Here’s where to talk about the second part of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Of course, you can and should keep talking about part one of the book, and let me also remind all of you that the goal here will be make use of this book and the other readings for this unit in constructing and analyzing a very simple comic of your own. In other words, if you haven’t done so already, it’d probably be a good idea to start thinking about how does this book about comics help you think about making one yourself and then explaining how your simple comic works?
This is where we’ll discuss the first part of Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. But before we get to that:
First, be sure to make use of/visit Scott McCloud’s web site! I know you’ve had to visit it for the
first blog assignment, but beyond that, I think there’s a lot there that can help you understand McCloud and his work.
Second, take a look at this video of Scott McCloud talking. It’s a really engaging video and I think gives you an idea about where McCloud is coming from.
Here’s a brief movie where I offer some thoughts on where I’m at with catching up on grading for stuff:
Check out your grades on emuonline. As I say in the video, I’m hoping to wrap up all the grading for the first half of the class in the next couple of days.
I’m not going to be up at school during break of course, but I will be around/in town, so if you have any questions about the video or anything else, send them my way in an email. If you go someplace fun, send us all some pictures!
Here’s where you can post any questions you have about the basics of setting up a Flickr account.
First off, Flickr is free and quite easy to use. Go, sign up, follow the instructions, etc. There is help available on the site, there is help (for example) here at this WonderHowTo site, and we will be talking about this in the “Flickr: Getting started, questions, etc.” content item.
It’s definitely worth poking around the site a bit, even beyond the realm of this assignment. And as always, ask questions.
Be sure to check out the blog prompts page because I have done a few updates– the last one for this half of the term is Blog Post 9, and the first one for the second part of the term (due by Friday) is Blog Post 10.
This is where we’ll discuss the introduction to Nancy Allen’s Book Working With Words and Images, “Relationships Between Words and Images: An Overview.” I get the sense that people are falling a little behind, which I can appreciate and understand a bit myself. I’ve got a killer cold that is slowing down my commenting and grading too. In any event, we should get the ball rolling on this sooner than later.
Actually, significantly more than ten rules. “Ten rules for writing fiction” comes from guardian.co.uk, and it is basically many writers giving their “top 10″ (or so) rules for writing. It says it’s about fiction, but I think it’s also about writing beyond fiction, and I’m struck by the connections with some of the things we’ve read previously about style.
I decided that I’m going to change my office hours to Thursdays instead of Fridays this term. I can’t imagine this would throw anyone for too big of a loop, but I wanted to make that an announcement nonetheless.
This is the homepage/web site for the class for Winter 2010.
English 328 is an advanced writing course focusing on the interrelationships among purpose, audience, style, the social and political nature of language, and electronic writing. This course is designed to assist students in the investigation of their academic disciplines in terms of the theories, approaches and various authorial styles inherent in their fields. And it's a course I teach all the time.
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