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![Repainting Starry Night: Visual/Textual Remediation and Analysis](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/97f346_8033a62c0b0142c4a7a6629f3e9687d4~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_689,h_459,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/97f346_8033a62c0b0142c4a7a6629f3e9687d4~mv2.webp)
Repainting Starry Night: Visual/Textual Remediation and Analysis
Purpose of Exercise: Allows the students to look critically and interpretively at visual images as well as practicing close reading of...
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![Play It Again, Sam: Summary vs. Analysis in Movie Clips](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/985602ac8e6b4d46b9eefdd5b5a1ae6b.jpg/v1/fill/w_689,h_460,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/985602ac8e6b4d46b9eefdd5b5a1ae6b.webp)
Play It Again, Sam: Summary vs. Analysis in Movie Clips
Purpose: To help students differentiate between analysis and summary and then apply that knowledge to their own drafts. This works in...
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Lunch: Thinking about Generalizing and Stereotyping
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise challenges students to think about how they (over) generalize or stereotype groups of people through...
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Exploring Culture: The Influence of Ads
Purpose of Exercise: This exercise works well with an Ad-buster paper or project, or other cultural analysis/textual essay. It considers...
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![Who is Barack Obama?: Analyzing and Constructing a Visual Argument](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/97f346_5f1bc9cdae1d4d279e9cb49ca59839a3~mv2.jpg/v1/fill/w_500,h_333,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/97f346_5f1bc9cdae1d4d279e9cb49ca59839a3~mv2.webp)
Who is Barack Obama?: Analyzing and Constructing a Visual Argument
Objectives: This class activity/discussion and subsequent assignment has three overarching goals: (1) for students to begin to develop a...
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The Source-berg: An Exercise in Source Lineage
What are we doing?* This assignment is developed as part of a composition course that focuses on making connections and transitions...
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Blog Exploration and Analysis
Purpose: This exercise was designed to help students investigate blogs as a possible research source, and also as a potential genre in...
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Multimodal "Pre-Write"
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to guide students through the process of narrowing down an intentionally broad research topic...
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Worth a Thousand Words
Time Required: 30-40 minutes (maybe more?) Goals/Purpose: This exercise encourages students to think of images more critically, to...
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Experiment with Typography
Objective: Student writers will create a typographical experiment that demonstrates an understanding of audience and visual rhetoric. ...