Afternoon, all. Good to see you today.

During today’s class, aside from reviewing Major Paper 1 and MLA, we considered how we might think of composition in terms of developing a set of tools for knowledge-making, rather than as information in and of itself, isolated and only applicable to analyzing For Whom the Bells Tolls and the like. To that end, we:

• Developed slogans for 2008 presidential candidates.
• Used approaches relevant to the first major paper to argue for why the slogans matter.
• Unpacked the target audiences for those slogans.
• Attended to how those audiences intersect with particular social issues.

And as Ryan noted, these slogans are not written on a whim. They are rhetorically strategic, politically purposeful, and usually — as with yours — quite clever. That said, we might have some tools in our belts to work through not just why we vote or even how we vote, but also how we — as subjects — come to the decision on how to vote.

On to a different form of representation… Your sound-scripts.

Before Wednesday at 9 p.m.:

• Please upload your sound file to the course drop box or e-mail it to me at english3000@gmail.com
• If you are using YouTube, then please include the URL for your clip as a comment in the drop box or in your e-mail to me. Thanks!
• I’ll upload your sound-scripts to the blog on Wednesday evening.

For Thursday’s class:

• Please come prepared to class, on time, ready to introduce and implicate your sound-script. You should also come ready to ask questions of the sound-scripts.
• We will show your visual (on mute) and play your sound-script over it.
• If you are using a DVD, then please put a sticky note (or the like) on it that denotes which chapter of the film you’ll be playing. Ok?

As you prepare your sound-scripts, let me know what questions you have.

All the best,

Jentery