Article Response 1

Read the following short commentary and post a response to a question or pose your own question.

"The Transhuman Future: Be More Than You Can Be"

This is a good text to begin conversation.  It is short-overall length, paragraphs, sentences. The rhetorical stategies are pretty transparent, and the author invites thought and conversation. Rhetorical strategies include syntax of short, simple sentences, questions, modes of definition and examples, and an allusion to the famous novel Brave New World. Think about why the author uses these strategies.  How does it affect you as an audience to read all the questions in the opening? What does the author define and why does this need definition? Where does he add some specific examples and why might he include them there? Why might he end with the allusion to Brave New World? What might he want his audience to get out of reading this piece? Finally, what are your thoughts after reading this? You do not need to answer all the questions, and we are beginning conversation. Do not worry about a "wrong" answer.

Article and Response 5: July 8

Post a link to your article and your two paragraph response.  You may read and reply to each other's articles and responses.

Article and Response 4: June 30

Post a link to your article and your two paragraph response.  You may read and reply to each other's articles and responses.

Article and Response 3: June 23

Post a link to your article and your two paragraph response.  You may read and reply to each other's articles and responses.

Article and Response Week 2: June 15

Post a link to your article and your two paragraph response.  You may read and reply to each other's articles and responses.  In looking at the posted responses from last week, you are finding interesting articles and beginning conversations on both the what the writer says and how he/she says it.

Article and Response 1: June 11

Post a link to your article and your two paragraph response.  You may read and reply to each other's articles and responses.

Introduction

Introduce yourself and something you are looking forward to this summer.