Journals

1. Following on the heels of our "social sciences genres family" discussion, for this week's journal put on your social scientist hat and give this "genre family" (i.e. psychology, sociology, political science, international relations, anthropology, archeology, linguistics, communication/journalism studies, etc.) a chance. Answer the following open-ended driving question for your journal. Like last week, your journal can take any format you'd like (e.g. an essay segment, a short essay, an abstract, an article segment, unstructured prose, a poem, a video etc.), You don't have to write or justify your answer in a "socially scientific" way, but rather, the question(s) I've asked is one commonly studied among the social sciences:

What is your identity? How can we define identity; and more than define it, how can we, or how do we apply it to ourselves?

Optional reading: here's different types of models trying to answering the identity question(s), including a more "creative" one from me that's still in progress. (Anything I share is meant to help serve as a model, and in the spirit of writers' solidarity; if it's confusing, or if it impacts your writing process negatively, close it!):

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.

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2. There aren't any more MLQs! In place of working on this, work on your writing project proposal for next week. Upload your draft of this to the homework vault below:

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Reading & Listening

3. Next week we're going to focus more on the "hard sciences" genres (think in contrast to the social sciences); below I've linked a few different scientific subjects in various formats. I specifically chose not to upload 6 different journal articles about difficult mathematics or physics because the content, in its form, would be inaccessible to you (i.e. you would be bored to tears, you may not understand or learn much from reading it, and you would come to class next week with comments about how boring the reading homework was; hence - more videos this week!). 

3a. Read the article and listen to the 1,5 minute soundscape provided by NASA's Insight probe:

3b. (Collective hooray) Read The Oatmeal's comic on the Insight mission:

3c. Watch the 8 minute interview with Professor Kaku, an American theoretical physicist:

3d. Watch the full 30 minute documentary on The ISS explained by a staff member abord for 4 months:

3e. Read the abstract and the first 2 pages of "Seven Hints for Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter":

3f. Read the first 3 pages of "On Being Sane in Insane Places":

And finally, a fun comic in English about an anxious aversion to dentists and the horrors that can befall at the onset of a tooth ache (I'm poking fun at myself for class last week because this week The Oatmeal is part of your reading - yay!):

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