You should be ready, in your group, to do what the prompt last time said:
Explain basically what your article is, what its point and
purposes seems to be, and how it sounds
Explain where your article originally appeared and tell us what
you've been able to find out about it (this may involve some research;
do what you can in an hour or so and report back with whatever you were
able to learn)
Choose, and present to us, three passages in the article where
you think "alternative ways of saying the same thing might invite a
reader to feel
differently about the subject, or might suggest something different
about how the writer felt about it." and suggest at least one
alternative.
We'll hear from groups in whatever order is convenient. Each
group will have fifteen minutes for presentation and discussion. We'll
see where we've got to after that.
For Tuesday
Go to the library. Go to the current periodical room (it's on the main
floor, all the way to the left after you've gone in the main entrance.)
Check it out. If you've never been there before, simply get a
sense of what's going on, what's there, what people are doing. Be
quiet while you're doing it.
Then browse through the shelves with current periodicals on them.
See what the range of periodicals the library subscribes to is. Pick
some up at random and leaf through them. Put them back exactly where
you got them.
For class on Tuesday, you should choose an article you think we should
all read and talk about. To make it easy, here is a list of the
periodicals/journals from which you need to choose:
Alternatives Journal Canadian Dimension Canadian Forum Catholic New Times Columbia Journalism Review Commentary
Journal of Popular Culture MediaWeek Society The Nation The New York Review of Books The New Yorker
You can choose any way you like: what I'd do is select among the
journal titles a few that look interesting, then leaf through one or two issues of
each (put them back as soon as you're done: leaf through them standing
next to the shelf). Decide on a periodical, and take a couple of issues to a
table. Read though them till you find an article that you think it
would be interesting and useful to talk about in class -- one, particularly, where
you think the author is reporting facts with a view to affecting what
you believe and assume.
Read the article with some care. Write a recommendation of the
article in which you describe it and say, as persuasively as you can,
why you think we should talk about it (these recommendations is what
we'll use, in class Tuesday, to decide on some articles).
What you write should have your name at the top, the complete details
on the article next (author, journal, volume, dates, pages), and
your recommendation below that. You should probably hold it to a
page. If you really want it read, key it in and print it.