Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and evaluating a popular media text of their choosing. This can include a song or album, tv show, movie, comic strip, book, an advertisement… be creative. As long as you can write about it as a cultural text, using the concepts that you learned in the course material you should be fine. If you aren’t sure whether your choice is appropriate, feel free to run it by your academic coach.<\/p>\n
Students should include a basic description <\/u>of the content they chose, to orient the reader and give any necessary context. Additionally, analysis <\/u>and evaluation <\/u>of the content should consist of a coherent thesis statement that is logically supported with evidence.<\/p>\n
The questions below should help you think about the cultural elements in your song\/album, and will serve as a guide for analysis and evaluation. An effective analysis should be structured around a thesis statement, but will address these questions. In other words, your job is not to simply answer these questions one by one. Instead, you must engage in writing as a process<\/em> in which you develop a coherent and logical argument that deals with these questions. This is where critical thinking and communication are crucial skills.<\/p>\n To achieve core area objectives, students are asked to pay special attention to the following questions (Note that the labels in parentheses refer to the competency areas that are evaluated using the rubric that is associated with this assignment):<\/p>\n <\/span>GUIDELINES<\/span><\/p>\n Critical thinking, social responsibility, and personal responsibility are assessed according to the attached rubric, based on how well your analysis addresses the questions in the prompt. Communication skills are assessed as an overall component, based on the following guidelines and specific requirements.<\/p>\n In order to effectively address the above questions, blog posts should:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/span> <\/span>for help and links to additional resources).<\/li>\n <\/span> <\/span>guidelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n In addition, students are required to comment on at least 2 of their peers’ blog posts for each assignment.<\/strong><\/p>\n Note that all instances of plagiarism will result in failing the assignment and will be processed under the Honor Code.<\/strong><\/p>\n Your analysis should show that you have engaged in critical thinking, and can address issues of personal and social responsibility. However, you must also be able to communicate that you have done those things, which means that you are expected to develop your written communication skills, following the general guidelines below. It\u2019s important to note that without following these guidelines, it may be difficult to determine whether you have mastered the other core competencies (i.e. critical thinking, social and personal responsibility).<\/p>\n I generally think of the writing process as about 75% thinking and organizing and 25% actually writing. In the case of a blog post, you will also spend some time on the presentation of ideas, and including interactive multimedia elements.<\/p>\n 1. Before any of the writing actually begins:<\/p>\n 2. THEN you can begin actually writing:<\/p>\n 3. For a blog post, it\u2019s important to remember:<\/p>\n **An Important Note on Links and Citations:<\/strong><\/p>\n CITATIONS <\/span><\/strong>should be used for scholarly sources, such as the readings for this class (which you should be using in your blog). They should follow a scholarly format, which requires the use of in-text citations in the body of the blog <\/span>AND<\/span> <\/span>full citations in a reference section at the end of your blog (see the citation guide linked above for more guidance on this). You MAY include links for this content, but you don’t have to. <\/span>LINKS should be used<\/strong> <\/span>for things like referring to other popular culture content or to link to an example of something that supports a claim you are making. <\/p>\n For example, if you say that gourmet donuts are sweeping the nation: You <\/span>could <\/span><\/em>CITE a scholarly study with data that shows the number of business loan applications for donut stores, and put an in-text citation and a citation at the end of the blog. OR you could provide a LINK to a popular media article, a tweet, or something else online that supports your point: Donuts have been <\/span>taken to a new level<\/span>Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>and have even become part of our popular culture, as seen in <\/span>this Twitter thread<\/span>Links to an external site.<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span>comparing gourmet donuts to a K-pop star. <\/p>\n Students will create a blog post describing, analyzing, and evaluating a popular media text of their choosing. This can include a song or album, tv show, movie, comic strip, book, an advertisement… be creative. 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