Notes on the "Conversation"

Key Terms

  • Inquiry - digital
  • Bibliography - analog
  • Multimodal - more than 1 mode

Guiding Metaphor

  • Find people that are:

    • Experts in the music industry
    • Disagree about the topic and why
  • Dinner party: it would be rude to -

    • Not introduce
    • Not say their name

    SO

    • Capitalize the name AND use both first and last names
    • Offer context/describe the person
    • Explain what their purpose is* (DO NOT DO THAT)
    • Put titles in italics
  • What NOT to do:

    • According to Joe Smith from Rolling Stone Magazine, Michael Jackson’s Thriller “sold over 5 billion copies. He won a Grammy in the year X. His use of the R&B genre made headlines and changed the way artists composed their lyrics.”
    • www.quora.com/user1234/?threadjackson.
    • Consider how the album is used in other texts
    • How did this album impact society? One way to tell that it did is to look out at how other media depicted the album.
    • The Talking Heads
    • The Walking Dead: S10E16 - A Certain Doom
    • Why did the producers of The Walking Dead use Talking Heads’ song “Burning Down the House” in season 10?

What To Do:

  • Locate 2 sources that address the issue. Put them in conversation in a paragraph.
  • General topic sentences can be boring.
  • Example: In season 10 of The Walking Dead, a song is used to defeat zombies. This song, “Burning Down the House”, is an old hit from the 1980s by a band called Talking Heads. According to X, the song was chosen “…”

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