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 “…”