Prep
- H. Samy Alim, ‘“Bring It to the Cypher”: Hip-Hop Nation Language’, in Forman and Neal (2012)
Asynchronous Work
- Begin work on your Class Participation Self-Evaluation Essay. And if you haven’t responded to the last prompt on Slack, you should do so, considering that that counts as class participation…
For Next Time
- Lennie Irvin, ‘What Is “Academic” Writing?’, in Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing (Parlor Press). Keywords: analysis; argument; open writing assignment, the; synthesis; thesis; types of writing assignments (closed, semi-open, open)
This will give us a fair amount of material to cover by Wednesday, given that we still haven’t discussed the Nosnitsky essay (‘Classic Material’); but this is essential reading as we start to think about what makes for a good research question and thesis.
