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August

     
WEEK 1
T 8/29  

Welcome to ENGL 5270

What is the nature and status of literature in digital culture?

Through readings, discussion, writing, and digital scholarship, we will pursue this question and its implications. Doing so will not only expand our knowledge of digital literary studies, the digital humanities, popular online culture, avant-garde literary experimentation, and video-game criticism/theory, but shed new light on our sense of history, culture, literary form, reading, authorship, and narrative.

For more, see the syllabus.

Day 1. Introduction:

What is the nature and status of literature in digital culture?

Resources

R 8/31

Homework

Read

Adam Hammond. Literature in the Digial Age. Chapter 1. Read actively by marking your text and making marginal notes to yourself thinking about our organizing question for today:

"What is digital culture, and is it destructive to literary writing and reading (and why does it matter if it is)?

Write

On paper, write down three pages numbers for passages from the Hammond chapter which help you begin to answer today's organizing question.

For each page number, write down a few words from the passage (a word-tag to remind you) and some notes to yourself about your choices.

Re-Read

Reread the Alice Walker story I gave you in class. Make notes on it as an example of a text exemplifying literary writing and reading.

Day 2. Hammond C1, Walker:

What is Digital Culture, and Is it Destructive to Literary Writing and Reading (and Why Does It Matter If it Is)?

Resources


September

   

 

WEEK 2
T 9/5

Homework

Read

Adam Hammond's Chapter 2 of Literature in the Digial Age. Actively read the chapter on paper, marking the text and making marginal comments to track your thinking as you read.

Print and Read

From the course Moodle site (see the link in the menu at the top), download and print the PDF file of Alan Liu's "Introduction" to his book The Laws of Cool.

Actively read the chapter on paper. Bring the printout to class.

Write

Drawn a line down the middle of a sheet of paper to divide it into two columns.

In the right column, write word tags (2 - 5 key words) for at least five passages from Hammond's Chapter 2 that speak to the organizing question for Day 3 (see above right).

In the left column, write word tags for at least five passages from Alan Liu's chapter that either agree with or disagree with (or complicate, or go beyond) Hammond. (2A)

Draw

Draw a regular line to connect apparent agreements between a Hammond passage and a Liu passage.

Show apparent disagreements or contradictions with a line with arrow heads at either end, as in <----------> (2A)

 

Day 3. Hammond C2, Alan Liu:

How have changes in media affected literary writing and reading in the past--and what does that history suggest about the status of literature today?

Resources

R 9/7

Homework

Read and Mark

  1. Adam Hammond's Chapter 3 of Literature in the Digial Age. Actively read the chapter on paper, marking the text and making marginal comments to track your thinking as you read.
  2. From the Moodle site, download, print, and read (marking the text as above) Janet Murray's Chapter 3 from her book Hamlet on the Holodeck.
  3. Re-read Alice Walker's story "The Flowers," marking and noting passages and patterns that suggest the "narrative." (one of the features of literary writing from your notes on the handout, "What We Talk About When We Talk About Literature"

    Come in prepared to talk about your close readings of some key passages in the narrative, as well as the overall structure or arc of the narrative.

 

Day 4. Hammond C3, Janet Murray:

What are the consequences of digitalization on issues like democracy, imagination, authority, intellectual property, narrative, etc.?

Resources

 

WEEK 3
T 9/12

 

No Class Meeting

R 9/14

Homework

Read and Mark

Adam Hammond's Chapter 4 of Literature in the Digital Age. Actively read the chapter on paper, marking the text and making marginal comments to track your thinking as you read.

Write and Bring on Paper

Set Up

In his Chapter 1, Hammond observes that the debate between Carr and Shirky does not simply represent a choice, but dramatizes the "complex interdependence" of print and digital media , and the "paradoxical situation" we find ourselves in when we consider the question of literature's nature and status in digital culture (20).

In Chapter 4, Hammond explores that "closely intertwined" relationship of print literature and digital media.

