Since we haven't had much time in class to talk about the affordances of blogs, here is a useful video that talks about why blogs are so cool.

Analytical Research Project Reflection

While the Analytical Research Project is still fresh in everyone's minds, I would like everyone in the class to write a brief comment in response to this blog post. For your comment, I want you to reflect back on the entire process of analysis and research. Your comment should try to answer some of the following questions, but it doesn't need to address all of them:
What aspects of the analytical process did you find valuable?
What were some of the challenges that you encountered while working on this project?
Did your experience of conducting research for this project differ in any way from research that you've done in the past? If so, how?
By asking you to consider how a primary source conveys meaning and to think about the larger implications and underlying assumptions of it's rhetoric, how has this assignment affected your understanding of symbols/representations of culture.

Please respond to this post with your working thesis in it's current incarnation.

I need to know where everyone is at in regards to their research for the Secondary Source Integration. Please comment on this post with a list of the sources that you've found so far.

I would like everyone to comment on this blog post by briefly answering the following questions:

What do you think about what Writing Analytically says about the 5 paragraph essay?

What do Ogborn and Buckroyd say about the importance of context? What do they say about 18th century satire?