Week 2

Monday 1/14

Due Today:

• Posted data visualization activity

In Class:

• Discuss data visualization activity
• Begin Google Map activity

For Next Time:

• Listen to the "Mapping" episode of This American Life (click on the "Full Episode" link)

Wednesday 1/16

In Class:

• Continue Google Map activity

For Next Time:

• Read Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 1
• Comment on reading response 3

Friday 1/18

Due Today:

• Comment on reading response 3

In Class:

• Finish Google Map activity
• Discuss Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 1

For Next Time:

• Read Compose, Design, Advocate excerpt 2
• Locate a sample data map online. Bring in a 2 page written rhetorical analysis of your data map (as an electronic file—not printed) based upon the elements outlined in Compose, Design, Advocate (sense of purpose, audience, context, strategies, arrangement, medium). Make sure to include the link to the data map in the document, and make sure that it is a whole document, not a disconnected assemblage of parts.