Class #4 Wrap Up and Response

For Monday be sure to have read the following pages in Seeing & Writing: 3-25, 27-37, 378 – 382, 393-405 564-566, 618-622

In addition, post here on the blog a consideration of one of the prose pieces (no pictures, I'm afraid) which catch your interest. Make a specific connection between a passage from one of those pieces (a paragraph or so) and our overall discussion of Ramamurthy, advertising, and representation of gender, race or class. Make this at least 250 words, and no more than 400 words. In addition, write a one paragraph comment on someone else's post.

VERY IMPORTANT: This time through, please post individual posts rather than adding comments to my post. This makes both reading and commenting on one another's work a bit easier on the eyes.

A few general comments:

Don't despair my comments on your first attempts. All of you will, with some work, find the path to a successful paper. Remember, however, that writing is a process and, more importantly, it is a process that demands we don't get too attached to what we've written. What's critical here is that you end up with an excellent final first paper critiquing an advertisement's representation of a gender, race or class, not that every paragraph from your preliminary writing ends up in that first paper. Also remember that paying attention to the demands of the assignment is critical to college writing: the essay prompt called for using the specific details of the advertisement to demonstrate how that ad may be interpreted to be at the expense of (a gender, race or class), and we'll have to stick to that goal in every draft.

Also, Jason was right on when he suggested that the final result of weaving these two pieces together will be a somewhat complexified 'pros and cons' argument. That is, after showing your reader both a positive and a negative 'reading' of you advertisement, which argument is stronger? On Monday we will work on using quotations from Ram. , easing transitions between the positive and the negative, and other things which will make the mixture easier for you. In any case, those of you who need to should be going back to your advertisement and searching for more details and analysis of those details...