Thank you for your hard work and enthusiasm all semester. I look forward to seeing your final projects next week. As promised, here is a list of your "real forms," or repurposed genres, so that you may witness them as they take shape. If your project has evolved beyond what is indicated below, or if I have misstated or misremembered your most recent revision, please feel free to let me know so that I can update the list:
Benyam B. - lay literature that raises awareness of legitimacy claims and of the various "terministic screens" acting on the food consumer (for pickup in Bloomingfoods and other food co-ops)
Megan B. - a brochure for distribution at IU's office of Disability Services that describes the most prominent barriers to campus accessibility before suggesting how to overcome those barriers (tri-fold, double length)
Kreigh C. - a curricular overview for students, parents, and administrators that explains the duality of approaches to elementary biology education and suggests how to solve the dualism
Kimberley C. - a series of editorials for the Indiana Daily Student, each one presenting a different suggestion for sustaining discourse about racial conflicts on campus
Shelli G. - an open letter to nationally syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher, calling for a new way for to enact the public debate about same-sex marriage (for National Review Online)
Kae G. - a lecture demonstration on various ways that the "new" Internet literature (i.e., 140-character tweets) has influenced or not influenced authorship, readership, and valuation of texts (for her Communication and Culture class)
Ieshia H. - a 2-page spread for Essence magazine on "natural vs. permed" hair and the ways this debate acts as a metaphor for more fundamental questions about black standard of beauty in the 21st century
Lily H. - an article for the Daily Herald Fence Post on the importance of understanding how popular media (especially recent critical documentaries like The Lottery and Waiting for Superman) argue for educational assessment
Lacey H. - a curricular overview for elementary school teachers of various multiculturalism and anti-bullying resources that can be used to overcome barriers to teaching racial tolerance at early ages
Jeff L. - an illustrated punk rock 'zine that editorializes what punk rock communities can do to refocus the movement from a perception of infighting to a perception of counter-cultural discourse
John L. - (genre under revision: on media portrayals of war)
Cindy M. - an editorial for young filmmakers and producers-to-be that suggests different ways that messages about drugs are made in television media, and offers guiding principles for understanding actual and probable outcomes of media portrayals of drug use
Elizabeth M. - (genre under revision: on how dystopic genres such as sci/fi films can affect public perceptions of climate activism)
Tim M. - an article that editorializes the problem with simplifying rock and roll history as "from glam-metal to grunge," especially when this oversimplification causes media portrayals of these two rock genres to be juxtaposed or pitted against each other
Kellin M. - a pamphlet introducing a new campus activism group that promotes homelessness awareness and aims to educate its peers, first on the difficulties of talking about homeless as a concrete social problem, and second on the measures they can take
Dipti P. - a guest column for the Indiana Daily Student that explains social networking as a discourse that impacts the millennial generation in certain ways
Tak S. - (genre under revision: on attitudes towards recycling and the various social, cultural, and intellectual factors that affect whether people do or do not recycle)
Rebekah S. - the introductory chapter to an edited collection of essays that addresses the need for more publicly available information about adult self-injury
Aaron T. - a lecture demonstration with PowerPoint to be delivered to a business communication class that explains the various discursive, philosophical, and technical factors involved in how coal companies communicate to their publics
Kyla T. - a documentary film that interviews several experts on the issue of women's educational attainment, specifically to demonstrate the ways in which evangelical religious discourse deters or supports women in higher education (for local circulation as a discussion tool)
Zayin - "My Turn" essay (Newsweek) arguing for the importance of developing a critical etiquette for personal cell phone interaction
Signing off the blog,
Professor Graban
12/12/10
Professor Graban
12/12/10
