1.
How would you go about introducing students to
the way that the multi-media nature of texts complicates and influences
audience experience? Would you utilize some of Wysocki’s suggested
activities, or maybe briefly discuss how aesthetic decisions impact
understanding of texts?
2.
If you decide to use portfolio grading how do
you plan on evaluating the formative “development of the writer”? Will you
allow multiple submissions of assignments, or grade based off an evaluation of
the growth in their writing throughout the progression of the course (or
perhaps an alternative approach)? And why?
1. I am super into adaptation studies. So one way I would go about introducing students to the way the multi-media nature of texts complicates and influences audience experience is by exposing them to multiple adaptations and how they vary from medium to medium. For example, show them a passage from a novel and then show them that same scene portrayed in film. How does the change in medium influence the audience? What can one medium do that the other cannot? Do these changes alter the message to the audience at all? Etc. You could do this with a lot of different things, not just novel to film adaptation. There are ballets adapting plays, video games inspired by text/tv shows/movies, etc.
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