The Assignment

Write a paragraph that includes at least two quotations from Hammond's Chapter 4 which explains how and why literature and digital media have a "complex" relationship today, and in what ways our situation as writers and readers is "paradoxical."

Print your paragraph (if you didn't handwrite it on paper) and bring it to class.

(3A)

Re-Read, Mark, and Make Marginal Notes

To continue our attempt to define and illustrate what "literature" means, re-read Alice Walker's "The Flowers."

Mark words and passages that seem to suggest "Humanistic Concerns" (issues having to do with questions of self, society, history, understanding, etc.--in other words, issues of being a human being in the world).

Make marginal notes to yourself on the handout to unpack what at least three examples of these words or phrases suggest to you about humanistic concerns.

 

Day 5. Hammond C4:

In what ways is the relationship between literature and digital media "complex" and "paradoxical" (rather than being a simple matter of choice)?

Resources

 

WEEK 4
T 9/19

Homework

Read and Mark

Adam Hammond's Chapter 6 of Literature in the Digital Age. Actively read the chapter on paper, marking the text and making marginal comments to track your thinking as you read.

(Note that we are skipping over Chapter 5 to read later.)

Moodle Post

Find an example of something online--let's call it a "resource"--that's "literary" in some sense.  What you find might be the resource itself or (if not freely available, as with a video game) a preview, trailer, video playthrough, etc. of it.

Note: What you choose should be primarily an online resource, rather than an online representation of something physical.

In the Moodle forum, "The Literary Online," post a link to that page and write a substantive paragraph that answers some of the questions below. Quote Hammond and/or Murray (and perhaps Liu) at least three times in the paragraph.

  • Is the resource born digital or digitalized (see Hammond's C3 and C4)? 
  • Is it "bookish" or not (see Hammond C4)? 
  • What's literary about it (or not), according to our features of NVFAH? 
  • Do you think it intended as literary? 
  • Can it be read or interpretated as literary evebn if it isn't intended as such? 
  • What's digital about it, according to Murray's PEPS?

Examples of a resource:

4A

Day 6. Hammond C6:

What is a "born-digital" text and can it be literary?

Resources

R 9/21

Homework

S-Town Podcast

1. Subscribe to (or at least access via the web site) the podcast "S-Town."

2. Decide if you want to handwrite or type your answers to the "Listening Guide Questions for S-Town Episodes 1 and 2."

If you're writing by hand, print out the file before listening. If you're typing, open the file on your computer and print it out after you're done.

3. Listen carefully to Episodes One and Two (on a phone, mobile device, or on a computer)

4. In the space under each Listening Guide Question, take notes on details and your impressions. If possible, note down the approximate minute/second mark in the episode where the details are heard (e.g., "E1 5:35" would point to Episode 1, five minutes and 35 seconds from the beginning).

5. If you handwrote answers, scan or photocopy your Listening Guide Questions so you can keep a copy over the weekend. I will collect your original copy in class.

4B

Bring to Class

Please also bring your Hammond book to class.

 

Day 7. S-Town Episodes 1 and 2:

What are the affordances of a podcast as a born-digital literary form?

Resources

 

WEEK 5
T 9/26

Homework

S-Town Podcast

1. Decide if you want to handwrite or type your answers to the "Listening Guide Questions for S-Town Episodes 3-7."

If you're writing by hand, print out the file before listening. If you're typing, open the file on your computer and print it out after you're done.

2. Listen carefully to Episodes Two through Seven (on a phone, mobile device, or on a computer)

4. In the space under each Listening Guide Question, take notes on details and your impressions. If possible, note down the approximate minute/second mark in the episode where the details are heard (e.g., "E1 5:35" would point to Episode 1, five minutes and 35 seconds from the beginning).

5. If you handwrote answers, scan or photocopy your Listening Guide Questions so you can keep a copy over the weekend. I will collect your original copy in class.

5A

Bring to Class

Please also bring your Hammond book to class.

 

Day 8. S-Town Episodes 3-7:

What are the affordances of a podcast as a born-digital literary form?

