Color Test

The famous "Stroop Effect" is named after J. Ridley Stroop who discovered this strange phenomenon in the 1930s. Here is your job: name the colors of the following words. Do NOT read the words...rather, say the color of the words. For example, if the word "BLUE" is printed in a red color, you should say "RED". Say the colors as fast as you can.


Color Test

Blue          Green       Yellow

Pink          Blue         Orange

Purple       Grey         Black

Brown       Tan          White

The words themselves have a strong influence over your ability to say the color. The interference between the different information (what the words say and the color of the words) your brain receives causes a problem. There are two theories that may explain the Stroop effect:

1. Speed of Processing Theory: the interference occurs because words are read faster than colors are named.
2. Selective Attention Theory: the interference occurs because naming colors requires more attention than reading words. 

Angry          Cold              Hot

Sad             Frustrated      Happy

Calm           Tired              Bland

Love            Fear              Pain

 http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/words.html

Researched Argument Evaluation Quiz

 This Quiz is worth 20 points. Please answer the questions thoroughly and thoughtfully.

Step 1: Turn to the BACK SIDE of the FIRST PAGE and answer the following questions there. 

Question 1: Underline your thesis statement.

   2: Describe the topic / issue you’ve chosen to address and what motivated you

to research and write upon this subject.

               3: What is the purpose, goal, for writing this paper?

               4: Who is your intended audience?

   5: Considering the semester, what skills did you work to implement from other

papers into this paper.  How? 

   6:  What about this paper did you find enjoyable?

   7: What about writing this paper did you find challenging?

   8: Describe the peer review for this paper.  What was useful?  What would you

change?

Step 2: Read over the paper one last time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors you may have missed.

STEP 3: If you haven’t attached the peer review sheets to the back of your final draft, pull them out to include when you turn in this paper.

Conference Paper Self Evaluation Quiz

This quiz is worth 25 points.  Please answer the questions thoroughly and thoughtfully. 

Step 1: Turn to the BACK SIDE of the FIRST PAGE and answer the following questions there. 

Question 1: Underline your thesis statement.

   2: Describe the topic / issue you’ve chosen to address and what motivated you

to research and write upon this subject.

               3: What is the purpose, goal, for writing this paper?

               4: Who is your intended audience?

   5: Considering the semester, what skills did you work to implement from other

papers into this paper.  How? 

   6:  What about this paper did you find enjoyable?

   7: What about writing this paper did you find challenging?

   8: Describe the peer review for this paper.  What was useful?  What would you

change?

Step 2: Read over the paper one last time to correct any spelling or grammatical errors you may have missed.

STEP 3: If you haven’t attached the peer review sheets to the back of your final draft, pull them out to include when you turn in this paper.

Annotated Bibliography Self Evaluation

Directions: This evaluation is worth 10 points. Please answer each question thoroughly and thoughtfully.

Step 1: Turn to the backside of your first page.  Answer the following questions on this side of the paper. 

Question 1: What do you see as the purpose of writing an annotated bibliography?  And how does an annotated bibliography fit into the scheme of writing a research paper?

Q 2: What are the parts of an annotated bibliography? And define each part (what is

included or what does each entail?).

Q 3: Place a star (*) next to your best annotation.  

Q 4: Explain what makes your best annotation good.   

Q 5: Place a frowning face L next to your least successful annotation. 

Q 6: Explain what was most challenging about this annotation.

Q7: Describe your process for citing each source.  Explain your experience using

MLA or APA formatting.

Q 8: Indicate which, if any, of your sources are popular by marking a “P” next to the

citation. 

Q 10: Tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What did you learn? What was not useful?  What would you change?

Step 2: Give your paper one last read through.  Fix any grammar or spelling errors you find. 

Step 3: When you are finished turn your paper in.

Proposal Self-Evaluation

Step 1: Turn to the backside of your first page.  Answer the following questions on this side of the paper. 

Question 1: What is the purpose of this Proposal? 

Q 2: Identify the three sections required for this proposal and give an

example of some element that fits under that section.

