1. Read the articles "Against Nostalgia" (NY Times) and "Steven H. Jobs" (NY Times) distributed in class. Make judgements on the quality of these essays and determine specific categories for how you are making these quality judgements (examples of categories include language level, appropriateness of style, journalistic ethics, etc.). Additionally, determine the structure of the articles (one way of doing this is to determine the function of each paragraph in relation to the whole).
2. Start thinking about what you want your writing portfolio in our class to look like. As stated in class, this can consist of responses to the various writing prompts I give you over the course of the semester, or can constitute a body of work that you publish in the form of a blog, newspaper, podcast, documentary series, etc. The links below include some resources that inspire me:
Online news blog: Splice Today http://www.splicetoday.com/
UK Film Review Magazine Little White Lies http://lwlies.com/
Documentarist Nerdwriter1 (philosophy and analysis) https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1
John Green's Crash Courses (general education) https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
Vox's short documentaries (variety of new takes on current topics) https://www.youtube.com/user/voxdotcom
Feminist newsletter Lenny Letter http://www.lennyletter.com/
I'll be adding resources on the blog throughout the semester. If you've stumbled upon something cool, please share it with the class!
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