Author Archives: Bryan

Hey there, student. Welcome to the course blog. This is where you’ll find everything you need for the course (everything, that is, except your grades, which can be found on Moodle). As you snoop around and get familiar with the … Continue reading →

No 750 for this one. Instead, I’ll just ask you to carefully annotate the story and bring it to class. In class, we’ll do the “passing notes” exercise in which you write on some prompts, then pass your paper to … Continue reading →

Objective: The idea here is to create an orientation guide for students who are new to my class. This isn’t an evaluation or a product review, but a guide designed to set a noob’s expectations and teach them how to … Continue reading →

What annoys you and why? What if you encapsulated this annoyance in a person? What would that person say to you? What would you like to say back to that person? The idea here is to dramatize your annoyance, to … Continue reading →

Look at your downdraft through the following lenses. The deliverable for each lens is italicized. Lens One: Coding for Exposition Remember that this multigenre research essay is a cultural history of your practice or artifact. As such, it should contain … Continue reading →