Resources

 

R 9/28

Homework

Watch

Read

Write a Substantive Paragraph

How does the "You Suck at Photoshop" series work as an example of digital culture (PEPS) and literary writing (NVFAH)?

Quote or cite details from "You Suck at Photoshop" at least twice in the paragraph.

At least twice, use a quotation from one or more of the following to compare or contrast to something specific from "You Suck at Photoshop":

5B

 

 

 

Day 9: You Suck at Photoshop

How does born-digital literature combine and synthesize characteristics of literary and digital cultures?

Resources

  • Electronic Literature Collection 3
  • George Takai
  • Samual Richardson
  • Phebco
  • In February 2008, fans of You Suck at Photoshop followed contextual clues in the week’s episode and discovered a web site for Donnie's fictitious employer, the waste-management company Phebco Inc. Reporting on the alternative-reality gaming blog Unfiction, contributor Johnnybmuto describes playfully emailing Phebco in the middle of the night inquiring about employment, and receiving the following response:

  • Thank you for you interest in employment opportunities at Phebco, Inc. Your request has been forwarded to our Human Resources department who will determine whether or not an opportunity is available. But as an automated email response mechanism, even I have to wonder what chance you might have having misspelled opportunity. Twice. Good day,

    Phebco Automated Email Response Mechanism
  • "synthesis": interestiing visualization of the process of dialectic: thesis, antithesis, synthesis (Bruce McTague)

 

 


October

     

WEEK 6
T 10/3

Homework

Read and Mark

Adam Hammond's Chapters 7 and 8 of Literature in the Digital Age. Actively read the chapters on paper, marking the text and making marginal comments to track your thinking as you read.

Browse and Choose (5 Minutes)

From the Electronic Literature Collection 3, spend at least 5 minutes browsing the works available. Be sure to read the complete pages for at least three of the works.

Of the three, choose one to focus on in the activities below. Which work you focus on might depend on whether or not you have the plug-ins or other technical matters.

Experience (10 Minutes)

Spend at least 10 minutes experiencing (reading, watching, listening to, interacting with) your chosen work. This might include watching the video as well as beginning the work itself.

I ask you to spend at least 10 minutes since many of the works don't have an end to reach. Others, like video games, may take many hours actually to complete.

Post to Moodle by 9 a.m.

Copy, paste, and answer the following questions in a reply to the Moodle forum "Electronic Literature Collection" by 9 a.m. today.

In your post, include a clickble URL to the introductory page in the Electionic Literature Collection for your work .

Your answers need not be written in formal prose. Instead, write down notes to yourself that are complete enough to prompt you in class discussion and to show you've legitimately thought about the question and know your chosen work.

Print out a copy of your answers to bring to class (You might copy your work into a file that you can easily save and print)

Questions to Copy, Paste, and Answer

  1. What particular passages from the Hammond chapters did this work make you think of or help you understand. Write down word tags (3-5 key words) and page numbers for those passages, as well as a few notes to your self about the connection between the work and what Hamnond said or described.

  2. What did you learn from the ELC web site before hand that helped you choose this work, understand what the work is, how to experience it, and how to get something out of it?  Summarize what it helps to know.

  3. What makes the work "literary" (NVFAH)

  4. What about the work is "digital" or "electronic" (PEPS) ? 

  5. What is the work "about"?  What is the pleasure of the work?  What meaning or point does it suggest?  How does it suggest that meaning? 

  6. How successful do you think the work is is a example of electronic literature?  How do we decide what success is in electronic literature?

6A

 

Day 10. Electronic Literature Then and Now

What are the pleasures and new possibilities of born-digital literature?

 

R 10/5

Homework

Bring

Bring to class all books, printouts, and handouts from the semester.

 

Day 11: Review for Midterm Exam

What is the nature and status of literature in digital culture?

Resources

Daily Questions from the Semester So Far

1. What is the nature and status of literature in digital culture?

2. What is digital culture, and how might it be destructive to literary writing and reading (and why does it matter if it is)?

3. How have changes in media affected literary writing and reading in the past--and what does that history suggest about the status of literature today?

