ENGL 235 Blog Posts

  Unit 3 Blog The first article that we addressed in this unit, Graphic Novels: The good, the Bad, and the Ugl y, was a pretty straight-forward article essentially introducing what graphic novels are, their origins, how they caught on, how they vary, and how they can be used in a classroom. The author is an educator and regularly gives speeches at conferences, but realized during a question one day that he simply knew nothing about comics and decided to get educated on them. The article is presented as a Q&A-type read, with common questions being presented and then the author answering them afterwards. It is a great read for anyone looking to become more informed on what comics/graphic novels are, how they can be useful in classrooms, and why they haven’t been fully implemented or embraced by a lot of educators and school districts. This is a great read to start the unit off, filling in any unknowns for students as they have the information about comics presented clearly to the...

 Welcome back to my blog TO and class! For this most recent unit, we addressed the application of alternative lesson types and utilizing more than just writing and text-based assignments to analyze student understanding. The first article of this unit is titled "The Green Knight Should be Green: Graphic Response to Literature." This article by William J Broz delves into having students use alternative, artsy projects (graphic interpretations) to express what they learned in a text. Although this was originally done to break up his routine weekly work, he received fantastic, unique projects from all of his students. These projects expressed "insightful interpretations of the literature," which allowed the students to depict what they individually connected to, as well as showing how the literature was perceived by them. Another benefit of this kind of assignment is that students have to be specific with their project, unlike with essays where they can be more broad a...

Hello there readers and TO! My name is Adam Gallup and I have created this blog for tracking what I learn and have taken away from content covered in my Writing For Non-print Media course; a reflection. For this specific post, I will be addressing the readings that we covered in this first unit, including addressing hyperlinks, images, video, and audio usage in non-print media. To begin with, I had not thought before about multimodality before, at least not in a focused and detailed manner. From reading the "Multimodality" article, I had not realized that we as a species have been expanding and creating new types of multimodality as our ways of communicating have processed; from cave paintings to written language, from shorthand texting to using gifs. These are all new types of multimodality, as well as using videos, audio sources, and other newer technologies to help us pass our messages across to others and store the information we are looking to share. Within the time of c...