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About the Assignment
Based on what we read and observe in the first sphere of the course, you’ll have an opportunity to repurpose a high-stakes technical argument for a more public audience in the spirit of sci blogs and tech pieces by Lehrer, Mann, Wald, and other public writers, and you’ll draw its content from your analysis of the technical conversations we observe in white papers, biodiversity campaigns, and public-interest magazines. As part of this assignment, you’ll be putting into practice some theories by Bazerman, Killingsworth and Palmer, Miller and Shepherd, Rettberg, and Fahnestock and Secor, who ask us to consider not only the role of the “citizen journalist” and the blog as “social action,” but also the rhetorical life of scientific “facts.” This assignment will culminate in a single, well-rendered post on your course blog, with an analytic reflection, and it may include visual and audio elements if you think they are needed.
Specifics
Outlined in assignment sheet (on BB), which we will discuss in class.
Based on what we read and observe in the first sphere of the course, you’ll have an opportunity to repurpose a high-stakes technical argument for a more public audience in the spirit of sci blogs and tech pieces by Lehrer, Mann, Wald, and other public writers, and you’ll draw its content from your analysis of the technical conversations we observe in white papers, biodiversity campaigns, and public-interest magazines. As part of this assignment, you’ll be putting into practice some theories by Bazerman, Killingsworth and Palmer, Miller and Shepherd, Rettberg, and Fahnestock and Secor, who ask us to consider not only the role of the “citizen journalist” and the blog as “social action,” but also the rhetorical life of scientific “facts.” This assignment will culminate in a single, well-rendered post on your course blog, with an analytic reflection, and it may include visual and audio elements if you think they are needed.
- Final Draft - due online (posted to your blog) by 11:00 a.m. on 2/7/13
Specifics
Outlined in assignment sheet (on BB), which we will discuss in class.
