2. Today’s plan:
1) Questions & Answers
2) More Inquiry 5 free-writing (just one
prompt this time)
3) Let’s look at those Tumblrz
4) Meanwhile, back at Inquiry 4
5) Homework

3. Questions:
Bearing in mind that we have, after today,
one week of meetings and then another
several days of work time, what questions
are on your minds?

4. More for inquiry 5:
One of the things that the inquiry 5
assignment calls for you to do is to create
little situating blurbs– or think of them as
literal introductions as opposed to essay
introductions, to each of your projects this
semester.
What I’d like you to do right now is take
about 10 minutes (give or take) and craft
that piece of text for your Inquiry 1
project.

5. Those fun new Tumblrs:
Let’s now move over and take a look at
your portfolio Tumblrs. I asked you for
today to do something to customize yours.
Let’s talk a bit about that, look at what
you’ve done, and look at what you could
do.
Alt-tab time.

6. Inquiry 4 memo:
I hope that you have written parts of this
document already, since instead of the
usual memo, it’s a reflection on your
project.
But there are specific things I want to
make sure you hit on while working on it.
So I’ve set up yet another freewrite for us
that will help you to get those ideas down
on in words. You can then weave them
into your reflection.

7. Prompt 1:
Look at the content you retained from
your Inquiry 3 project (be that actual
chunks of text, ideas, references…
whatever is in Inquiry 4 that was in inquiry
3). Why did you choose to retain the
things you chose to retain?
Think rhetorically!

8. Prompt 2:
Now think about the new material you
either created or obtained to add to your
ideas from Inquiry 3. Why, rhetorically, did
you choose to add the things you are
adding? How do they serve to support– or
in some cases, I’m sure, form– your
argument?

9. Prompt 3:
This might seem like a weird question, but
I want you to think about audience,
expectation, and reception. In a perfect
world, I’m going to look at your project
and see your vision. But… imagine that I
don’t. Take a moment to tell me what
you’re doing with this piece, what the
rhetorical moves mean. What SHOULD I be
seeing?

10. Prompt 4:
Let’s talk about affordances. What were
you able to do by switching modes of
presentation that you couldn’t do before?
How’d you make your argument bigger,
faster, stronger, cooler, rad-er?

11. Prompt 5:
Did you try to do anything you couldn’t
pull off, or that didn’t go the way you
wanted it to go? What, and how did you
compensate?

12. Prompt 6:
How did you spend your time while
working on this project? Try as best you
can to talk about the time spent on each
aspect of creating the final project.

13. Prompt 7:
Tell me about your poster. Where’d you
put it? Did people see it? Did it stay up for
more than a few minutes? Was it
effective?

14. Prompt 8:
Talk to me specifically about making the
poster. How did it feel to work with a
visual medium? What were the interesting
changes to how you could present your
argument?

15. Prompt 9:
What did these two projects teach you
about how to communicate and the
available means of persuasion when
modality changes?

16. Prompt 10:
In terms of “ambition,” this was the most
demanding of the assignments in class.
You had to learn to communicate in a
different way, had to master new software
and means of production, and you created
something vastly different from the first
three inquiries.
How do you feel about that?

17. Homework:
Inquiry 4 is due Tuesday. So… work on that.
Next week we’ll jam through a bit more
work on inquiry 5, I have a personally
designed in-class end-of-the-semester
reflection/evaluation we’ll do on Tuesday.
On Thursday, anyone who would like to is
welcome to share their inquiry 4 projects,
and we’ll make sure everything is done for
the good of the order.