Announcements

Misgendering: What It Is and Why It Matters (Harvard Health Publishing)
Additional Gender Trainings and other NYU Zone Trainings

Agenda

Popcorn making + Peer Review 2 + Course Feedback in Albert
Final Presentations and Notes

Assignment

Please follow the D&T Final Reminders to complete your final article by your chosen submission date. Many thanks for your participation in this class! 👏🏾👏🏿👏👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿👏👏🏽

Announcements

• Draft #2 is due today. I’ll download them and check for updates during Peer Review check-ins.
• Final Deadlines and Reminders has new notes on final article placement and lateness. And the Final Grade Sheet (linked from Deadlines and Reminders) has additional penalties for lateness, and for improperly citing or not citing generative AI.
  Meaning: for most folks, submitting the exact same midterm article for the final will likely garner a lower score. But I’m certain this is not you! 🙂

Agenda

• News (10)
• Peer Review 2 – check ins (15)
  • Please make sure you have access to the Google Doc I created for your peer’s article. I let this slide for Peer Review 1, but for Peer Review 2, I won’t accept Peer Reviews that are not correctly located. Please put your work into the correct doc!
  • Groups: Random Mixes
    • Yujiang, Julie
    • Juan, Chenxi, Sarah
    • Dhruv, Dariana, Jessica
    • Anna, Alwyn, Wendy
• Slideshow preview, live edits and final questions (60ish)
  • Note that my focus has been on examining assertions — are they logical? Are they convincing? Do they support your larger argument?
  • Here are some writing resources from UMD and Monash U about forming arguments and critical thinking as part of long-form essay and research writing.
  • And maybe we’ll take a break for additional News (10)

Assignment – Final Class on Monday!!

• Please add to this slideshow for presentation on Monday:
  • Abstract: please paste your draft abstract and bold keywords and phrases.
  • Questions: please share a couple of questions you’re working through, for which class feedback could be helpful.
• Peer Review 2 – for credit, please make sure you’re leaving comments in the correct Google Doc.
  • Please read your assigned peer’s second draft, then leave at least 12 comments in the draft, preferably distributed throughout the article from beginning to end. Use the Final Grade Sheet as a guide for leaving relevant comments.

Agenda

• 2:00: Check-in with your peer review group. At 2:20, I’ll download the Google Docs I shared with you to check for peer review completion. Reminder: I only download the docs I shared with you, not any other docs.
• 2:20 Guest speaker Raechel Walker
• 2:40 The Great Tit is a Bird and Unsafe Space

Assignment

• In your “official” Google doc, please address and resolve comments from Peer Review 1. It’s important to do this by Wednesday, because you and your article will get a new peer reviewer on Wednesday.

Announcements

Our next class, on Monday 12/2, will have a number of remote guest speakers, so it will be on Zoom. I’ll post the link in Brightspace by Sunday night.

Reminder: you can schedule a Zoom appointment with me for Dec 5 or later. This could be helpful if you’re struggling with topics that might not be addressed by the Writing Center consultants:

• technology research
• developing a clear, cogent, coherent, concise argument

Agenda

• News (20)
  • Make sure your Google Doc (shared from me) is updated so we can…
• Prep for final!
  • Groups for Peer Review 1 (15). You only have to read a single paper, so groups of three should figure out a circular exchange. If your group member isn’t here, I’ll give you their email.
    • SCI-FI: Chenxi, Jessica, Alwyn
    • SISTER OUTSIDER: Dariana, Juan
    • BELOVED: Yujiang, Dhruv, Wendy
    • BALDWIN: Sarah, Julie, Anna
  • Live-edits (20 x 4, including breaks)
    • Writing time; optional 1-on-1s; audiobook & movies

Assignment

For Monday 12/2: Please read your assigned peer’s first draft, then leave at least 12 comments in each draft, preferably distributed throughout the article from beginning to end. Use the Final Grade Sheet as a guide for leaving relevant comments.

Have a good break! See you on Zoom on Monday!

Announcement

We don’t have a final exam in this class. I can hold a Zoom open office hour during exam time (Dec 18 at 3:30) if folks are interested?

Agenda

• News (20)
• Final Timed Exercise! (25)
  • Note: we only had 18 timed exercises this semester, so I’ll factor your best 16 in your grade.
• Discussion: last slides from Chenxi
  • Any last questions, comments, suggestions or concerns on the literary works?
• Prep for final
  • Some useful resources
    • Routledge Companion to Media and Class in D&T Reading, Watching, Listening list. Useful for a focus on media.
    • Good example of a brief, relevant positionality statement in a scholarly article: see this research article by Sue Lockyer, starting at the bottom of page 8.
  • Live-edit: paper from last year
  • Groups for peer review
  • Writing time; optional 1-on-1s; audiobook & movies; spambreaker notes
    • Reminder to cite any use of generative AI.

