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Class, Tues, 4/03

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r10: Writing Digital Culture

Workshops: Draft One, Digital Essays

Authors

  • Distribute overviews with comments
  • Summarize responses
  • What are your plans? What are your questions?

Readers

  • How do you respond to what the other readers have said?
  • How do you respond to the author’s questions?
  • How can you add to the comments you’ve already offered?

Post-Workshop Revising Plan

Please write me a brief email (jdharris57@gmail.com)  in which you:

  • Summarize the responses you received;
  • Outline your current plans for this piece;
  • Tell me what sort of feedback you’d like from me at this point.

My response to your first draft will take the form of a response to this revising plan, so please make it as detailed and pointed as you can.

To Do

  1. Tues, 4/10, 9:00 am: Post r10 to this site
  2. Fri, 4/13, 9:00 am: Digital essay, draft 2, full, posted to Dropbox

Let me know if you’d like to set up a conference to talk about your digital essay!

 

 

r9: Responding to a materials draft

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Your (r) assignment for our class on Tues, 4/03 is to read through the drafts posted by your fellow group members and to write a brief response to each in preparation for our workshop that evening.

Begin by reading the overview of each project. This should give you a sense of what the author aims to do, the general structure of the piece, and the materials she or he is working with. Write a brief note to the author in which you:

  • State in your own terms what you think the project is about;
  • Note what strike you as its principal strengths or points of interests;
  • Ask any questions you may have about the shape or direction of the project;
  • Offer the author one bit of advice/issue to keep in mind as they develop and revise their work. Try to make your advice specific, do-able, and useful in taking the piece to the next level.

Type your note to the author at the end of his or her overview. Address the writer by name and sign yours. If other readers have already responded, read their comments, too, and feel free to bounce your thoughts off theirs. (Each project overview should thus have five reader responses attached to it by class on Tuesday.)

During our workshop on Tuesday, I’ll ask authors to guide their readers through the materials they are working with, and to try out any ideas they have formed for revising their project in response to the comments they’ve received. So as a reader, you’ll want to glance through each materials folder, but you shouldn’t feel responsible for reading everything in it.

Readers: Please post your responses to your group Dropbox folder by 9:00 am on Tues, 4/03.

Authors: Please print out 6 copies of your overview with reader responses and bring them to class on Tuesday evening.

Class, Tues, 3/27

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Digital Essays: Materials Draft

  • Dropbox
  • Submitting Draft One: Materials Folder and Overview
  • Responding (r9)

 

x8: Blog Favorites

English 212: Creative Nonfiction, Fall 2012

  • Section 1, Mon: 6–8:30
  • Section 2, Tues: 6–8:30

 

Fair Use on the Web: Eric Faden, “A Fair(y) Use Tale”

To Do

  1. Post Draft One, Overview and Materials Folder, to Dropbox group folder, by Fri, 3/30, at 9:00 am
  2. Post responses to drafts in Dropbox group folder by Tues, 4/03, at 9:00 am
  3. Bring 6 copies of overview with comments to class on Tues, 4/03

Draft One, Digital Essay

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The first draft of your digital essay is due on March 30.. Please post a Materials Folder and a Project Overview to your group Dropbox folder by 9:00 am on Fri, 3/30.

I’d like you to think of this as a materials draft. That is, please focus your work in the next two weeks on doing the sorts of fieldwork and gathering the various texts you will need to compose your essay. If you plan on interviewing people for your project, schedule them now. If you’ll need permissions from your subjects, draft a form for them to sign. If you’ll need to take photos or record audio or video, get going. If you need to locate print or web texts, do so now.

I suggest that you place the materials you’re collecting in a set of folders on your hard drive. In working on multimedia projects, I’ve found it helpful to set up folders for Audio, Video, Images, Links, Print, and Other—though your categories may differ. Please then collect these folders in a single, larger folder, titled <Yourname Materials>. and upload this folder to Dropbox.

In addition to assembling your materials, I’d like you to draft a sentence outline of your project in which you state, as best you can, your aims as a writer. Come up with a title that suggests both your focus and slant. Identify those materials you know you’re going to use and what you plan to do with them. Also add a few questions you’d like to ask your readers as they look through your materials and think about your project at this early and formative stage. Title this document <Yourname overview.docx>, and upload it to Dropbox. Your group members will read and respond to your overview, and we e will break into groups to discuss them further during class on Tues, 4/03.

As I hope is clear, my aim here is get you started in a serious manner on the research you’ll need to do before you start shaping and refining your actual project. You don’t want your materials to dictate what you’re able to say; rather, you want to have plenty of texts to work with, remix, and write about. That should be the focus of your work in the next two weeks.

Good luck!