Today’s Plan:
- Advising Question / Writing Minor Courses
- Mapping Out the End of Our Year
- The Proposal Assignment
- The Work Logs
- George Carlin on Shell Shock
Advising Question / Writing Minor Courses
Y’all get my email? Hey, look at these!
Mapping Out Our Year
I bet you didn’t remember that this class had a syllabus.
The Proposal Assignment
Thus far I’ve asked you to free write for fifteen minutes and then share ideas. I consider these activities part of rhetorical invention. They are the percolation process. Now its time to brew that coffee.
This weekend I’d like you to spend 1-2 hours working on your Proposal. The proposal asks a few formative questions and then asks you to think about your timeline. In addition to the intellectual elements of the project, I want you to contemplate the logistical dimension of it as well. Show me–better yet–show yourself–that the project is viable.
Some of you have clearly defined projects–you have some sense of where you will end up. Some of you don’t–you are venturing into a forest and are unsure what you will find. Either way is okay! Let me assure you that your final grade isn’t based on discovering something specific, so much as documenting the journey you took to get there. The proposal, and the corresponding work logs, are evidence of that journey.
The Proposal Document. Make a copy of this document, make sure it is set to “anyone with the link can edit,” and submit that link to the Canvas assignment.
George Carlin
Many of you likely have no idea who George Carlin is. The simplest description is a stand-up comedian. A more complicated description is a philosopher of language, since so many of his performances are tied to analyzing our (mis)use of language (his original claim to fame was the 7 dirty words you can’t say on TV).
Let’s watch his bit on euphemism. We will talk about this next week after you have read the Burke essay.