4. What are the consequences of digitalization on issues like democracy, imagination, authority, intellectual property, narrative, etc.?

5. In what ways is the relationship between literature and digital media "complex" and "paradoxical" (rather than being a simple matter of choice)?

6. What is a "born-digital" text and can it be literary?

7-8. What are the affordances of a podcast as a born-digital literary form?

9. How does born-digital literature combine and synthesize characteristics of literary and digital cultures?

10. What are the pleasures and new possibilities of born-digital literature?

 

90 Mins Between

Friday 10/6 at 12:01 a.m.

&

Monday 10/9 at 11:59 p.m.

Homework: Midterm Exam (Take-Home Portion)

In a single, 90-minute time window between

  • Friday, 10/6 (starting no earlier than 12:01 a.m.) and
  • Monday, 10/6 (ending at 11:59 p.m.)

write responses to two of the questions on the Midterm Exam.

To give yourself the entire 90-miinute period, you should start the exam no later than 10:30 Monday evening.

We will use the couse Moodle site to make the questions available, and to enable you to write and submit your responses online.

You have a choice of when and where you write the Midterm Exam, but you will need to plan to complete it within one 90-minute block of time.

Directions for the Online Final Exam

During the time window above, open the Moodle quiz "Midterm Exam."

When you open the exam, the timer will not start until you read the directions on the welcome page and then click the big blue button at the bottom.

You will find several questions with text boxes under each.

Remember to answer only two of the questions.

Advice: Write Outside of Moodle and Paste

As a precaution, be sure to write each answer in text-editing software and save it in a file on your computer.

After you have completed each answer, copy the text into that question's text box in Moodle.

What If Moodle Goes Down?

If you have technical problems with Moodle during the exam time, please complete writing the exam, and then copy the text of your answers into an email and send the email to me no more than 90 minutes after the time you started the exam.

If you are using Firefox and have trouble typing into a text box, use the handle grip in the lower right of the text box to enlarge it slightly.

For technical questions about Moodle, call the ITSS Help Desk at 726-8847 during office hours.

 

WEEK 7
T 10/10

Homework

Bring to class a pen or two that you trust. I will provide everything else you will need to take the in-class portion of the exam.

Day 12. Midterm Exam (In-Class Portion)

 

R 10/12

Homework

Read and Mark

In Tom Bissell's Extra Lives, read the Preface, and Chapters 1 and 2.

Identify Six Passages on Paper

On a sheet of paper, write down two word tags with page numbers for each of the questions below:

Tom Bissell is both a widely published author of fiction as well as a well-known writer of video-game commentary and criticism.

  1. In this book Extra Lives, how are these two identities (the literary T.B. and the games T.B.) in conflict?
  2. What are the aesthetic or humanistic concerns that these conflicts suggest?
  3. In what ways do we see Bissell reconciling (or attempting to reconcile, or failing to reconcile) his literary and video-gaming selves? (7A)

 

Day 13. Extra Lives 1

What's troubling Tom Bissell about video games?


Detail Detail from the opening, cinametic sequence of Fallout 3

Introducing the Essay Assignment, Due 11/9

See the assignment page for "The Challenges of Defining a Video Game as Digital Literature"

Resources:

 

WEEK 8
T 10/17

Homework

Moodle Post Before You Read

As a reply to the Moodle forum "Bissell Reading Questions, Chapters 3-7," post 3 open-ended questons (similar in form to the questions I posted for last time), based on what you think Bissell has set up in the first two chapters.

Your three questions should point toward possible lines of development (as in themes, concerns, conflicts, stories) which the first two chapters, in your opinion, encourage us to anticipate.

Please post this message before or by 8 a.m. today. (8A)

Read and Mark

In Tom Bissell's Extra Lives, read Chapters 3-7

Identify Ten Passages on Paper That Help Answer Your Questions

On a sheet of paper, write down your three questions and then list 10 passages with word tags and page numbers (2 per chapter on average) that help answer those questions.

