The plan for this week: prepare for a small-groups workshop to be held in class, September 14th. This means we will compile and polish a version of our work--of any work on the wiki--so far (with additions, of course), while also following, advising, and remixing the efforts of 2 or 3 peers. I want to use next week's course calendar page as a "sign up sheet," so that we can announce our intentions and make sure that the feedback/critique/remix attention is fairly evenly distributed--once a particular project has garnered the attention and intentions of 3 peers, we'll call that "section" closed. I think the best format for this would be to simply post a short 1 paragraph proposal/mission statement outlining your plan (which of course can and will change as you proceed). Post these plans and any questions here.

Hello? Is this thing on? I am going to go ahead and put together a provisional grid of some sort, but by no means do I mean to force anyone to "lock in" in my arbitrary selections--for example,  I will create a link to Jaime's week 3 work on global land grabs, and assign this writing to John, April, and Will, but Jaimie may follow up and reroute this link to another page or series of pages. I.e., I will initialize grouping-formation, but you will of course remix this arrangement as you see fit.

Politics and the English Language - this essay discusses the power of the available language to control discourse. "As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract and no one seems able to think of turns of speech that are not hackneyed: prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."

What is going on with the AC? It's positively freezing in here tonight!

1. take what somebody else has written and do what you want with it. do this 3X

2. keep track of what you're doing, so that you can teach us something about composition, so that you can write a reflection that discusses your compositional strategies. What did yu gain from this process?

3. create a coversheet  or audio recording that directs our attention to the writing that you want us to

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a full-on project emerging by M O'Neill

**Please check out my academic statement of purpose for the purposes of this workshop. Here's the link**

1. Dylan

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hedge funds and the global food crisis by JBoyko

1. John's remix

2. April's remix

3. Will's remix

Afghanistan

1. Shawn

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Livin' on a Leg by Elizabeth Sellers aka Spider Monkey

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2. Lauren's remix

3. Meghan's remix

Turning Over a New Stomach by K. Hastings

1. Jaime's remix

2. Lindsey

3. Jenna

Love, hope, truth, abandonment, and more, in compressed metrics, by Lauren

1. Elizabeth Sellers' Remix

2. Heidi

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Assignments Etc by Dylan K

1. Kelsey's Remix

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Wee Bits by Trina

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