Today’s Plan:
- Calendar Review
- Grading Rubric
- Office hours reminder
- A Little Bit of Research
- Homework
Calendar Review
Monday, February 4th: Computer Lab. Research on your game. Homework: craft a literature review.
Wednesday, February 6th: APA workshop. Homework: complete draft of Sicart paper. Bring a paper copy to class on Friday.
Friday, February 8th: Peer review Sicart drafts. Homework: Revised Sicart papers due Sunday at 11:59am.
Grading Rubric and Office Hours
I have customized my standard grading rubric for this project.
A reminder that I hold office hours on Tuesday from 12:30 to 3:00 in Ross Hall (office 1180D).
A Little Bit of Research
I wanted to take some time today and introduce you to resources to identify secondary research on your game. In some cases, you might find detailed analyses of your game to incorporate into your paper–for instance, someone else might have written about a scene in your game. Your body paragraph might point out how that analysis predicts what Sicart would say, or contradicts it. Perhaps, for instance, reading The Walking Dead from a Marxist/materialist perspective (like the article critiquing Mass Effect we read–that every decision becomes an economic decision motivated by “fitting into” capitalist and/or heteronormative economies).
Let’s head over to the library’s Summon portal.
Homework
We’ll meet back in this lab on Wednesday to work on APA format. Bring your copy of the Hacker and Sommers APA guide.
