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Oops, science is POWERFUL!
ENGL 390, 390H, and (sometimes) 398V Class Journal
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Monday: annotated bibliography due today
Plan to fill out the audience analysis sheet in class on Wednesday. You can work ahead if you like. A note about sources. You will likely add a few additional sources, to complete your final project document. You do NOT have to annotate new sources. We will try a search in class today, to give you a chance at finding an additional source.
Also, for some of you, the annotated bibliography may very well be essential to your audience/context/purpose. You can rewrite these entries lightly to address that audience. For example, a lab manual or research proposal context can use a well-done annotated bibliography. Ask me for details.
Now, for some fun. Can you take this image from D. D-S. in the 11 AM section and meme it for glittery encouragement? Share on the GroupMe. I will make one too for sharing. Please note that D. ensures us that this image is copyright free! Also, the file type is PNG, which means you can scale the image.
Do we dare make a MIX TAPE slide set of cheezy holiday songs or silly classics (Alvin and the Chipmunks, anyone?) Let me know and I will open a slide set.
Now, two other fun discursions for you, stressed and sleep-deprived. Both riff off the Carly Rae Jepson summer bubble gum-tune.
And, for the ecologists/environmental scientists among us, this one:
Marybeth Shea
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Directions! Design work continues
We divide the material into three sections:
- front matter,
- the heart of the directions (numbered, ordered commands), and
- back matter.
Let's talk about recipes. Bones of the Dead (Osse de Mort). What about visuals? And, this website for publishing science procedure videos: JoVE.
Questions for class discussion:
- How do we build trust in writing directions?
- Sources?
- Copyright?
- Plagiarism?
- Reverse engineering? Intelligence reconstruction?
- Also, where on the web do directions live?
MW -- Design document printout -- THEN, directions
Here is an assignment sheet to guide your directions. Be thinking of a topic. Recall this can be a wide range of topics.
I am still waiting for a student to adapt a spell from Harry Potter:
Three things to do FIRST (pretty please) in your designed review
FIRST: Copy your review document into a new file. Single-space that document and note the page count.
SECOND: Download this image, called a masthead, to your hard drive. Then, place the masthead at the top of the first page of your document.
Note: this masthead is courtesy of Megan B. (now a medical illustrator):
THIRD: In class, we will create a header and an footer, without pagination.
FOURTH: We will rearrange the document from single column to double columns. Line spacing choices are 1 line, 1.15 lines, and 1.5 lines. Recall that you need to aim for three pages or four pages. Now, back one day to the checklist for more work in placing your images.
Try to be 90 percent done with this revision (some text work) by Monday. We will do a digital peer review in class and print out for a grade on Wednesday. Then, on to directions....
Preparing to re-design the article review
We need some images.
This is a caution about using Google docs for this exercise: we DO NOT aim at this. Here is a checklist for what needs to happen in this assignment.
You will need three or four images for Wednesday; bring them as large jpgs or SVG, PNG files. Candidates?
- journal cover
- web logo from journal site
- images of lead author (NEED evidence of permission by email)
- visuals from the articles
- quotes from article designed into a pull quote
- useful figure from government or open access website