On this day, we will open up with a presentation, briefly discuss the readings, and then workshop our narratives and blogs until @ 8:30.

For the remainder of the period, we will ask questions about the informal and formal writing due this week, and, finally, those of us who have yet to complete the dynamic-writing/chat/IM assignment, will catch up on the Fundamentals of Dialogue, and discuss rhetorical appeals/audience address before we wrap things up at 8:50.

Write

post responses to all 4 prompts before SeptemberTwentyFirst
1. Sharing premises
As we have discussed in class, conflicting premises can be just as fruitful as "resonant" premises for inventing, designing, and sharing documentation and ideas. Find a major premise in a peer's wiki that you find particularly agreeable or particularly disagreeable. Cite, analyze, and work out the potential or problems of the premise. Or, if it is more helpful for you to do so, find an appeal.

2. Narrative devices:
Plug your favorite tv show into the search engine at [the TV Tropes Wiki] and use a trope or some other narrative-structuring device to shape your blog.

3. For your next blog, select a well-developed paragraph on our wiki that particularly interested you, puzzled you, or otherwise held your attention. Using Waddell's Prose Mechanics, The Elements of Style, McCloud or any of the resources here or elsewhere on this wiki, revise this paragraph and make it "better."

Optional

but worth the fun. Replace any blog prompt (from this batch or any future batch of prompts) that you perceive to be unsavory with the following exercise.
4. freesound: premise-matching with sound.

Read

McCloud chapter 3: transitions
Weston chapter 2: the utility of examples and counterexamples

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