Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Welcome to WSC 1

Dear Students,

I keep this blog as a way to organize and communicate web-based content to the class. As such, I aim to make the blog a good resource for you when composing essays and short assignments.

You can look through old posts via the search feature, by date, or by the tag cloud at the bottom of the page. Not all posts will be relevant to our particular class, but you should be able to locate relevant posts easily enough.

You can access a link to the blog through the Blackboard portal.

The Lorax



A video version of Dr. Seuss's well known story The Lorax.










If you enjoy The Jon Stewart Show, you might like this short clip as well. The clip is obviously much shorter than The Lorax and the two are not directly comparable--except that they both deal with images of trees and logging. I'm interested, however, in the way in which the Stewart clip--however short--makes its argument. Any ideas?