Blog Post #4

In your fourth blog post, I want you to think about how you've planned to persuade your audience that your space/cultural group is worthy of study through your speech's content and delivery. Identify how you plan to use 1) ethos, 2) logos, and 3) pathos within your speech. Make sure you discuss how you're using (or plan to use) all three appeals. Write a few sentences detailing the way you use each one. Then, write why you think that strategy will be effective for your audience. In total, the post should be around 150-200 words.

Please post your strategies by Sunday, September 29 at 11:59 pm. Let me know if you have any questions!

Blog Post #3

In your third blog post, I want you to begin some preliminary research for your proposal speeches. First, find a secondary source that you might use for your speech. Then, write a narrative of 150-200 words detailing the source that you have found and how it might work with your speech. Details that you might include are (but are not limited to): what type of source it is, what kind of information is found in the source, what you learned from it, if/how it changed the way you think about your project, the credibility of the site, the author(s) of the site, or a quote that you're thinking of orally citing in your speech. At the end of your post, make sure to include the citation (APA or MLA format, whichever you prefer).

Please post your "research memo" by the beginning of class on Thursday, September 19 at 11:00 am. Let me know if you have any questions!
 

Blog Post #2

In your second blog post, you'll report the sites that you're thinking about exploring throughout the semester. Building on the activity in Thursday's class, you'll identify two spaces that you want to work with, your first choice and one alternate option. For each space, write a short (one or two sentence) explanation of why you want to work with that space. Some questions to consider might be: What makes it sound exciting to you? Why do you think it will be interesting/productive to explore? Why might others care about it?

Please post your two spaces and explanations by Saturday, September 7 at noon. I'll respond to your posts that same day, identifying possibilities and problem areas that you might run into, so that you can go ahead and start visiting your sites ASAP! Let me know if you have any questions.

Blog Post #1

This first blog entry will pick out some of your thoughts on the essay reading for Thursday, September 5. First, pick one quote from the Marche essay and one quote from the Mathieu essay. The quote might be something that stuck out to you, something you identified with, something you want to analyze, something completely disagree with. It could also be something you have questions about or are having trouble understanding. Type out the quotes for your blog post (making sure to be clear about which quote is from what essay). Underneath the quote, write your thoughts about it in 75-100 words (per quote).

Please post the quotes & your thoughts onto your blog by Thursday, September 5 at 9 am. Let me know if you have any questions!

Welcome to WRD 110!

Greetings!

Welcome to WRD 110, also known as Composition & Communication I. I'm your fearless instructor, Rachael Hoy. I look forward to getting to know you and working with you throughout the semester. 

Just as "Life moves pretty fast" (as Ferris Bueller says), the semester moves pretty fast too. With that in mind, I have a couple of notes to help get you started. 

During the semester, you'll be keeping a blog.  It will be used for a variety of writing assignments, including projects or field notes, smaller pieces that will be developed and worked into the projects, research summaries, and reflections. This will provide one way of sharing information and serve as a record for your work. By the end of the course, your journal will be a testament to your own credibility that you have built through critical inquiry. As such, you will need to set up a blog and e-mail me the link. Instructions for setting up a blog on Blogger are below.

Feel free to e-mail me with any questions you stumble upon along the way. 

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Setting Up Your Blog

Step 1: Create a Blogger Account and create a new blog for this class. The best way to do this is to use your first name & last initial, so that I can easily identify whose blog it is. Blogger is supported through Google...so if you use gmail, you'll have a pretty easy set-up with your gmail account. You can absolutely feel free to use a different account if you want, but linking it all means you don't have to log in and out of gmail/blogger all the time. If you have a different email, no big deal! Just follow the instructions with whatever account you choose.

Step 2: Name your Blog. You can be as creative as you want with the title.

Step 3: Design your blog. You can be as creative as you want, the only requirement is that somewhere on it, I can see your first name and last initial.