Assignment

Your first draft of the final is due at 2pm on Wednesday. 

Announcements

Upcoming NYU event: Kenya v Big Tech: Platform Accountability from the Global Majority

Agenda

• News (20) and correction to the Live-Edit Request Form. If you already filled it out on Monday, please fill it out again — sorry about that.
• Timed Exercise (25)
• Discussion
  • Today’s discussion by Sarah
• Research and spam notes
  • Settler colonialism & este-cate
  • New extra credit opportunities in Final Deadlines and Reminders
  • Sample paper. Most common issues:
    • Adding references for assertions. When in doubt, assume your reader won’t believe you, so cite everything!
    • Using the “Discussion” section to deepen your argument
    • Hyperbole

Assignment

• Add to News.
• Read the remaining chapters of The Left Hand of Darkness.
• Read “Globalization from Within: Enhancing Digital Productivity and Transformation in the South,” Chapter 3 of Re-Imagining Communication in Africa and the Caribbean: Global South Issues in Media, Culture and Technology

AND A REMINDER: Your first draft of the final is due before class next Wednesday, 11/27.
Please work on it this weekend; we will have class time on Monday to work on it as well.
Please see Final Deadlines and Reminders for additional updates.

Announcements

It’s NYU Trans Awareness Week!
Chosen Family Law Center: Should I change my gender marker to X?

Agenda

• News. Also: Please fill this form to request an in-class live-edit starting next week.
• Walk to Brooklyn Heights library, followed by a short walk to the Center for Brooklyn History if there’s time. As we walk, please be prepared for a 1:1 conversation with me about your plan for the final paper. And if you don’t have a BK Library e-card, I encourage you to sign up for one — it’s easy!

Assignment (same as last Wednesday)

1. Add to News.
2. Read Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South: Chapter 2.
3. Read or listen to The Left Hand of Darkness: Chapters 14-16. 

AND A REMINDER: Your first draft of the final is due before class next Wednesday, 11/27. Please see Final Deadlines and Reminders for additional updates.

Agenda

• News (10)
• Timed Exercise (25)
• Discussion
  • Planning questions for y’all
  • Last discussion notes from Dhruv & Dariana?
  • Today’s discussion by Chenxi & Wendy
• Research and spam notes.
  • Settler colonialism & este-cate
    • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
  • Sample paper

Assignments

• Add to News.
• Read or listen to The Left Hand of Darkness: Chapters 14-16. 
• Read Understanding Digital Inequalities in the Global South: Chapter 2.

Announcement

Follow-up from Dibner’s Open Innovation Librarian Hebah Emara: Here’s the link to student-curated exhibit project on Golana. Please feel free to contact Hebah if you have further questions or want to see more issues of Golana or Counterweight.

Agenda

• News (10)
• Timed Exercise (25)
• Spambreaker (30)
• Discussion

Assignment

• Add to News.
• The Left Hand of Darkness: Chapters 6-13.
• Please revisit pages 16-22 of Spiral to the Stars, starting with “The next set of tools for carrying out community work that I encountered was Geographic Information Systems (GIS) mapping.”

Looking ahead: The first draft of your final paper is due on November 27. This week, I’ll give you a new Google Doc link, into which you should create or paste your first draft. The final paper will need to be longer than your midterm and have an abstract, but other than that, the recommended structure is similar to the midterm.

Announcements

• Follow-up link from guest speaker Alex Wright: Doctor who conducted dermatology studies (e.g. retinoic acid on acne) with incarcerated Black men
• D&T 2024 Final Gradesheet is now in the D&T menu.

Agenda

• News (10)
• Notes as you start working on your final paper:
  • Does anyone plan to write their final on The Left Hand of Darkness? If not, I can share a sample final paper, written about this novel.
  • D&T 2024 Final Gradesheet is now in the D&T menu.
  • D&T Deadlines and Reminders are now in the D&T menu
• Spambreaker (30)
• Visit from Dibner’s Open Innovation Librarian Hebah Emara: SF and Literary magazines from Brooklyn Polytechnic (70)

Assignments

• Add to the News spreadsheet.
• Read The Left Hand of Darkness: “Introduction to the 40th Anniversary Edition” (in the text version only) and Chapters 1-5.
• Read Dominance by Design: “Introduction.”