For Monday, March 3: Gloria Steinem, "Sex, Lies and Advertising" which can be found here:  http://www.udel.edu/comm245/readings/advertising.pdf  Also for Monday:  a one page response in which you link Steinem's essay with the documentary Miss Representation.   This can be handwritten, and I will be collecting it.  

For Wednesday, March 5:  Leppert, pp.202-205;  Visual Essays, pages 206--210;  214-217 

for monday february 24

read john berger's "ways of seeing" and bring in one advertisement and one art image that exemplify his argument.  

Assignment for Monday, February 17

Read "In the Shadow of the Image" on page 178, and do the exercise on page 179, which asks you to make an inventory of the various products, brands, images that you use/identify with.

Wednesday SNOW **** Assignment for Monday, February 10

Hi Everyone,

Hope you're enjoying the snow day.  Because we missed class today, we are going directly into the rough drafts for Monday.  So the assignment for Monday is still to write the first draft of your "cyber-autobiography."  You need to make sure that you have a minimum of three quotes from any of the four essays we read for this project.  You may have more than that, and I really encourage you to do so, in order that you can begin to develop the skill of "conversing" with another person's ideas via your and their writing. You can use any number of the essays -- all your quotes can come from one, or you can quote from several, or all of them. You need to use MLA format for citations.

Remember too that at this point, your drafts can be handwritten or typed.  You must bring a physical copy to class, as we will be using them for workshops/peer critiques.

The assignment for today will not be required, though I still recommend it, especially if you want to practice identifying claims.

The best Website for MLA citation rules is here:  https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/

Essay #1

For this essay,  you will be constructing a cyborg autobiography -- an essay  in which you will think about how your own life has been shaped thus far by contemporary technologies, and by the idea, expressed in the article  by Sherry Turkle that "we are all cyborgs now" (36).

For Wednesday,  February 5, you will need to write four paragraphs that explore the idea of yourself as cyborg by identifying and interacting with one specific claim from each of the four essays in the chapter that deal with the ways we are being "rewired" (Lam, Turkle, Hayles, Gopnik).  You should begin each paragraph by identifying the specific claim, and then discussing your own views of the idea you have identified.  For this exercise, it is not necessary for the four paragraphs to work together as an essay.  In Wednesday's class, you will work to identify the ideas you are going to develop in more depth for your final essay.

For Monday, February 10, and Wednesday, February 12,  you must bring a rough draft of your cyborg autobiography as we will be doing peer critiques and workshops all week.

The final version of this essay is due on Sunday,  February 16 by 5pm via email to:  kcarr@ric.edu