ENG 1131: Writing Through Media
Putting it all together: Review of Key Terms and Ideas
Objective: to collaboratively create a digital writing space that acts as a summation of important concepts and terms that we have discussed in ENG 1131. Here, we are mainly concerned with recording vital information (background, definitions, sources). You may add images or videos that relate to terms and concepts. You have been divided into 3 groups; each group will create a separate Prezi. Once the review outline has been completed, each Prezi will be posted online so that anyone from our class can look up a key idea in order to find connections to his/her writing topics for the final project. **Your final project MUST make connections to the materials we have discussed in class or topics you have blogged about this semester.
*Put your name beneath each entry you add.
Section I: Narrative
Group One: Angye Law, Perri Konecky, Jake Lewis, Sofia Sanchez, Jason Sellers, Toni Charlez, David Lluberes
Key Terms/Ideas: (2 People) _________________, _______________
1. Narrative
2. Semiotics
3. Reading an Image (visual cues, research, intertextuality, commentary) à see Introduction to PT PowerPoint (sakai)
4. Re-contextualizationà see Introduction to PT PowerPoint (sakai)
5. Writerly Text vs. Readerly Text à see Roland Barthes Intro PowerPoint (sakai)
6. Enigma
Readings/Discussions (2 people) _________________, _______________
1. Barthes Five Codes of Meaning (Hermeneutic Code, Proairetic Code, Semic Code, Symbolic Code, Referential Code) à see Blog Assignment #3
2. Sarrasine, Honoré de Balzac
3. “Silver Blaze,” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Blog Assignments/Projects: (1 Person) ___________________
1. Blog #1: Writing Digitally, Getting Set up
2. Blog #2: Image Analysis
3. Blog #3: Clip Analysis from The Sixth Sense (1999)
Screenings: (2 People): ________________, __________________
1. People in Order: “Age,” “Love,” “queda, quality, question, quickly, quickly, quiet” (Lenka Clayton & James Price, 2006)
2. Sherlock Holmes (2009), Guy Ritchie
Section II: Argument
Group Two: Brainna Donet, Steve Johnson, David Schloss, Laura Sanchez, Tiffany Manning, Shaun Mayberry
Key Terms: (1 person) ________________________
1. Iconic Images à see Iconic Images PowerPoint (sakai)
2. Intellectual Montage (Sergi Eisenstein)
3. Juxtaposition (PT p. 386)
4. Claims (PT p. 384)
Readings/Discussions: (2 People) ___________________, ___________________
1. Regarding the Pain of Others, Susan Sontag
2. Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
3. Facebook and issues of social borders
Blog Assignments/Projects: (1 Person) _________________
1. Blog #4: My Online Persona
2. Blog #5: Representing Others
Screenings: (2 People) ______________, _________________
1. “I have no words after watching…” YouTube Video
2. Photoessays on Mediastorm.org à “Airsick: An Industrial Devolution,” “Three Women,” “Common Ground”
3. Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), Clint Eastwood
4. Persepolis (2007), Marjane Satrapi
Section III: Images as Tropes
Group Three: Rayah Kahteeb, Emily Doidge, Myles Stupp, Amy Vollatoro, Sarah Sada, Christine Myette
Key Terms/Ideas: (2 People) ______________, _____________________
1. Iconic Images
2. Tropes (Metaphor, Analogy, Metonym, Irony)
3. Image as Reality?/ Constructing Realities
4. Ethics of Photoshopping/Digital Manipulation
5. Hermaneutics/Heuretics
Readings/Discussions: (1 person) ______________
1. Gregory Ulmer’s Mystory à see “Mystory Explanation”
Blog Assignments/Projects: (1 person) ___________________
1. Blog #6: Iconic Images as Tropes
2. Blog #7: Metaphors in Media/Creating Reality
3. Blog #8: Irony/Photoshopping
4. Blog #9: Picturing “The Other”
Screenings: (2 people) _____________________, _____________________
1. Munich (2005), Steven Spielberg
2. Forrest Gump (1994), Robert Zemeckis
3. Night and Fog (1955), Alan Resnais
