Here's a YouTube link to an Audi advertisement that ran during the 2010 superbowl.
Can you evaluate this ad in ways that are consistent with Cox's suggestions on page 16?
What are the pragmatic appeals (think logos, pathos, ethos)? To what "dominant discourse[s]" does the ad appeal?
Monday, September 6, 2010
Environmental Communication In the News
On the opening pages of Chapter 1, Cox notes that the environmental news appears regularly on the pages of major news magazines. Here's a list of just a few recent stories from the New York Times.
You see articles related to coal, owls, champagne, and an environmental disaster (the recent Gulf Coast Oil Spill).
You see articles related to coal, owls, champagne, and an environmental disaster (the recent Gulf Coast Oil Spill).
Suppose we wanted to categorize or tag these and related stories. What tags would you use? What other types of environmental news stories, not depicted above, do you typically see? What tags would we give these stories?
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.
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?
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Quotations and Context
YouTube and Context
A good article about the importance of context when quoting sources (or, in this case, professors)
A good article about the importance of context when quoting sources (or, in this case, professors)
Monday, June 14, 2010
"Hell Hath No Limits"
This article was selected for The Best Science and Nature Writing series (2209).
Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits. By Wendell Berry. Harper's Magazine. May 2008.
Faustian Economics: Hell Hath No Limits. By Wendell Berry. Harper's Magazine. May 2008.
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