Indicate somehow on the paper which word tags help answer which questions. (8B)

 

Day 14. Extra Lives 2

How is Bissell's book more than just self expression? What about it constitutes "knowledge" about video games?

Resources

R 10/19

Homework

Read and Mark

In Tom Bissell's Extra Lives, read Chapters 8 and 9.

Write and Bring on Paper

Answer the following questions:

1. How could we read Bissell's as literature (or as "true art" as he defines it)?  In what sense might this book be "digital literature"?

(Identify with page numbers at least 3 passages from anywhere in the book and then write an informal "free writing" to try to comment on those passages)

2. How do the last two chapters add to some particular thread of knowedge (a topic or type of "knowledge") that Bissell started to develope in the first seven chapters? 

Write down at least 3 word tags and page numbers for passages from the last two chapters that point to examples of that thread being advanced or extended. We discussed types of knowledge in relation to Extra Lives in class last time. (8C)

 

Day 15. Extra Lives 3:

In what ways could we talk about a book like Bissell's as "digital literature"?

Resources

 

WEEK 9
T 10/24

Homework

Read

Max Brooks' The Island. Introduction and Chapters 1-6.

Questions to Consider

-- How is a novel set in the world and logic of a video game different from novels set our shared, physical world? (That difference might appear in how it's written, how it feels to read, how it's structured or addressed, etc.)

-- How does setting a novel in a video game's world complicate the question of whether or not that novel is "literature" or "art"?

-- How might the content of this novel (the ideas, information, or "knowledge") be relevant to anything beyond playing Minecraft?

Write a Paragraph Citing Three Details or Passages

Bring to class on paper a substantive paragraph you've written that addresses at least two or the three questions above. Cite at least three details or passages from the reading assigned for today, including page numbers.

(9A)

 

Day 16. The Island 1

How do we decide if The Island is literature? or digital literature?

Resources

Questions for Further Reading of The Island

In-class activity. (9B)

R 10/26  

No Class - Fall Break

WEEK 10
T 10/31

Homework

Read

Max Brooks' The Island. Chapters 7-16 (pages 77-195)

Questions to Consider, Passages to Identify

Below are questions selected from those you composed in class last time. On paper, come in with word tags and page numbers for at least 3 passages relevant to each question. :

  1. What are the "natural" rules of this world?
  2. Will the character discover who he really is?
  3. Does the novel eventually develop some form of plot or does it continue to read as a tutorial?
  4. What is the overall conflict of the novel?


10A

3 Posts to Moodle

Sometime before 8 a.m. today, visit the five forums in the Moodle site section, "Five Features of Literature Illustrated and Explained"  

Post replies in at least 3 of the 5 forums. 

In each of the 3 postings, you will describe and analyze an example of that literary feature as it appears in a novel, story, or poem (that is, a work of literature in the print medium).

In each posting,

1. Illustrate some aspect of that feature (NVFA or H) with details from your chosen literary text.  For example, you might quote a particular passag; give a detailed description of a character, setting, scene or other literary element; or closely analyze the way the writer creates an effect or sense of meaning in words. 

2. Explain how your example serves to exemplify and interpret some aspect of that feature of literature (that is, NVFA or H). 

Feel free to draw on ideas from class notes and our discussions of "The Flowers" or from other resources that define literature.  Your explanations should move back and forth between closely reading your example and larger idea (NVFA or H) that defines literature. 

If you quote or paraphrase someone or some source (other than what we've learned together in class), please identify that source by name so the rest of us can track the idea down if we want.  10B

 

Day 17: The Island 2

How is The Island Standing Up as a Work of Literary Fiction? How Do We Decide?

Resources

 

 


November

     
R 11/2

Homework

Read

Max Brooks' The Island Chapters 17 - 22 and Epilogue (pages 196-270)

Challenges and Complications

Questions

If you were a literary writer planning an experimental, video-game-based novel like The Island...

