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A Reading Quiz will test your knowledge of your classmate's blogs for the past few weeks. If this quiz goes well, there will be no others.
Why you are reading: community and topic formation. Look for patterns that indicate a topic you would be interested in working on for a
FinalProject. Look for clusters of topics and people for collaboration.
Narrative and Definition are both about what they leave out! (
premises∞ and
gutters∞)
Understanding Comics∞
Definition∞
Addiction and its
Discontents∞; prolepsis and
alternative histories as counterargument∞
One or Several Definitions
What should define your working group for the semester? Such a cluster should have
at least three and no more than five members∞. You may, in time, form Mega Clusters if you summon a Mega Project, but for now try pitching a cluster to work with.
Assignments
- One definition that Penn State has productively argued with itself about is diversity (making leaky definitions∞ work for you)What should be Penn State's defintion of Diversity? Compose a definitional argument about diversity in the University Park community. You may find these lovely statistics helpful∞. This data should also be useful, too∞.
- Don't forget to do more research (but remember, "everybody lies"). I would like you to use one source not drawn from this wiki page as a source. We will talk, in class, about some strategies for deploying these.
- Draft is due 09/19 by 11 AM. Remember to engage the strongest counter arguments you can find to your position, and to treat them fairly. Your arguments will be stronger for it!
- Read Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter From Birmingham Jail∞" for Monday and for a better understanding of definitional argument (this essay is considered to be the best example of the form).
- The paper should be 750-1000 words.
- Don't forget to bring in a paper copy for class on Monday.
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