question you have about it. Please do this by Monday, April 5th. We will be discussing both parts of the final project (the Analytical Research Paper and the Creative Re-Mix during our Zoom call on Monday.
- In a separate blog post, please share three ideas for your research topic. Your ideas must be posted before our Zoom call on Wednesday, April 7th. Reach out to me via email or Slack if you have questions about the guidelines for choosing a topic.
- Between now and the end of the semester, each of you must post three “Food Media Reviews” to the blog. For this assignment, you will choose a food-related text that is of interest to you and create a blog post in which you link to the text, describe it, and offer a thoughtful review. Your text could be something from print media (a newspaper or magazine article or a blog post), film or video, or audio. Each of your selections must be drawn from a different genre. Your posts should be 450-500 words in length. Please post your first review by Wednesday, April 14th, your second by April 28th, and your third by May 12th. When you create your post, please include your name and the number of the review (1,2, or 3) in the title of your post.
- If you have not yet completed your Mid-Semester Reflection or your Dear Reader letter for the Textual Analysis essay, they are OVERDUE. Please complete them immediately, and send me a message via slack or email, so that I know they’ve been submitted.
- I have read and commented on your essays. Please reach out to me with any questions, and let me know if you would like to schedule an appointment to discuss the essay. Do NOT make any changes to the essay in response to my comments unless we have already discussed the essay.
One takeaway is that we need to write an analytical research paper so we need to choose a topic and interpret it. One question I have is if we can get some examples of a creative re-mix.
One takeaway I had was that besides doing an analytical paper we will also be doing a creative re-mix which will allow us to further explore our topic in a different way. One question I have is if you will be showing us and telling us of examples in the past, of how other students have connected the paper with their creative re-mix?
One takeaway is that we will be performing an analytical research paper by posing a single question that will lead to research the question. A creative re-mix will have to be done but it does not have to be identical to the research paper. A question I have is what type of explanation or idea should we include in the “creative re-mix” so that it doesn’t seem identical to our research paper.
One takeaway from reading this assignment is that our analytical research paper will have our interpretation and conclusions of our research findings. Our analytical research paper will then lead us to our creative re-mix where we are allowed to be more creative. One question that I have about this assignment is what are you looking for in the creative re-mix.
One Take away that I had for the analytical research paper is that we need to choose a topic we are interested in or are interested in learning more about and dive in deeper to more stronger sources in order to write an well informed analytical essay. Thus, the creative remix is supposed to follow or research topic, but is more of a cute and fun assignment. Could we do something other than what was suggested for the creative remix?
One takeaway from the assignment is that we have to choose a topic revolving around food and create an analytical research paper on it. One question I have is, is there any requirements for the creative re-mix?
One takeaway is that we will be writing an Analytical Research Paper connected to Food. In the paper, we will have to use a minimum of 4 sources or more. One question I have is how informational should our creative remix be?
One takeaway is that we are writing an Analytical Research Paper related to food. One question is: What exactly do we need for our creative remix?
One take away that I have is that we will be presenting our creative remixes on the last two classes. A question that I have is, how do we make our creative remix a complement to our paper rather than just a copy of our paper?
One takeaway from the assignment is we need to choose a topic related to food and construct an analytical research paper. We are also doing a creative remix that complements the analytical research paper. One question I have is do we need to follow a specific structure for the creative remix?
One takeaway from the assignment is that the creative remix will be used to compliment the analytical paper. Therefore, it should not be identical. One question I have is: are there any mandatory details that should be included in the creative remix if any?
One takeaway from this assignment is that we will be doing a analytical research paper based on food just like other papers we have written. One question that I have is there specific requirements for the creative remix?
One takeaway from this assignment is that we will be working on an analytical research paper based on what we want to write about in relation to food. A question that I have is, should we be very detailed in our creative remix? or should we just have general information?