Given in class: Writing project proposal guidelines - due Week 6, October 24th

Journals

1. Following on the heels of our "creative genres family" discussion, for this week's journal try to give creativity a chance. For inspriation, pick a place that you've been anywhere in the world (it would be even more interesting if you would feel inspired enough to visit a new place in Brno) and write about it. Here are some driving questions to help you along - your journal can take any format you'd like (e.g. unstructured prose, a poem, a photo diary, a narrative essay, etc.):

• what did you observe there - people, nature, events, daytime, nightime, monuments, cafes, bars, etc.?
• how long did you spend there?
• what did the place make you feel, and what about this place inspired any feelings?

Optional reading: here's three examples of creative "place" writing (one from me, written years ago):

Upload your journals to the journaling homework vault below, in the folder with your first and last name. You should all have access to your own folders now - if you do not, email me and let's sort out that problem.

Homework vault:

2. Your final Metalanguage quiz is due next week (Week 5). Please complete the worksheet, and upload it to the homework vault below for Metalanguage Quizzes. Upload this to the same folder you created last week in the larger folder for these Metalanguage Quizzes (MLQs). We will review the answers to this quiz in class next week, so please bring your work with you to class (printed or on your computer). I've also posted the answers to the second quiz below, in case you would like to check this again. 

Homework vault for MLQs:

Reading & Listening

3. Next week is "social science genres" focus week (narrative essays, expository essays, persuasive essays, critical reviews, argumentative essays, journal articles, etc.). This will likely be one of the easier "genre families" for our group to read, as the format and/or topics of these texts may be more familiar (i.e. you won't break your brain trying to read a poem :) ...).

3a. A critical review of the psychiatric Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition by Sam Kriss (roughly 3 pages).

3b. An essay titled "Undecided" by David Sedaris, published in The New Yorker (roughly 2 pages).

3c. A journal article titled "Social exclusion: A concept in need of defintion?" by Robin Pearce (it's 20 pages long - you only need to read the first 3 pages).

3d. An article explaining the concept and study of the "Hipster Effect" published by the MIT Technology Review (roughly 3 pages).

3e. A popular American late night talk show satirical spoof on the application of the sociological "White Savior Industrial Complex" in popular culture.

And finally, BOTH an entertaining comic in English, and a meme poking fun at trying to understand the poetry reading last week: