Comments on: Underway http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/ faults | sins | abuses Fri, 30 Jul 2010 02:18:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: iPod Downloads http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-64970 iPod Downloads Fri, 23 Feb 2007 13:47:36 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-64970 <strong>Tombstone...</strong> Find out how and where you can download unlimited songs, music videos,... Tombstone…

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]]> By: Donna http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17807 Donna Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:42:33 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17807 And I wouldn't say management of details like this is in and of itself a bad thing. Surely something the Gulf Coast disaster has demonstrated is what can happen when coordination fails. And I wouldn’t say management of details like this is in and of itself a bad thing. Surely something the Gulf Coast disaster has demonstrated is what can happen when coordination fails.

]]> By: michelle http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17758 michelle Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:08:05 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17758 I love this photo because it looks like a tombstone. Interested in the way you've chosen to begin the semester and how it will develop. I love this photo because it looks like a tombstone. Interested in the way you’ve chosen to begin the semester and how it will develop.

]]> By: joanna http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17749 joanna Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:51:04 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17749 It is a cool pic--suggesting all sorts of tantalizing possibilities, like "decomposition" as in moving from paper to computers, as in the messy work that writing is, and so on and so on. Thanks, Mike. It is a cool pic–suggesting all sorts of tantalizing possibilities, like “decomposition” as in moving from paper to computers, as in the messy work that writing is, and so on and so on. Thanks, Mike.

]]> By: Jim Ridolfo http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17745 Jim Ridolfo Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:11:27 +0000 http://www.vitia.org/wordpress/archives/2005/09/08/underway/#comment-17745 Your class looks excellent! I'd be very interested to see more of your individual writing assignments as they become available. I'm working on trying to focus my class this semester around rhetorical delivery. I'm using Crowley-Hawhe's book <i>Ancient Rhetoric for Contemporary Students</i> and <i>News For a Change: An Activists Guide to the Media</i>. We meet for five hours a week, so while the concepts in ARCS are certainly challenging, we have a lot of time to go over the material! I thought this might interest you: so far they're writing press advisories for an "imaginary" scenario. They've assumed the role of media consultants for MSU Student Government. Their task is to write a news advisory that responds to a proposal in the state legislature to increase student tuition by as much as ten percent for the next academic semester. After each student writes her/his own release, they're going to exchange texts with classmates. The next sequence in their mini-writing assignments is to craft a short news article based off the exchanged press advisory. This has allowed me some pedagogical room to talk about the delivery, economics, circulation and appropriation of writing. So far things are going OK. Some of the students have opted to to pick their own causes, which has made me very happy! My sillabus is up at: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/PCW/ Your class looks excellent! I’d be very interested to see more of your individual writing assignments as they become available. I’m working on trying to focus my class this semester around rhetorical delivery. I’m using Crowley-Hawhe’s book Ancient Rhetoric for Contemporary Students and News For a Change: An Activists Guide to the Media. We meet for five hours a week, so while the concepts in ARCS are certainly challenging, we have a lot of time to go over the material!

I thought this might interest you: so far they’re writing press advisories for an “imaginary” scenario. They’ve assumed the role of media consultants for MSU Student Government. Their task is to write a news advisory that responds to a proposal in the state legislature to increase student tuition by as much as ten percent for the next academic semester.

After each student writes her/his own release, they’re going to exchange texts with classmates. The next sequence in their mini-writing assignments is to craft a short news article based off the exchanged press advisory.

This has allowed me some pedagogical room to talk about the delivery, economics, circulation and appropriation of writing. So far things are going OK. Some of the students have opted to to pick their own causes, which has made me very happy!

My sillabus is up at: http://kairos.wide.msu.edu/PCW/

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