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 “...”