Tips on Annotation:
Annotations are short (2-3 sentence) notes in the margin of a text or on a separate sheet of paper/document. Making annotations will be helpful for writing Reactions and Essays in our class. A good annotation is one that helps develop your ideas about a text and contributes insights for the rest of us who are reading along with you (i.e., you can draw on them during discussions and writing with others). Examples include:
- insights you gained from this portion of the text
- questions it raises for you–about assumptions the writer is making, something you are confused about, something you find difficult about it
- why something stands out to you—maybe it’s something you haven’t considered before, it resonates with you, or you disagree with it
- connections to other things you’ve watched or read, or current events in the news or pop culture.
- connections to your personal life
- patterns you notice throughout the text you are reading (e.g., how one part connects to an earlier part of the reading, some interesting repetition of ideas you are noticing in the reading)
You can write in a notebook, in comments on a digital document (e.g., Google Doc, Microsoft Word, a PDF), or on a print text itself (e.g., margins of a book).
Tips on Annotating Audio:
When you annotate audio, how can you do so in way where you’ll remember how to find the part of the podcast where it happened? Well, always hit pause when you take a note. When you hit pause, note the “timestamp” and write that down, too (e.g., 21 minutes and 44 seconds or 21:44).
Posting “Reactions”:
By class time, you must complete your “Reaction” on Brightspace. Go to our class’s Bright space page. Click on “Discussions.” Read the prompt under the proper date. Click that prompt. Click “Start a New Thread.” Give your post a title. Write or copy/paste from another document your Reaction post. Click “Post.”
Rhetorical Analysis, Draft 1
Submit this on Brightspace. Instructions for this assignment are on Brightspace and also linked here.
Peer Review Letter Instructions
Submit this on Brightspace. Instructions for this assignment are on Brightspace and also linked here. This is completed in class on the peer review days. If you used an AI program to work on this assignment, you must complete this survey.
Rhetorical Analysis, Draft 2
This is due in Brightspace on March 5. Here is the prompt. Also: If you used an AI program to work on this assignment, you must complete this survey.
Research Project, Draft 1
This is due in Brightspace on March 17. Here is the prompt. Also: If you used an AI program to work on this assignment, you must complete this survey.
Information on Podcast (so far)
Click here for information about the podcast.
Audio Essay about Research Project
Record yourself talking about your research project so far. You should do the following in 2-5 minutes:
- summarize what you are learning about
- what your argument is looking like so far
- what questions you have for your peers for things to think about in your revision
Have fun with it! Feel free to experiment with adding stuff and editing in Audacity. This resource provides several websites to get freely accessible sound and music to use (see under “Sites that offer sound recordings in the public domain and under creative commons license” but there is a lot of good information here about public domain and creative commons license).
Research Project Revision
See here for information about the revision of the research project.
Tips on Editing Audio
See this link for tips for editing audio.
Tips on Script Writing
Grade Boosts for Podcast
See here for more information: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/libertzeng2150sp25/?page_id=789