Read The Autumn of the Mutitaskers tonight for class tomorrow. If you wish to print it out, here is a pdf version. We will analyze it in class and you may very well have some homework using this article tomorrow night. (Who am I kidding? Yes, you will have some homework on this tomorrow night.)
You also may wish to check out the Forum I set up and keep forgetting to mention in class.
Based on our discussions of the dialectic to the right, blog your thoughts on this “feedback loop” between the self and society. Use Frontline’s video essay Merchants of Cool as a basis for your arguments. You may wish to consider the following questions in your write-up.
Have a great Spring Break!! And don’t forget to do the reading and blog posts noted in the other post!
Write up an argument analysis with an eye to establishing its foolproof construction or its downfall. I will give extra credit for a well-done analysis (whoo hoo!). If you don’t want the extra credit, just watch the video for your own interest in his argument. If you do want to try for extra credit, blog your analysis by Monday.
Note: The author has taken the video off of YouTube and replaced with hours of videos detailing the argument in a much fuller way than he intended on doing. I found it elsewhere here along with a transcript. (The video link below is for looks, it’s broken.) Update: It seems the link isn’t broken anymore…it’s smaller on my site though (I re-sized it), so if you want it bigger, search YouTube for “The Most Terrifying Video You’ll Ever See” or click the link above.
This video was made by another amazing University of Puget Sound alumnus.
To see his whole argument that he’s updated, visit YouTube here. In the box on the right with his username (wonderingmind42), click “more info”. He has an index of all his videos pertaining to this one argument there.
Read pages 139-147 in Everything’s an Argument. Review pages 147-171 as well. We have already discussed the content of those pages in class, but skimming them and reading the examples will help you understand Toulmin better.
Remember that we have a quiz on pages 20-32 of Everything’s and Argument tomorrow.
Write up an argument analysis with an eye to establishing its foolproof construction or its downfall. I will give extra credit for a well-done analysis (whoo hoo!). If you don’t want the extra credit, just watch the video for your own interest in his argument. If you do want to try for extra credit, blog your analysis by the end of the week.
This video was made by another amazing University of Puget Sound alumnus.
Don’t forget to scroll down for your actual assignment!