  • What could you learn from Max Brooks' example?
  • What would you try to imitate or replicate in your own work? How would you do it in your own way?
  • What would you try to avoid? How would you do that?
  • Generally, what are the challenges and complications of setting a novel in a rule-bound, video-game world, rather than some version of the physical/historical world?

Write on Paper

Write and bring in on paper a substantive, formal paragraph

  • answering at least two of the quesitons above, and
  • quoting and citing (with page numbers) particular passages from The Island at least three times.

Citations and Documentation

As practice for your paper, use MLA-style parenthetical citations and a bibliographic entry for the Brooks book beneath your paragraph.

10C

Day 18: The Island 3

What can Brooks' experiment tell us about the literary possibilities and challenges of remediation?

Resources

 

WEEK 11
T 11/7

 

Homework

Schedule an Individual Conference Time

In our Moodle site, please use the Wiki "Conference Sign Up" to add your name to one of the available times.

Please do not add times, or delete/move anyone else's name. If you have difficulty finding a time that works for you, please email me.

Bring to Conference

Conferences will be held in the classroom: Heller 216.

  • any drafts of--or notes on--the paper,
  • books or articles you plan on quoting in the paper
  • if possible, a laptop or device on which you can show the video game (or a video play-through or still images of it)
  • any questions or uncertainities about the requirements of the assignment, the process of writing the paper, or the substance of your particular project
  • a piece of paper on which you've written the following numbered items:
  1. A possible title for your paper
  2. The name of the video game you're analyzing
  3. at least three features of literature--as in "NVFAH" or other features defined in different terms--which you might consider describing in this specific video game
  4. at least two sentences that suggest "questions, challenges or problems" that could arise when attempting to describe these features of literature (from item 3 above) in this particular video game.

Post to Moodle ("Yes, And...")

Reply to one of your classmates' postings to the forum "Five Features of Literature Illustrated and Explained." 

Replying both to your classmate's example and ideas on that characteristic of literature, try to extend, enrich, amplify, complicate that discussion (without disagreeing).

Use the philosophy of improv theater, in which every response to a fellow actor's statemet or action is to say, "Yes, and..." and to build on that premise rather than resisting or pulling the skit in a different direction.

Day 19: No Class Meeting - Conferences

R 11/9

Homework

Bring at Least 4 Pages of a Draft

Bring a hard copy of a rough draft of your essay to class: at least 4 double-spaced pages (about 1000 words).

  • Do not bring the pages on a laptop or device. Be sure to print.
  • In your pages, try to write a sustained and formal enough draft that you can start to hear the voice of the essay.
  • Your draft does not necessarily include an introduction or conclusion, though it can if you wish.
  • You are not required to have a Works Cited page for the draft. Some writers find it useful, however, to add entries to a Works Cited page as they write.
  • Note that the finished paper will need to be 7-10 pages double spaced (1,750- 2,500 words).

Day 20. Workshop

Resources

WEEK 12
T 11/14

Homework

Essay Due

Bring to class--ready to turn in at the beginning--a printed copy of your essay.

Be sure you have

  • numbered the pages
  • printed on one side of the pages only
  • be sure your name appears at the top of the essay's first page
  • included a "Works Cited" page at the end with all sources documented
  • followed all the guidelines and requirements specified in the assignment.

Bring your Hammond book

 

Day 21. Paper Due; Introduce Digital Analysis

Resources

R 11/16

Homework

Read

Read Chapter 5 of Hammond's Literature in the Digital Age.

Bring a Laptop Computer to Class

 

Day 22. Voyant Tools, Hammond C5

What examples or ideas from Hammond give us ideas for what to do with Voyant, or how to make sense of what Voyant shows us? 

What does the "inadequacy" of these tools make us realize about the writing and reading of literature (NVFAH)?

Resources

 

 

 

 

 

WEEK 13
T 11/21

 

 

No Class Meeting:
Online Work on Digital Textual Analysis

R 11/23

 

 

No Class - Thanksgiving

WEEK 14
T 11/28

Homework

Read

Read the Introduction and Chapters 1, 2, and 3 of Franco Moretti's book, Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History, pages 1-92.