Q 3: What aspects of writing this paper were easy for you?

Q 4: What aspect of writing this paper was the most challenging?

Q 5: Tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What did you

learn?  What was not useful?  What would you change?

Q 6: Have you met with me to discuss either a past paper, or your research issue? When?

Step 2: Give your paper one last read through.  Fix any grammar or spelling errors you find. 

Step 3: Underline your research question.

Step 4: When you are finished turn your paper in.

Paraphrase: Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire

The Grand Tetons and the Grand Canyon, both stereotyped objects of idealized, romanticized desire in our cultural psyche, are in fact living environments more vital than any single human being.  The glamorization of these particular protrusions and cleavages, primarily by landscape photographers, into erogenous zones of our collective imagination has damaged both them and us.  They have been damaged by our cumulative attention.  We make pilgrimage to the objects we have admired on calendars and trample the habitats of other species or exterminate them for their inconvenience to our viewing pleasure.  In the process, our perceptions have been blunted and perverted, just like those of the readers of Playboy.

Knighton, Jose. “Ecoporn and the Manipulation of Desire.”  169.

Rhetorical Analysis Self Evlauation

1.  Underline your thesis statement.
2. Turn to the backside of your first page and answer the following questions there.   
3. In your own words, define "Rhetorical Analysis."
4. Describe the purpose to writing a rhetorical analysis.
5. What aspects of writing this paper were easy (give specific examples).
6. What aspects of writing this paper were challenging?  (give specific examples). 
7. In a paragraph, tell me about your peer review.  What was useful?  What was surprising?  What was not useful? What would you change?
8. What are the four parts of the Rhetorical Situation?
9. What are the three types of claims?
10. What are the three appeals?

When you have finished answering the questions, give your paper one last read through and fix any grammar or spelling errors.   Then turn it in.

Conservation is Good Work by Wendell Berry

If you have trouble accessing the article you  may try pulling it up at this link.

Ethos, Pathos, Logos

Eco-porn

 

"Introduction to Poetry" by Billy Collins

Introduction to Poetry

I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light
like a color slide

or press an ear against its hive.

I say drop a mouse into a poem
and watch him probe his way out,

or walk inside the poem's room
and feel the walls for a light switch.

I want them to waterski
across the surface of a poem
waving at the author's name on the shore.

But all they want to do
is tie the poem to a chair with rope
and torture a confession out of it.

They begin beating it with a hose
to find out what it really means.

"so much depends" by William Carlos Williams

---

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

"This is Just to Say" by William Carlos Williams

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

"next to of course god america i" by ee cummings

e. e. cummings

"next to of course god america i
love you land of the pilgrims' and so forth oh
say can you see by the dawn's early my
country 'tis of centuries come and go
and are no more what of it we should worry
in every language even deafanddumb
thy sons acclaim your glorious name by gorry
by jingo by gee by gosh by gum
why talk of beauty what could be more beaut-
iful than these heroic happy dead
who rushed like lions to the roaring slaughter
they did not stop to think they died instead
then shall the voice of liberty be mute?"

He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water

"The Sun" by Mary Oliver

The Sun
 
Have you ever seen
anything
in your life
more wonderful

than the way the sun,
every evening,
relaxed and easy,
floats toward the horizon

and into the clouds or the hills,
or the rumpled sea,
and is gone--
and how it slides again

out of the blackness,
every morning,
on the other side of the world,
like a red flower

streaming upward on its heavenly oils,
say, on a morning in early summer,
at its perfect imperial distance--
and have you ever felt for anything
such wild love--
do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasure

that fills you,
as the sun
reaches out,
as it warms you

as you stand there,
empty-handed--
or have you too
turned from this world--

or have you too
gone crazy
for power,
for things?

~ Mary Oliver ~

(New and Slected Poems)

Play with "Blinded by Ecoporn"

Michael Berman, Wilderness Photographer or the Gila (he-ya) Wilderness in the borders of New Mexico. This interview and video are from High Country News