1. Thursday

2. Today’s Agenda Reflection for Project One Introduce Project 2
What is a popular cultural artifact?
Fads, Trends, Icons
IAR Strategies for Reading
Proposal Memo for Project 2
Invention – Group – Topics and Arguments

3. Reflection for Project 1
This requires a short paragraph explaining your writing process for project 1 and the decisions you made as the writer in terms of topic, purpose, audience, writing moves, etc. Also, it will discuss your strengths and weaknesses as a writer, as well as goals you have set for yourself moving into project 2. This will be submitted to Eli and is Due: Fri. Sept. 28 by 11 pm.

4. Defining Artifact noun
1. any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
2. a handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as a shard of pottery, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation.
3. any mass-produced, usually inexpensive object reflecting contemporary society or popular culture:artifacts of the pop rock generation.

5. Defining POPULAR culture artifacts
Popular Culture is the arts, artifacts, entertainment, fads, beliefs and values that are shared by large segments of society.
Think in terms of: Fads    Trends    Icons

6. Defining POPULAR Culture Artifacts
We also need to consider:
Media's role in defining and perpetuating trends and influences in popular culture.
Ex. Sports
Ex. Popular Christmas Toys
Racial and ethnic beliefs and attitudes in popular culture.
Ex. Rap Music
Ex. 9/11

7. Fads, Trends, Icons
Fad –
Any form of behavior that develops among a large population and is collectively followed with enthusiasm for some period, generally as a result of the behavior's being perceived as novel in some way.
A fad is said to “catch on” when the number of people adopting it begins to increase rapidly. The behavior will normally face quickly once the perception of the novelty is gone.
By nature, a fad is temporary.

8. Fad

9. Fad

10. Trend
Trend
A Pattern of gradual change in a condition, output, or process.
It has the potential of becoming a long-term influence on the future of a market. It has the potential to last for decades.

11. Trend

12. Trend

13. Icon
A symbol, logo, picture, building or image that is readily recognized and generally represents an object or concept with great cultural significance to a wide cultural group.
These are often heavily influence by the mass media.

14. Icon

15. Icon

16. Using IAR strategies for readings
Invention
Arrangement
Revision
One effective way to examine the relationships between the texts you read and the writing you produce is to use IAR analysis

17. Reading: Invention
What is invention? (What activities did the writer have to engage in to create the text?)
What is being invented? (What ideas, practices, arguments, etc. are created by the text?)

18. Reading: Arrangement
What is arrangement? (What is being put in relation to what?)
What is being arranged? (How are the things being put in relation to one another
Tip: It may be a good idea to make a visual of the arrangement of the essay.

19. Reading: Revision
What is revision? (What is the writer trying to change? For example, what ideas, practices, etc.? What is the author’s argument?)
What is being revised? (What strategies are engaged specifically to help the writer achieve the revisions?)

20. GROUP: Listing Popular Cultural Artifacts
With your group, make a list of popular cultural artifacts and the types of arguments that could be generated in relation to these artifacts.
This is for participation points this week.

21. Proposal Memo
Using the template on the home page of our course website, please submit your proposal for project two.
The proposal should include: the popular cultural artifact that you are focusing on for the essay, the argument that you will make in relation to the artifact, the audience you are choosing to speak to in your essay and your research process.
Due on Eli: Fri. Wed. Oct 3 by 11 pm.

22. Homework
Reflection for Project One: Due: Fri. Sept. 28 by 11 pm on Eli
IAR Strategies for Reading: Christine M. Mitchell, The Rhetoric of Celebrity Cookbooks (Reading and Writing Literacies, Pp 161 – 176). On Eli, Use the IAR strategies that we discussed to rhetorically analyze the reading. Due: Mon. Oct. 1
Proposal for Project Two is due on Eli Wed. Oct. 3 by 11 pm.