Bring Your Hammond Book

 

Day 23: Franco Moretti

Resources

R 11/30

Homework

Leading Class Through a Close Analysis
(Reading a Book from the Inside Out)

Come prepared to lead the class through a close analysis of one illustration (a graph, map, or tree) from Moretti's book. Choose any illustration that you want.

As described in the steps below, create a cluster on a piece of paper to put together the elements of a fuller understanding of your chosen illustration.

Be prepared to lead a discussion of your chosen illustration and to answer questions about it and how it helps to illuminate Moretti's purposes and methods in Graphs, Maps, Trees.

I will collect your cluster at the end of class to give you credit for it.

Steps:

  1. Choose one graph, map, or tree from the Moretti book.
    This is your "starting-point illustration."
  2. Look at it closely to see what you understand to what you don't
  3. Read the caption if Moretti provides one

  4. Read some pages preceding and following the illustration for the context of the illustration
  5. In your book, circle key words, names, or ideas in the caption and pages
  6. Put question marks next to important-seeming statements that you don't understand (or that you suspect mean more than you're understanding)

  7. On a blank sheet of paper, create a cluster with the page number and a word or two (a word tag) indicating your starting-point illustration.
  8. Add to your cluster words or phrases from Moretti's caption or pages adjacent to your illustration.
  9. Look up terms in Moretti's index and find the passages in the book where those terms are used and discussed. Add word tags to your cluster (with page numbers) for what you learn from those pages which helps you explain your starting-point illustraton.

  10. Do a web search for key words, phrases, names. Add word tags to your cluster for ideas and understandings you've gained from those sources.
  11. Go back and re-read the pages from Moretti.
  12. Look again at your starting-point illustration
  13. Make annotating notes in the margins around the illustration about what you now understand about details of the illustration, and why Moretti offers it in his discussion.

 

Day 24. Moretti 2

Resources

 


December
     

WEEK 15
T 12/5

Homework

Presentations

Prepare your presentation to give on the day you've scheduled on the Moodle Wiki "Presentation Sign-Up"

See the handout "Presentations" for complete details.

Note that to get full credit for the presentation assignment, you will need to attend all days of in-class presentations, and to complete a feedback form for each presentation.

Day 25. Presentations

Resources

 

 

R 12/7

Homework

Presentations

Prepare your presentation to give on the day you've scheduled on the Moodle Wiki "Presentation Sign-Up"

See the handout "Presentations" for complete details.

Note that to get full credit for the presentation assignment, you will need to attend all days of in-class presentations, and to complete a feedback form for each presentation.

 

Day 26. Presentations

Resources

 

M 12/11

Digital Literary Analysis due by 4:00

By 4:00 today, please print a copy of your Digital/Intellectual Textual Analysis and place it in my mailbox in Humanities 420.

 

 

FINALS WK

R 12/14

 

Online Final Exam

In a time window today between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., you will spend 2 hours writing responses to two of the questions on the Final Exam.

To give yourself the entire two-hour period, you should start the exam no later than 3 p.m.

We will use the couse Moodle site to make the questions available, and to enable you to write and submit your responses online.

You have a choice of when and where you write the Final Exam, but you will need to plan to complete it within one 2 hour block of time, which you complete no later than 5 p.m.

Directions for the Online Final Exam

During the time window above, open the Moodle quiz "Final Exam."

You will find several questions with text boxes under each.

Remember to answer only two of the questions.

Advice: Write Outside of Moodle and Paste

As a precaution, be sure to write each answer in text-editing software and save it in a file on your computer.

After you have completed each answer, copy the text into that question's text box in Moodle.

What If Moodle Goes Down?

If you have technical problems with Moodle during the exam time, please complete writing the exam, and then copy the text of your answers into an email and send the email to me no more than 90 minutes after the time you started the exam.

If you are using Firefox and have trouble typing into a text box, use the handle grip in the lower right of the text box to enlarge it slightly.

For technical questions about Moodle, call the ITSS Help Desk at 726-8847 during office hours.