Tag: Medium

Class, Mon, 12/02M

Arcade

Fastwrite

Pull up your essay on Medium.com. Turn your laptop so that people walking by can easily look at your work.

Get out two pieces of paper. Put your name and the title of your essay at the top of both. Create a “flyer” for your Medium essay on one sheet, by pointing (in bold, large print) three moments in your piece that you think readers might want to notice. Try to highlight both passages in your writing and interesting uses you made of the affordances of Medium. Your flyer might look something like thius:

Leave the other sheet blank for reader comments.

Flânerie

Wander about the room, browse through the pieces written by your classmates, and make comments on things that strike you. When we reassemble, I’ll ask you to remark on moments in pieces that surprised or especially pleased you.

To Do

  1. Wed, 12/04, class: Closing thoughts: I’ll ask you to complete the University course evaluations and to respond (anonymously, in writing) to some more informal questions I have for you about this course.
  2. Tues, 12/10, 11:00 pm: If you wish, you may submit one more draft of Essay 1 or 2—either as a print essay or on Medium. In either case, I’d ask you to send me an email in which you point out the main changes and additions you made to your piece.

Class, Wed, 11/20

Essay 2/Grades

Copyleft

Creative Commons

Posting to Medium.com

Studio Time

  • Create an account on Medium.com. Upload a version of your piece to it. (Save it as “Share draft link”.) Begin to play with:
  • The various images, audio, video, and links you might want to add to your piece.
  • The ways in which you might want to reformat or restructure it.
  • Parts of your text you might want to add to, cut, or rework.

To Do

  1. Class, Mon, 12/02: Post a version of your first or second essay to Medium. Feel free not only to add images, audio, video, and links to your piece, but also to reformat and add to the content of your piece. That is, think of this as not only a chance to reversion your piece, but also to redraft it. If your online version of your piece improves signficantly upon its print version, it will receive a higher grade.
  2. Class, Wed, 12/04: Closing thoughts and course evaluations.

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