For Wed

We will finish discussing cover songs, so if you haven't posted any, do so.

Please bring all the sources you have found so far for your research, notes you have taken, and new questions you have to class Wed. we will be actively working with these things, so you must have them.

Thursday you should have found five sources, and we will continue working on research maps and explaining them to each other to prepare for drafting the paper.

Your first rough draft of the paper (at least 2 full pages) is due Monday for workshop. Please make 20 copies to bring in.

Using Texts in Writing

Joseph Harris defines several different ways that authors use other texts in their writing: coming to terms, forwarding (to illustrate, authorize, borrow or extend), countering, and taking an approach. I'd like us to engage in an exercise to try to understand the ways in which we are always interacting with texts and using them.

1. In class Monday we will work on an exercise in Rewriting p. 49. using a source you have found for your research so far.

2. On the blog, please do exercise "Interpretting Cover Songs" p. 75. Try to find videos of the music you are using and post them to the blog. Whether you are able to find and include videos or not, please post your response to the exercise on the blog (by Tuesday).

3. Read Ch. 3 in Rewriting for Tuesday AND take notes on your sources so far, using a dialectical notebook. By the end of the week, you need to have found a total of five sources. We will be working with them throughout this week to create a map, so next week you will have drafts of your research papers.

Here are my cover songs. I'll discuss them in class.

This is his 1991 version. Below is his 1967 performance:

Here's Christina Aguielera doing it for a tribute:

What do you notice about these performances?

Friday May 4

For this weekend, please post reactions to your oral history assignment.  What most surprised you? What did you learn from the process? What did you learn about writing and about research?

If you like the ethno-poem you wrote in class Wed, you could revise that and post that as your post this week.

Additionally, please find the blogs of the people you have been meeting with in group reviews in class and comment on their posts so far in the class.

For Monday, please read the second chapter of Joseph Harris's book, Rewriting. Write down key terms and your reactions to them to talk about in class.

Some ethnopoetics to check out. Alcheringa and Denise Duhamel's Woman with Two Vaginas (she's coming to lit fest this year)