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Assignment Sequences with Lots of Readings
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Assignment |
Work |
Writing |
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Assignment 1) Watching Critically |
analyze television coverage of a topic (working with texts – content and rhetorical analysis) |
presentation of analysis as a response to Jones |
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Assignment 2) Reading Critically |
analyze print media coverage of a controversy (working with texts – content and rhetorical analysis) |
presentation of findings as example of social history |
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Assignment 3) Reading Images Critically |
visual coverage of a topic (observing – visual materials, content and rhetorical analysis) |
present examples and analysis of patterns, incorporate earlier work as appropriate |
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Assignment 4) Reading Perceptions of
Media Images |
extend work from assignment 3 with survey of perceptions (working with numbers – surveys) |
present findings, interpreting significance; incorporate earlier work as appropriate |
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Assignment 5) Rereading Media’s
Appropriations of Images |
collect and analyze editorial cartoons (observing – visual materials) |
present examples and patterns to make argument for significance |
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Assignment 6) The Way Others Have “Read”
the Topic |
expand analysis of one of the earlier topics by conducting focus group (interviewing – focus group) |
present findings, incorporating earlier work as appropriate |
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Assignment 7) Reconsidering Media Impact |
synthesis and reflection |
reconsider media or the topics investigated |
All four methods are used as students investigate different kinds of media. You can reduce the number of readings by using Len-Ríos for assignments 2 , 3 and 4. If pressed for time, we omit either assignment 3 or 5. If we want to reduce the number of methods we include, we would eliminate the survey in assignment 4 or the interview in assignment 6.
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